Trump-backed Rep. Harriet Hageman wins Republican Senate primary in Wyoming
Hageman, Wyoming’s lone House member, won the GOP nomination to succeed retiring Sen. Cynthia Lummis, NBC News projects.
Month: August 2026
Trump pauses 50% tariffs on Canada for 3 days
President Tweety McTreason late Tuesday slammed the brakes on a wave of tariffs that were set to hit Canada at midnight.
Trump-endorsed carpetbagger stuns with crash in ‘clown show’ primary
Carpetbagger Catalina Lauf lost her Florida primary race on Tuesday despite having President Tweety McTreason’s endorsement, according to the Associated Press. The GOP primary in
Darline Graham leaves jaws on the floor with wild admission: ‘Charade cannot continue’
The South Carolina Republican Senate debate turned awkward for appointed Sen. Darline Graham when she was asked about whether the U.S. has a national security
Why ‘Engagement Farming’ Works So Well — And How To Avoid Falling For It
The tactic extends far beyond social media, and it’s not going anywhere.
Xiaomi’s first EV just passed half a million deliveries
Xiaomi’s SU7 sedan passed 500,000 cumulative deliveries on 17 August, 28.5 months after the first handover. Deliveries of that model are down 43.6% this year
OpenAI is rewriting its safety rules after the Hugging Face breach
OpenAI said on Tuesday it is rewriting its Preparedness Framework after concluding that its upcoming Astra model may have reached the critical threshold for cyber
AI’s attribution problem gets worse as models scale
Diffusion models are becoming sophisticated enough that they can reproduce an image even when they don’t have access to the original. In a series of
Google buys data from bankrupt Spirit Airlines for AI training
Google has paid $10 million in a bankruptcy auction for a large amount of data from the defunct Spirit Airlines, Bloomberg Law reports. The purchase
How Ebola became the deadliest outbreak in DR Congo’s history
Conflict, delayed detection, and mistrust are complicating efforts to contain the virus in eastern DR Congo.
US ambassador to Israel calls settler violence ‘terror’
US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee says Israeli settler violence in the occupied West Bank
Quebec separatist says no independence referendum while Trump in office
Leader of Canadian province’s secessionist party says debate over independence stymied by turbulence in US politics.
Scientists stunned by children’s lung recovery in ultra low emission zone
Children’s lung capacity caught up with their peers in less polluted areas once a clean air zone came in, a study shows.
‘You are not alone with endometriosis pain’
Endometriosis wellbeing hubs are being called for by a Medway woman.