CultureFarm Aid 2026 features live performances by Dave Matthews with Tim Reynolds, Neil Young with the Chrome Hearts, and Willie Nelson & Family. CNN is returning as the festival’s exclusive broadcast partner after its 2025 partnership.
CultureFarm Aid 2026 features live performances by Dave Matthews with Tim Reynolds, Neil Young with the Chrome Hearts, and Willie Nelson & Family. CNN is returning as the festival’s exclusive broadcast partner after its 2025 partnership.
WorldA roadside police checkpoint in northwestern Pakistan was hit by a suicide bombing on Saturday, killing at least 12 people and injuring about 35, officials said. Gunmen later opened fire on an ambulance responding to the scene.
Politics18:04Singapore Foreign Affairs Minister Vivian Balakrishnan said he was leaving the UN General Assembly “slightly encouraged”, despite the world remaining in a “disrupted and potentially dangerous phase”. From New York, he reflected on a busy week of diplomacy that covered US-China ties, the Trump-Xi meeting, ongoing conflicts and the promise and perils of AI.
PoliticsTrace Gallagher suggests the talks may have remained private for a reason. He says the CSD believes the media acts as though it knows everything and continues making sweeping claims about events it does not fully understand.
WorldMore than 10,000 troops have been sent into Bangkok to help evacuate residents as severe flooding affects all 50 districts, now designated disaster zones. Heavy rain has overwhelmed drainage systems, while temporary shelters are accommodating more than 4,000 displaced people. Residents say promised lessons from the 2011 floods were never fully implemented.
WorldFox News senior strategic analyst Ret. Gen. Jack Keane says the IDF and U.S. Army are demonstrating the most efficient military partnership since World War II against a shared enemy.
CultureDave Matthews and Tim Reynolds perform “Ants Marching” at Farm Aid 2026, an annual festival that supports family farms across the United States.
WorldA powerful early-season nor’easter is bringing prolonged winds and heavy rain to the U.S. Northeast, with conditions expected to deteriorate. Hurricane Nolo is intensifying rainfall across southern Hawaii, while Hurricane Polo is hitting Mexico and is forecast to make landfall in Baja California Sur on Monday.
TechPresident Donald Trump said he does not want the United States to integrate its AI efforts with China, even as the two countries agreed at their Washington summit to create a “super intelligence dialogue” and a channel for AI incidents. UCLA professor Ramesh Srinivasan says the technology has effectively escaped control, noting that even its engineers do not fully understand how it works.
CultureRap legend Nicki Minaj discusses President Donald Trump, her upbringing, the drive that helped her pursue success and the jobs she held before becoming famous in rap on “My View with Lara Trump.”
World0:51Pope Leo XIV began his Lourdes pilgrimage Saturday evening with a silent prayer at the Grotto of the Apparitions. Earlier that day, hundreds of thousands attended his large outdoor Mass at Paris’ Place de la Concorde.
Politics22:30Singapore Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan warned that a world increasingly shaped by “raw power”, with outcomes decided by size, leverage and coercion, poses a “clear and present danger” to smaller states such as Singapore. Speaking at the UN General Assembly’s general debate, he argued that multilateralism, international law and shared norms provide predictability.
Society1:01Tens of thousands marched in Madrid against Spain’s housing crisis, calling for tenant protections, anti-fraud measures and a ban on evictions without alternative housing. The eviction Wednesday of an 87-year-old woman from the Madrid apartment she had lived in for decades became the latest flashpoint.
WorldA massive, unusually early nor’easter is battering the US Northeast coast. Tens of millions from New York to Boston are preparing for strong winds, heavy rain and dangerous coastal waves through the weekend, while the storm has already left about 100,000 people without power and conditions continue to deteriorate.
SocietyThe family of 19-year-old Kaleym Dalvy is seeking answers and accountability after he was killed in a police-involved shooting in Mississauga. Ontario’s Special Investigations Unit is investigating the Aug. 6 incident, while protesters gathered outside Toronto Police Headquarters on Saturday.
PoliticsFox News host Mark Levin criticized Democratic policies that he says raised the cost of living while the party was in power, and discussed affordability historically and Iran on “Life, Liberty & Levin.”
TechCalls for stronger checks on artificial intelligence are growing worldwide as reports of AI agents going rogue increase. Before the United Nations General Assembly, the founders of OpenAI and Anthropic discussed the technology’s risks and ways to mitigate them. OpenAI also disclosed that its bots interacted with multiple U.S. government websites.
HealthIsraeli strikes have killed about 1,400 people in Gaza since the ceasefire deal was reached nearly a year ago, while thousands more have been injured, according to the Hamas-backed Health Ministry. Aid agencies and the UN say many still cannot access adequate treatment, prompting pharmacists to improvise as shelves remain empty.
WorldHawaii residents, including people on the Big Island, tried to maintain normal routines such as swimming and fishing in turbulent waters as Hurricane Nolo approached areas still recovering from earlier storms.
Politics5:22Former acting DHS Secretary Chad Wolf discusses the Trump administration’s decision to have Customs and Border Protection halt a Biden-era policy that allowed private gifts for illegal immigrants. He also analyzes the Supreme Court’s review of migrant bond hearings.
WorldRoss Harrison, a senior fellow at the Middle East Institute and author of Decoding Iran’s Foreign Policy, says Iran probably expected President Donald Trump to reject its seven-day proposal. He argues that the plan largely repackaged a framework Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron agreed in a June memorandum of understanding that Washington later tried to undermine. Iran’s aim, Harrison says, was less to win US approval than to show Iranian and American publics that it was willing to negotiate.
WorldEl Niño is fueling stronger Pacific storms and producing unusually high heat. Even without making landfall, these systems have damaged California’s coastline, prompting the state to declare an emergency this week as experts warn conditions could worsen. The coastal flooding also has implications for Canada’s West Coast.
OtherA restaurant owner and staff in Stone Harbor, New Jersey, hurried to clear floodwater and debris after high tide inundated the business, ahead of a wedding rehearsal. The powerful storm moved slowly along the U.S. Northeast coast, where officials warned of further coastal flooding.
Culture1:19Pope Leo XIV began his pilgrimage in Lourdes by praying at the Grotto of the Apparitions, where Catholics believe the Virgin Mary appeared in a vision to the shepherdess Bernadette. The site is among the faith’s most visited shrines.