Voters head to the polls today for primaries in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Vermont and Connecticut. Most notably in South Carolina, Republicans are choosing a new U.S. Senate nominee, filling the seat left open after Sen. Lindsey Graham's death last month.

Meet Momota, a baby polar bear in Japan who has gone viral for one very specific hobby: playing with traffic cones. Between the cone antics and the growth spurt, he's become one of the internet's favorite animal stars.

In an after-midnight interview on Real America's Voice with President Trump, longtime ally and host Wayne Allyn Root suggested to Trump that he should declare a national state of emergency to impose new restrictive voting rules across America that he cannot get through Congress.

Typhoon Dolphin just slammed into China's east coast, forcing more than 1 million people to evacuate. The storm made landfall near Yuhuan City, Zhejiang, Sunday at 5:30 p.m. local time, packing winds over 150 km/h.

A 7.4-magnitude earthquake killed at least 47 people in western Colombia on Monday, the country's strongest quake in a decade. The quake hit at 7:34 a.m. local time near San José del Palmar in the Chocó region, trapping residents under collapsed buildings across several cities.

A cyclospora outbreak tied to lettuce has now infected more than 25,000 people in 15 states, over 5x the previous U.S. record. Health officials traced the largest cluster to iceberg lettuce grown in central Mexico by Taylor Farms.

A wildfire in southern Spain has now affected over 8,000 hectares. The fire broke out in Spain's Huelva province. Around 470 people have been evacuated and about 500 firefighters and waterbombing planes are working to contain the blaze.

A total solar eclipse is set to sweep across Greenland, Iceland, and parts of Spain and Portugal on Aug. 12. It will be Europe's first total eclipse in over 25 years.

A small bottle of cream could save lives and billions of dollars, but until last year, there were incorrect warning labels on them.

The Senate confirmed Todd Blanche as U.S. attorney general in a razor-thin 50-49 vote. Blanche's confirmation followed weeks of pushback on Capitol Hill. The deciding vote came from Sen. Bill Cassidy, who called Blanche "the best option" Trump would put forward.

At least 17 people were killed and dozens wounded after Russia launched missile and drone strikes on Kyiv. Ukraine's air force said none of the 24 ballistic and 4 hypersonic missiles fired were intercepted, though 98 of 115 drones were shot down.

Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Pakistan are signing a joint defence agreement in Jeddah. The deal brings together three major Sunni Muslim powers: Turkey (a NATO member), Saudi Arabia (a top oil exporter), and Pakistan (the only nuclear-armed Muslim country).

Virginians with felonies just got their voting rights restored—at the whim of who their governor is. In November, a constitutional amendment could make their rights permanent, if passed.

Scientists just captured the highest-resolution images ever taken of the sun's surface and found something nobody expected: swirling whirlpools of plasma. The images, taken with Hawaii's Inouye Solar Telescope, show the sun's photosphere in unprecedented detail.

Wildlife officials in Kazakhstan released an Amur tiger named Umit, into the unfenced Ile-Balkhash Nature Reserve. Umit is one of four Amur tigers transferred from Russia to Kazakhstan, restoring wild tigers to Central Asia for the first time in more than 70 years.

Dr. Erica Schwartz was confirmed Wednesday in a 51-44 vote, after two earlier attempts to fill it failed. Schwartz steps into a full plate: the worst U.S. measles outbreak in 30 years, the largest foodborne illness outbreak in recent years, and criticism over vaccine policy.

A Senate committee just voted to hold Dr. Anthony Fauci in contempt of Congress. It follows a hearing last week where Fauci invoked the Fifth Amendment more than 100 times and wouldn't answer questions about his handling of COVID-19.

Guatemala has issued its highest emergency alert after Central America's most active volcano, erupted with lava fountains up to 300 meters high, forcing the evacuation of at least 1,421 people.

After a 560-million-kilometer journey, NASA's Curiosity rover landed on Mars on August 5, 2012. The six-wheeled rover used a first-of-its-kind "sky-crane" system to lower itself into Gale Crater, one of the most complex landing sequences ever attempted.

Since 2020, DHS has been sending DNA from immigration detainees into the FBI's CODIS database. Georgetown Law estimates ICE added ~919,908 new profiles in 2025 alone.

President Trump is weighing whether to fire his own U.S. Attorney after her office dropped vandalism charges tied to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro's office moved to drop the case, saying new evidence pointed to a botched $14million renovation.

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Cuba's national power grid collapsed late Sunday, cutting electricity to roughly 10 million people across the entire island. It's the first nationwide outage of August, and it follows three separate nationwide blackouts in July.

ICE detained more than 46,000 people in July, the highest monthly total of Trump's second term. Officers took in an average of 1,500 people a day. As of this weekend, ICE was holding 68,000 people in detention, closing in on January's record of over 70,000.

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Speaking to reporters on Air Force One, Trump said there is no time for Iran to make a deal. He says the parameters of a deal to end the 5-month conflict have now been reached. Negotiations are set for today, aimed at denuclearization and reopening the Strait of Hormuz.

Acting AG Todd Blanche rescinded the $1.8B "anti-weaponization" fund Sunday, dubbed a "slush fund" by critics, that would've paid Jan. 6 rioters as claimed "victims" of government targeting.

A wildfire jumped the Spokane River on Saturday, burning an estimated 50 to 100 structures with no containment, forcing thousands to evacuate. The National Weather Service issued its first-ever "particularly dangerous situation" red flag alert for eastern Washington.

DOJ moves to drop the felony case against ex-Olympian David Hearn over Reflecting Pool damage. New evidence: it was a botched contractor installation + rush to finish before July 4, not vandalism. Grand jury testimony showed preexisting damage too.

Monumental artist Betye Saar, who is attributed with sparking the Black women's movement, passed away this week at 99 years old.