Police in Sri Lanka are investigating the death of Thomas Crawford, a British musician whose body was found on the afternoon of August 16, 2026, in the upper courtyard of a Buddhist temple at Thihagoda, a rural town in the country’s south. Crawford, a singer and guitarist born in Glasgow,...

King Charles III has joined the royal houses of Europe in responding to the disaster on the Nepal-China border, sending a personal message of condolence after catastrophic flooding tore through the mountainous frontier between Nepal and China’s Tibet region on August 26, 2026. It began high in the Himalayas, where...

Samuel Monroe Jr., a character actor whose hard-edged screen presence helped carry a run of 1990s Black film classics — “Menace II Society,” “Tales From the Hood” and “The Players Club” — died at a Burbank hospital on Wednesday, August 26, 2026, more than a year after he contracted...

The period Jennifer Garner spent off camera raising her three children carried a price tag, and the “Alias” star said the bill arrived all at once once her marriage to actor Ben Affleck was over. It was a financial one, she said on a podcast episode released August 25,...

A Delta Air Lines captain flying 147 passengers from Los Angeles to Boston keyed his microphone midway through the cross-country run on Tuesday, August 25, 2026, and told air traffic controllers that the medical emergency aboard the jet was him. About three and a half hours in, the crew of...

On August 27, 2026, President Donald Trump waved away the prospect of a Russian assault on NATO, telling reporters in the Oval Office that his own dealings with Russian President Vladimir Putin had convinced him the alliance faces no such threat — even as US intelligence warnings pointed the other way. “He’s...

A letter that U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. sent to Samoa’s prime minister on January 20, 2019, uses the words “vaccine” or “vaccination” eight times. Two children had died, and in the letter Kennedy — a prominent anti-vaccine activist at the time — put forward a study...

Five employees were stabbed inside the kitchen of the Dos Coyotes Border Cafe at Thunder Valley Casino in Lincoln, Calif., on August 19, 2026, and none of them was hurt critically, according to the Placer County Sheriff’s Office. Severe physical and mental health problems have afflicted Joseph Naugle for...