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HOUSTON (AP) — Officials say all fires are out at a flood-damaged Houston-area chemical plant after authorities conducted controlled burns on several trailers containing highly unstable compounds. The Harris County Fire Marshal's Office said in a statement Sunday evening that all nine trailers filled with organic peroxide at the Arkema plant in Crosby, Texas, have burned. The office says state, federal and local agencies will continue monitoring the air quality.
TOKYO (AP) — Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has called on China to bring North Korea to its "senses" following its apparent test of a hydrogen bomb. The U.N. Security Council has scheduled an emergency meeting, and President Donald Trump is threatening to halt all trade with countries doing business with the North, a veiled warning to China. In South Korea, a military exercise simulated an attack as a warning to the North.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is expected to announce that he will end protections for young immigrants who were brought into the U.S. illegally as children _ but with a six-month delay. That's according to two people familiar with the president's thinking. The White House plans to make a formal announcement on Tuesday. Trump has been wrestling for months with what to do with the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program that has given hundreds of thousands the ability to work legally in the U.S.
NEW YORK (AP) — John Ashbery, an enigmatic genius of modern poetry whose energy, daring and boundless command of language raised American verse to brilliant and baffling heights, has died. David Kermini, Ashbery's husband, said the poet died early Sunday at their home in Hudson, New York. He was 90. His 1975 collection, "Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror," was the rare winner of the book world's unofficial triple crown: the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle prize.
BLACK ROCK CITY, Nev. (AP) — The Pershing County Sheriff's Office says the man who died after he ran into the flames of the Burning Man festival's giant wooden effigy of a man was a U.S. citizen who had a home in Oklahoma but apparently was living in Switzerland with his wife. The sheriff's office also says that attempts to rescue 41-year-old Aaron Joel Mitchell were hampered because part of the structure was falling as they were trying to get Mitchell out of it.
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