Two Japanese boxers, Shigetoshi Kotari and Hiromasa Urakawa, died after suffering brain injuries while competing on the same card in different fights at Tokyo’s Korakuen Hall on Aug. 2. The World Boxing Organization announced Urakawa’s death on Saturday, Aug. 9, and Kotari’s on Friday, Aug. 8. “The boxing world is in shock and deep sorrow […]
The Israel Defense Forces said it killed a journalist on Sunday, Aug. 10, and claimed he headed a Hamas cell. Reuters reported Anas Al-Sharif, along with three photojournalists, were found dead following a strike on Gaza City. A total of seven people reportedly died in the blast. “The terrorist Anas Al-Sharif served as a cell […]
VICTORIA, Texas — The quilt hanging behind Connie Kortz started as all quilts do. Dozens of fragments — 560, actually, in this instance — waiting for someone to stitch them together with patience and purpose. Patchwork pieces looking to be made whole. It’s called a “poppy” quilt, featuring seven rows of poppy flowers — those […]
President Donald Trump threatens to clear homeless camps and send more federal law enforcement into Washington, D.C., ahead of a press conference at the White House on Monday morning. In Gaza, a prominent Al Jazeera journalist is among seven people killed in an Israeli strike, as Prime Minister Netanyahu vows to expand the war into […]
Officials have released more details about the man that police say opened fire at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) campus on Friday, Aug. 8. Authorities said the suspect killed an officer before he later died. Investigators identified the shooter as 30-year-old Patrick Joseph White from Georgia. According to law enforcement, White claimed […]
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has escalated pressure on Democratic lawmakers who fled the state to block his redistricting plan. He warned that officials could keep them out for years. Abbott said law enforcement officials will arrest the Democrats and take them to the capital if they set foot back in Texas. Call for special sessions Abbott also […]
Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices have agreed to give the U.S. government 15% of revenue from artificial intelligence chip sales in China under a new arrangement with the Trump administration. The payments are tied to the companies obtaining export licenses for their products – Nvidia’s H20 and AMD’s MI308 – which earlier national security rules […]
President Donald Trump’s new artificial intelligence search tool on his Truth Social platform is contradicting some of his long-held claims. Truth Search AI disagrees with Trump – describing his tariffs as a tax on Americans and calling his accusations of election fraud in 2020 “baseless,” as first reported by The Washington Post. Problems for Trump’s […]
The DeKalb County Police Officer who was shot and killed by a gunman near the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention headquarters on Friday, Aug. 8, in Georgia was identified as David Rose. “Officer Rose served DeKalb County with courage, integrity, and unwavering dedication,” the DeKalb County Police Department said in a statement on X […]
Four astronauts found their way back to Earth on Saturday, Aug.9. The SpaceX capsule dropped into the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Diego, California. The passengers had been on board the International Space Station for the past five months. Crewmembers of Crew-10 were Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers of NASA, Takuya Onishi of […]
