New Orleans attack came as officials warned of an escalating threat of international terrorism The Associated Press

Thousands of people gathered at San Francisco’s Civic Center to celebrate Bob Weir, the legendary Grateful Dead guitarist who died last week at 78. Musicians Joan Baez and John Mayer…

A fast-moving typhoon was raking across the central Philippines after slamming ashore overnight from the Pacific, leaving at least one person dead, causing flooding and power outages and displacing tens…

The death toll from the 7.7 magnitude earthquake that hit Myanmar has passed 1,700 as more bodies have been pulled from the rubble. A government spokesman told state-run MRTV that…