First Lady Melania Trump may never have slept at the White House in the nearly 600 days since President Donald Trump returned to office, biographer Michael Wolff wrote on Monday, August 31, 2026, in his Substack newsletter, Howl — an allegation the White House rejected in blistering terms. Wolff, the...

A day after taking a Sharpie to a map of the Great Lakes in a TikTok video, President Donald Trump signed an executive order on August 27, 2026, meant to lend official weight to his plan to rename Lake Ontario “Lake America.” Posted Wednesday, August 26, to the president’s...

Europe’s oldest monarch is gone. King Harald V of Norway died at 6:35 a.m. local time on August 28, 2026, at Rikshospitalet in Oslo, bringing to a close a 35-year reign that remade the country’s monarchy. He was 89. Word of the death came from the Royal House of Norway,...

The Project Lifesaver tracking transmitter assigned to Saylor Hayes, the nonverbal five-year-old girl found dead in the water near Pawleys Island, South Carolina, was not with her when she wandered away from her family’s rental home on August 30, 2026. Washington County, Virginia, Sheriff Blake Andis said Tuesday, September...

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 when her marriage to actor Ben Affleck was over. It was a financial one, she said on a podcast episode released August 25,...