Warren’s possible run — Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts said Saturday that she plans to “take a hard look” at running for president in 2020 after the midterm elections in October, her most explicit acknowledgment yet of her national ambitions. Warren made the statement in response to a question about a possible presidential run at a town hall event in Holyoke, Massachusetts, and she explicitly put her deliberations in the context of the searing drama playing out in Washington around the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh. “This week, I watched 11 men who were too chicken to ask a woman a single question. I watched as Brett Kavanaugh acted like he was entitled to that position and angry at anyone who would question him. I watched powerful men helping a powerful man make it to an even more powerful position. I watched that, and I thought: Time’s up,” she said, according to a video posted by Warren’s Senate campaign. “It’s time for women to go to Washington and fix our broken government, and that includes a woman at the top. So here’s what I promise: After Nov. 6, I will take a hard look at running for president.”

Indonesia tsunami death toll nears 400 — Residents too afraid to sleep indoors camped out in the darkness Saturday while victims recounted harrowing stories of being separated from their loved ones a day after a powerful earthquake triggered a tsunami that unleashed waves as high as 20 feet, killing hundreds on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. The official death toll stood at 384, with all the fatalities coming in the hard-hit city of Palu, but it was expected to rise once rescuers reached surrounding coastal areas, said disaster agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho. He said others were unaccounted for, without giving an estimate. The nearby cities of Donggala and Mamuju were also ravaged, but little information was available due to damaged roads and disrupted telecommunications. Nugroho said “tens to hundreds” of people were taking part in a beach festival in Palu when the tsunami struck at dusk on Friday. Their fate was unknown.

‘Not him’ in Brazil — Tens of thousands of Brazilians took to the streets Saturday in protest against the presidential front-runner, a far-right congressman whose campaign has exposed and deepened divisions in Latin America’s largest country. The protests came the same day that Jair Bolsonaro was discharged from a Sao Paulo hospital where he received treatment after being stabbed during a campaign rally on Sept. 6. On Saturday evening, after flying home to Rio, he tweeted that there was “no better feeling” than to be close to his family. In Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Brasilia, people flooded avenues and squares to sing, dance and shout “Not him!” — the rallying cry of groups who are trying to prevent Bolsonaro from taking office in October elections. “We’re saying to those people who are undecided: Not him,” said Selia Figueiredo, a 43-year-old banker in Sao Paulo, who said she worried for her rights as a gay woman if Bolsonaro were to win. They can vote “for anyone else, but not him.”

Thousands in Central Park panic — Fearing possible gunshots, it took only the collapse of a police barrier at a politically charged New York celebrity music show Saturday to send thousands of spectators fleeing in panic. About 60,000 people had filled the park’s Great Lawn for the eight-hour Global Citizen Festival. They listened to big-name personalities from Democratic New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Republican Sen. Jeff Flake to Janet Jackson and John Legend who all urged spectators to get involved in the nation’s troubled politics. Suddenly, just before 8 p.m., the police barrier that was meant to keep the crowd in check toppled over, releasing a clanging sound that terrified many spectators. Authorities quickly took the stage, assuring the crowd they were safe. Burning social justice issues dominated the eight-hour event that had started on a sunny afternoon. Also scheduled were Cardi B, The Weeknd and other pop stars.

North Korea demands concessions to disarm — North Korea’s foreign minister said Saturday that there was “no way we will denuclearize” without getting trust-building concessions from the United States, an assertion that reflected a continuing divide over efforts to ease nuclear tensions on the Korean Peninsula. “Without any trust in the United States, there will be no confidence in our national security, and under such circumstances there is no way we will unilaterally disarm ourselves first,” the North Korean minister, Ri Yong Ho, told the U.N. General Assembly. The United States has called for North Korea to surrender all of its nuclear capabilities first, before other issues can be negotiated.

Turkey clamps down on rallies — An aggressive response to a peaceful protest by grieving mothers in Turkey has been seen by government critics as evidence of a turn toward authoritarianism in Turkey under President Recep Tayyip Erdogan — a leader who had once pledged to help these families find their loved ones. Authorities had allowed the Saturday Mothers, who are protesting the disappearances and extrajudicial killings decades ago of their family members, mostly activists from Turkey’s Kurdish minority, to rally for years. But for the last five weeks, the government has banned the rally. The government said the Saturday Mothers were being exploited by terrorists.

Boy, 4, thrown to death — A 4-year-old boy was thrown to his death from the roof of his seven-story apartment building in Brooklyn by his 20-year-old brother Saturday, police said. The brother, identified by police as Shawn J. Smith, was charged with second-degree murder.