Secretary of State John Kerry met with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Thursday, in an effort to seek a diplomatic breakthrough in the continuing crisis in Syria, NBC News reported. Thursday's meeting was hastily set up after Kerry announced, somewhat off-handedly, on Monday that the Assad government may be able to avoid a military strike by the U.S. if it turned over all its chemical weapons within a week. That unusually delivered proposal was soon endorsed by his Russian counterpart.
A "devastating storm," which has dumped more than a foot of rain in Boulder, Colorado during a 19-hour period has caused widespread flash flooding. The floods' damage killed at least three people along Colorado's Rocky Mountain range, from Boulder south to Colorado Springs.
Tina Brown, the founding editor of The Daily Beast and well known for her previous work at Vanity Fair and The New Yorker, announced her departure on Wednesday from the news online magazine. She will launch her own conference company.
