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 …

Nation: Former President Jimmy Carter revealed that he has advanced cancer that spread from his liver to other parts of his body. The busy 90-year-old Carter said he would alter his schedule to accommodate treatment, but the prognosis is not …

GeoEcon 101: In the midst of an economic slowdown and a stock market slump, China devalued its currency for the second day in a row. The Central Bank dropped the value of the yuan, by 1.6 percent against the US …

Ferguson: St. Louis County’s executive declared a state of emergency yesterday after street violence returned to Ferguson, Mo. with protests over police shootings. A reporter was beaten and robbed, a police officer was injured, and two teenagers wounded in a …

Ferguson: As the city marked the one-year anniversary of the shooting of teenager Michael Brown, police in Ferguson, Mo. last night shot and critically wounded a man who had been involved in a gunfight and fired at an unmarked police …

Nation: Houston authorities found eight people … five children and three adults … dead inside a home after a standoff and a brief gunfight with a man inside the house. Police had been called to do a welfare check at …

Life: A Colorado jury chose life in prison over death for convicted movie theater shooter James Holmes. The jury had previously decided that Holmes’s mental illness was not a mitigating factor in his killing of 12 people in an Aurora. …