Two car bombs exploded Saturday at a busy junction in Somalia's capital near key government offices, causing "scores of civilian casualties" including children, national police said. One hospital worker counted at least 30 bodies amid fears of possibly many more.
A man broke into House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's home in San Francisco and severely beat her 82-year-old husband, Paul Pelosi, with a hammer early Friday while the Democratic lawmaker was in Washington.
Survivors of storms that pounded several U.S. states say the nation's disaster aid system is broken and that they want reforms to get money into victims' hands faster, with less red tape.