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HOUSTON — She couldn’t sleep. Not now. Kris Ford-Amofa lay next to her husband in a spare bedroom at her sister’s house, thinking once more about the brown water that had slithered under the front door of the first home she had ever owned. The water that swirled around her three children as the family fled, wading up City Green Trail to seek refuge at a neighbor’s house. The water that had buckled their living room floor, rotted the drywall and made them homeless. The floodwater that was not covered by their insurance. Where did she even start?

On July 15, Matt Holliday hit a home run off Boston Red Sox closer Craig Kimbrel in the ninth inning at Fenway Park, sending the game into extra innings.

A Pennsylvania judge on Friday dismissed the most serious charges against eight Penn State fraternity members indicted in the hazing death of a 19-year-old student, sharply and suddenly defanging prosecutors and setting the stage for a new legal battle in the high-profile case. After a pretrial hearing that had stretched for days, Magisterial District Judge Allen W.

MOSCOW — Russia's foreign ministry has summoned a U.S. diplomat in Moscow to hand him a note of protest over plans to conduct searches in Russia's trade mission complex in Washington, which should soon be closed, the ministry said in a statement on Saturday. It said it has summoned Anthony F. Godfrey, a deputy chief of mission at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow. The ministry called the planned "illegal inspection" of Russian diplomatic housing an "unprecedented aggressive action", which could be used by the U.S.

CARACAS, Venezuela — Food shortages were already common in Venezuela, so Tabata Soler knew painfully well how to navigate the country’s black market stalls to get basics like eggs and sugar. But then came a shortage she couldn’t fix: Suddenly, there was no propane gas for sale to do the cooking. And so for several nights this summer, Ms.

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — The leader of Cambodia’s main opposition party, Kem Sokha, was arrested early Sunday at his home and accused of treason for participating in what the government said was a plot to harm the country. A rights advocate called the arrest a “disastrous setback” for human rights in Cambodia as its long-ruling authoritarian prime minister, Hun Sen, c

REZU AMTALI, Bangladesh — They stumble down muddy ravines and flooded creeks through miles of hills and jungle in Bangladesh, and thousands more come each day, in a line stretching to the monsoon-darkened horizon. Some are gaunt and spent, already starving and carrying listless and dehydrated babies, with many miles to go before they reach any refugee camp. They are tens of thousands of Rohingya, who arrive bearing accounts of massacre at the hands of the

REZU AMTALI, Bangladesh — They stumble down muddy ravines and flooded creeks through miles of hills and jungle in Bangladesh, and thousands more come each day, in a line stretching to the monsoon-darkened horizon. Some are gaunt and spent, already starving and carrying listless and dehydrated babies, with many miles to go before they reach any refugee camp. They are tens of thousands of Rohingya, who arrive bearing accounts of massacre at the hands of the

SAN FRANCISCO — Amid rare extreme heat in San Francisco, it was unusual to see black smoke billowing from a chimney on Friday — not to mention that it was coming from the Russian Consulate, the day after the Trump administration ordered it closed. Neighbors gathered on the sidewalks to gawk; the Fire Department came to investigate; local environmental officials sent an inspector.

WASHINGTON — The special counsel, F.B.I. director, James B. Comey. The circumstances and reasons for the firing are believed to be a significant element of Mr. Mueller’s investigation, which includes whether Mr. Trump obstructed justice by firing Mr. Comey. The letter, drafted in May, was met with opposition from Donald F.