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At least 800 people have been killed and thousands injured after a 6.0 magnitude earthquake struck eastern Afghanistan Sunday. The epicenter was about 17 miles from Jalalabad near the Pakistan border, at a shallow depth of 5 miles, resulting in stronger ground shaking. Officials expect the death toll to increase as search and rescue efforts proceed in the remote mountainous region.
The worst damage occurred in rural areas, where mud‑brick and wooden houses are highly vulnerable. The region’s steep terrain is also prone to landslides, further obstructing rescue operations. Taliban authorities have appealed for international humanitarian aid, citing severe shortages of supplies following cuts to foreign assistance as well as strains from refugee inflows.
The event is Afghanistan’s third major earthquake since 2021. Situated on the Alpide belt—the world's second-most seismically active region, where the Indian and Eurasian plates meet—the country is located atop several fault lines. See what causes earthquakes here. |
President Donald Trump said he plans to appeal a federal appeals court decision that voided most of his so-called reciprocal tariffs against countries late Friday. Levies imposed on over 60 countries will remain in effect until Oct. 14, per the court’s ruling, barring a superseding decision from the Supreme Court.
The court ruled 7-4 that the decision to impose taxes, including tariffs, rests exclusively with Congress. Trump had cited the 1977 International Emergency Economic Powers Act in his decision to impose tariffs in recent months, characterizing the US deficit (currently $1.6T) as a national emergency. The court rejected that claim. The court's decision does not affect levies on sector-specific goods (including copper, aluminum, and steel) as those were brought under a separate national security authority.
If the court’s ruling stays, an estimated 16% of goods entering the US will be subject to Trump’s recent spate of tariffs, down from 69%. |
Titanic Discovery Anniversary |
Forty years ago yesterday, oceanographers discovered the Titanic wreckage during a covert Cold War Navy mission. The luxury liner sank in 1912 after striking an iceberg on its maiden voyage from England to New York City, killing more than 1,500 people. See recent 3D renderings of the wreck here.
Limited deep-sea mapping technology left the Titanic's location nearly 13,000 feet underwater a mystery for 73 years. American oceanographer Robert Ballard led one of several unsuccessful expeditions to find the shipwreck before approaching the US Navy in 1982 about financing a new ocean floor research vehicle, Argo.
The Navy agreed, but only if the underwater camera and sonar system were first used to find two missing US nuclear submarines. The debris tracking techniques Ballard refined on that quest guided his discovery of the Titanic’s final resting place on Sept. 1, 1985. Watch Ballard recount the expedition here. |
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Sports, Entertainment, & Culture |
> Novak Djokovic advances to US Open quarterfinals, extending his record of reaching 64 Grand Slam quarters (More) | No. 23 Naomi Osaka upsets No. 3 Coco Gauff to advance to the quarterfinals; see latest women's bracket (More) |
> Mark Knoller, longtime White House correspondent for CBS, dies at age 73 (More) | Lee Roy Jordan, five-time NFL Pro Bowler, dies at age 84 (More) | Randy Boone, actor best known for starring role on "The Virginian," dies at age 83 (More) |
> College football week one wraps, highlighted by No. 3 Ohio State topping No. 1 Texas and No. 8 Alabama falling to unranked Florida State (More) |
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> Chinese law requiring clearly identified labels on all AI-generated online content goes into effect; government says effort is meant to combat misinformation (More) |
> Newly discovered tectonic activity may be responsible for historic but unexplained earthquakes in Portugal in recent centuries (More) | An 8.5 magnitude quake in 1755 is considered Europe's first modern natural disaster (More, w/video) |
> Mars study reveals planet's interior contains mile-wide structures left over from massive collisions around 4.5 billion years ago (More) |
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> US stock markets close lower Friday (S&P 500 -0.6%, Dow -0.2%, Nasdaq -1.2%) (More) | Core personal consumption expenditures price index rose 2.9% year over year in July as expected; figure is highest annual rate since February (More) |
> World's largest food company Nestlé dismisses CEO Laurent Freixe after one year in the role over undisclosed romantic relationship with direct subordinate (More) |
> Spirit Airlines files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy for second time in one year (More) | More than 500,000 bankruptcies are filed in the US each year (1440 Topics) |
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> Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit kicks off in China's port city of Tianjin, with leaders from Russia, China, India, Iran, and six other nations in attendance (More) |
> Federal judge temporarily blocks Trump administration from returning unaccompanied migrant children to Guatemala without deportation orders; Guatemala says it can accept 150 migrant children per week from the US (More) |
> Antigovernment protests in Indonesia leave at least eight people dead; latest demonstrations focus on lawmakers' $3K monthly housing allowance, death of a motorcyclist during protests last week (More) |
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> The French Fry Mystery
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> 'Socrates Would Be Pleased'
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