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The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has officially launched and is heading to its forever home at L2!

Over the next three months, the observatory will perform final checks and power its instruments before revealing its first images by early 2027.

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Students from every state came together and wrote a national AI policy framework. It won't get officially required anywhere, but it's got the building blocks that no Congress policy has yet set forth.

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Sixty-three years ago today, Washington and Moscow switched on a direct line to each other.
The Washington–Moscow direct communications link officially went into operation on August 30, 1963.
It's better known by its nickname: the hotline.

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A federal judge lifted the nationwide block on USPS's Trump-ordered mail-voting rule, a temporary win for the White House that could set up a Supreme Court fight.

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ICE made 49,571 arrests in July, a record for Trump's second term and most of those arrested had no criminal record. That's up 15% from June and 70% from February, and the highest monthly total since October 2022.

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On August 28, 1789, William Herschel observed a faint point of light moving in orbit close to Saturn's rings, from Observatory House in Slough, England. It was a new moon, that came to be called Enceladus.

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Climate change isn't hitting every country the same way, and it's not by chance which ones bear the worst of it. Nepal has emitted 0.01% of the world's CO2 since 1751 and this week, it's dealing with a disaster it did almost nothing to cause.

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The aftermath of Nepal's flash flood, in pictures.
A landslide-dammed lake on the Nepal-China border began overflowing Friday, halting rescues as the flood death toll passed 500. Authorities suspended search operations after Chinese officials warned the barrier lake could burst.

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On Aug. 27, 1955, the first Guinness Book of Records was published, all because a brewery exec couldn't settle a 1951 argument about the fastest game bird in Europe. 198 pages. Originally a brand giveaway. Now 100M+ copies sold.

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🤖 The robots are built different.
Chinese humanoid robots showed up to the World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing and broke human athletic records. The future is wild!

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Yayoi Kusama, the Japanese avant-garde artist famed for her polka dots and immersive Infinity Rooms, died at age 97.

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A near-total lunar eclipse peaks at 12:12 a.m. ET, with Earth blocking more than 96% of the lunar surface at maximum coverage. Unlike a solar eclipse, this one is completely safe to watch with the naked eye.

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The Trump administration threatened to demolish the Kennedy Center if a judge blocks the restoration of Trump's name. The threat came in a court filing , which described the venue as structurally unsound and unsafe.

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Flash floods on the Nepal-Tibet border have left hundreds missing, including 384 travelers. The water came down the Bhotekoshi River around 9 a.m. Wednesday after an ice-rock avalanche sent a surge through the valley, destroying villages, roads and hydropower projects.

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The FDA just approved the first pill that targets the mutation behind more than 90% of pancreatic cancers.
The drug got expedited approval earlier today. It works by blocking a mutated protein that drives tumor growth, an approach drugmakers chased for decades without success.

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The global ocean just hit its warmest daily temperature on record: 69.98°F. That edges past the previous record of 69.96°F, set in March'24. This milestone is consistent with the warming of the global ocean and the emergence of an extreme El Niño event in the tropical Pacific.

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NYC is launching a 24-person "renew crew" to fix up playgrounds, rec centers and basketball courts across all five boroughs. Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced the new team of plumbers, painters and other skilled workers on Monday.

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President Trump bought up to $500,000 in Boeing stock the same day the Navy awarded Boeing a multimillion-dollar contract, according to his June disclosure released August 22.
That same disclosure shows Trump also invested up to $50,000 in SpaceX, just days after it's IPO.

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Dolly Parton has died at age 80. Her family says she passed away peacefully today in Nashville. Parton built one of the most singular careers in entertainment, glittering country music stardom that crossed over into pop fame, alongside parallel careers in film and TV.

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A wildfire northwest of Reno has burned over 15,000 acres, destroyed 32 homes, and affected nearly 90,000 people.