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PADANG, Indonesia — Heavy rains and torrents of cold lava and mud flowing down a volcano’s slopes on Indonesia’s Sumatra island triggered flash floods that killed at least 37 people and more than a dozen others were missing, officials said Sunday. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] Monsoon rains and a major mudslide from a cold lava flow on Mount Marapi caused a river to breach its banks and tear through mountainside villages in four districts in West Sumatra province just before midnight on Saturday.

LOS ANGELES — Roger Corman, the “King of the Bs” who helped turn out such low-budget classics as Little Shop of Horrors and Attack of the Crab Monsters and gave many of Hollywood’s most famous actors and directors early breaks, has died. He was 98. Corman died Thursday at his home in Santa Monica, California, according to a statement released Saturday by his wife and daughters. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] “He was generous, open-hearted and kind to all those who knew him,” the statement said.

A blast from the sun has created a massive geomagnetic storm that is creating an incredible visual spectacle for the US. Many Americans across the country were able to see the Northern Lights. For people in many places, the most visible part of the storm will be the northern lights, known also as auroras.

Enough is enough. That’s the message from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to the University of Pennsylvania, Columbia to the University of Chicago as U. S. colleges took a hard line against student protesters, resorting to arrests, suspensions and threats of expulsion to subdue unrest sparked by the Israel-Hamas war. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] Graduation season is underway and families are descending on campuses for the festivities, raising the stakes for administrators seeking to ensure public safety.

Vladimir Putin replaced his long-serving defense minister with a trained economist in an unexpected change of guard that signals the focus on growing the Russian war economy more than two years after the invasion of Ukraine. Putin put forward his former economy aide and First Deputy Prime Minister Andrey Belousov, 65, to take over from Sergei Shoigu, 68, who was given a gentle demotion and put in charge of the security council.

Paul Manafort, convicted felon pardoned by Trump, has backed away from his role advising the Republican National Convention. Paul Manafort, convicted and pardoned felon, has quit his again-unpaid role as advisor to the Republican National Convention. “As a longtime, staunch supporter of President Trump and given my nearly 50 years experience in managing presidential conventions, I was offering my advice and suggestions to the Trump campaign on the upcoming convention in a volunteer capacity,” Mr.