News Wrap: Deadly earthquakes strike villages in western Afghanistan

John Yang:

Elsewhere to 6.3 magnitude earthquake shook western Afghanistan today, killing more than 300 people and injuring scores of others of 5.5 magnitude aftershock followed. People fled crumbling buildings and took refuge in the streets. Last year, a massive earthquake killed more than 1,000 people in the eastern part of that quake prone country.

And Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and a bipartisan delegation of five other senators were in Shanghai today the first step and a trip that will also take them to South Korea and Japan. They're the first American lawmakers to visit China in four years. They met with Chinese Communist Party officials and discussed how to stop the flow of fentanyl into Mexico and how American businesses could better compete in China.

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