5 killed in bus crash:

ATWATER, Calif. — A bus veered off a central California highway before dawn Tuesday and struck a pole that sliced the vehicle nearly in half, killing five people and sending at least five more to hospitals, some with lost limbs, authorities said. The speeding bus hit the pole of a highway exit sign on State Route 99, Merced County Sheriff Vern Warnke said. The pole sheared straight through bus, stopping at the first rear axle “with a great impact,” he said.In addition to the five people killed, and at least five others were taken to hospitals by helicopter, California Highway Patrol Officer Moises Onsurez said.

NYC’s top cop stepping down:

NEW YORK — New York City Police Commissioner William Bratton is leaving the nation’s largest police force, after getting credit for keeping crime down but grappling with tension between police and minority communities. Bratton, whose departure was announced Tuesday, will leave next month to become a risk and security adviser at Teneo, a consulting firm. James O’Neill, the department’s top chief, will replace him as commissioner.The announcement by Mayor Bill de Blasio took New Yorkers by surprise. Bratton, 68, said last week he would leave by the end of 2017, though the mayor said Tuesday that Bratton had actually disclosed his plans more than three weeks ago.

3 more resign at DNC:

WASHINGTON — The chief executive of the Democratic National Committee and two other top officials have resigned in the wake of an email hack that embarrassed the party on the eve of its presidential nominating convention. CEO Amy Dacey, chief finance officer Brad Marshall and communications director Luis Miranda left their jobs on Tuesday, the party said in a statement. The resignations are the latest fallout from the hacked emails, which exposed an apparent lack of neutrality in the primary race between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders, with some party officials disparaging Sanders.

23 dead in bombing:

CAIRO — A suicide car bomb attack in the eastern city of Benghazi targeting Libyan troops killed 23 people and wounded dozens of others Tuesday, a hospital official said. The official said the wounded were still arriving at the hospital in the aftermath of the bombing on the outskirts of the city, Libya’s second largest.The attack comes after the United States started an air campaign on Monday in the central city of Sirte, the last bastion of the Islamic State extremist group in Libya.

North fires missile, Seoul says:

SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea fired a ballistic missile into the sea on Wednesday, South Korea’s military said, the fourth reported weapons launch the North has carried out in about two weeks. The missile fired from the North’s western Hwanghae province flew toward the water off the country’s east coast, the South’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement. South Korean military officials were analyzing what type of missile it was and how far it flew, according to Seoul’s Defense Ministry. North Korea routinely conducts missile and other weapons tests, but the latest launch came after North Korea warned of unspecified “physical counteractions” against a U.S. plan to deploy an advanced missile defense system in South Korea by the end of next year.

Deal obligations met?

TEHRAN, Iran — Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani said on Tuesday that world powers have not fulfilled their commitments under the landmark nuclear deal, harming Iranian economic growth. He said Iran still cannot access its foreign assets, although it is able to export more oil and to access the international banking system. He said the U.S., Israel and others are thwarting the implementation of the deal. Spokesman John Kirby said that the U.S. State Department has assessed that Iran is meeting its obligations under the deal and “we’re meeting ours.” Kirby said the U.S. would continue to abide by its commitments under the agreement, which he described as having a “stabilizing effect on the world.”