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Monday, August 17, 2026

Top news

  • Ukraine launched hundreds of drones across Russia Sunday, killing at least six people in one of Kyiv's largest aerial attacks of the war.
  • Firefighters are battling a massive wildfire in eastern Belgium that has burned over 27 square kilometers.
  • Joint exercises with South Korea called Ulchi Freedom Shield military drills are set to begin August 17 and go for 10 days.

World

  • Ukraine launched hundreds of drones across Russia on Sunday, killing at least six people in one of Kyiv's largest aerial attacks of the war.
  • Hundreds of migrants attempted to cross from Morocco into the Spanish territory of Ceuta on Saturday, with Moroccan officials fending them off this time.
  • Brazil's Amazon deforestation fell to its lowest level in a decade, dropping 37 percent over the past year to 2,874 square kilometers.

Business

  • Anthropic revenue reportedly jumped to more than $11.5 billion in second quarter.
  • Berkshire added $17 billion to Alphabet stake.
  • Home Depot discloses second-quarter results with analysts expecting earnings of $4.73 per share, up 1% year over year, on revenue of $47.2 billion.

Technology

  • Google dropped a sharper, cheaper AI workhorse while Apple quietly trained its own model for China with Alibaba's help.
  • Nvidia disclosed a $21 billion stake in SpaceX at the end of the second quarter.
  • A Wyoming woman filed a federal lawsuit alleging her stepfather used the Grok chatbot to transform a childhood photo into child sexual abuse material.

Science

  • Low-dose digoxin, a centuries-old heart drug costing under ten cents daily, could reduce heart-failure hospitalizations by 25 percent.
  • Rising atmospheric carbon dioxide is leaving a measurable imprint inside human bodies, with researchers finding changes to blood bicarbonate levels in two decades of U.S. health data.
  • Physicists may have discovered a hidden feature inside protons that helps preserve one of matter's most fundamental properties.

Economy

  • Employers added 187,000 jobs in August, up from July's revised 157,000 but showing moderating hiring pace compared to earlier in the year.
  • Unemployment rate rose to 3.8% from 3.5% in August, the highest level since February 2022 though still low historically.
  • Wage growth cooled with average hourly wages up 4.3% year-over-year, down from 4.4% in both July and June, signaling easing inflation pressure.

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