The man, Travis Eugene Posey, also injured 11 people in the shooting at the Mad Butcher in Fordyce, Ark., in June 2024. He received four consecutive life terms.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/us/travis-posey-sentenced-arkansas-grocery-store-shooting.html
Sean Combs was convicted of transportation to engage in prostitution, which the judge said mandates incarceration. His sentencing is set for Oct. 3.https://abcnews.go.com/US/sean-diddy-combs-denied-bail-awaiting-sentencing/story?id=124359248
A driver trying to set a speed record during a racing event at Utah’s famed Bonneville Salt Flats died after losing control of his vehiclehttps://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/driver-attempting-set-record-utahs-bonneville-salt-flats-124355633
A pilot was rescued after his small plane crashed in the water off the coast of Oak Island, North Carolina on Saturday.https://abcnews.go.com/US/video/pilot-rescued-after-making-emergency-landing-ocean-oak-124360218
ABC News' Ian Pannell spoke to the brother of Evyatar David, an Israeli hostage seen in footage released by Hamas over the weekend.https://abcnews.go.com/International/video/human-skeleton-brother-hostage-evyatar-david-124360099
‘Civil society’ looked like the future when the Cold War ended. It doesn’t anymore.https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-decline-and-fall-of-ngos-83117acf
The Western press and politicians play along with the terror group’s ghastly propaganda campaign.https://www.wsj.com/opinion/hamas-starves-jews-and-palestinians-and-israel-gets-blamed-36adcea3
Congress could limit the mutual assured political destruction as partisans move to redistrict more than once a decade.https://www.wsj.com/opinion/texas-gerrymandering-house-seats-democrats-republicans-congress-f1514f89
The school’s president keeps his job, for now, but the Board of Visitors votes to eliminate DEI programs.https://www.wsj.com/opinion/george-mason-university-board-of-visitors-gregory-washington-dei-3f151189
The feds claim schools can’t offer scholarships to the Dreamers.https://www.wsj.com/opinion/daca-students-trump-education-department-office-for-civil-rights-immigration-2f22c90b
Will they opt in to a new federal tax-credit program, helping parents, or opt out, pandering to unions?https://www.wsj.com/opinion/a-school-choice-test-for-josh-shapiro-and-jb-pritzker-education-students-bad7c25a
His started off strong with an attack on DEI, but he’s now pursuing misguided priorities of his own.https://www.wsj.com/opinion/trumps-science-reform-veers-off-course-05c13909
‘Perhaps the greatest danger in exerting political pressure of this kind is the risk of sacrificing academic independence.’https://www.wsj.com/opinion/notable-quotable-politicization-at-harvard-84a4ca29
As researchers work to make death optional, investors see a chance for huge returns. But has the human body already reached its limits?https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/08/11/how-to-live-forever-and-get-rich-doing-it
Immigrants showing up for court dates in Manhattan must now navigate past rows of masked federal agents.https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/08/11/ices-spectacle-of-intimidation
As plans are laid for a new casino, one can trace, through four figures, a history of rivalry and excess, rife with collisions of character and crime.https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/08/11/the-engines-and-empires-of-new-york-city-gambling
It’s the fault people humblebrag about in job interviews. but psychologists are discovering more and more about the real harm it causes.https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/08/11/the-pain-of-perfectionism
With a new proposal, the Trump Administration, which has already laid waste to dozens of programs aimed at limiting climate change, has managed to outdo itself.https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/the-epas-disastrous-plan-to-end-the-regulation-of-greenhouse-gases
Tractor Supply is revving up its final-mile fulfillment operation as part of a push to grow digital and business-to-business sales.https://www.wsj.com/articles/tractor-supply-beefs-up-last-mile-delivery-to-grow-sales-f4d26926?mod=pls_whats_news_us_business_f
Many of those killed were Ethiopians, the International Organization for Migration said, attempting a dangerous journey that has claimed hundreds of lives.https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/08/04/yemen-migrant-boat-ethiopia-iom/