Some autistic children are using a controversial method to communicate

• Updated 12:55 a.m.

Brother Noland’s ‘Coconut Girl’ turns 40

• Updated 12:56 a.m.

Classical music groups take the local stage

• Updated 12:55 a.m.

Learn to pilot aircraft at aviation fun day

• Updated 12:56 a.m.

Top tourism spots threatened by surge in visitors

Traditional textiles add flair to contemporary clothes

Tokyo fashion festival highlights summer yukata

100-year-old gingko tree may get axed to make way for a Tokyo redevelopment plan

Auto workers can expand strike against car makers, but they face risks

Wall Street closes its worst week in 6 months with more losses

High-speed trains begin making trip between Orlando and Miami

Auto workers expanding strike to 38 locations in 20 states

Hawaii Supreme Court to honor HSBA’s Patricia Mau-Shimizu

Eno Ichikawa, Japanese Kabuki theater actor and innovator, dies at 83

Fernando Botero, artist of whimsical rotundity, dead at 91

Nadine Kam, Hawaii’s preeminent food writer, dies at 63

Former President Jimmy Carter visits peanut festival in Georgia

• Updated 10:32 a.m.

Coastal flooding in parts of the U.S. is a risk as Ophelia weakens

• Updated 10:21 a.m.

Southern East Coast hit by flooding as Ophelia weakens

• Updated 4 p.m.

National Cathedral swaps Confederacy windows with homage to racial justice

Serb gunmen storm a monastery in Kosovo, killing at least 4

• Updated 10:05 a.m.

2 killed, 3 injured by Russian airstrikes in Ukraine

• Updated 9:57 a.m.

At least 10 dead in Taiwanese golf ball factory fire

• Updated 9:42 a.m.

Aid and evacuations as Azerbaijan retakes breakaway province