WENDOVER, Utah (AP) — The only person to break the sound barrier in a car earned another world record Tuesday in a show of force for hydrogen power. British driver Andy Green reached 406. 320 mph (653. 908 kph) in a car powered by two hydrogen internal combustion engines with a combined 1,600 horsepower, setting the record for that vehicle category, according to the Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile, the international governing body of motor sports. The 64-year-old retired Royal...

COLUMBIA, S. C. (AP) — Sen. Darline Graham and U. S. Rep. Ralph Norman have advanced to a runoff in South Carolina’s special Republican primary to replace the late Lindsey Graham in the U. S. Senate. Graham was the top vote-getter to runner-up Norman as they advanced from a 10-candidate field on Tuesday in a whirlwind special election season prompted by Graham’s sudden death on July 11. The late incumbent’s sister, Darline Graham, was appointed interim senator to serve out his current...

PEREIRA, Colombia (AP) — Rescue crews and civilians in Colombia painstakingly searched through rubble Tuesday in the hopes of finding survivors trapped under debris after a powerful earthquake left thousands missing in dozens of cities and towns. The 7. 4 magnitude earthquake that hit western Colombia on Monday wreaked havoc, collapsing buildings, buckling roads, crushing cars and leaving devastated residents to console each other among the wreckage of their homes. Excavators and heavy heavy...