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An emotional Novak Djokovic suffers a US Open first-round defeat which provides further evidence that age is catching up with the 39-year-old great.

Dozens evacuated after flash-flood event near Bright Angel Canyon and Phantom Ranch, officials say One person died and about 15 people were missing or unaccounted for after a major flash flood swept through the Grand Canyon national park in Arizona on Saturday afternoon, according to the National Park Service. The flash-flood event occurred in the area of Bright Angel Canyon and the Phantom Ranch, where park staff and the Arizona department of public safety had evacuated more than 60 people as of Sunday morning. Continue reading...

Liverpool complete the signing of France forward Bradley Barcola from Paris St-Germain for a fee worth up to £123m.

Tory leader expected to install Tom Tugendhat as shadow foreign secretary after sacking Mel Stride and Priti Patel Kemi Badenoch sacked her shadow chancellor, Mel Stride, and shadow foreign secretary, Priti Patel, in a sweeping Conservative reshuffle on Monday, replacing Stride with Andrew Griffith, and is expected to install Tom Tugendhat as Patel’s replacement. Stride, who has been the shadow chancellor since Badenoch became leader, was widely seen among Tories as failing to make an impression at a time when Labour has been under pressure over the economy. Continue reading...

Manchester City complete the signing of winger Allan Elias from Palmeiras in a deal worth up to £34.2m.

The latest package of US sanctions on Iran is unlikely to achieve Washington’s objectives.

Han Hak-ja, 83, gave South Korea's former first lady two Chanel bags and a diamond necklace, a court found.

The long-running drama reaches Hitler’s rise to power in its final season as its creators reflect on the unsettling parallels between Weimar Germany and the present day It’s the global hit TV series that pulled audiences straight into the chaotic hedonism of 1920s Germany, dramatising the brilliance and brittleness of a newly built democratic system with unprecedented ambition. But in the 13 years that the German makers of Babylon Berlin have worked on the show, modern democracies from the US to Hungary to South Korea have come under pressure in ways the creators say they could never have imagined when they started. Continue reading...

Los Angeles were already Super Bowl favorites Defensive tackle was 10-time Pro Bowler with Rams 35-year-old aiming to win second Super Bowl in LA Aaron Donald, one of the greatest defensive players in NFL history , is coming out of retirement to rejoin his only professional team, the Los Angeles Rams. During a 10-season career with the Rams, who drafted him with the 13th overall pick in 2014, Donald was a three-time defensive player of the year and an eight-time first team All-Pro. He won a Super Bowl with the Rams at the end of the 2021 season before announcing his retirement in March 2024 at the age of 32. Continue reading...

Democratic Senate nominee is eager to push past series of controversies involving allegations of antisemitism Michigan’s Democratic US Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed apologized to the state’s Jewish Democratic caucus on Saturday for comments he made after an attack on a synagogue in March, which he tied to Israel’s actions in the Middle East. “My comments may have been misconstrued to justify something I did not mean to justify,” El-Sayed told reporters after he addressed the caucus at a party convention in Lansing. “To anyone who feels like my comments might have been hurtful, I’m really sorry. That was not my intention.” Continue reading...

US republicans are tarnishing their plant-eating opponents at every opportunity. Yet vegans are perfectly suited to hold power – let me count the ways Cool news, fellow soy boys and girls – we’ve been promoted from feeble, tofu-eating wokerati to dangerous radicals unfit for public office. Politico reports that US Republicans have started throwing “vegan” around as a tactic to tarnish their political opponents. “He’s a vegan,” Trump warned of Democratic Texas senatorial candidate James Talarico in May, while Talarico’s opponent, state attorney-general Ken Paxton, is trying to get the nickname “Tofu Talarico” to stick. Paxton also called him “a vegan who thinks God is non-binary”, which I find hilarious as a political put-down – give the man a Netflix special. (Sidenote: I investigated, and according to the Catholic catechism, God is “neither man nor woman” .) Republicans have also been digging up past pro-plant-based statements from Colorado congressional candidate Manny Rutinel: a campaign committee press secretary described him on X as “a far-left vegan activist who wants to end animal agriculture”, posting an old pic of Rutinel bare-chested and wearing a Peta anti-meat banner. Other Dems have also been accused of, erm, liking animals and eating plants: Arizona congressional candidate Amish Shah has been attacked for his “ wacky liberal agenda pushing vegan policies ” and Lindsay James in Iowa drew heat for merely supporting the idea of “meatless May”. Continue reading...

As the death toll from the Nepal floods surges over 900, Americans with loved ones among the 4,000 people missing are still hoping for miracles.

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission finds ‘reasonable cause to believe’ tech firm subjected workers spoke up about Palestine to hostile work environment The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the agency tasked with enforcing federal anti-discrimination laws, has found that Cisco, the global tech company, probably violated the civil rights of Middle Eastern, Muslim and other company employees. The determination, reached earlier this summer, is believed to be the first by the federal agency finding a major company at fault in connection to pro-Palestinian advocacy that swept campuses and workplaces in recent years. Continue reading...

Greece signs $3.5bn deal with Israel to acquire its first multi-layered air defence network by 2029.

Piracy is surging back off Somalia's coast, though not yet at the scale of its 2011 peak.

Which players will Man United, Man City, Arsenal, Real Madrid and Barcelona sign and for how much? Al Jazeera explains.

Iran says it targeted U.S. bases in Jordan after CENTCOM announced strikes on rocket launchers on an Iranian island in the Strait of Hormuz.

The first order of business is likely a vote on a stopgap spending bill designed to keep the federal government fully funded through early December, removing the possibility of a shutdown before the midterm elections.

The Met's decision to highlight the work by designer John Galliano sparked widespread controversy due to his history of antisemitic and racist comments.

Flash floods in the Grand Canyon killed at least one person while family members seek details on the whereabouts of more than a dozen others. CBS News' Matt Gutman reports.

Jasmeet Wadhwa, who fled Taliban persecution in Afghanistan, lost his life in April A British family is pleading with French authorities to release the body of a relative that officials have held for five months after he died in the Channel in April. Jasmeet Wadhwa, 32, died while attempting to reach the UK on a dinghy on 1 April with his mother, Harbans Kaur Wadhwa, after they fled Taliban persecution in Afghanistan in January of this year. Continue reading...

Virginia Democratic Rep. Suhas Subramanyam says some of his constituents are still missing after the deadly Nepal floods that killed hundreds. Subramanyam joined CBS News with more details.

A 22-year-old Italian woman was killed and several injured at a techno rave in Aarau.

BBC Sport explores the ongoing dispute over scheduling issues and late-night finishes at tennis' Grand Slam events.

The Federal Reserve Chairman said inflation remained too high and that better readings this summer hadn’t convinced him that underlying trends had meaningfully improved.

To help the company reach new heights, John Ternus must take it beyond the supply chain mastery of Tim Cook, who built it into a $5 trillion colossus.

India’s economy maintained a solid pace of growth in the April-June quarter, showing resilience even as the Middle East conflict clouded the outlook.

The Chinese technology behemoth reported a drop in first-half net profit despite higher revenue.

SB Energy’s agreement deepens its financial ties with the artificial-intelligence company in an effort to build out projects.

ONEOK is set to acquire Brazos Midstream’s Permian Midland Basin natural gas gathering and processing assets for $4.43 billion, expanding its footprint in prolific American oil hub.

Renewed fighting in the Strait of Hormuz sends Brent crude futures back to $90 a barrel. S&P 500 futures are ticking lower.

Plus, a whiskey glut and booming corporate profits

The yen is under renewed pressure amid fresh expectations of Federal Reserve monetary tightening.

Amid a backlash, Gov. Josh Shapiro is pumping the brakes on enormous data centers. But in a region scarred by the collapse of the steel industry, some welcome billions in construction.

The dollar eased against a basket of currencies and Commerzbank said any rise in the currency could be limited.

The oil drilling and production company agreed to acquire thermal management company Kelvion for $4.1 billion in a bid to strengthen its growing data center business.

Plus: Canada’s small and midsize businesses seen bearing brunt of Trump’s new tariffs.

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Tariff refunds and the ever-resilient U.S. consumer are fueling the heftiest rise in big-company profits in years

Nissan Motor and Honda Motor have agreed to jointly develop key systems and software that form the core of next-generation vehicles, after a planned merger fell through last year.

The Treasury is likely to receive tens of billions in capital-gains payments that were deferred for years.

The Times test-drove a stunning crossover from Geely that would cost under half of what its rivals charge. Two senators and many experts point to security and economic concerns as reasons for a ban.

The videogame retailer said it expects second-quarter profit to climb, boosted by investment gains from its stake in eBay, but said sales likely fell from a year earlier.

Rising annual fees have intensified the cat-and-mouse game over rewards between card companies and customers.

The “self-fulfilling prophecy” of betting on rising winners has suddenly turned into a losing game for investors who banked on its success.

Physicists have demonstrated a new way to entangle distant quantum bits without the constant measurements and active control normally required. The team created a “quantum bath,” a shared environment filled with correlated microwave photons that automatically pushes separated qubits into an entangled state and helps keep them there. The experiment confirms a theoretical prediction made more than 20 years ago and could offer a simpler way to connect modules in future quantum computers.

Diamond was thought to be incapable of producing electricity through mechanical deformation, but ultrathin flexible diamond membranes have now shown a strong and repeatable piezoelectric effect. The unexpected discovery could open the door to diamond-powered sensors, tiny energy systems, and self-powered medical implants.

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Two widely used zero-calorie sweeteners, sucralose and stevia, may have effects that linger far longer than the sweet taste itself. In mice, researchers found that both sweeteners altered the gut microbiome, reduced beneficial compounds produced by gut bacteria, and changed the activity of genes involved in metabolism and inflammation. Some of those changes were also detected in later generations that had never consumed the sweeteners themselves.

Alcohol-related liver disease may trap damaged liver cells in a regenerative limbo, preventing the organ from rebuilding itself even after drinking stops. Researchers linked the problem to inflammation-driven RNA errors and identified a pathway that could potentially be targeted to restore liver repair.

Scientists have created an injectable gel that can remain inside arthritic joints for weeks, slowly releasing medication while also improving lubrication. The approach could make it easier to deliver disease-modifying drugs directly where they are needed while limiting exposure elsewhere in the body.

Our solar system’s most far-flung planet will only be 2.68 billion miles away. The post September Stargazing: Summer’s official end, a big ol’ moon, and a chance to see Neptune appeared first on Popular Science .

Scientists have uncovered hidden complexity inside two ultrathin superconductors that seemed much simpler than they really are. Niobium diselenide and tantalum disulfide appeared to have a single superconducting state, but highly sensitive measurements revealed that each actually contains two strongly interacting states working so closely together that they masquerade as one.

Rocky planets may have been able to start forming just 100 million years after the Big Bang, thanks to enormous early supernovae that scattered planet-building elements across space. Simulations found enough solid material and water around a young star to suggest that Earth-like worlds could have appeared far earlier than previously believed.

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A simple waist measurement may be nearly as effective as more complicated methods for detecting unhealthy levels of body fat. Researchers also found that BMI alone missed many people with obesity, suggesting waist size could provide an important warning sign.

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Flock’s nationwide A.I. camera network tracks millions of vehicles. Privacy advocates argue that this subjects the public to unregulated mass surveillance.

The cyclospora outbreak may result in a surge in cases of post-infection irritable bowel syndrome.

Doctors are hopeful for a quieter fall and winter than in 2025.

Eli Lilly has agreed to pay up to $2.875 billion in cash for biotechnology company Merida Biosciences in a deal that bolsters the drugmaker’s immunology portfolio.

Rasonque, the new pancreatic cancer treatment from Revolution Medicines, illustrates the huge inflation in cancer drug prices over the past two decades.

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This month’s picks explore an anarchic New Jersey school, an apartment hidden in a mall and the very nature of true-crime documentaries.

Three fourths of Americans oppose data centers. Why?

Rising sea temperatures mean reefs don’t have enough time to bounce back between intense heat waves, a new report warns.

The two-day summit of the 10-nation Shanghai Cooperation Organization in Kyrgyzstan shows the limits of U.S. economic warfare.

At least $1 billion from anonymous donors is flowing into the midterm elections. Dark money is not new, but it now permeates nearly every major contest.

Plus, the U.S. attacks Iranian rocket launchers in the Strait of Hormuz, and record heat this summer burned Europe’s economy.

Much of the climate movement, particularly its most radical elements, has pivoted to Palestine.

Introducing a new newsletter series on parenting with more happiness and less worry

A legal battle over one ICE agent’s future is a sign of serious strain between red and blue America.

The renewed attacks were the latest sign that the war that began six months ago appears far from over.

At the largest annual ferret show in the United States, a shrinking community fights to survive.

Output and market demand recovered in August, suggesting that the slowdown in manufacturing may have hit bottom in July.

Plus: White House teleprompter operator settles insider-trading probe and the strongest El Niño in a generation is wreaking havoc on global economy

The nearly constant air raids, a shift from years of largely overnight attacks, have left residents exhausted and on edge.

When pediatricians issued new advice about peanuts, parents listened. Why have vaccine recommendations met with so much more resistance?

The roughly 30-square-mile island serves as a foothold for Iran’s military to advance its control over shipping through the Strait of Hormuz.

After divisive debate, Icelanders rejected a proposal to resume negotiations on joining the bloc in a referendum with the highest voter turnout in almost two decades.

The party that capitulated to Trump has the most to answer for

The country’s “stability” hides a host of problems.

The administration has revoked funding for bike paths, and encouraged removing some. A cycling advocate said it is playing on the idea of “that dork on a bike.”

The items include Egyptian statues and ancient Greek and Roman coins that date back 1,000 to 5,000 years, officials said.

Technologies like CRISPR are giving us new ways to create the dogs of our dreams — and a reason to reckon with our past mistakes.

Francis Fukuyama’s famous take on the post-Cold War world was widely misunderstood. In a new memoir, he tries to set the record straight.

Many of the tech billionaires who built our world have taken the wrong lessons from their favorite science fiction.

It used to be the peak symbol of wellness. Now many studios can barely stay open.

Europe pays for Ukraine’s war and offers a safe base, offsetting Moscow’s superior firepower.