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TOKYO (AP) — Japan will start releasing, what it says is treated and diluted, radioactive wastewater into the Pacific Ocean from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, as early as Thursday — a controversial step that the government says is essential for the decades of work needed to shut down the facility that had reactor meltdowns 12 years ago. A massive earthquake and tsunami destroyed the

Officials in Haiti raised the death toll from a powerful weekend earthquake to 1,941 on Tuesday, just as a tropical storm brought strong winds and heavy rains the Caribbean nation.

The Civil Protection Agency also raised the number of injured people to 9,900.

The devastation is centered on the country’s southwestern area, where health care has reached capacity and people have

California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, met with impacted communities across the southern part of the state Sunday night as Tropical Storm Hilary made landfall. The storm, which was preceded by a magnitude 5.1 earthquake at approximately 2:41 p.m. PT on Sunday, is expected to cause damaging rain and winds throughout the area through Monday. Newsom expanded the number of counties under a

Doug Jones became the first Democrat to win a statewide office in Alabama since 2008, defeating Republican Roy Moore, 49.9% to 48.4%, in a special election Tuesday to fill the Senate seat held by Jeff Sessions before he became Donald Trump's Attorney General. Democrats haven't won a Senate race in Alabama since 1992, back when GOP. Sen. Richard Shelby was still a Democrat (he switched parties