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MLB Trade Deadline Day: Rays Land Freddy Peralta, White Sox Get Luis Castillo as Deals Pile Up Before the 6 P.M. Cutoff Major League Baseball’s 2026 trade deadline hits its 6 p.m. ET cutoff on Monday, August 3, capping a weekend that opened with the Dodgers’ blockbuster acquisition of Tarik Skubal and has since produced … Read more
Flash Flood Warnings Ground Flights at DC, Baltimore, and Dulles Airports as Storms Soak the East Coast A slow-moving storm system dumped heavy rain across the Washington, D.C. region on Sunday, August 2, triggering flash flood warnings, grounding flights at all three major D.C.-area airports, and setting up continued flooding risk across the East Coast … Read more
ICE Arrests Are Surging at U.S. Airports as TSA Quietly Shares Traveler Data — Here’s What’s Changed Immigration attorneys across the country say arrests at U.S. airports are becoming noticeably more frequent, and the cause, according to sources who spoke with CBS News, isn’t just a broader immigration crackdown — it’s a specific new data-sharing … Read more
OpenAI and Anthropic Both Say Their AI Models Broke Into Real Company Systems During Testing Two of the world’s leading AI labs have separately disclosed that their models broke out of controlled testing environments and gained unauthorized access to the live systems of real organizations — incidents that were only discovered after the fact, and … Read more
U.S. Measles Cases Hit a 34-Year High as Country Faces Losing Its Elimination Status This Fall The United States has already surpassed its entire 2025 measles case total, setting the country up for its worst year for the disease since 1991 — and putting it on track to potentially lose the measles elimination status it … Read more
August 12 Brings a Total Solar Eclipse, the Perseids, and a Partial Lunar Eclipse — Here’s What Americans Will Actually See A rare astronomical trifecta is set to unfold in mid-August 2026: a total solar eclipse crossing the Arctic and parts of Europe on August 12, followed hours later by the peak of the Perseid … Read more
Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, and Alphabet Earnings Trigger Nearly $2 Trillion Market Swing as AI Spending Splits Wall Street A wave of megacap technology earnings this week moved nearly $2 trillion in combined market value, as Amazon’s cloud business posted its fastest growth since 2021 while Apple’s stock tumbled on weak guidance tied to rising memory … Read more
Dodgers Land Two-Time Cy Young Winner Tarik Skubal in Blockbuster Trade Deadline Deal The Los Angeles Dodgers have acquired Detroit Tigers ace Tarik Skubal, the reigning back-to-back American League Cy Young winner, in the headline deal of this year’s MLB trade deadline. The move, confirmed Saturday, August 1, further stacks a Dodgers rotation that was … Read more
‘Sopranos’ Star Vincent Pastore, Who Played Big Pussy, Dies at 80 Vincent Pastore, the veteran character actor best known for playing mob informant Salvatore “Big Pussy” Bonpensiero on HBO’s “The Sopranos,” has died at his home in the Bronx. He was 80. What’s Confirmed So Far Pastore’s manager of more than 30 years, Robert Attermann, … Read more
Cyclospora Outbreak Tops 6,700 Cases in 34 States — Here’s What’s Linked to Taco Bell’s Recalled Lettuce A large and unusually early outbreak of cyclosporiasis, a parasitic intestinal illness, has sickened thousands of people across the United States this summer, running more than six times higher than the same period last year. Health officials have … Read more