This live blog is now closed. Understanding reached on coordinates for shipping route through Hormuz, Iran says Donald Trump’s Board of Peace, which was set up in January to oversee the reconstruction of Gaza, has finally issued its first construction contract in the devastated territory: a project to build a ...
Day: August 6, 2026
Israel charges West Bank settler over death of renowned Palestinian activistIsrael charges West Bank settler over death of renowned Palestinian activist
Yinon Levi faces trial for reckless manslaughter related to the 2025 killing of Awdah Hathaleen Israeli prosecutors have charged a Jewish settler over the killing of a Palestinian community leader in the occupied West Bank last year – the first such indictment in nearly three years. In papers filed by ...
Thousands of rail passengers hit by power failure disruptionThousands of rail passengers hit by power failure disruption
An outage in Manchester caused delays and cancellations, with services expected to be affected throughout the evening. ...
Reading John Hersey’s ‘Hiroshima,’ 81 years onReading John Hersey’s ‘Hiroshima,’ 81 years on
by John Hersey. Eighty-one years ago Thursday, an atomic bomb exploded over Japan. One year later, The New Yorker handed its entire Aug 31, 1946 issue to one 31,000-word article telling the story of six people who survived. Hersey — reporting on a clerk, a tailor’s widow, two doctors, a ...
Kalshi banks on its predictions’ accuracyKalshi banks on its predictions’ accuracy
The Scoop Heading into last week’s Federal Reserve meeting, Wall Street’s favored betting parlor — the Fed funds futures market — put two-thirds odds that the central bank would hold rates steady. Over at Kalshi, the prediction market, the chances were as much as 10 points higher. They were both ...
Drone bomb allegedly linked to Russia found at German airportDrone bomb allegedly linked to Russia found at German airport
An explosives-laden drone was discovered at a German airport in one of Europe’s busiest freight terminals near Ukrainian cargo planes. “The initial evidence points firmly towards a Russian-orchestrated plot,” The Guardian’s security editor said, saying the episode marks “a dangerous escalation.” Though a faulty detonator prevented an explosion, the roughly ...
Deal to open Strait of Hormuz nears ‘final stages’Deal to open Strait of Hormuz nears ‘final stages’
US President Donald Trump said he wanted to make a deal to end the Iran war “because I don’t want to kill people.” Iran and Oman are in the “final stages” of an agreement on a commercial route through the Strait of Hormuz, Tehran said. But dysfunction at the top ...
An Israeli professor lost a prestigious US job offer after speaking out on Gaza. Now the university is paying him $250,000An Israeli professor lost a prestigious US job offer after speaking out on Gaza. Now the university is paying him $250,000
The University of Minnesota withdrew an offer for Raz Segal to lead its Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies after an organized campaign against his hiring When the University of Minnesota (UMN) extended an offer to historian Raz Segal to lead its Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies in June ...
The American left is making strides. But can they win in November? | Ben DavisThe American left is making strides. But can they win in November? | Ben Davis
The left is increasingly winning within the Democratic party. But it still needs to prove that it can build general-election coalitions capable of beating Republicans The ideological struggle within the Democratic party continued on Tuesday night with primaries in Kansas, Michigan, Missouri, Virginia and Washington. The results showed an increasingly ...
‘I have an ego that needs to be put in check’: ex-Gawker editor AJ Daulerio on life after addiction‘I have an ego that needs to be put in check’: ex-Gawker editor AJ Daulerio on life after addiction
After his fall from grace, media’s former enfant terrible is now sober and helping others with his addiction recovery newsletter and podcast, The Small Bow Every other Tuesday, AJ Daulerio wakes up at 5.30am and meditates for five to 20 minutes before beginning his multistep daily journaling protocol: reading a ...