IN BRIEF
Bolton: US has plan to dismantle N. Korea nuke program in a year
The United States has a plan that would lead to the dismantling of North Korea’s nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programs in a year, President Donald Trump’s national security adviser said, although U.S. intelligence reported signs that Pyongyang doesn’t intend to fully give up its arsenal.
John Bolton said top U.S. diplomat Mike Pompeo will discuss that plan with North Korea in the near future. Bolton’s remarks Sunday on CBS’ “Face the Nation” appeared to be the first time the Trump administration had publicly suggested a timeline for North Korea to fulfill the commitment leader Kim Jong Un made at a summit with Trump in June.
Evacuations ordered as winds fan Northern California fires
Evacuations were ordered Sunday as dry, hot winds fanned a wildfire burning out of control in rural Northern California, sending smoke some 75 miles south into the San Francisco Bay Area. The fast-moving blaze that broke out Saturday in western Yolo County charred at least 34 square miles and threatened more than two dozen structures northwest of Sacramento.
Housing extended for 1,700 Puerto Rican hurricane evacuees
A judge ordered federal emergency officials to extend vouchers for temporary hotel housing for nearly 1,700 Puerto Rican hurricane evacuees, saying ending the program could cause irreparable harm. Saturday’s decision came shortly after LatinoJustice PRLDEF filed a lawsuit seeking relief for the Puerto Ricans, whose federal housing assistance vouchers were to expire at midnight Sunday. The order says the agency cannot end its Transitional Sheltering Assistance program until at least midnight Tuesday.
Suicide bomber targets Sikhs, Hindus in Afghanistan; 19 dead
A suicide bomber attacked a convoy of Sikhs and Hindus on their way to meet Afghanistan’s president in the eastern city of Jalalabad on Sunday, killing at least 19 people. Inamullah Miakhail, spokesman for the provincial hospital in Nangarhar, said 17 out of 19 dead in the attack were from minority Sikh and Hindu communities.
Police find 11 bodies, 10 of them hanged, at New Delhi home
Police in India’s capital found 11 bodies at a home Sunday, including 10 that were blindfolded and hanged. Most had lived in the home where they were found in Burari village in the northern part of New Delhi, said police officer Vineet Kumar.
Canada tariffs on US goods from ketchup to lawn mowers begin
Canada began imposing tariffs Sunday on $12.6 billion in U.S. goods as retaliation for the Trump administration’s new taxes on steel and aluminum imported to the United States.
Some U.S. products, from ketchup to pizza to dishwasher detergent, will face a 10 percent tariff at the Canadian border, the same as America’s tax on imported aluminum.