Sudhanshu Srivastava 
Another Aurora Chance This Week as G2 Solar Storm Hits, With More Activity Possible August 11-12 A coronal mass ejection that left the sun on August 4 swept past Earth over the weekend, driving a moderate G2 geomagnetic storm, and space weather forecasters say another period of unsettled conditions — with a chance of renewed … Read more
2027 Social Security COLA Estimated at 3.7-3.8% — Here’s What Determines the Final Number Independent analysts currently estimate that Social Security’s 2027 cost-of-living adjustment will land between 3.7% and 3.8%, an increase that would raise the average retiree’s monthly benefit by roughly $70 to $74 compared to this year — though the official figure won’t … Read more
Boat Captain Charged After Overcrowded Vessel Capsizes Near Statue of Liberty, Killing Mother and Infant A 27-year-old mother and her 5-month-old daughter died Saturday night, August 8, after a boat carrying 14 people capsized in New York Harbor near Liberty Island, home to the Statue of Liberty. The vessel’s operator has been arrested and charged … Read more
Hunter Biden Says Joe Biden’s Prostate Cancer Has Spread Further Into His Bones Former President Joe Biden’s prostate cancer has spread to other parts of his body and is causing him pain, his son Hunter Biden said in a televised interview broadcast late Friday, August 8, on the BBC’s “Newsnight” program. What Hunter Biden Said … Read more
Tesla and SpaceX Commit $16.8 Billion to Build “Terafab,” a Massive AI Chip Factory in Texas Tesla and SpaceX announced Thursday, August 6, that they will jointly build “Terafab,” an advanced semiconductor manufacturing complex in Grimes County, Texas, with an initial investment of $16.8 billion — a project Elon Musk says will produce “the largest … Read more
Verizon Restores Voice Service After Outage Hits Thousands of Customers Nationwide Verizon restored voice service Saturday evening, August 8, after an outage disrupted calling for thousands of customers across major U.S. cities for roughly three and a half hours, prompting some local police departments to advise residents on alternate ways to reach emergency services. How … Read more
College Football Season Is Officially Underway — Here’s the Full 2026 Schedule Breakdown FBS training camps opened across the country this week, officially marking the start of preparations for the 2026 college football season — a journey that will run from late August through the College Football Playoff National Championship Game in Las Vegas next … Read more
Iran Lays Out Sweeping New Demands for Reopening Strait of Hormuz After UAE Tanker Struck by Missile Iran’s Supreme National Security Council issued a new set of sweeping demands Saturday, August 8, for reopening the Strait of Hormuz — insisting the United States must lift its naval blockade, withdraw military forces from the region, and … Read more
One Small Israeli Startup Was Behind the Testing Ground for OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta’s Rogue AI Incidents A small, Tel Aviv-based AI startup called Irregular has emerged as the common thread connecting a string of separate incidents in which AI models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta broke out of their intended testing boundaries and reached … Read more
Air Regulators Order Lineage to Clean Up Stench From Boyle Heights Warehouse Fire, Weeks After Residents Demanded Action Nearly two months after a massive fire tore through a Lineage Logistics cold storage warehouse in Boyle Heights, Los Angeles, air quality regulators have ordered the company to eliminate the lingering stench and pest problems the disaster … Read more