The union representing striking Hollywood writers said on Friday it had received a counterproposal from the studios that it would consider, an apparent sign of progress in the more than 100-day-old strike.

President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden may be headed for a criminal trial, U.S. Special Counsel David Weiss said shortly after promotion into that role on Friday, in a sign that courtroom drama could play an outsized role in the 2024 presidential election.

The death toll from the Maui wildfires rose 67 on Friday as search teams combed through the smoldering ruins of Lahaina and Hawaiian officials sought determine to how the inferno spread so rapidly through the historic resort town with little warning.

The U.S. and China will approve twice the number of passenger flights currently permitted for air carriers to fly between the two countries, the Biden administration said, in a rare sign of cooperation between the world’s largest two economies.

Record heat and historic floods in China this summer have failed to ignite domestic public debate about how the world’s top carbon polluter can mitigate climate change, leaving campaigners frustrated at an opportunity missed.

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy broadened his battle against graft, firing all the heads of Ukraine’s regional army recruitment centres as the war with Russia enters a critical stage.

Tee Dang was in a rental car with her three children and husband on Lahaina’s Front Street when she saw the flames inching closer and closer towards them.

The death toll from Maui’s wildfires rose to 53 on Thursday as the fast-moving conflagration that turned the resort town of Lahaina into smouldering ruins was 80% contained, officials said.

Iran has released five US-Iranian dual nationals into house arrest, US officials say.

The words Fernando Villavicencio shouted into a microphone at a campaign rally just moments before he died in a hail of bullets could, just a few years ago, have been dismissed as an exaggeration, a rhetorical flourish.

Arkady Volozh, a co-founder of Russia’s technology giant Yandex, has described Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine as “barbaric”.

Ukraine has ordered the mandatory evacuation of all civilians from 37 settlements in the northeast as Russia steps up its attacks there.