US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee called a days-long siege of Palestinian homes by Israeli settlers in Qusra near Nablus an act of terror, after settlers besieged three homes including one belonging to a dual US citizen.
The US Navy fired on a Panama-flagged cargo ship attempting to break the blockade of Iranian ports in the Gulf of Oman on Tuesday, with missile strikes targeting the ship's engine room and leaving it disabled.
Spain experienced its first total solar eclipse in more than a century, with people breaking into applause and cheering as the sky darkened.
World
Brazil's deforestation fell to 2,874 square kilometres in the past year, the lowest level since satellite monitoring began in 2016.
A fire in Okanagan, British Columbia forced 20,000 people to evacuate and prompted a state of emergency declaration.
The US Senate voted to impose sanctions on Russia's energy revenues, financial institutions and shadow fleet.
Business
S&P 500 hit a fresh all-time intraday high, surpassing 7,800 for the first time ever and closing at 7,798.99 as oil prices declined.
Bob Iger and Joshua Kushner bought the Los Angeles Lakers at a 12.5 billion dollar valuation.
Federal regulators opened an inquiry into prediction market sites where people bet millions on what speakers may utter.
Technology
Google released a sharper, cheaper AI model.
Apple trained its own AI model for China with Alibaba's help.
Uber and Pony.ai are preparing to put more than 2,000 robotaxis on European roads.
Science
Stanford researchers found that large numbers of immune cells from the blood begin entering the aging human brain, making it far less isolated from the body than previously believed.
Researchers discovered that original collagen can survive inside dinosaur fossils for tens of millions of years, overturning long-standing assumptions about fossilization.
JWST uncovered that Neptune's strange inner moons may be the wreckage of an ancient cosmic catastrophe, with clay-like minerals detected on Larissa, Galatea, and Neptune's rings that form in the presence of liquid water.
Economy
Annual inflation dropped to 3.4% for the 12 months ending July, down from 3.5% in June, with data released August 12.
The economy added 187,000 jobs in August, up from July's revised 157,000 but showing moderating hiring compared to earlier this year.
Market traders reduced the odds that the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates when it next meets in September.
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