SANTA ROSA, CALIF. Communities in wildfire-prone Northern California have an array of emergency systems designed to alert residents of danger: text messages, phone calls, emails and tweets. But after days of raging blazes left at least 23 dead, authorities said those methods will be assessed. The fast-moving fires, strengthened by fierce winds and nearly absent […]

SANTA ROSA, Calif. As his house filled with smoke from one of California’s devastating wine country fires, Ryan Nelson’s thoughts went to his elderly neighbors — one of whom has multiple sclerosis. He ran over and pounded on their doors and windows, but wasn’t able to get their attention. Now he fears they didn’t make […]

NEW DELHI India’s top court has ruled that having sexual intercourse with a wife younger than 18 is rape, a decision that activists say is an important step toward ending child marriages. Indian law says a woman must be at least 18 to marry and consent to sex, but there are exceptions and a man […]

WASHINGTON Frustrated by failures in Congress, President Donald Trump will try to put his own stamp on health care with an executive order today that aims to make lower-premium plans more widely available. But the president’s move is likely to encounter opposition from medical associations, consumer groups and perhaps even some insurers — the same […]

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip Rival groups Hamas and Fatah have reached a preliminary, partial agreement that could pave the way for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to resume governing the Gaza Strip, a decade after Hamas overran the territory, officials close to Egyptian-brokered negotiations said today. Details of the deal were to be presented at a […]