16- Year- olD swims across english channel

A 16- year- old from New Hampshire successfully swam across the English Channel, completing a 33- mile swim by reaching a sandy beach in France after darkness fell.

Vera Rivard of Springfield left Dover in the United Kingdom around 9: 30 a. m. and arrived on a beach near Calais, France, just before midnight Tuesday.

She crossed “rolypoly” waves in 64 degrees Fahrenheit water, accompanied by a pilot boat affiliated with the Channel Swimming Association. Her mother and younger sister were aboard as her crew.

A law- and- order push, but little change in Biden’s lead.

Despite the spotlight of the Republican convention and the unrest in Portland, Ore., and Kenosha, Wis., a big wave of new polls Wednesday showed President Donald

Trump continues to trail Joe Biden by a significant margin nationwide and in the critical battleground states.

On average, Biden maintains a lead of around 7 to 8 percentage points among likely voters nationwide, down from a lead of 8 to 9 points heading into the conventions.

In a direct comparison, an average of the new polls showed Trump faring a mere seven- tenths of a point better than polls by the same firms conducted in early August, before the Democratic National Convention.

Hurricane Nana hits Belize.

PUNTA GORDA, BELIZE » Hurricane Nana made landfall in Belize, pelting a relatively sparsely populated stretch of the country’s coast with heavy rain and wind, before weakening to a tropical depression while pushing across Guatemala on Thursday.

The U. S. National Hurricane Center reported that Nana hit land between the coastal towns of Dangriga and Placencia shortly after midnight at an area about 50 miles south of Belize City with maximum sustained winds of 75 mph.

Cattle ship capsizes off Japan; dozens of crew members missing.

The cargo ship, longer than a soccer field, lost an engine as it traversed choppy seas off the coast of Japan. Then a wave flooded its deck in the dark of night, according to a survivor, forcing the vessel to list at a precarious angle.

Inside were dozens of crew members, and nearly 6,000 cows, on their way from New Zealand to China.

After the ship sent a distress signal early Wednesday, Japan scrambled three patrol planes and four coast guard boats. But it would be nearly 24 hours before rescuers found Sareno Edvardo, 45, bobbing in the East China Sea.

He was the only one, and he said he had watched the ship sink.

Rescue efforts continued Thursday as Typhoon Maysak lashed parts of South Korea, north of where Edvardo was found, with heavy rain and gusts of up to 90 mph, leaving hundreds of thousands of homes without power.