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Friday, July 31, 2026 · 72 stories
With no new cases reported in more than a week, New York City’s health commissioner says the threat has passed. Seven people have died from the disease this summer. View of the Upper East Side of Manhattan where a Legionnaires' disease outbreak has killed seven people and sickened more than 90.
Catch these Tony Award winners and nominees before the curtain comes down on them for a final time.
Dozens of women, men and their children, many fleeing poverty and violence in Honduras, Guatamala and El Salvador, arrive at a bus station following release from Customs and Border Protection on June 23, 2018, in McAllen, Texas. The end of a federal legal services contract for unaccompanied minors leaves more than 1,400 across the state without assistance.
Wiping tears, hearing stories, and we still can’t believe she’s gone." Rampersad, who lived in Queens nearly her entire life, was born in Trinidad and Tobago, played drums in her church choir and ran track, the family's spokesperson said. The Ozone Park community came out to honor 28-year-old Army Sergeant Angel Sarah Rampersad, one of the three soldiers killed on July 17 when Iran attacked the base in Jordan where she was stationed. Those who knew Rampersad were devastated by her death, but eager to celebrate her life.
Firefighters in the Gironde region of France said the situation had "stabilized", after a week of wildfires caused by a major heatwave across Europe.
The federal government issued a warning Thursday about potential cyber threats to water systems after 30 water plants in Minnesota were hit with cyberattacks that multiple U.S. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) said in an alert that cyber threat actors are targeting programmable logic controllers (PLCs) and modifying passwords to "to lock out operators." "This activity has resulted in boil water notices and sustained manual operations," CISA said. Minnesota IT Services (MNIT) provided more details about the attack Thursday and said it targeted systems to remotely.
Live, rolling coverage as London’s biggest companies defy Middle East disruption and UK petrol prices rise to around £1.60 per litre, the highest since Donald Trump ordered renewed strikes The story piquing the interest of the financial press this morning is that of Leopold Aschenbrenner , the AI Wunderkind (he’s German-born) who has been forced to sell off his fund in a fire sale after the AI boom ran out of steam. The 24-year-old had persuaded a lot of people to give him a.
More than 200 people have been evacuated and another 100 are due to be taken by boat from Agios Vasileios, while emergency workers are attempting to safely remove those still in the town, according to Greek news agency Amna, citing fire officials. A fire in the Ávila region of Spain, which has now been stabilised, is now considered the largest recorded wildfire in the nation's history, while fires that burned 66,000 hectares to the west of Madrid are contained. Thousands evacuated in Crete as wildfires threaten tourist resorts Three Greek firefighters die as wildfires threaten parts of.
Pedro Sánchez decries ‘violation of territorial integrity’ as other EU countries criticise Madrid over incident At least 57 people have died trying to reach the Spanish enclave of Ceuta after as many as 50,000 migrants entered the tiny territory from Morocco in what Spain’s prime minister, Pedro Sánchez , called “a violation of Spain’s territorial integrity”. Although the Spanish government said about 50,000 people had crossed the border on Thursday and in the early hours of Friday, the president of Ceuta put the figure at about 60,000. Spain’s foreign minister, José Manuel Albares, summoned.
Football's governing body Fifa plans to continue the consultation process after Uefa threatens to boycott World Cups.