The fallout from a tech outage that caused hundreds of United Airlines planes to be grounded nationwide on Wednesday night could affect flight schedules for days. What You Need to Know is now streaming exclusively on Disney+. Stream now: abcnews.link/b6V1bt1?utm_so…

Firefighters struggle to contain France's biggest wildfire since 1949, as an 'unprecedented' fire burns an area the size of Paris. At least one person has died and more than 10 have been injured as a 'hellish' wildfire sweeps across southern France.

Trump to send National Guard into Washington, D.C.: Live updates from morning presser usatoday.com/story/news/pol… via USA TODAY

Trump announce DC Cop and National Guard Takeover cnn.com/politics/live-…

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"I told the US president and all our European colleagues that Putin is bluffing." Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy believes Vladimir Putin isn't willing to make compromises ahead of the summit with Donald Trump in Alaska. trib.al/oj9z5z8

The suspect accused in the 2022 shooting spree, Ezekiel Kelly, has been sentenced to life in prison without parole. tinyl.co/3adU

"On gerrymandering, Democrats should fight fire with fire" (TheHillOpinion) trib.al/Yn7VuIq

A serious country would be humiliated by this.

Just humiliating.

Putin has tried and failed to conquer Donbas since 2014. So now he asking Trump to give it to him. Incredible.

Senior Ukrainian official to FT on Trump’s shift: “This is a stab in the back.”

Elmo made his Grand Ole Opry debut in Nashville alongside country singer Lauren Alaina on Thursday. Fairy-in-training Abby Cadabby also sang a duet with the late country legend Loretta Lynn's granddaughter, Tayla Lynn. Loretta Lynn and many more country music stars have visited

"Eight pages, that appear to have been produced by U.S. staff and left behind accidentally, shared precise locations and meeting times of the summit and phone numbers of U.S. government employees." - NPR npr.org/2025/08/16/nx-…

Trump warned by top Senate Democrats to rethink advanced AI chip sales to China cnbc.com/2025/08/16/sen…

It would be a mistake for governments to seek to protect their entire economies from China’s rare-earths ban. A far more powerful response to shortages would be innovation economist.com/leaders/2025/0…

Travis Kelce, those shirtless GQ photos and how masculinity is changing usatoday.com/story/life/hea…

In his won first hand experienced words

A growing number of blue cities and states across the country, from Washington state to Rhode Island, are looking at ways to wring more revenue from their richest taxpayers on.wsj.com/3HteDe8

She runs a large anti-ICE TikTok account—now agents caught on livestream targeting her in violent arrest. Agents drag her out of Tesla & throw her on ground where she lay unresponsive—then rushed by ambulance to hospital. She is well-known to ICE as community activist who films