A magnitude 7.1 earthquake struck Kumamoto in southwestern Japan, killing 13 people as newsroom staff took cover.
Trump's former personal lawyer Todd Blanche won Senate confirmation as Attorney General by a narrow 50-49 vote after White House persuasion.
Russian attacks killed 13 people and wounded around 90 others across Ukrainian cities over the past 24 hours as the Kremlin intensifies bombardment.
World
Russia released an American military veteran after four years of what his family alleges was wrongful incarceration and abusive treatment.
Turkey's parliament approved legislation introducing a conditional pardon for thousands of Kurdish militants to advance peace with their insurgent group.
Search and rescue teams picked through destroyed buildings in Cali, Colombia, following an earthquake that struck the country's third-largest city.
Business
Cerebras stock fell from its IPO peak of $350 to $234.85, a 33% loss, after reporting second-quarter earnings with concerns over margin compression.
Cisco Systems reported fiscal Q4 2026 results with strong AI fundamentals, raising its expected full-year AI hyperscaler order range from $5 billion to $9 billion.
U.S. inflation report matched expectations, easing concerns about imminent Federal Reserve rate increases and lifting Asian stocks Thursday.
Technology
Nvidia locked in a $500 billion financing alliance with Wall Street's heaviest hitters while OpenAI armed cybersecurity defenders with a purpose-built model.
Meta faces a coalition of state attorneys general in a California federal court trial over claims it engineered Facebook and Instagram to be addictive to children.
Meta drops a 30-billion-parameter agent that runs on a single GPU.
Science
A total solar eclipse swept across Greenland, Iceland, northern Russia, the Atlantic Ocean, Spain, and a small corner of Portugal on August 12.
Scientists pinpointed a brain network and distinctive electrical rhythm that appears to drive benefits of deep brain stimulation for Parkinson's disease.
Researchers mapped part of Earth's upper atmosphere using orbital data from roughly 1,200 Starlink satellites.
Economy
Inflation rose to 2.9% over the last year in August, the highest since January, as companies passed along tariff costs to consumers.
Employers added 187,000 jobs in August, up from July's revised 157,000, though growth still moderated compared to earlier this year.
Wall Street expects the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates by a quarter-point at next week's board meeting, driven by labor market weakness despite slight inflation gains.
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