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  1. Dozens still missing after landslide triggered by Typhoon Mangkhut

    ASIA-STORM/

    A police officer in the Philippines who tried to persuade residents of a mining camp to move to safety as a powerful typhoon approached said Tuesday they refused to leave, and a day later the storm triggered a huge landslide that buried dozens of people.

  2. Trump 'totally' supports Brett Kavanaugh, cites 'impeccable' record

    Trump

    U.S. President Donald Trump doubled down in his support for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh on Tuesday, saying he feels "terribly" for the appeals court judge as he faces a decades-old accusation of sexual assault and insisting he "is not a man that deserves this."

  3. Putin seeks to defuse anger after Syrian forces shoot down Russian plane

    Russia Syria

    A Russian reconnaissance aircraft was shot down by Syrian forces responding to an Israeli airstrike, killing all 15 people aboard, in what Russia's President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday was "a chain of tragic accidental circumstances."

  4. Why Ireland doesn't want Apple's $22 billion in back taxes

    Ireland Apple

    A closer look at the day's most notable stories with The National's Jonathon Gatehouse: Ireland doesn't want $22B in back taxes from Apple; the WHO is calling for urgent international action to stop spread of tuberculosis; needles hidden in Australian strawberries trigger hunt for culprit

  5. 'There is a growing frustration': Top Republican slams Canada's NAFTA negotiating tactics

    Congressman Shot Baseball

    The third most senior Republican in Congress fired a shot across the bow of the government in Ottawa Tuesday urging Canadian negotiators to drop some of their hardball negotiating tactics or risk being left out of a new NAFTA entirely.