| CNN.com delivers up-to-the-minute news and information on the latest top stories, weather, entertainment, politics and more. | Back-to-back typhoons hit China | | Two tropical cyclones have made landfall in eastern China, prompting the evacuation of hundreds of thousands of people from coastal areas as the Philippines and Taiwan assess the damage that one of the storms left in its wake. |
| Insider trading law loophole closed | | After a CNN report, the Senate and House closed a loophole that could have allowed family members of some lawmakers to profit from inside information. |
| Packed bus hits overpass pillar | | One person was killed and as many as two dozen were injured when a commercial bus crashed into an overpass pillar on a southern Illinois interstate, authorities reported Thursday. |
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