Italy mourns victims of bridge collapse — Italy mourned those killed in the collapse of a bridge in the northern city of Genoa with a state funeral Saturday as the country struggled to come to terms with a tragedy that government officials, families of victims and some experts say could have been prevented. But some victims’ families boycotted the event. A solemn ceremony was held in Genoa for 19 of the victims of the Aug. 14 collapse. The death toll rose to 40 Saturday when one of the 10 injured people in hospital died and another victim was found, local officials said. At least three people are still missing.

Khan vows austerity — Imran Khan, the former cricket star turned firebrand politician, was sworn in as Pakistan’s prime minister Saturday, taking control of a country facing a looming economic crisis as observers questioned whether he had the political acumen to govern a deeply divided nation. Khan’s first decision was to scrub the nine-course meal traditionally served after the oath-taking ceremony, held at the president’s house. It was a sign of the “austerity drive” he had promised while on the campaign trail, his party said. Pakistan’s government has little money to spare, is straddled with debt and must tighten its finances.

U.N. urges protection for aid workers in Afghanistan — The United Nations urged all sides of the Afghan conflict to protect aid workers delivering critical assistance to a population caught in relentless violence. Afghanistan remains among the three most dangerous countries for aid workers, and a recent escalation in violence has often blocked important relief from reaching civilians. The appeal Saturday came as the Afghan government and aid agencies began delivering assistance to Ghazni, a city 90 miles south of the capital Kabul which was under a Taliban siege for several days. Hospitals were overwhelmed with casualties and the water supply, electricity, and telecoms were shut down.

Districts weigh duty to youth migrant shelters — When San Benito, Texas, school leaders learned of an influx of children to a migrant shelter in their small town near the U.S.-Mexico border, they felt obliged to help. The superintendent reached out and agreed to send 19 bilingual teachers, mobile classrooms and hundreds of computers to make the learning environment resemble one of his schools. While a government contractor bears responsibility for educating children at the highly guarded center, local officials say they stepped up partly because of a law that calls on school systems to educate any child, anywhere within their district. “This is not a political issue. This is not a racial issue. This is a moral obligation, and actually our legal obligation,” said Michael Vargas, who leads the board of the San Benito Consolidated Independent School District. San Benito is one of a small number of U.S. school systems that are preparing for the first day of school on both their public campuses and in new classrooms set up at nearby federal youth migrant shelters. In neighboring Brownsville, Texas, the superintendent is working on an agreement to deploy teachers and services to help educate 800 children housed in federal facilities in her district.

Trump accuses social media firms of discrimination — President Donald Trump said Saturday that conservative voices were being unfairly censored on social media, hinting that he might intervene if his allies’ accounts continued to be shut down. “Social Media is totally discriminating against Republican/Conservative voices,” Trump wrote on Twitter, saying that “censorship is a very dangerous thing.” Social media companies, facing pressure from lawmakers and users over their role in the rise of misinformation and partisan division, have promised to step up their enforcement practices. They have banned a number of pages and accounts in recent weeks for being involved in activity intended to disrupt the midterm elections.

Sergeant is fired — A police sergeant who was under investigation in connection with the off-duty shooting of an unarmed man in the face in Brooklyn was fired Friday, a police official said. Moments after the shooting on Aug. 2 in the East New York neighborhood, video surveillance footage captured the sergeant, Ritchard Blake, patting down the man, Thavone Santana, as if looking for a weapon. The sergeant then pulled a sheath knife out of his back pocket and dropped it out of its covering beside Santana. After briefly pacing, Blake picked it back up, the video shows. Santana, 21, survived the shooting.

Asians’ inequality is widest in the U.S. — The leads of the new romantic comedy “Crazy Rich Asians” are precisely what you might expect, based on the title: picture-perfect images of the immigrant success story. But that is not a full picture of the Asian-American experience. They are now the most economically divided racial or ethnic group in the country, displacing African-Americans, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis of Census Bureau data that shows income inequality among Asian-Americans has nearly doubled from 1970 to 2016. This trend mirrors that of other racial groups, though income inequality has accelerated fastest among Asians.

Drug companies fight back — States around the country are clamping down on pharmaceutical companies, forcing them to disclose and justify price increases, but drug manufacturers are fighting back, challenging state laws as a violation of their constitutional rights. Even more states are trying to regulate middlemen who play a crucial role by managing drug benefits for employers and insurers, while taking payments from drug companies in return for giving preferential treatment to their drugs.