A powerful earthquake rocked the entire island of Taiwan early Wednesday, collapsing buildings in a southern city and creating a tsunami that washed ashore on Japanese islands. Television footage showed buildings in the city of Hualien shaken off their foundations. Taiwan’s earthquake monitoring agency gave the magnitude as 7.2 while the U.S. Geological Survey put it at 7.5.
Rep. Steve Cohen, a longtime Tennessee Democrat, announced Friday he will retire at the end of the term, after his Memphis district was carved up in redistricting....