Politics: Vice President Joe Biden met quietly with Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren in Washington yesterday as he weighs whether to run for president. Warren is seen as an influential democrat and one of the brains of the party. Her support …

The Americans: Three Americans including two US service members are being called heroes today for taking down a gunman who had opened fire yesterday on a train bound from Amsterdam to Paris. They rushed him and grabbed him by the …

The China Syndrome: Stock prices around the world are sliding on worries about the Chinese economy. China’s main index dropped 4.3 percent today. Yesterday the Dow Jones dove 350 points. Investors are worried that emerging markets in China, Brazil, and …

Trash: Hillary Clinton’s lawyer has told a Senate committee that emails and other information on her computer server were wiped before the device was handed over to federal investigators. Clinton said earlier this week that she had no idea whether …

Bangkok: Thai police have released a sketch of a man who is the suspect in a central Bangkok bombing that killed 20 people. They say don’t know where he is from, what his motive was, or whether he is still …

Tough: Two women have become the first female soldiers to beat the fatigue, sleeplessness, and hunger to pass the Army’s difficult Ranger training at Ft. Benning, Ga. The 62-day Ranger course is in three phases – woodland, mountain, and swamp. …

Wag the Finger: The US has issued a warning to China about its agents in the United States who have been pressuring Chinese expatriots to return home, some of whom are wanted on corruption charges, according to a report in …

Tianjin: Ninety-five people, most of them firefighters, are still missing after Wednesday’s massive explosions in a hazardous-chemical warehouse. At least 112 people have already been confirmed dead. Authorities have tried to control press coverage and Internet discussion of the disaster. …

Tianjin: Chinese authorities have ordered the evacuation of a two-mile radius around the Wednesday’s chemical blast site after finding traces of sodium cyanide. Previously officials had confirmed the presence of calcium carbide, potassium nitrate, and sodium nitrate. Calcium carbide reacts …

Viva Cuba: Secy. of State John Kerry is expected to be on hand today as the American flag is raised over the US embassy in Havana for the first time since 1961. With many Cuban expatriots unhappy about the normalization …