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August tied July 2023 as the hottest month ever recorded globally, according to the EU’s Copernicus Climate Change Service. Combined air and sea surface temperatures averaged nearly 3 degrees Fahrenheit above preindustrial levels, surpassing the Paris Agreement’s 1.5 C warming threshold. Greenhouse gas emissions and a powerful El Niño drove the heat, with Western Europe and the US both experiencing their hottest summers on record.

The 2026-27 NFL season is underway with several notable storylines. Defending champion Seattle Seahawks won 13-10 over New England despite losing starter Sam Darnold to injury, with backup Drew Lock stepping up. The Los Angeles Rams and San Francisco 49ers made history in Melbourne, Australia, drawing 100,000 fans, with the 49ers winning 27-7. Sunday features 13 more games, including a Minnesota-Green Bay rivalry clash.

The prestigious Lasker Awards, often called America’s Nobel, recognized major medical breakthroughs yesterday with each winner receiving $250,000. Stanford’s Emmanuel Mignot and Japan’s Masashi Yanagisawa won for discovering that a missing brain chemical causes narcolepsy, leading to an FDA-approved treatment. A trio of researchers won for developing a hemophilia A drug, and actor Michael J. Fox received the public service award for his Parkinson’s advocacy work.

New York City has released over 170,000 previously unseen documents revealing that officials knew about dangerous air quality conditions after the 9/11 attacks but advised residents to return before it was safe. The files, released under Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s $34 million initiative, include a 2001 memo showing officials feared lawsuits over toxic exposure. Evidence of asbestos was found half a mile from Ground Zero nearly a year after the attacks, and roughly 25% of children exposed to 9/11 dust later developed asthma.

Two Renoir paintings worth over $10 million each were stolen from the Renoir Museum in Cagnes-sur-Mer, France. Thieves broke through a garden fence early in the morning and cut the paintings from their frames before police arrived within five minutes of the alarm. The 1886 “Young Woman at the Well” and a portrait of actress Colonna Romano were taken, while two other paintings were left behind in the garden.

A Plea Deal Two Years in the Making What started as a scheme hatched in online gaming forums ended Tuesday in a Washington, D.C. federal courtroom. Malone Lam, the 22-year-old alleged ringleader of a criminal enterprise accused of swiping more than 4,100 Bitcoin from a…

A Catastrophic Overrun on a Sunday Afternoon At least five people are dead after an Amazon cargo aircraft overran the runway during a landing at Miami International Airport on Sunday afternoon, striking multiple vehicles and sending a thick black plume of smoke into the air…

A Mistrial That Stunned the Nation Connecticut found itself at the center of one of the most emotionally charged legal stories in recent memory this Labor Day weekend. Lindsay Clancy’s triple murder trial ended in a mistrial on Friday, September 4, after jurors said they…

A New Era Begins at MetLife The New York Giants are six days away from one of the most anticipated season openers in recent franchise memory. The Giants prepare for their Week 1 matchup at home against the Dallas Cowboys on Sunday Night Football —…

A Weekend of High-Stakes Diplomacy The Ukraine conflict entered one of its most consequential diplomatic weekends in years, as U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner shuttled between Moscow and Kyiv in a bid to revive stalled peace talks — only to leave both capitals…