Melissa's maximum sustained winds are near 165 mph (270 km/h) with higher gusts.

Hurricane Melissa, which formed as a tropical storm last Thursday in the Caribbean Sea, has now reached Category 5 status, according to the U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC). The NHC forecasts destructive winds, a life-threatening storm surge, and catastrophic flooding that are expected to worsen in Jamaica throughout the day and into tonight.

USS Gravely, along with a unit of Marines, arrived at Trinidad and Tobago.

A US missile warship arrived on Sunday in Trinidad and Tobago, a small archipelago off the coast of Venezuela, as US President Donald Trump increases pressure on his Venezuelan counterpart, Nicolás Maduro.

Technicians inspect a bullet train at a maintenance facility in Zhengzhou, central China's Henan province.
Technicians inspect a bullet train at a maintenance facility in Zhengzhou, central China's Henan province.
Photo/Wang Wei
 

In 1975, deep in the Qinling Mountains, China's first fully electrified railway, the Baoji-Chengdu Railway, marked the beginning of a transformative journey toward railway modernization.

Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas).

The Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) set a condition for laying down its weapons to the establishment of an independent Palestinian State, amid threats from the United States and Israel.

The Trump administration’s detention and deportation agenda is executed, primarily, by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)

President Donald Trump’s anti-immigration policy is filling immigrant detention centers across the United States — and at the same time, the pockets of the country’s largest private prison companies, Geo Group and CoreCivic.