Morning Digest
35 stories from 8 sources, 59 more held back.
US debt tops $40 trillion months earlier than expected. The US national debt has surpassed $40 trillion for the first time, reaching the milestone months earlier than expected as Washington’s borrowing accelerates amid persistent deficits, rising interest costs, and military spending. The debt was expected to reach the milestone next year, but it has jumped by $1 trillion since March.
French police storm beach to stop migrant Channel crossing (VIDEO). Drone footage released by the UK’s Border Security Command on Thursday shows French police intercepting migrants attempting to cross the English Channel illegally.
Beijing is gearing up for the Eurasian Cinema Academy award screenings, which will showcase six feature-length films that garnered the Diamond Butterfly in various categories at the inaugural ceremony in Moscow last year.
Shocking news of a sudden over-threefold year-on-year increase of the number of miscarriages and stillbirths should be front page on global media. But because it is one of the latest consequences of the ongoing Israeli genocide of Palestinians in Gaza, it will probably go ignored by most Western corporate media.
Russian farmer Nikolay Mukhin, who was fined for attempting to shoot down a Ukrainian drone with his shotgun, has told RT that his actions were motivated by love for his motherland. The 66-year-old vowed to appeal the court’s decision, and the Volgograd Region prosecutor’s office is now siding with him amid a public outcry.
Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky is facing his gravest political challenge in years, major US and European media outlets have reported, as a new corruption scandal engulfs his office and a former official openly challenges his leadership.
Israel has acknowledged that its troops killed Hind Rajab, a five-year-old Palestinian girl, and opened a criminal investigation into the incident. At the same time, it has refused to pursue a probe into the death of seven World Central Kitchen aid workers in a separate attack.
Japan ‘playing with fire’ over nuclear ambitions – China. Russia and China are both opposed to Japan’s accelerating militarization and growing debate over acquiring nuclear weapons, Beijing’s ambassador to Moscow, Zhang Hanhui, has said, warning that Tokyo’s policies could trigger a new arms race.
Bangladeshi lawmakers have elected Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, a candidate of the ruling Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), as the country’s 23rd president. The former secretary-general of the BNP secured 255 parliamentary votes in the presidential election, while Oli Ahmed, a former army colonel from the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami-led alliance, received 88 votes.
ChatGPT search now uses the site:operator at scale. Promptwatch is part of the emerging "GEO" space, for Generative Engine Optimization - the chatbot version of SEO, where companies offer tools and consulting to help your site increase its presence in replies to prompts inside tools like ChatGPT.
Today saw the long awaited release of Bun 1.4, the first stable version since the infamous Rust rewrite a few months ago. Interestingly, the Rust rewrite was downplayed in the release notes, which introduced a bewildering array of new features and claimed 2,900 additional bug fixes:. Bun 1.4 adds +1,517 tests from the Node.js test suite - our biggest jump in Node.js compatibility since Bun 1.0.
In case you were hiding under a baseball rock last week, you noticed Cardinals’ prospect Joshua Báez made his big league debut against the Cubs in Chicago last Saturday. All he did was make history by becoming the first player in Major League history to homer in his first three plate appearances in his debut.
Ask longtime MLB pitcher and current MLB Network host Ryan Dempster a question today at 2 p.m. ET when he joins Chatting Practice Powered by Zoom Events.
Shaw landed on the 10-day Injured List on June 29 with a left-hand sprain that he suffered while fouling off a pitch. Shaw, 24, is hitting .246/.322/.415 (105 OPS+) through 56 games with Chicago this season. He also spent time on the IL earlier in the year with back tightness.
It’s a long season, as they say. And that means a long runway for players looking to find their footing. It’s not ideal, but it’s also not the end of the story of your season.
MLB Pipeline gave a full refresh to its Top 100 Prospects list last week -- and each team’s Top 30 -- now that the 2026 draftees have joined their respective organizations. That makes it as good a time as any to look at the biggest breakout players in Minor Leagues. Some of these players were high Draft picks or on the preseason Top 100 Prospects list.
Top staffers in Donald Trump’s White House keep heading for the exits, and the latest to go is the president’s key point of contact for Congress. White nationalist organizers held a strategy summit in Rome and openly celebrated the collapse of local newspapers as a golden opportunity to organize in rural America.
An active-duty Air Force major who went on cable news and directly accused Donald Trump of violating the Constitution was arrested less than 24 hours later, making that the second time he’s been arrested for upholding his oath. Senate Republicans are quietly panicking that the growing backlash against data centers could cost them a crucial Senate seat in a reliably red state.
Amazon.com Inc. this week said it plans to expand its Prime Air service to nearly 500 cities and towns in the U.S. by the end of 2026. The company said this is a sixfold increase from its current footprint. It would give tens of millions of customers access to drone delivery.
There are millions of powered wheelchair users in the U.S. today. Assistive Technology Development Inc., or ATDev, aims to use robotics to give these users more independence and freedom in their lives. “I’ve been a power wheelchair user for over 30 years, my whole life really,” Owen Kent, founder and chief marketing officer at ATDev, told The Robot Report.
Off-road physical AI company Agtonomy has expanded its commercial platform with fully autonomous multi-point turning and enhanced passive data collection. The company said this enables farm equipment to execute complex maneuvers in tight headland spaces without human intervention. Agtonomy develops full-autonomy packages that retrofit vehicles from its OEM partners, Kubota and Bobcat.
Jacob deGrom reached 2,000 career strikeouts in the second-fewest games and innings pitched in major league history when the Texas Rangers' right-hander fanned the first two batters against the Washington Nationals on Thursday night. DeGrom struck out Daylen Lile and Abimelec Ortiz, both chasing strike three on sliders below the zone.
LOUIS -- Rory McIlroy might not be as far away as he thought four days ago, playing bogey-free at Bellerive for a 6-under 64 that gave him a share of the lead Thursday in the BMW Championship with three other U.S. Open champions and Chris Gotterup. Four days brought a big change for Scottie Scheffler, too.
Eight former college football players who were plaintiffs in the Louisiana court case entered their names in the portal as of Thursday afternoon: running back TJ Harden (SMU), tight end Dae'Quan Wright (Ole Miss), offensive lineman Weylin Lapuaho (BYU), defensive lineman Zxavian Harris (Ole Miss), linebacker Trent Hendrick (James Madison), cornerback Ethan Johnson (App State), cornerback Blake…
The 22-year-old Anderson, the third pick in the 2025 draft out of LSU, has a 1.06 ERA over 93 1/3 innings with 135 strikeouts, 13 walks and 47 hits allowed at Double-A Arkansas. Anderson was ranked as the No. 3 overall prospect in baseball in ESPN's August update.
The NCAA transfer portal has officially reopened for the athletes granted a temporary restraining order Wednesday to return to college for a fifth year of eligibility.
For the opening of top leagues this week, we take you to England, Germany, Spain, the Netherlands, France and Italy. We also already have a cup final and a clash between two big clubs. Every week this season, I pick for you the best or most exciting games not to be missed in the world of football.
The NFL said on Tuesday that the Competition Committee has made sportsmanship a point of emphasis over the years, including sportsmanship at joint practices and the league told every team about that emphasis this summer.
RAVENNA, Italy -- Brazil great Ronaldinho has landed in Ravenna, a city more famous for its nearby beaches than its soccer team. The lyrics "and the world's going to know your name" seemed ironically superfluous as one of soccer's most recognizable figures stepped onstage in front of thousands of fans Thursday.
Johnson will focus on the team's commercial growth, especially in the U.S., but won't undertake any day-to-day management duties, according to Aston Martin. Johnson, 79, who purchased the Jets for $635 million in 2000, purchased a 43% stake in Crystal Palace of the English Premier League in 2025 for a reported $254 million.
A los aficionados del béisbol de Chicago puede que no les guste, pero no lo olvidarán. Con los White Sox venciendo a los Cubs 3-0 el miércoles en Wrigley Field, la mejor serie Crosstown de todas terminó en un empate 3-3. Sí, leíste bien, la mejor, desde que el juego entre ligas empezó en las Grandes Ligas en 1997.
Since perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, were discovered in 1934, manufacturers have found new uses and developed a range of chemicals in the family to use in various products such as cookware, food packaging, aerospace components and especially, semiconductors.
Both of Musk’s companies, Tesla and SpaceX, are separately working toward a combined goal of building out of 100 gigawatts per year of manufactured solar power capacity in the United States, the CEO said at the World Economic Forum at the start of the year. “That’ll probably take us three years or something,” Musk said at the event.
The bill comes at a time when manufacturers in Illinois and the United States as a whole are experiencing an acute worker shortage, despite some evidence that manufacturing jobs are increasing due to reshoring efforts.
Ebm-Papst is headquartered in Mulfingen, Germany, and was established in 1963. The company has more than 13,000 employees worldwide, with operations in about 40 countries including two U.S. sales offices in Connecticut and Tennessee, according to the website. Madison Air has also been one of the Germany-based manufacturer’s longstanding customers, President and CEO Jill Wyant said in a statement.
US debt tops $40 trillion months earlier than expected. The US national debt has surpassed $40 trillion for the first time, reaching the milestone months earlier than expected as Washington’s borrowing accelerates amid persistent deficits, rising interest costs, and military spending. The debt was expected to reach the milestone next year, but it has jumped by $1 trillion since March.
French police storm beach to stop migrant Channel crossing (VIDEO). Drone footage released by the UK’s Border Security Command on Thursday shows French police intercepting migrants attempting to cross the English Channel illegally.
Beijing is gearing up for the Eurasian Cinema Academy award screenings, which will showcase six feature-length films that garnered the Diamond Butterfly in various categories at the inaugural ceremony in Moscow last year.
Shocking news of a sudden over-threefold year-on-year increase of the number of miscarriages and stillbirths should be front page on global media. But because it is one of the latest consequences of the ongoing Israeli genocide of Palestinians in Gaza, it will probably go ignored by most Western corporate media.
Russian farmer Nikolay Mukhin, who was fined for attempting to shoot down a Ukrainian drone with his shotgun, has told RT that his actions were motivated by love for his motherland. The 66-year-old vowed to appeal the court’s decision, and the Volgograd Region prosecutor’s office is now siding with him amid a public outcry.
Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky is facing his gravest political challenge in years, major US and European media outlets have reported, as a new corruption scandal engulfs his office and a former official openly challenges his leadership.
Israel has acknowledged that its troops killed Hind Rajab, a five-year-old Palestinian girl, and opened a criminal investigation into the incident. At the same time, it has refused to pursue a probe into the death of seven World Central Kitchen aid workers in a separate attack.
Japan ‘playing with fire’ over nuclear ambitions – China. Russia and China are both opposed to Japan’s accelerating militarization and growing debate over acquiring nuclear weapons, Beijing’s ambassador to Moscow, Zhang Hanhui, has said, warning that Tokyo’s policies could trigger a new arms race.
Bangladeshi lawmakers have elected Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, a candidate of the ruling Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), as the country’s 23rd president. The former secretary-general of the BNP secured 255 parliamentary votes in the presidential election, while Oli Ahmed, a former army colonel from the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami-led alliance, received 88 votes.
Jacob deGrom reached 2,000 career strikeouts in the second-fewest games and innings pitched in major league history when the Texas Rangers' right-hander fanned the first two batters against the Washington Nationals on Thursday night. DeGrom struck out Daylen Lile and Abimelec Ortiz, both chasing strike three on sliders below the zone.
LOUIS -- Rory McIlroy might not be as far away as he thought four days ago, playing bogey-free at Bellerive for a 6-under 64 that gave him a share of the lead Thursday in the BMW Championship with three other U.S. Open champions and Chris Gotterup. Four days brought a big change for Scottie Scheffler, too.
Eight former college football players who were plaintiffs in the Louisiana court case entered their names in the portal as of Thursday afternoon: running back TJ Harden (SMU), tight end Dae'Quan Wright (Ole Miss), offensive lineman Weylin Lapuaho (BYU), defensive lineman Zxavian Harris (Ole Miss), linebacker Trent Hendrick (James Madison), cornerback Ethan Johnson (App State), cornerback Blake…
The 22-year-old Anderson, the third pick in the 2025 draft out of LSU, has a 1.06 ERA over 93 1/3 innings with 135 strikeouts, 13 walks and 47 hits allowed at Double-A Arkansas. Anderson was ranked as the No. 3 overall prospect in baseball in ESPN's August update.
The NCAA transfer portal has officially reopened for the athletes granted a temporary restraining order Wednesday to return to college for a fifth year of eligibility.
For the opening of top leagues this week, we take you to England, Germany, Spain, the Netherlands, France and Italy. We also already have a cup final and a clash between two big clubs. Every week this season, I pick for you the best or most exciting games not to be missed in the world of football.
The NFL said on Tuesday that the Competition Committee has made sportsmanship a point of emphasis over the years, including sportsmanship at joint practices and the league told every team about that emphasis this summer.
RAVENNA, Italy -- Brazil great Ronaldinho has landed in Ravenna, a city more famous for its nearby beaches than its soccer team. The lyrics "and the world's going to know your name" seemed ironically superfluous as one of soccer's most recognizable figures stepped onstage in front of thousands of fans Thursday.
Johnson will focus on the team's commercial growth, especially in the U.S., but won't undertake any day-to-day management duties, according to Aston Martin. Johnson, 79, who purchased the Jets for $635 million in 2000, purchased a 43% stake in Crystal Palace of the English Premier League in 2025 for a reported $254 million.
Top staffers in Donald Trump’s White House keep heading for the exits, and the latest to go is the president’s key point of contact for Congress. White nationalist organizers held a strategy summit in Rome and openly celebrated the collapse of local newspapers as a golden opportunity to organize in rural America.
An active-duty Air Force major who went on cable news and directly accused Donald Trump of violating the Constitution was arrested less than 24 hours later, making that the second time he’s been arrested for upholding his oath. Senate Republicans are quietly panicking that the growing backlash against data centers could cost them a crucial Senate seat in a reliably red state.
In case you were hiding under a baseball rock last week, you noticed Cardinals’ prospect Joshua Báez made his big league debut against the Cubs in Chicago last Saturday. All he did was make history by becoming the first player in Major League history to homer in his first three plate appearances in his debut.
Ask longtime MLB pitcher and current MLB Network host Ryan Dempster a question today at 2 p.m. ET when he joins Chatting Practice Powered by Zoom Events.
Shaw landed on the 10-day Injured List on June 29 with a left-hand sprain that he suffered while fouling off a pitch. Shaw, 24, is hitting .246/.322/.415 (105 OPS+) through 56 games with Chicago this season. He also spent time on the IL earlier in the year with back tightness.
It’s a long season, as they say. And that means a long runway for players looking to find their footing. It’s not ideal, but it’s also not the end of the story of your season.
MLB Pipeline gave a full refresh to its Top 100 Prospects list last week -- and each team’s Top 30 -- now that the 2026 draftees have joined their respective organizations. That makes it as good a time as any to look at the biggest breakout players in Minor Leagues. Some of these players were high Draft picks or on the preseason Top 100 Prospects list.
A los aficionados del béisbol de Chicago puede que no les guste, pero no lo olvidarán. Con los White Sox venciendo a los Cubs 3-0 el miércoles en Wrigley Field, la mejor serie Crosstown de todas terminó en un empate 3-3. Sí, leíste bien, la mejor, desde que el juego entre ligas empezó en las Grandes Ligas en 1997.
Amazon.com Inc. this week said it plans to expand its Prime Air service to nearly 500 cities and towns in the U.S. by the end of 2026. The company said this is a sixfold increase from its current footprint. It would give tens of millions of customers access to drone delivery.
There are millions of powered wheelchair users in the U.S. today. Assistive Technology Development Inc., or ATDev, aims to use robotics to give these users more independence and freedom in their lives. “I’ve been a power wheelchair user for over 30 years, my whole life really,” Owen Kent, founder and chief marketing officer at ATDev, told The Robot Report.
Off-road physical AI company Agtonomy has expanded its commercial platform with fully autonomous multi-point turning and enhanced passive data collection. The company said this enables farm equipment to execute complex maneuvers in tight headland spaces without human intervention. Agtonomy develops full-autonomy packages that retrofit vehicles from its OEM partners, Kubota and Bobcat.
ChatGPT search now uses the site:operator at scale. Promptwatch is part of the emerging "GEO" space, for Generative Engine Optimization - the chatbot version of SEO, where companies offer tools and consulting to help your site increase its presence in replies to prompts inside tools like ChatGPT.
Today saw the long awaited release of Bun 1.4, the first stable version since the infamous Rust rewrite a few months ago. Interestingly, the Rust rewrite was downplayed in the release notes, which introduced a bewildering array of new features and claimed 2,900 additional bug fixes:. Bun 1.4 adds +1,517 tests from the Node.js test suite - our biggest jump in Node.js compatibility since Bun 1.0.
Since perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, were discovered in 1934, manufacturers have found new uses and developed a range of chemicals in the family to use in various products such as cookware, food packaging, aerospace components and especially, semiconductors.
Both of Musk’s companies, Tesla and SpaceX, are separately working toward a combined goal of building out of 100 gigawatts per year of manufactured solar power capacity in the United States, the CEO said at the World Economic Forum at the start of the year. “That’ll probably take us three years or something,” Musk said at the event.
The bill comes at a time when manufacturers in Illinois and the United States as a whole are experiencing an acute worker shortage, despite some evidence that manufacturing jobs are increasing due to reshoring efforts.
Ebm-Papst is headquartered in Mulfingen, Germany, and was established in 1963. The company has more than 13,000 employees worldwide, with operations in about 40 countries including two U.S. sales offices in Connecticut and Tennessee, according to the website. Madison Air has also been one of the Germany-based manufacturer’s longstanding customers, President and CEO Jill Wyant said in a statement.