The Trump administration wants to strip tax-exempt status from private schools that consider race in admissions. Treasury proposed new regulations targeting private schools and colleges that factor race into admissions, scholarships, athletics, or other policies.

The Hubble Space Telescope found a 10-sided cloud pattern spinning over Saturn's south pole, whose one side alone is over 10,000 miles long. 🪐 It's bigger and more unstable than the famous hexagon up north, and may have formed between 2017 and 2023.

Gloria Steinem has died at 92. The Ms. magazine co-founder spent five decades fighting for gender equality and reproductive rights, helped launch the National Women's Political Caucus in 1971, and received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2013.

Reading, writing, and no more ChatGPT arithmetic. New York City will bar preschool through eighth-grade students from using generative AI in class. Students in preschool through eighth grade will be barred from using AI, and individual screens are prohibited until third grade.

Thirty new lawsuits were filed against OpenAI on Wednesday in San Francisco federal court over the Tumbler Ridge school shooting. The plaintiffs are teachers, students and a principal who were inside the B.C. school on Feb. 10.

The UN Environment Programme reported the world will exceed the 1.5°C warming threshold within years. Current policies project 2.6°C of warming, risking irreversible tipping points like ice sheet collapse and Amazon rainforest loss.

Speaking at the G20 meeting in Asheville, North Carolina, Bessent pushed back on reports that two ships were hit by mines in the Strait of Hormuz, calling the claims Iranian propaganda.

Germany says Russia was behind an attempted drone attack at Leipzig/Halle Airport last month and it's shutting down a Russian consulate in response. On August 4, a drone carrying explosives was found near a Ukrainian plane at the airport.

Sept 2, 1945: Japan signed the Instrument of Surrender aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay, officially ending WWII after nearly six years of conflict.

Congress averted a government shutdown again. A month before the deadline. The House passed a stopgap funding bill Tuesday, 370-48, funding the government through Dec. 11.

Rams owner Stan Kroenke has agreed to buy the Angels, ending Arte Moreno's ownership after fans pushed for a sale amid an 11-season playoff drought. No official terms yet, but a source tells the LA Times it's an MLB-record $4B valuation.

Zion National Park officials temporarily closed The Narrows and all slot canyons due to rising water danger. The Virgin River surged from 25 to 5,920 cubic feet per second, the fifth-highest peak on record.

Florida has banned license plate reader cameras from every state road. The state's Department of Transportation revoked all license plate reader approvals for state rights-of-way on Monday. Agencies now have a month to remove the cameras themselves, or FDOT will do it for them.

A flash flood at the Grand Canyon killed at least two people, left about 15 missing, destroyed bridges and knocked out the park's sole water pipeline, forcing more than 60 evacuations. But this wasn't just any flood. It was fed by a fire from last year.

Sept. 1, 1939: Germany invaded Poland, launching WWII. Britain and France declared war 2 days later, honoring their defense pact with Poland.

Army Secretary Dan Driscoll has resigned, leaving the Army without a civilian leader in the middle of the Iran war. Driscoll submitted his resignation to President Trump on Monday, after months of friction with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth over personnel decisions.

Apple has a new CEO: John Ternus took over Tuesday, ending Tim Cook's 15-year tenure. Under Cook, Apple hit a $4.6T valuation off the iPhone.

Two bodies recovered, about 15 people still missing after a flash flood tore through the Grand Canyon on Saturday. Park officials said Monday that search efforts are continuing.

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launched Sunday at 7:26 a.m. ET from Florida's Kennedy Space Center atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket. The $4.3 billion observatory, developed over nearly two decades, lifted off nine months ahead of schedule.

Twenty-nine years ago today, Diana, Princess of Wales, died after a car crash in a Paris tunnel. In the early hours of August 31, 1997, Diana and Dodi Fayed left the Hôtel Ritz pursued by paparazzi on motorcycles.

The US struck Iranian rocket launchers in the Strait of Hormuz. American forces attacked two rocket launchers on Larak Island. This is the first known US attack on Iran since President Donald Trump paused a renewed military campaign in late July.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

🤖 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!