NEWS SUMMARY AT THIS HOUR

Rescue efforts continued through the night in Italy where there are 26 dead and 15 seriously injured after the supporting tower of a large highway bridge collapsed during a torrential rain near Genoa.

Twelve are said to be missing with reports that cries are coming from the wreckage.

A 250-foot section of the bridge that carried a four lane highway up to 300 feet off the ground came crashing down.

British police searched locations in Birmingham and Nottingham after a 29 year old man was arrested for deliberately driving his car into pedestrians near the Houses of Parliament in London.

The police consider it in their words a 'terrorist incident'.

Reacting to the attack, United Kingdom Independence Party leader Gerard Batten called it an attack on "diversity barriers" and alluded to Islam in a tweet commenting about the 'religion of peace'.

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More on last night's violence in Sweden.   The mobs of youths dressed in black who burned cars and stoned police in eight different locations were identified in source outside the mainstream media as migrant youths.

That's how radio host Michael Savage characterized the perpetrators as youths who are immigrants to Sweden.

The violence comes less than a month before a general election in Sweden with a number of opinion polls showing the anti-mass migration, immigration Sweden Democrats leading

The incumbent Republican governor of Kansas, Jeff Colyer, has conceded defeat in last week's primary election to Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach.

Kobach received the last minute endorsement of President Trump and defeated Colyer by a narrow margin.

Kobach thanked Colyer and said he looked forward to them working together to keep Kansas a 'red state' in the general election.

White House National Security Advisor John Bolton will meet with Russian officials in Geneva next week.

Bolton's meeting is a follow up to President Trump's summit meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin last month in Geneva.

Bolton will also visit Israel and Ukraine during his overseas trip.

Yesterday Mr. Bolton met with Turkey's ambassador to the United States telling him that there is no retreat on the US demand that Christian pastor Andrew Brunson be freed.

A White House official warned today that more economic actions may be in store for Turkey if it does not release Brunson.

In Venezuela there have been arrests in connection with the alleged drone attack plot against President Nicolas Maduro including a general and colonel in the country's paramilitary National Guard, an internal security force used for controlling public demonstrations.

The national prosecutor of Maduro's regime says there have been a total of 14 arrests in connection with the incident and claims 34 people were involved in the August 4th incident where video showed Maduro being protected by his bodyguards and fearful actions and looks from those around him.

Opponents of the government feel the who incident was staged and is just an excuse to jail political opponents.

Five people were injured with non-life threatening injuries in a shooting incident at a Walmart store just outside Philadelphia tonight with the suspect also injuring police officers during his getaway attempt.  A man arguing with another customer grabbed a gun and fired 10 shots throughout the store.

The police chief of Cheltenham Township says the suspect and woman believed to be his sister were in a getaway car when it crashed into a Philadelphia police cruiser injuring two city police officers.  Philadelphia police say the man was seen throwing a gun out of his car before the crash a few blocks from the store.