James Gunn will write and direct the next film in DC's 'Super-Family.'https://www.newsweek.com/entertainment/comics/james-gunn-directing-dcs-next-super-family-movie-2110183
John Cornyn says the FBI will help locate Texas Democrats who fled the state to block the GOP redistricting vote.https://www.newsweek.com/john-cornyn-fbi-texas-democrats-redistricting-request-2110202
The Boston Red Sox executive sent a harsh message to his former franchise slugger during a $130 million announcement.https://www.newsweek.com/sports/mlb/red-soxs-craig-breslow-takes-shot-rafael-devers-during-roman-anthony-update-2110194
Misha Brown told Newsweek: "It reminded me that not everyone has that kind of daily connection."https://www.newsweek.com/man-helps-elderly-stranger-phone-heartbreaking-truth-2110068
Rapper MC Hammer is being sued by JPMorgan Chase Bank for allegedly failing to make payments on his 2023 Land Rover Defender.https://www.newsweek.com/mc-hammer-faces-financial-trouble-after-lawsuit-2110051
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Republican-backed funding cuts go way beyond NPR and PBS. Radio and TV stations from Alaska to the Allegheny Mountains may never be the same.https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/what-happens-to-public-media-now
A family in Maine moves away in response to President Donald Trump’s executive order aimed at restricting access to gender-affirming care for minors.https://www.newyorker.com/news/as-told-to/a-mother-and-her-trans-teen-decide-to-leave-the-us
I met Wesley in 1985, during the summer we both turned four. Until last Monday, our lives always seemed to run on parallel tracks.https://www.newyorker.com/news/postscript/remembering-wesley-lepatner
The U.K. central bank lowered its key rate for the fifth time in a year as it seeks to balance a pickup in inflation against a cooling jobs market.https://www.wsj.com/world/uk/bank-of-england-cuts-rates-as-jobs-market-slows-11322670
The Kremlin said the Russian leader was expected to meet the U.S. president, saying that the meeting was being planned for a location that would be named later.https://www.wsj.com/world/russia/russia-confirms-putin-and-trump-will-meet-in-coming-days-b1580381
The man swam down the coast and evaded armed border guards with orders to shoot anyone fleeing Kim Jong Un’s regime.https://www.wsj.com/world/asia/north-korean-wrapped-in-plastic-foam-floats-to-freedom-in-the-south-157ed2bc
The U.N. says a creating an international body to oversee critical commodities could shore up worldwide supply, but getting big players on board would be tricky.https://www.wsj.com/articles/could-a-global-minerals-trust-help-speed-up-the-energy-transition-fb746df9
Trapped by geography and squeezed by global market forces, the world’s 32 landlocked developing countries remain among the poorest – and most overlooked.https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/08/1165591
The UN World Food Programme (WFP) on Wednesday welcomed a contribution of $3.5 million from the Government of Indonesia to support the agency’s school meal programme in Afghanistan. https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/08/1165589
Hostilities have continued in Sweida, Syria, despite a ceasefire agreement, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said in an update published on Wednesday. https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/08/1165588
UN data published on Wednesday underscores the tiny amount of cultivable land that remains in the Gaza Strip, contributing to the famine-like conditions now being endured by more than two million people there. https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/08/1165587
Security researchers found a weakness in OpenAI’s Connectors, which let you hook up ChatGPT to other services, that allowed them to extract data from a Google Drive without any user interaction.https://www.wired.com/story/poisoned-document-could-leak-secret-data-chatgpt/
Roman Storm convicted of a money-transmitting charge after closely watched trial.https://www.wsj.com/finance/currencies/developer-of-crypto-mixer-tornado-cash-found-guilty-on-one-criminal-charge-a1c32405?mod=rss_markets_main
Chip stocks rise, with Intel an exception after Trump called for its CEO's resignationhttps://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/stock-market-today-dow-sp500-nasdaq-tariff-deadline-08-07-2025?mod=rss_markets_main