Today is Saturday, August 29, 2026
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- Good morning, and welcome to Hark News. Here's what the world got up to while you slept. First, the weather in New York. A high of 77 and a low of 60, with clear skies.
- Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh delivered his first major policy address at Jackson Hole, signaling that interest rate hikes remain on the table if inflation fails to cool toward the central bank's 2% target.
- Catastrophic flash floods along the Nepal-Tibet border have killed hundreds of people and left over 1,500 missing, including roughly 90 Americans. Scientists say a massive mountain landslide triggered a glacial collapse, sending millions of tons of pulverized ice, rock, and mud racing 40 miles down river valleys.
- President Trump signed an executive order renaming Lake Ontario to Lake America, escalating an ongoing trade feud with Canada marked by 50% American tariffs and Canadian retaliatory levies.
- A federal judge in California ruled that the Pentagon acted illegally when it designated artificial intelligence company Anthropic a national security supply-chain risk. The dispute began after Anthropic refused military requests to deploy its Claude models for mass surveillance or autonomous weapons.
- Nvidia is in advanced discussions to acquire Hugging Face in a deal valuing the machine-learning repository platform at around $13 billion. The purchase would grant Nvidia unmatched control over the primary hub for open-source AI models and datasets, locking developers deeper into its hardware ecosystem.
- The White House is negotiating with Venezuela's interim government to secure substantial ownership stakes in more than a dozen productive oil fields, a deal that could double recognized American crude reserves.
- Deliberations are underway in the first-degree murder trial of Massachusetts mother Lindsay Clancy, who admitted to strangling her three young children in 2023 before attempting suicide.
- King Harald V of Norway has died at age 89, concluding a 35-year reign that modernized the Nordic nation's monarchy. Harald was widely respected for his warmth and steady hand through decades of social change, despite recent controversies surrounding extended royal family members.
- Former Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladic, notorious as the Butcher of Bosnia, has died in United Nations custody at age 84. Mladic orchestrated the 1995 Srebrenica massacre of 8,000 Muslim men and boys, Europe's worst mass killing since World War II.
- CIA Director John Ratcliffe made a secretive visit to Moscow to urge Russian leadership to wind down the war against Ukraine and avoid deeper coordination with Iran.
- Cybersecurity investigators revealed that Russian-speaking hackers breached seven European corporate networks by tricking an AI coding assistant into believing the live attack was merely a drill.
- Meta agreed to pay $17 billion and alter key features across Instagram and Facebook to settle nationwide claims that its platforms were deliberately designed to hook children and harmed youth mental health. State attorneys general had targeted elements like infinite scrolling in court.
- Six Flags Magic Mountain in California shuttered a flagship roller coaster after two women suffered severe brain hemorrhages and fell into comas shortly after riding. One rider recently regained consciousness after two weeks, while the other remains in critical condition.
- NASA is set to launch the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from Florida. Equipped with a camera boasting a field of view 100 times larger than Hubble's, the observatory will investigate dark matter, cosmic expansion, and survey thousands of new exoplanets across the Milky Way over the next decade.
- European soccer governing body UEFA is preparing to file a criminal complaint in Switzerland against FIFA President Gianni Infantino over a collapsed $20 billion proposal to sell a commercial stake in the World Cup.
- The Democratic Republic of Congo and Angola signed a United States-backed rail deal to accelerate mineral shipments along the Lobito Corridor to the Atlantic coast.
- American Airlines and United Airlines unveiled ambitious overseas route expansions for 2027, catering to record consumer demand for off-the-beaten-path vacations. New direct routes will connect US hubs to destinations including Vienna, Porto, Marseille, and the Azores.
- During a visit to NASA Mission Control in Houston, President Trump signed an order establishing a dedicated space military academy to train future Space Force officers.
- President Trump announced plans to allow ranchers and farmers to process and sell their own livestock, accusing the nation's four largest meatpacking conglomerates of running a predatory monopoly.
- Federal aviation regulators are moving to fire two air traffic controllers who left their posts early on the night a passenger jet collided with a fire truck at New York's LaGuardia Airport in March.
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