Thieves steal 673-diamond royal necklace from Vienna museum
The Van Cleef necklace, made for the 1939 royal wedding of Princess Fawzia, was the most valuable object stolen in Vienna since 2003.
Politics
Milo Yiannopoulos held by ICE on final removal order
The British provocateur overstayed a 2019 visa and missed a July hearing, DHS said.
The Numbers
AllOfficial series, each dated to the observation it comes from.
Inflation3.3%
Unemployment4.1%
30-year mortgage6.66%
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Russia warns it could strike British military targets over Kyiv's missiles
Days earlier Ukraine reported 8,500 fresh North Korean troops massing in Kursk, part of a wider Russian escalation on several fronts.
Missouri deputy attorney general found alive after six days in Wyoming
A stranger's photo of the Gannett Peak summit register confirmed Mackelprang had reached the top, narrowing the search that found him near Scott Lake.
Politics
4 stories · updated 26 AugGiuliani vows to sue Tucker Carlson over Netanyahu agent claim
Giuliani, who gave Hunter Biden's laptop to the New York Post, denies Carlson's suggestion that he acted for the Israeli prime minister.
Nancy Kassebaum, first Kansas woman elected to Senate, dies at 94
The Kansas Republican co-sponsored the 1996 HIPAA health law with Ted Kennedy and later broke with her party over Donald Trump.
Anti-Muslim posts targeting El-Sayed rose twentyfold after primary win
A Washington Post analysis of thousands of posts found religion overtook socialism as the dominant conservative topic about El-Sayed by mid-August.
Two Big Rigs Collide on 210 Freeway, Shutting Lanes 12 Hours
One of the semis caught fire and a Mercedes was trapped beneath its trailer, forcing westbound traffic onto the Glendale Freeway into Thursday.
World
2 stories · updated 26 Aug
Man dies in balcony fall aboard Norwegian Getaway
Miami-Dade homicide detectives are treating the death aboard the Miami-to-Bahamas sailing as an unclassified death investigation.
Hiker Lily Hooper found dead after family wrongly told she survived
Police and Premier Chris Minns apologised after Hooper's family was told she had been found alive, minutes before the death was confirmed.
Business
6 stories · updated 23 AugChinese robot beats Usain Bolt's 100-meter record at Beijing games
At the second World Humanoid Robot Games, a Tiangong Ultra robot ran 100 meters in 9.39 seconds, below Usain Bolt's 9.58-second mark.
Entertainment
6 stories · updated 25 Aug
Health
3 stories · updated 22 AugHalf of prostate focal therapy falls outside guidelines, study finds
Only 1.3% of the men studied received focal therapy, but among them roughly half had low- or high-risk cancer outside the intermediate-risk group.
US cyclosporiasis cases reach 15,716, over 13 times last year's total
Most illnesses trace to recalled Taylor Farms iceberg lettuce, and the CDC last year dropped the program that tracked Cyclospora.
FDA approves the first mRNA flu shot after refusing to review it
The FDA approved the first influenza vaccine made with mRNA, months after refusing to review the application. Clearance for adults over 65 is conditional on a further study.