Morning Digest
25 stories from 4 sources, 47 more held back.
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.
International payments a ‘tool of new warfare’ – top Russian banker. Cross-border payments have become a tool of “new warfare,” as countries increasingly seek to shield their international trade from foreign pressure, Pyotr Fradkov, chairman of Russia’s Promsvyazbank (PSB), has said.
Russia could seize ships carrying Western cargo in retaliation for similar actions against Russian maritime trade, President Vladimir Putin has warned. There have been several incidents in recent months in which Western militaries have seized vessels that their governments accused of being part of a “Russian shadow fleet.
At least 14 suspected illegal miners have been killed and eight others injured after the walls of an excavation collapsed at a dumping site in South Africa’s North West province, the authorities have said.
Russian Aerospace Forces Day: What’s inside the arsenal. The Russian Aerospace Forces (VKS) mark their anniversary on Wednesday. One of the youngest branches of the Russian military in its current form, the VKS were established 11 years ago.
US trade adviser Peter Navarro, whose uncouth and culturally insensitive remarks have often irked India, has claimed that he was “firebombed” online amid the backlash over his comments last year. Navarro, who has acted as US President Donald Trump’s attack dog, invited the blowback after he repeatedly hurled insults at India and Prime Minister Narendra Modi as he tried to pressure New Delhi.
UK’s biggest power supplier issues solar eclipse warning. Britain’s biggest household power supplier, Octopus Energy, has asked customers to cut electricity use for two hours on Wednesday to cope with a solar eclipse during peak demand. A total eclipse of the Sun – the first visible from mainland Europe since 1999 – will occur on August 12 from 15:00 to 19:00 GMT (4-8 PM London time).
A child has been killed and eight people wounded in a Ukrainian drone strike on the Russian Black Sea port of Novorossiysk, local governor Veniamin Kondratyev has said. The southern Krasnodar Region was targeted by hundreds of UAVs overnight, Kondratyev wrote in a post on Telegram on Wednesday.
Sailors on a US aircraft carrier operating near Iran attempted to jump overboard amid exhaustion and low morale caused by extended operations, several news outlets have reported, citing crew members’ families.
A major US produce supplier has recalled jalapeno products sold through major grocery store and restaurant chains amid a Salmonella outbreak, according to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Taylor Farms has also been linked to a separate multistate outbreak of another foodborne illness.
Several major news outlets have claimed that US President Donald Trump effectively used journalists covering his travels as decoys last month when he secretly switched planes due to a suspected Iranian assassination plot.
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.
What if MLB's 1994 labor stalemate never happened? Every baseball fan old enough will recall those troubling few months, when a potentially historic season -- in the most positive of senses -- suddenly stopped, with the future of the game very much in doubt. My own memories of that dark day, Aug. 12, 1994, remain vivid.
Plenty of elite managers have been moving around of late or taking a break, but who are the best in the men's game in Europe? This list ranks the top 30, covering legends approaching the latter stages of their careers, rising stars just breaking through and everyone in between. How did you go about compiling the top 30?
ASHBURN, Va. -- As soon as Washington Commanders coach Dan Quinn introduced the topic, one player began to feel the heat. Long-snapper Tyler Ott dreaded what would happen next on a spring morning before the team meeting began. And that's what Quinn wanted: to put his players under pressure, especially after a disastrous season that invited speculation about his own job stability.
ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. -- For decades, questions have lingered around Western New York: When and where would the Buffalo Bills move? The answer proved to be the other side of Abbott Road. The first public event held at the Bills' new Highmark Stadium was Saturday's training camp practice -- more specifically the annual "Return of the Blue & Red" night.
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.
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.
International payments a ‘tool of new warfare’ – top Russian banker. Cross-border payments have become a tool of “new warfare,” as countries increasingly seek to shield their international trade from foreign pressure, Pyotr Fradkov, chairman of Russia’s Promsvyazbank (PSB), has said.
Russia could seize ships carrying Western cargo in retaliation for similar actions against Russian maritime trade, President Vladimir Putin has warned. There have been several incidents in recent months in which Western militaries have seized vessels that their governments accused of being part of a “Russian shadow fleet.
At least 14 suspected illegal miners have been killed and eight others injured after the walls of an excavation collapsed at a dumping site in South Africa’s North West province, the authorities have said.
Russian Aerospace Forces Day: What’s inside the arsenal. The Russian Aerospace Forces (VKS) mark their anniversary on Wednesday. One of the youngest branches of the Russian military in its current form, the VKS were established 11 years ago.
US trade adviser Peter Navarro, whose uncouth and culturally insensitive remarks have often irked India, has claimed that he was “firebombed” online amid the backlash over his comments last year. Navarro, who has acted as US President Donald Trump’s attack dog, invited the blowback after he repeatedly hurled insults at India and Prime Minister Narendra Modi as he tried to pressure New Delhi.
UK’s biggest power supplier issues solar eclipse warning. Britain’s biggest household power supplier, Octopus Energy, has asked customers to cut electricity use for two hours on Wednesday to cope with a solar eclipse during peak demand. A total eclipse of the Sun – the first visible from mainland Europe since 1999 – will occur on August 12 from 15:00 to 19:00 GMT (4-8 PM London time).
A child has been killed and eight people wounded in a Ukrainian drone strike on the Russian Black Sea port of Novorossiysk, local governor Veniamin Kondratyev has said. The southern Krasnodar Region was targeted by hundreds of UAVs overnight, Kondratyev wrote in a post on Telegram on Wednesday.
Sailors on a US aircraft carrier operating near Iran attempted to jump overboard amid exhaustion and low morale caused by extended operations, several news outlets have reported, citing crew members’ families.
A major US produce supplier has recalled jalapeno products sold through major grocery store and restaurant chains amid a Salmonella outbreak, according to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Taylor Farms has also been linked to a separate multistate outbreak of another foodborne illness.
Several major news outlets have claimed that US President Donald Trump effectively used journalists covering his travels as decoys last month when he secretly switched planes due to a suspected Iranian assassination plot.
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.
What if MLB's 1994 labor stalemate never happened? Every baseball fan old enough will recall those troubling few months, when a potentially historic season -- in the most positive of senses -- suddenly stopped, with the future of the game very much in doubt. My own memories of that dark day, Aug. 12, 1994, remain vivid.
Plenty of elite managers have been moving around of late or taking a break, but who are the best in the men's game in Europe? This list ranks the top 30, covering legends approaching the latter stages of their careers, rising stars just breaking through and everyone in between. How did you go about compiling the top 30?
ASHBURN, Va. -- As soon as Washington Commanders coach Dan Quinn introduced the topic, one player began to feel the heat. Long-snapper Tyler Ott dreaded what would happen next on a spring morning before the team meeting began. And that's what Quinn wanted: to put his players under pressure, especially after a disastrous season that invited speculation about his own job stability.
ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. -- For decades, questions have lingered around Western New York: When and where would the Buffalo Bills move? The answer proved to be the other side of Abbott Road. The first public event held at the Bills' new Highmark Stadium was Saturday's training camp practice -- more specifically the annual "Return of the Blue & Red" night.
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.