Running
- Amazon Prime Air cargo jet operated by 21 Air crashes at Miami International Airport, killing 5
Sep 7–14 - Armed man confronts Ohio Democratic gubernatorial nominee Dr. Amy Acton at Canfield Fair
Sep 7–14 - BRICS summit in New Delhi: Xi, Putin, Modi meet amid US tariff threats and Iran-UAE tensions
Sep 12–14 - DR Congo Ebola outbreak (largest in its history)
Aug 13 – Sep 14 - Multistate Cyclospora outbreak tied to Taylor Farms iceberg lettuce
Aug 28 – Sep 14 - MV June Aster ferry fire off Palawan kills at least 35, dozens missing; Philippine Coast Guard rescue ongoing
Sep 12–14 - National Guard member arrested in Washington, DC
Sep 9–14 - North Korea fires ballistic missiles after condemning US-South Korea-Japan trilateral drills
Sep 12–14 - Passenger ferry Virgo Transport 8 capsizes in the Java Sea off Indonesia; toll rises through the day amid a disputed, moving count
Sep 13–14 - Russia/Ukraine Peace talks: territory + guarantees
Aug 16 – Sep 14 - SCOTUS lets Trump's mail-voting/citizen-list executive order proceed (standing stay)
Aug 25 – Sep 14 - Supreme Court denies stay, leaves Missouri's 2022 congressional map in place over Trump-backed GOP remap
Sep 12–14 - Trump 50% Canada tariffs: talks collapse, tariffs live
Aug 19 – Sep 14 - Trump announces deal for 65B barrel Venezuelan oil reserves; Pentagon takes 35% equity stake
Aug 29 – Sep 14 - US–Iran war: Hormuz, Houthi maritime attacks, alliance moves
Aug 13 – Sep 14 - Warsh's first Jackson Hole; September two-sided
Aug 16 – Sep 14 - Weekend flash flood in the Grand Canyon kills two, knocks out the park's only water pipeline
Sep 1–14 - Passenger train derails in Normandy; French police suspect sabotage
Sep 12–13 - Sweden holds a knife-edge national election with the far-right Sweden Democrats positioned to enter government
Sep 12–13 - Trump visits Ireland, says a united Ireland would be "fantastic"; DUP rejects the remark
Sep 12–13 - Kenya's Ruto orders foreign traders out of small-scale retail, then partly backtracks
Sep 12 - NPR examines “deep state” rhetoric around intelligence restructuring
Sep 9–10 - Shaheen and DiLorenzo win New Hampshire House primaries
Sep 9–10
Quick updates
- Anak Krakatau erupts, shuts Jakarta's Soekarno-Hatta and five other Indonesian airports
Sep 6–14 - Army Secretary Dan Driscoll resigns after 18 months amid reported turf war with Defense Secretary Hegseth
Sep 1–14 - Cyberattack on pacemaker maker Boston Scientific disrupts cardiac-device shipments worldwide
Aug 31 – Sep 14 - Far-right AfD wins landslide in Germany's Saxony-Anhalt state election, falls just short of a majority
Sep 7–14 - Gambia's president promises more electricity after blackout protests
Sep 9–14 - GAO finds cannabis businesses still face banking barriers
Sep 9–14 - Himalayan glacier collapse floods the Nepal–Tibet border
Aug 27 – Sep 14 - King Harald V of Norway dies at 89; Haakon VIII ascends amid Epstein and rape-conviction scandal
Aug 31 – Sep 14 - Pappas and Sununu win New Hampshire U.S. Senate primaries
Sep 9–14 - Supreme Court stays 4th Circuit ruling, lets Republican party committees access discounted FCC political ad rates
Sep 5–14 - Tung Chee-hwa, Hong Kong's first post-handover leader, dies at 89
Sep 9–14 - US Measles Outbreak: 3,134 cases, worst in 35+ years; RFK Jr. health-guidance controversy
Aug 30 – Sep 14
Other
Sep 2026 (1)
Aug 2026 (34)
- Hawk Fire near Reno, NV: mass evacuations
Aug 25–31 - Meta pays up to $17B to settle 47-state teen-addiction suits
Aug 27–28 - Country music icon Dolly Parton dies at 80
Aug 26 - Darline Graham wins SC GOP special Senate runoff (Lindsey Graham's seat)
Aug 26 - USDA reopens border to Mexican cattle amid record beef prices
Aug 26 - Israel strikes Abu al-Duhur; Israel–Turkey–US friction
Aug 20–25 - Trump's ICE director pick (Schroyer) stalled in the Senate amid agency revolt
Aug 24 - Chief Justice stays halt on Trump White House ballroom
Aug 22–23 - Seven killed in wrong-way A66 crash after police pursuit (NE England)
Aug 23 - Texas appeals court cuts Sandy Hook judgment against Alex Jones
Aug 23 - Historic Indiana flooding: crisis → recovery
Aug 17–22 - US-brokered Gaza demilitarization roadmap
Aug 16–22 - Backlash and vandalism against Flock ALPR surveillance
Aug 21 - Charter plane crash at Cape Newenham radar site
Aug 21 - Ex-Fauci adviser Morens guilty plea
Aug 20 - Maduro pleads not guilty in US federal court
Aug 19 - DOJ IG review of DEA controlled-shipment tactic
Aug 18 - Trump orders reduced US–South Korea drills
Aug 18 - Indonesia's magnitude-7.7 Flores earthquake toll climbs toward 53 as rescuers reach cut-off villages and nearly 1,000 aftershocks are logged
Aug 17 - The UN calls the West Bank "at breaking point" over record settler violence as Israeli forces fail to lift a settler siege of Palestinian homes in Qusra
Aug 17 - A magnitude-7.7 quake off Indonesia's Flores Island has killed at least 47, with hardest-hit Nagekeo still cut off by landslides and thousands awaiting aid
Aug 16 - Hurricane Lala lashes Hawaii's Big Island — one dead, 60,000-plus without power — in the state's first hurricane-landfall threat in 155 years, though the storm skirted a direct hit
Aug 16 - The White House credits a "Trump effect" for a record one-year drop in violent crime — but the underlying data show the decline began before Trump returned to office
Aug 16 - A magnitude-7.7 quake off Indonesia's Flores Island kills at least 20, with early counts diverging as high as 38
Aug 15 - Colombia's magnitude-7.4 quake — its strongest this century — has killed close to 290, with 379 still missing
Aug 15 - Sudan's health system collapses as famine spreads in Darfur
Aug 15 - France's Constitutional Council strikes down the under-15 social-media ban as a disproportionate limit on free expression
Aug 15 - DOJ election monitors collide with US primary season as Democratic senators say the monitors target their states
Aug 15 - A Guatemalan man's death after ICE detention — the third at one New Jersey facility — surfaces only because a congressman disclosed it
Aug 14 - Trump's own ambassador to Israel calls West Bank settlers "Israeli terrorists" over a siege of an American's home
Aug 14 - Colombia earthquake, day four: the dead pass 265 while the "missing" count ranges from a few hundred to more than 4,000
Aug 14 - Justice Department charges a former SPLC official with fraud. Each camp reports the half that helps it.
Aug 13 - Wisconsin: an establishment Democrat leads a democratic socialist by 0.4 points; a Trump-backed Republican took 95%
Aug 13 - Colombia earthquake, day three: death tolls diverge as aid arrives
Aug 13