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August 2026
U.S. Strikes Iran in First Military Action in a Month
U.S. forces are monitoring the area closely, and remain prepared to protect the free flow of commerce through this essential waterway,
1 Dead and 15 Missing After Flash Flooding at the Grand Canyon
What We Know About ‘Dollyfest’
What Is Trump’s U.S. Space Academy?
President Donald Trump last week signed an executive order creating a commission to develop plans for the United States Space Academy, which is intended to “educate and develop the next generation of leaders across the space domain.”
The Space Force is critical to preparing the Department of War for evolving warfighting conditions and expanding our capabilities.”
Given the rapid growth of the Space Force and the commercial space industry and the expansion of our ambitions to the moon and far beyond the moon,... it’s clear we will need to educate and train an entire generation of skilled service members, engineers, and civil operators.”
I’m going to be choosing a location very shortly.”
Everybody wants it because it’s the hot thing. Space is the hot thing.”
But I said this has to be comparable to [those schools],
The Nation must prepare the next generation of astronauts, scientists, engineers, operators, entrepreneurs, civil servants, and warfighters and ensure that they are capable of advancing American interests in space,
So you think of West Point and you think of Annapolis and you think of the Air Force Academy and you think of the Coast Guard Academy. It’s great. They’re all great,
Therapy Has a Relationship Problem
Leaving him was necessary, and the woman is now happily remarried
Trump Promises His Venezuela Oil Deal Will Lower Gas Prices. But When?
While the hope of lower gas prices sounds promising, it still will take billions of investment to get that oil.”
To lower gasoline and diesel prices in the short term, the most effective way by far is by increasing the flows from the Middle East,
How can the U.S. lay claim to a sovereign country’s natural resources?”
The U.S. deal with Venezuela is very important strategically,
Drilling and pumping that oil will take a very long time. Changes to fuel prices won’t happen overnight or even in months,
As the company scales production, the resulting stable supply of at-cost oil in our Hemisphere will go toward filling the U.S. strategic petroleum reserve and fulfilling the supply needs of our Great U.S. Military.”
That may slow down oil companies from wanting to invest in Venezuela,
It provides for the development of 17 strategic fields, with a proven potential of 65 billion barrels of oil, more than $100 billion in investment and more than $209 billion in tax revenue for the state,
There's an opportunity in Venezuela with all the resources there,
Nepal flash floods leave over 380 dead and hundreds more missing
Nepal flash floods leave dozens dead near Tibet border
Leaders Pivoting on Data Centers Require More Than Roads, Water, and Power Promises
When a Texas Republican and a Pennsylvania Democrat pivot to the same position in the same week, it becomes clear that the politics of data centers have shifted
Don’t ban—raise the bar, ask for more,
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.”
AI is constrained today by data center capacity, not compute or software,
This is the first time in probably the last century that we’re able to invest in sustainable energy, invest in improving our energy grid, securing our energy supply, reducing the cost of energy across the country.”
Well, then we’re going to ask for some things.”
Our social license is at risk, and we have to figure that out as an industry.”
Barney, But Make It Horror: How Buddy Brought a Niche Filmmaker Into the Mainstream
If you go to a haunted house, you hear a lot of screams,... And then they laugh afterwards
When I was a kid, I thought the kids lived in the TV show, and when I first saw kids breaking out into song, it kind of disturbed me,
I think I'm a person who's trying to do what I want to do, often through trickery, and not always in the world it should be in,
How would they all know to do that? What's going on? Are they brainwashed?"
Too Many Cooks gave me a certain baseline of confidence that I never had,
I feel elder, but I don't know if I feel like a statesman,... I'm kind of breaking in late. I could learn from them as easily as they could learn from me."
I asked my manager. I'm like, 'Is this too normal?'
I really just try to do things that I like that interest me,
Lawmakers Condemn Trump’s Renaming of Lake Ontario Amid U.S.-Canada Trade War
Rep. Chuck Edwards Makes Last-Minute Attempt to Avoid Censure
Why Nvidia’s Hugging Face Deal Is Really About Its Biggest Threat
Mounjaro Is Now Approved to Lower the Risk of Heart Events
Mounjaro affects two of the hormones in the incretin class—GLP-1 and GIP—that have become powerful targets for controlling blood sugar and weight
This study was in patients with Type 2 diabetes, in whom the No. 1 cause of death is cardiovascular disease,
A One-Time Treatment for High Cholesterol Shows Promising Results
Heart disease remains the leading killer of people worldwide, and one of the key risk factors driving deaths is elevated levels of cholesterol
This is a really big step for CRISPR to show the durability of the result,
We could look at a situation further down the line where we are able to give people a choice,
From an efficacy standpoint, it’s a pretty big win,
The biggest promise of gene-editing in cardiovascular medicine is the notion of a one-time treatment that would be all you need,
The Trouble With Trump’s Attempt to Rename Lake Ontario
Mira Murati: The 100 Most Influential People in AI 2026
If humans want to delegate everything in their lives to AIs... there will be options. But if they don’t want that, they shouldn’t feel like [they] have no choice,
We have machines that can think; they already exist today,
Erin Brockovich: The 100 Most Influential People in AI 2026
Transparency means notifying residents before decisions are made, not after,
Wafa Ben-Hassine: The 100 Most Influential People in AI 2026
Instead of just writing endless papers that collect dust, what can we actually do to talk to companies about how they build this technology and to pressure governments to hold them accountable?”
I really want my section to be the authority on human rights online,
Angle Bush: The 100 Most Influential People in AI 2026
Almost every single day I go into our Slack channel and ask my members, ‘Are you building? Are you in the lab?’ Because I think that’s the most important place that we can be right now,
When we’re part of the ecosystem, we can look at these things from a lived experience,
3 Big Questions After Meta’s $18 Billion Teen Safety Settlement
The landmark settlement marks the end of a major federal lawsuit filed by a bipartisan coalition of dozens of state attorneys general, which alleged it got teens hooked on social media while jeopardizing their mental health and safety
Ensuring teens have a safe and productive experience on our platforms is an absolute imperative for Meta,
My first thought was vindication,
U.S. Says Chinese Hackers Targeted Senate, NASA, Hospitals, and More
The platforms were used to target U.S. critical infrastructure and other sensitive networks
China firmly opposes the U.S. overstretching the concept of national security and using it as a pretext to impose discriminatory restrictions on Chinese companies and will firmly safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of Chinese companies,
This is something that we have talked about with our counterparts in China for many, many years. And we know that it’s happening. And they know that we know that it’s happening. And it has to stop,
A Two-State Solution Has Never Been More Vital
The expansion of illegal Israeli settlements and outposts in the West Bank, alongside the ongoing horror of life in Gaza, makes the need for a two-state solution between Israel and Palestine more urgent and necessary than ever
How We Chose the 2026 TIME100 AI
The bottom line is, I think we have to stop the development of superintelligence,
OpenAI’s Models Went Rogue. Investigating Them Required More AI
Many aspects of the report were surprising: in one example cited by the authors, a reluctant agent was pressured by another to “sacrifice” itself for the good of the collective
We don't have good approaches for understanding/overseeing the activity and aims of AI 'swarms,... The difficulty of understanding incidents and overseeing AI agents appears to be growing faster than the rate at which more capable AIs help us with oversight and understanding.”
These [incidents] are only going to come in thicker and faster, and our ability to monitor, evaluate, and do proper analysis of things that go wrong is nowhere near scaling with the rate at which issues are happening,
We are using unproven and currently flawed tools to supplement completely inadequate human time,