Morning Digest
25 stories from 4 sources, 57 more held back.
A video recently released by the Russian Defense Ministry features a female drone pilot reporting the details of a successful battle against Ukrainian forces. Women are being increasingly accepted for combat roles in the country, marking a shift in gender roles.
When we think of WWI-era aviation, what usually comes to mind is the ‘Red Baron’ and Zeppelin raids—in short, most people think of the Western Front in all its fury. However, few people know that during the First World War, Russia was waging its own aerial war, full of challenges and drama. Aviation pioneer Igor Sikorsky didn’t plan to build a bomber.
New Ebola variant linked to unknown animal source – study. Scientists have identified a new variant of the Ebola-causing Bundibugyo virus behind the 2026 outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DR Congo) and Uganda, according to a study published in Nature Medicine on Monday.
The great Patriot hoarding: Why Kiev’s donors have locked their missile vaults. Kiev has stepped up its long-range strike campaign against Russia, seemingly expecting its European backers to provide anti-air missiles to defend against Russia’s inevitable retaliation. There’s just one problem: The missiles don’t exist.
Russia created largest non-dollar crypto stablecoin – bank boss. Russia has created the largest stablecoin not pegged to the US dollar through its A7 cross-border payment system, the chairman of Promsvyazbank (PSB), Pyotr Fradkov, has said.
Southern African bloc raises alarm over severe El Nino. A severe El Nino could deepen the humanitarian crisis across Southern Africa by worsening drought, hunger, water shortages, and disease outbreaks, the Southern African Development Community (SADC) has warned.
Russia has the capability to set up its own comprehensive cross-border payment network that would be domestic in origin, but international in function, the chairman of Promsvyazbank (PSB), Pyotr Fradkov, has said.
BRICS countries are working on setting up a grain exchange, backed by Russian President Vladimir Putin, that could challenge the hegemony of Western commodity exchanges over global agricultural trading and prices.
More than 200 armed bandits launched an attack on a security base in northwestern Nigeria on Monday, killing at least 30 people, including police personnel, civilians, and a local vigilante, the authorities have said.
UK fears naval escalation with Russia – Times. British officials and diplomats fear an unintended maritime escalation with Russia and are pressuring senior military leaders to restore direct communication with their Russian counterparts, The Times reported on Tuesday.
A rare solar eclipse will sweep across parts of Russia and Europe on Wednesday, with the Moon set to completely block the Sun in some areas and obscure much of it across a wider region. The event will be livestreamed on RT starting at 19:50 Moscow time (16:50 GMT). The broadcast will take place from the Lakhta Center in St. Petersburg, the tallest building in Russia and Europe.
The businessmen were involved in the expansion process in Las Vegas, but in a stunning turn, they pivoted to make an aggressive offer to buy the Lakers from Mark Walter, who had purchased a controlling interest in the team from the Buss family last year for a then-record franchise valuation of approximately $10 billion.
Pittsburgh Pirates ace Paul Skenes, battling another dip in his fastball velocity, was lifted after just 65 pitches in Tuesday's loss to the Miami Marlins, leading to further speculation about the health status of the reigning National League Cy Young Award winner.
The FedEx St. Jude Championship begins Thursday and tee times were announced Tuesday for the first and second rounds. Here are the tee times for each player, including Scottie Scheffler and Rory McIlroy playing together the first two days. 8:10 a.m./11:05 a.m. -- Jackson Koivun.
Countless players have set LeBron James up for a slam dunk across his two-decade-plus NBA career. But a freshly painted mural in Philadelphia has James catching a hypothetical dime from a prominent member of the city's history: William Penn. Murals have popped up in and around the city since James decided to sign with the 76ers last month.
At this point in the offseason, everyone usually assumes their team can make a run to the NCAA tournament, based on information currently at hand. They also need that one friend who will hold their hand and tell them the truth -- even if it's not easy to digest.
Editor's note: This story was updated following quarterback Brendan Sorsby's decision to leave Texas Tech. Back when the NIL era was in its nascent stages, with a new Big 12 and a 12-team College Football Playoff on the way, I wondered if there was room for the emergence of a Clemson-style dynasty from a conference known primarily for the endless number of close games.
The hoopla of the MLB trade deadline has passed. The dog days of August have set in. With only six teams essentially eliminated from the playoffs -- we're being generous here to the Cincinnati Reds, Pittsburgh Pirates and Washington Nationals, but even dismissing them would leave us with 21 teams in the playoff chase -- it will be a hectic final quarter of the season.
Former North Carolina guard Seth Trimble has committed to Louisville, he told ESPN, giving the Cardinals another marquee piece for the 2026-27 season. Trimble, who entered the transfer portal in the spring, had the door opened to play next season following a Colorado district court ruling that gave Class of 2022 high schoolers a fifth season of college eligibility. That eligibility is not certain.
PHOENIX -- Matt Hasselbeck took some nasty hits to the head during his 17-year NFL career, four years at Boston College and a childhood full of sports, but the quarterback seems to have emerged from more than two decades of collisions relatively unscathed, enjoying middle adulthood with his wife and three children.
Tafoya will face Minnesota Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan for the Senate seat. Flanagan, a progressive, defeated centrist U.S. Rep. Angie Craig with a pledge to fight the influence of corporations and confront President Donald Trump. Minnesota voters haven't elected a Republican to a statewide office since 2006.
That memo you just worked with Claude to write? It might soon carry an invisible signature that says so. Anthropic just quietly detailed the rollout of invisible watermarks that label everything its Claude models touch, and, like most features forced onto the world, a lot of users aren’t happy about it.
Trump is now demanding his Justice Department resurrect criminal charges against a former American Olympian, even after his own handpicked prosecutor admitted there was no evidence. Former President Barack Obama couldn’t help but mock Trump’s gold-gilded Oval Office during a cameo on HBO Max.
With the midterms less than three months away, Raw America managing editor Carl Gibson interviewed Kelly Dietrich, founder and CEO of the National Democratic Training Committee (NDTC), to talk about how Democrats can get involved in 2026 campaigns, and how they can mount candidacies of their own up and down the ticket in 2028. Gibson and Dietrich covered various topics, including:.
Newly surfaced video confirms Donald Trump was hidden away in an airport catering truck and flown out on a decoy jet after leaving the NATO summit in Turkey. Meanwhile, Trump is actively defying Supreme Court rulings that went against him, including on his tariffs, his illegal firing of a Federal Reserve board member and birthright citizenship.
A video recently released by the Russian Defense Ministry features a female drone pilot reporting the details of a successful battle against Ukrainian forces. Women are being increasingly accepted for combat roles in the country, marking a shift in gender roles.
When we think of WWI-era aviation, what usually comes to mind is the ‘Red Baron’ and Zeppelin raids—in short, most people think of the Western Front in all its fury. However, few people know that during the First World War, Russia was waging its own aerial war, full of challenges and drama. Aviation pioneer Igor Sikorsky didn’t plan to build a bomber.
New Ebola variant linked to unknown animal source – study. Scientists have identified a new variant of the Ebola-causing Bundibugyo virus behind the 2026 outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DR Congo) and Uganda, according to a study published in Nature Medicine on Monday.
The great Patriot hoarding: Why Kiev’s donors have locked their missile vaults. Kiev has stepped up its long-range strike campaign against Russia, seemingly expecting its European backers to provide anti-air missiles to defend against Russia’s inevitable retaliation. There’s just one problem: The missiles don’t exist.
Russia created largest non-dollar crypto stablecoin – bank boss. Russia has created the largest stablecoin not pegged to the US dollar through its A7 cross-border payment system, the chairman of Promsvyazbank (PSB), Pyotr Fradkov, has said.
Southern African bloc raises alarm over severe El Nino. A severe El Nino could deepen the humanitarian crisis across Southern Africa by worsening drought, hunger, water shortages, and disease outbreaks, the Southern African Development Community (SADC) has warned.
Russia has the capability to set up its own comprehensive cross-border payment network that would be domestic in origin, but international in function, the chairman of Promsvyazbank (PSB), Pyotr Fradkov, has said.
BRICS countries are working on setting up a grain exchange, backed by Russian President Vladimir Putin, that could challenge the hegemony of Western commodity exchanges over global agricultural trading and prices.
More than 200 armed bandits launched an attack on a security base in northwestern Nigeria on Monday, killing at least 30 people, including police personnel, civilians, and a local vigilante, the authorities have said.
UK fears naval escalation with Russia – Times. British officials and diplomats fear an unintended maritime escalation with Russia and are pressuring senior military leaders to restore direct communication with their Russian counterparts, The Times reported on Tuesday.
A rare solar eclipse will sweep across parts of Russia and Europe on Wednesday, with the Moon set to completely block the Sun in some areas and obscure much of it across a wider region. The event will be livestreamed on RT starting at 19:50 Moscow time (16:50 GMT). The broadcast will take place from the Lakhta Center in St. Petersburg, the tallest building in Russia and Europe.
The businessmen were involved in the expansion process in Las Vegas, but in a stunning turn, they pivoted to make an aggressive offer to buy the Lakers from Mark Walter, who had purchased a controlling interest in the team from the Buss family last year for a then-record franchise valuation of approximately $10 billion.
Pittsburgh Pirates ace Paul Skenes, battling another dip in his fastball velocity, was lifted after just 65 pitches in Tuesday's loss to the Miami Marlins, leading to further speculation about the health status of the reigning National League Cy Young Award winner.
The FedEx St. Jude Championship begins Thursday and tee times were announced Tuesday for the first and second rounds. Here are the tee times for each player, including Scottie Scheffler and Rory McIlroy playing together the first two days. 8:10 a.m./11:05 a.m. -- Jackson Koivun.
Countless players have set LeBron James up for a slam dunk across his two-decade-plus NBA career. But a freshly painted mural in Philadelphia has James catching a hypothetical dime from a prominent member of the city's history: William Penn. Murals have popped up in and around the city since James decided to sign with the 76ers last month.
At this point in the offseason, everyone usually assumes their team can make a run to the NCAA tournament, based on information currently at hand. They also need that one friend who will hold their hand and tell them the truth -- even if it's not easy to digest.
Editor's note: This story was updated following quarterback Brendan Sorsby's decision to leave Texas Tech. Back when the NIL era was in its nascent stages, with a new Big 12 and a 12-team College Football Playoff on the way, I wondered if there was room for the emergence of a Clemson-style dynasty from a conference known primarily for the endless number of close games.
The hoopla of the MLB trade deadline has passed. The dog days of August have set in. With only six teams essentially eliminated from the playoffs -- we're being generous here to the Cincinnati Reds, Pittsburgh Pirates and Washington Nationals, but even dismissing them would leave us with 21 teams in the playoff chase -- it will be a hectic final quarter of the season.
Former North Carolina guard Seth Trimble has committed to Louisville, he told ESPN, giving the Cardinals another marquee piece for the 2026-27 season. Trimble, who entered the transfer portal in the spring, had the door opened to play next season following a Colorado district court ruling that gave Class of 2022 high schoolers a fifth season of college eligibility. That eligibility is not certain.
PHOENIX -- Matt Hasselbeck took some nasty hits to the head during his 17-year NFL career, four years at Boston College and a childhood full of sports, but the quarterback seems to have emerged from more than two decades of collisions relatively unscathed, enjoying middle adulthood with his wife and three children.
Tafoya will face Minnesota Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan for the Senate seat. Flanagan, a progressive, defeated centrist U.S. Rep. Angie Craig with a pledge to fight the influence of corporations and confront President Donald Trump. Minnesota voters haven't elected a Republican to a statewide office since 2006.
Trump is now demanding his Justice Department resurrect criminal charges against a former American Olympian, even after his own handpicked prosecutor admitted there was no evidence. Former President Barack Obama couldn’t help but mock Trump’s gold-gilded Oval Office during a cameo on HBO Max.
With the midterms less than three months away, Raw America managing editor Carl Gibson interviewed Kelly Dietrich, founder and CEO of the National Democratic Training Committee (NDTC), to talk about how Democrats can get involved in 2026 campaigns, and how they can mount candidacies of their own up and down the ticket in 2028. Gibson and Dietrich covered various topics, including:.
Newly surfaced video confirms Donald Trump was hidden away in an airport catering truck and flown out on a decoy jet after leaving the NATO summit in Turkey. Meanwhile, Trump is actively defying Supreme Court rulings that went against him, including on his tariffs, his illegal firing of a Federal Reserve board member and birthright citizenship.
That memo you just worked with Claude to write? It might soon carry an invisible signature that says so. Anthropic just quietly detailed the rollout of invisible watermarks that label everything its Claude models touch, and, like most features forced onto the world, a lot of users aren’t happy about it.