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• 4 Russia Says It Downed 822 Ukrainian Drones Overnight; Russian Missiles Hit Kyiv and a Kryvyi Rih Steel Plant
• 6 Ex-SPLC Intelligence Director Heidi Beirich Charged With Three Conspiracy Counts in Expanded Federal Fraud Case
• 6 Israeli Strikes Kill 11 in Southern Lebanon After Hezbollah Drone Wounds Three Israeli Soldiers
• 4 Japan's Defense Minister and Three Other Cabinet Ministers Visit Yasukuni Shrine; China and South Korea Lodge Protests
• 4 UAE Says Iranian Drones Struck Two ADNOC-Linked Vessels in Strait of Hormuz on Aug. 14
• 3 Mangione Pleads Guilty to Two Federal Stalking Counts in Killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO; Sentencing Set for Dec. 18
• 4 NATO Jets Shoot Down Drone Over Eastern Latvia; Origin Not Yet Confirmed
• 4 NOAA Puts Odds of a Very Strong El Niño Above 90% for Winter 2026-27, as Drought Still Covers More Than 81% of North Carolina
• 3 NC Reports 2,031 Opioid Overdoses in Emergency Rooms Through June 2026, Down 27% From Same Period in 2025; Fayetteville Police Report Local Increase
• 2 Venezuela's Government Says It Moved 131 Political Prisoners Out of Jail; Opposition Group Verified 43
• 6 U.S. Ambassador Huckabee Calls Israeli Settler Siege of Palestinian Homes in Qusra a 'Horrific Act of Terror'
• 2 White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt to Leave Post at End of August; No Successor Named
• 3 Putin Visits Disputed Kuril Island of Iturup; Japan Summons Russian Ambassador
• 4 Supreme Court Rules 6-3 That Asylum Seekers Stopped at the Border Have Not 'Arrived' in the U.S., Reversing Ninth Circuit in Mullin v. Al Otro Lado
• 4 Rights Groups Ask New Hampshire Federal Court to Block Trump's Two New Birthright-Citizenship Orders