By ASSOCIATED PRESS Published: 03:22 BST, 28 August 2026 | Updated: 03:34 BST, 28 August 2026 A federal judge on Thursday halted – at least for now – attempts to implement President Donald Trump´s executive order limiting mail voting. The move stalled the directive for a second time only about…
Canada’s Mark Carney tries to give Trump a ‘reality’ check as he rejects the renaming of Lake Ontario
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney attempted to give President Donald Trump a pointed history lesson on Thursday as he flatly rejected the president’s executive order renaming Lake Ontario to ‘Lake America’. Carney hit back within hours of Trump signing an executive order changing the lake’s name by invoking its Indigenous origins…
NASA’s Swift space telescope will crash back to Earth — but when and where is anyone’s guess
A private spacecraft failed to rescue NASA’s Swift space telescope, meaning the big observatory will come crashing back to Earth in the near future. The Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory launched to Earth orbit in November 2004. Over the past two decades, it studied gamma-ray bursts — the most powerful explosions…
Peter Alexander apologises after Indigenous man claimed he was accused of stealing: ‘Couldn’t believe what had just happened’
Australia’s biggest sleepwear retailer has apologised after an Indigenous man claimed he was accused of stealing because of his race. Sydneysider Julius Widders took to social media this week to recall his experience at an unnamed Peter Alexander store last weekend. He had been browsing in the store with his…
Astronaut Jonny Kim leaves NASA, will return to active military duty
Jonny Kim is leaving NASA to continue his military career. The 42-year-old astronaut, who has one of the most jaw-dropping resumes of any person alive, is departing today (Aug. 27) after nine years with the agency. He has one mission under his belt, a long-duration flight to the International Space…
Lindsay Clancy spectator slammed for bringing her dog named Chorizo into court
A spectator sparked a social media uproar for bringing her pet dog to the Lindsay Clancy trial. Clancy, 36, has been on trial since July 20 in the Plymouth Superior Court as prosecutors have tried to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that she intended to kill Cora, five, Dawson, three, and eight-month-old Callan,…
Lawless youths torch field of cars in warped tribute to victim of A66 crash: As hundreds of extra police are drafted into Middlesbrough amid fears of gang carnage, masked thugs show what they think of crackdown
A gang of youths torched several cars at a balloon release for one of the A66 ‘joyriders’ on Thursday night. A group gathered in a field to remember Michael Cahill, 23 – one of the five men killed when their VW Passat, going the wrong way down a dual carriageway,…
James Webb Space Telescope observes 72 stars and finds planet formation is a race against time
Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have studied 72 young, sun-like stars. As a result, they found that forming planets is a real race against time. This is because the material that serves as the building blocks for planets is constantly escaping the swirling platters of gas and…
Se forma la tormenta tropical Dolly en el Atlántico » Yale Climate Connections
by Irene Sans, Jeff Masters and Bob Henson, Yale Climate Connections August 27, 2026 La tormenta tropical Dolly se formó en el Atlántico tropical la mañana del jueves. Tras revisar las imágenes satelitales del Invest 96L, el Centro Nacional de Huracanes determinó que el sistema había desarrollado un centro de…
‘Twink fascist’ haunts Republican Senate campaign after he posts swastika and poses in KKK robes
A former intern and contractor for the Republican Senate candidate in Georgia has been thrust back into the spotlight after a series of disturbing social-media posts. Preston Parra, who describes himself as a ‘twink fascist,’ interned for Congressman Mike Collins in Congress from August through October 2024. He later worked as…