California lawmakers rush to pass bills ahead of midnight deadline SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California lawmakers are facing a midnight deadline Monday to pass new laws as the state’s legislative session draws to a close, with some exceptions scheduled for votes Tuesday morning. A huge last-minute spending bill and a separate proposal related to wildfire liability … Read more
KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Rescue teams with search dogs scoured mud, rocks and debris in Nepal and China on Tuesday in search of thousands of people still missing after catastrophic floods that devastated communities across the Himalayas and left more than 1,000 dead. Nepal’s disaster agency said on Tuesday that 987 deaths had been recorded … Read more
Traders work at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, USA, August 24, 2026.Brendan McDermid | ReutersStock futures traded lower early on Tuesday after a losing session, although major US benchmarks still managed to post monthly gains. Dow Jones Industrial Average futures were down 0.54% as of 5:08 a.m. ET. S&P 500 … Read more
Thousands of Microsoft business customers reported problems accessing their email when they returned from the weekend, and on Monday afternoon, Microsoft acknowledged widespread issues affecting Exchange Online and other Microsoft 365 business services. Initially, users took to social media and platforms like DownDetector to report problems with Microsoft Outlook, the widely used email service. However, … Read more
The Padres are calling up top catching prospect Ethan Salas, Kevin Acee of the San Diego Union-Tribune reports. Salas, who turned 20 in June, will be the youngest player in the Major Leagues. Assuming he makes a defensive appearance, he will also be the youngest MLB catcher since Iván Rodríguez debuted at age 19 in … Read more
NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory has returned to studying the universe after spending months in a low-endurance configuration while awaiting an orbital rescue mission that ultimately failed. Mission controllers restarted two of Swift’s three scientific instruments: its X-ray Telescope (XRT) and its Ultraviolet/Optical Telescope (UVOT), on August 26. Both instruments had been shut down in … Read more
Two employees at Frankfurt Airport died from a rare malaria outbreak this summer, most likely after a mosquito traveled to Germany on an airplane, the airport’s operator said this week.Six employees have contracted the disease since early July, Andreas Schopf, a spokesman for the airport’s operator, Fraport, said in an email on Thursday. Four have … Read more
Coming back from a peaceful vacation is never easy, especially when the real world is far from peaceful. The first headline that greeted me was the exchange of fire between the United States and Iran for the first time in a month. The end of the war that began six months ago remains as elusive … Read more
For many Iranians, the new US sanctions campaign, called Operation Economic Pariah, seems superfluous given their country’s bleak economic situation. Iranians face rampant food inflation, closed gas stations and a seemingly endless depreciation of the country’s currency caused by a lack of foreign reserves. Vegetable oil in Iran in August cost 383% more than a … Read more
US President Donald Trump threatened to hit Iran hard and claimed Washington was helping about 30 ships pass through the Strait of Hormuz each night. Trump’s comments on Monday came after the United States bombed the Iranian island of Larak and Tehran launched retaliatory attacks on American military bases and assets in Jordan and the … Read more