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Former Syrian President Assad sentenced to death in absentia for war crimes DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — A Syrian court on Tuesday sentenced ousted President Bashar Assad and his brother in absentia for murder, torture and crimes against humanity committed before and during the country’s 14-year civil war that left about half a million people dead. https://apnews.com/article/syria-assad-death-trial-d4c486b5d39bbdb41108112b0ddc8e79?

Tupac Trial, 30 Years On Jury selection began yesterday for the man charged with killing rapper Tupac Shakur. Duane “Keefe D” Davis stands accused of first-degree murder in one of hip-hop's most famous killings. See crime scene photos. Davis once led the South Side Compton Crips, a rival to the Bloods-affiliated gang associated with Shakur’s record label. On Sept. 7, 1996, Shakur and others were seen assaulting Davis’ nephew after a Mike Tyson fight. Later that night, Shakur was in a black BMW driven by his label’s cofounder when he was fatally shot from a white Cadillac. Prosecutors allege Davis directed the killing but did not pull the trigger and was one of four passengers in the Cadillac (the other three have died). Davis acknowledged his involvement in a 2018 BET interview and 2019 memoir, but pleads not guilty and characterizes the memoir as fiction (free w/email). He previously accused Sean “Diddy” Combs of commissioning the murder, which Combs denies.

August 11, 2026 True Prosperity “Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.” (3 John 2) This text has been misused by many who promote the modern false gospel of health and wealth—teachers who promise healing and financial success to every believer whose “soul prospereth.” The negative implication of such teaching, of course, is that Christians who are not in robust physical health and enjoying material affluence are somehow lacking in faith and are not in the will of God. This pernicious notion is disproved, of course, merely by the example of Paul the apostle. He was a far more exemplary Christian than any of these latter-day false teachers, yet his earnest prayer for healing from his “thorn in the flesh” was denied, and he died in poverty and martyrdom in a Roman dungeon (2 Corinthians 12:7). There are numerous modern examples as well: Fanny Crosby was blind but wrote many wonderful hymns, for example, or many have given their lives in sacrificial service on a thousand mission fields. Note that our text is not a promise but a prayer. Furthermore, that prayer will be answered in great fullness, but not necessarily now! “And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away. . . . He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son” (Revelation 21:4,7). In the meantime, we should remember that this coming time of true prosperity will be measured in accordance with the health and prosperity of our souls, exactly as John had prayed for his spiritual children, for Jesus said, “My reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be” (Revelation 22:12). HMM

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Border crossings into the US from Canada declined in 2025 The number of people crossing into the US from Canada by land has declined overall since 1996. https://usafacts.org/articles/border-crossings-into-the-us-from-canada-declined-in-2025/? How many measles cases are there in the US? As of August 6, 2026, 2,465 cases have been confirmed in 2026, 7% of which required hospitalization. There were no reported deaths. This is the highest annual case count since the US declared measles eliminated in 2000. https://usafacts.org/answers/how-many-measles-cases-are-there-in-the-us/country/united-states/? One last fact Fires have accounted for 1,698 (38.1%) of all disaster declarations since 1980, the most of any disaster type. Severe storms are the second-most common, accounting for 24.7%.

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🏰 Parting shot: Castle cruise Photo: Steve Ward Steve Ward of Plymouth, Mich., shares this view of the Gravensteen while vacationing in Ghent, Belgium, earlier this month. The medieval castle dates to 1180, and once served as the residence of the Counts of Flanders. 🍺 Ward also points to a favorite bit of local lore: In 1949, students occupied the empty castle in protest of a new beer tax, staying overnight before the standoff ended peacefully the next morning.

☀️ Florida's wildest primary Illustration: Allie Carl / Axios A pair of Florida lawmakers are wading into the crowded GOP primary in Florida's 19th Congressional District, endorsing Catalina Lauf in a seat President Trump won by 24 percentage points. 🚨 Why it matters: It's a conventional play in a crazy primary full of carpetbaggers. But in a 10-way race in which a candidate could win with less than 20% of the vote, even a small edge could translate into a member's pin next January. Five candidates have previously run for Congress in other states. Two have served in Congress. One, former Rep. Chris Collins, pleaded guilty to a felony and was pardoned by Trump. 🐘 The winner will be heavily favored to succeed Rep. Byron Donalds, who is running for governor. 🚗 Driving the news: Reps. Greg Steube (R-Fla.), who represents a neighboring district, and Kat Cammack (R-Fla.), whose district is farther north, are backing Lauf, who served in Trump's Commerce Department during his first term. They join Sen. Jim Banks (R-Ind.) and Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) in backing Lauf. Lauf also has the support of Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul's super PAC, which has produced AI ads in support of her. "I am incredibly honored to have the support of Congressman Greg Steube and Congresswoman Kat Cammack — two proven conservative fighters who know firsthand what it takes to stand up to the Washington establishment," Lauf said in a statement. 🌎 Zoom out: The race has become a coliseum for former members of Congress and perennial candidates. The Southwest Florida district, centered in Fort Myers area, is home to many Midwestern transplants. Collins of New York and former Rep. Madison Cawthorn of North Carolina are both mounting comeback bids. Lauf has run for Congress twice in Illinois. In 2020, she lost the GOP primary in Illinois' 14th District to Jim Oberweis — who is now running against her again in Florida. Lauf later won the GOP nomination in Illinois' 11th District in 2022 but lost the general election. Ola Hawatmeh previously ran unsuccessfully for Congress in New York. 💰 The intrigue: The conservative Club for Growth has pumped $1.1 million into the race to defeat Collins. The group doesn't appear to care who wins — as long as it's "Anybody but Chris." Zoom in: Jim Schwartzel, a local businessman, and Lauf were essentially tied atop a recent poll, with both in the high teens. Collins was in fourth place at 8%. The Victory Insights poll surveyed 1,200 likely Republican primary voters across six congressional districts Aug. 4–6 using a combination of text-to-web and interactive voice response. It was not commissioned by a candidate or committee. A separate internal poll for Lauf's campaign has her marginally in first place ahead of Schwartzel, with over a third of voters still undecided. — Hans Nichols and Marc Caputo

Amendment 3 ballot title, summary language, don’t pass muster, judge rules A Florida circuit court judge has ordered Attorney General James Uthmeier to rewrite significant portions of the ballot and summary title of Amendment 3, ruling the words “Save our Homes from Excessive Property Taxes” are “akin to a political slogan” in violation of state law. https://floridaphoenix.com/2026/08/04/amendment-3-ballot-title-summary-language-dont-pass-muster-judge-rules/? Florida’s no-children-at-drag shows law upheld by federal appeals court A federal appeals court has upheld a Florida law banning children from attending drag shows, a measure put in place with the support of Gov. Ron DeSantis. https://floridaphoenix.com/2026/08/04/floridas-no-children-at-drag-shows-law-upheld-by-federal-appeals-court/? Auditor General: DeSantis administration ‘significantly delayed’ access to Medicaid records The DeSantis administration slowed down state auditors reviewing how Florida conducted its Medicaid eligibility determinations following the end of the COVID-19 public health emergency, a state Auditor General report found. https://floridaphoenix.com/2026/08/05/auditor-general-desantis-administration-significantly-delayed-access-to-medicaid-records-required-for-review/?

💨 Disappearing town halls Illustration: Eniola Odetunde / Axios 🦖 The congressional town hall is becoming an endangered species. Why it matters: August recess once meant lawmakers returning home to face constituents — sometimes friendly, sometimes furious. After a wave of explosive confrontations last year, many lawmakers have stopped them altogether. Rep. Mike Flood (R-Neb.) is among the dwindling number of lawmakers who still regularly subject themselves to the traditional, open town hall. 📢 "You've got to show up in the town square and answer the questions. I told people I'd do it when I ran, and I kept my promise," Flood told us. Flood holds three in-person town halls a year. He said his forums last year each drew about 750 people, while attendance this year has ranged from 235 to 315. Zoom in: Only 11 lawmakers have town halls scheduled for the rest of August, according to LegiStorm's town hall tracker. ⛱️ For a ritual once synonymous with August recess, that's a remarkably thin showing. ⚡️ Flashback: Republicans got screamed at — a lot — at town halls last year, as constituents vented over DOGE, federal layoffs and the Trump administration's spending cuts. Rep. Chuck Edwards (R-N.C.) was booed, heckled and repeatedly interrupted at a March 2025 town hall in Asheville as he defended Trump and Elon Musk's DOGE cuts. 🔥 During an August 2025 town hall, constituents shouted at Flood, "Liar!" and "You don't care about us!" The angry confrontations prompted NRCC chair Richard Hudson (R-N.C.) to tell Republicans to stop holding in-person town halls. In summer 2009, Democrats faced angry voters at their town hall meetings across the country as constituents protested the Affordable Care Act. (As of January 2026, public approval of the ACA was 61%, according to KFF.) 🫏 Democrats suffered historic losses in the 2010 midterm election. Zoom out: Flood says the most heated moments don't always capture what happens inside the room. 📺 "What you see on TV isn't necessarily what's really happening," he said. Even the "really animated" constituents who disagree with him on most issues, Flood said, may applaud him on others — from supporting Ukraine to addressing housing affordability. 🤔 The intrigue: The old-school format has particular appeal for independent voters, who value the chance to hear from their representatives at a nonpartisan event, Flood argued. "They walk in, and you know, oftentimes they've got like a notebook and a piece of paper and a pen, and they're like, 'Yeah, I'm here to listen and see what I think,'" Flood told us. "I think they get a lot of value out of it." The bottom line: Asked if he thinks his colleagues should follow his lead on town halls, Flood told us: "I know what's right for me, and this is right for me.… How do things get better if we don't talk to each other?" — Kate Santaliz

Traditional plastic forks shed harmful microplastics. Plastic created from sugar is an alternative At a Massachusetts lab, pebble-sized pellets are transformed into forks and films that won't leave persistent microplastics in the environment. Read More.

Trump officials propose new requirements for food additives and ingredients U.S. health officials on Monday proposed a rule change that would require food manufacturers to notify regulators before introducing new ingredients or additives into processed or packaged foods. Read More.

Betting Big View in browser When Donald Trump returned to the White House in 2025, he was nursing grudges and claiming a mandate. The institutions he saw as his enemies—in politics, business, and education—faced a dilemma about how to respond. A few concluded that they should resist the president’s demands of fealty and collaboration. Another group tried appeasement, seeking accommodation that would allow them to otherwise operate as usual. And some looked at the landscape and concluded that something fundamental had shifted in American politics. They saw the MAGA movement as a lasting change, and decided that their best move was to make their own radical shift to adjust. As I wrote last week, predictions of a Trump-driven realignment of the electorate now look extremely shaky. The groups that he was able to attract to the Republican ticket two years ago—young voters, especially men; Hispanic voters; and Black men—have turned solidly against him and against GOP candidates in polls ahead of the midterms. Voters who were unimpressed with Joe Biden or Kamala Harris and who heard Trump’s promise of stopping inflation are now angry about the president’s shrugging at higher prices and inflationary war in Iran. With some distance, the 2024 election looks less like a decisive turning point and more like a fluke. But that realization has come too late for those who reshaped themselves for a reality that has proved ephemeral. David Ellison, who, along with his father, Larry, is a friend of Trump’s, decided to use the new Trump administration as an opportunity to build a huge media conglomerate. First, his company Skydance merged with Paramount. Taking control of CBS News, he installed Bari Weiss as editor in chief, seeking a leader who would appeal more to both the White House and to conservative viewers. But Weiss’s makeover has so far looked like a flop: 60 Minutes has hemorrhaged staffers, and the Evening News has hemorrhaged viewers. Her proposition was that a slightly more conservative version of the mainstream media would bring the audience back to a struggling network, but that doesn’t appear to actually be appealing to either MAGA viewers or legacy CBS watchers. Ellison has already moved on to an attempted merger with Warner Bros., reportedly promising administration officials deep political changes at CNN if the deal was approved by federal regulators. Ellison got approval, but now that deal is in trouble anyway. Facing an antitrust lawsuit led by the attorney general of California, Paramount agreed to pause the merger until a trial next year. Experts are divided on how likely Paramount is to prevail, but if the merger doesn’t close by September 30, the company will owe Warner Bros. shareholders $7 million every day until it does. In a New York Times column last week, Ellison complained that people are drawing incorrect inferences about his politics, but his private views are beside the point: What is public is Ellison’s willingness to play to the Trump administration’s politics to build an empire. CBS News is not the only media interest to discover that courting MAGA news consumers is not a guarantee of success or growth. The Times also reported recently on how a range of right-wing influencers has seen audiences shrink drastically. Their travails appear to reflect Trump’s own difficulty in keeping his 2024 coalition together: The most pro-Trump figures have seen some of the biggest drops, amid ideological battles inside the MAGA coalition over Israel and the war in Iran, while more Trump-critical figures on the right have sometimes gained. Other corporate leaders also bet on Trump. Elon Musk attempted to become something like an unelected deputy president at the start of Trump’s second term. That experiment ended acrimoniously, and the men’s relationship has been on and off ever since, but Musk’s reputation is now inextricably connected with Trump’s. X has shed users. Tesla sales have struggled, in part because anti-Trump consumers have turned against Musk and also because Musk has been distracted by other ventures, such as SpaceX. These decisions to throw in with Trump were notable because many institutions treated his 2016 win as an accident of chance, and were happy to publicly resist him. In doing so, though, they seem to have opened the door to more direct corporate involvement in politics—and with it, greater vulnerability to political pressure. The idea that corporations had gone “woke” by embracing DEI and other progressive causes in 2020 and 2021 was to some extent a marketing ploy by the companies, but it infuriated Republicans and made them targets for Trump’s second administration. Trying to protect themselves, corporate leaders now may have overcorrected, mistakenly assuming a lasting MAGA regime. Within right-wing politics, many individuals and organizations also leapt into Trumpism. The venerable Heritage Foundation reworked itself and lost or pushed out many long-standing scholars and staffers. Now it finds itself in an identity crisis—and also shut out of the White House because Trump is still sore about the attention and credit that Project 2025 won for driving his agenda. Many mainstream Republicans remade themselves as MAGA Republicans, but the results have not always been good. Just ask Senator John Cornyn, who lost his primary to an even-more-MAGA challenger this May. Earlier this month, Politico’s Kathy Gilsinan reported on the broken pipeline for bringing new foot soldiers into conservative government and nonprofit organizations. “Everyone knows what the problem is: The organizations that bring young staffers to Washington, D.C. have spent the last decade prioritizing blind ideological loyalty instead of competence or intelligence,” a senior GOP congressional staffer told her. “We have a generation of rabid, incompetent idiots.” This is the risk of betting big on a long-term realignment: If you wager wrong, politics overall will snap back quickly, but you will be stuck with the consequences of your decision for much longer. Related: Americans are turning on Trump. What if 2016 was a fluke? (From 2020)

📚 1 for the road: "First-of-its-kind" library Anythink Nature Library in Thornton, Colo. Photo: Unfound Door At a new library just outside Denver, you can get a book, a pair of snowshoes and a trail to use them on, Axios' Alayna Alvarez reports. The Anythink Nature Library includes a 33,000-square-foot library, nature center and community gathering space. The local public library system calls it "the nation's first nature library." 🏕️ The $43.4 million project sits on 15 acres, with a collection that includes wildlife cameras and camping gear alongside books and other nature-focused materials. Inside, visitors will find a nature lab, a sunroom, and a darkened space for quiet reflection and sensory learning. An aerial view of the library. Photo: Anythink Nature Library 🥾 Outside, the property features gardens, a trail loop, and a café with indoor and outdoor seating. A trailhead connects the library to the 140-acre Aylor Open Lands trail system. Take a look.

🦠 The fastest-growing Ebola outbreak on record started in February, months before it was officially declared in mid-May, the WHO said today. The WHO regional director for Africa, Dr. Mohamed Yakub Janabi, told reporters: "So we are chasing the virus; the virus is ahead of us." Go deeper. WHO says Congo's fast-moving Ebola outbreak started months before it was declared The fastest-growing Ebola outbreak on record started in February, months before it was officially declared in mid-May, the World Health Organization said Monday as responders in eastern Congo struggle to catch up. Read More.

🌊 Hurricane-watchers are eyeing several disturbances amid what's been a sleepy Atlantic storm season — but it's too early to tell if any major storms will develop soon. Latest forecast.

⚽️ FIFA letter laments "breach of trust" Illustration: Sarah Grillo/Axios Three of soccer's top governing bodies said today that FIFA president Gianni Infantino's recent plan to sell an interest in the World Cup was a "fundamental breach of trust." 📝 In an "open letter to the football family," UEFA, CONCACAF and the AFC wrote: "When trust is broken through deception, when an individual places himself above the collective that entrusted him with authority, that duty has been abandoned." UEFA runs soccer in Europe, CONCACAF does so in North and Central America and the Caribbean, and the AFC governs the sport in Asia. The plan was abandoned following immediate and intense pushback. FIFA apologized last week for the way it was handled, and some senior staff reaffirmed support for Infantino's leadership. Go deeper ... Read the letter.

Trump signs order calling for spacing out childhood vaccines, against medical groups’ guidance WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order calling for revamped childhood vaccine recommendations that promote his long-held but discredited theory that childhood shots should be spaced out into separate medical visits. https://apnews.com/article/vaccine-research-autism-trump-kennedy-rfk-d10f81f221c4ae9f5b2f83dd0ee98b29?

Contiguous US breaks its record for hottest month ever, NOAA says KENSINGTON, Maryland (AP) — The contiguous United States sizzled to its hottest month ever last month, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. https://apnews.com/article/hottest-month-july-climate-change-4a9d612281485356103631f0f09b61af? Hottest month ever recorded Reproduced from NOAA. Chart: Axios Visuals July was the hottest month on record for the contiguous U.S., Alex Fitzpatrick reports from new federal data dating back to 1895. Last month's average temperature was 76.89°F, topping the 76.77°F mark set in July 1936. That's 3.3°F warmer than the 1901-2000 average. 🌡️ NOAA said in its monthly report: "Above-average temperatures covered the entire [contiguous U.S.], with all states ranking in the warmest third of their July temperature records and none ranking near or below average." July brought a series of "heat domes" across the country that trapped warm air beneath them, fueling several extreme heat events. Researchers have found that climate change is making extreme heat events more common and more intense — but they're also linked to phenomena and patterns like El Niño. Go deeper. Boats stranded in a Serbian marina along the Danube River on Aug. 7. Photo: Andrej Isakovic/AFP via Getty Images 📉 Meanwhile: Water levels along Europe's Danube River are at record lows after prolonged heat and drought. The phenomenon has exposed the remains of an ancient Roman-era bridge and dozens of German World War II warships. 🥵 What's next: Europe is bracing for yet another heat wave after a summer already marked by record-setting highs. Samantha Burgess, strategic lead for climate at the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, tells AP: "This is a clear example of how climate change is intensifying heat extremes, with heat and drought increasingly reinforcing one another." Read more.

Trump’s Staggering Vanity Project Cash Grab Exposed Leaked records show $423 million routed to the president’s D.C. projects this year. President Donald Trump is pouring an astonishing $423 million into his crusade to remake the nation’s capital in his own image. The president, 80, has spent much of his second term rebuilding in D.C., ordering a ballroom at the White House, a South Lawn helipad, a 250-foot “Triumphal Arch,” and an overhaul of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. The list goes on—and the National Park Service spreadsheets behind it just revealed the massive dent it’s making in public coffers. This year’s allotment for the White House grounds tops $323 million, according to internal Interior Department documents obtained by former CBS News justice correspondent Scott MacFarlane, who now publishes on Substack. Work on the National Mall ahead of America’s 250th birthday drew close to a further $100 million.The combined $423 million is more than twenty times the $20 million the two sites drew under the Joe Biden administration in 2024. “The National Park Service is being used as a piggy bank for Trump’s vanity projects,” said Tim Whitehouse, who leads the nonprofit Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility.Trump’s Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, 70, has cut millions of dollars in funding for Yellowstone, Yosemite, and the Grand Canyon. Jobs still waiting in the queue include tree work at the Flight 93 National Memorial in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, an emergency fix to a wastewater plant at Death Valley National Park, California, and new roofs at Mission San Jose in San Antonio, Texas.The workforce has thinned, too. Roughly 2,000 employees left the park service in the year to May after DOGE cuts and other reductions, according to the records obtained by MacFarlane. One employee said anonymously that colleagues were being “forced to prioritize Trump’s vanity projects over our own needs.”Trump’s building spree gathers pace as his standing with voters collapses. The president sank to 32 percent approval in a Quinnipac poll released last month—the worst showing of his political career, and below even his ratings in the aftermath of the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol Building. Sixty-eight percent of voters told that pollster that Trump is not focused enough on the problems facing everyday Americans. His own advisers say he’s in denial, and that he’s fixating on “the hobbies that distract from his terrible polling numbers.” The New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman estimates his construction projects consume about 70 percent of his attention, even as the president insists that voters are disillusioned with the GOP, and that “they’re not angry with me.” The Daily Beast has contacted the White House for comment on this story. https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-staggering-vanity-project-cash-grab-exposed-as-white-house-takes-423m-in-federal-funding/? ps:It's not just staggering it's absolutely pathetic!!!!!

Republican Senators Fear Trump Is About to Make a New Midterm Nightmare The president’s long-running obsession with election integrity has his party on edge. Senate Republicans are panicking that Donald Trump will spend the rest of the summer publicly hammering them over a voting bill they have little to no chance of passing. The SAVE America Act, which the 80-year-old president has ranked above everything else on his agenda, would force Americans to produce citizenship paperwork when they register and show photo ID at the polls. Trump has repeatedly claimed the act is essential because millions of noncitizens keep participating in elections to stop him from winning them. Studies, even by the MAGA-aligned D.C. think tank the Heritage Foundation, have shown time and again that cases of noncitizen voting are vanishingly rare. The House approved the bill in February almost entirely along party lines. Republicans hold 53 Senate seats. They need 60 to pass what Trump has cast as the party’s insurance policy for November, telling GOP representatives in March that the measures would all but “guarantee the midterms.” Sen. Mike Rounds, 71, told Politico on Monday that an August offensive from the president would shock nobody. “That would be consistent with his approach,” he said. “We also know the votes aren’t there.” Senators cleared out of Washington for the summer recess on Saturday with no version of the legislation advanced. They will not sit again until Sept. 14. That leaves them just three weeks of floor time, before they scatter for October and the midterms, for a vote they’ve already failed to pass six times. Majority Leader John Thune, 65, whom Trump has threatened to have ousted from leadership over the debacle, called up a narrower photo ID measure early Saturday morning, written by Ohio Sen. Jon Husted. Every Republican who voted backed it. The move still fell eight votes short, at 52-46. One GOP senator, speaking anonymously, told Politico that Thune’s calculation was simple. “He thinks it will give us cover with the president,” they said. “I think he’s wrong,” they went on, adding their colleagues were “not factoring in the president’s reaction.” Sen. Thom Tillis, 65, was blunter about the math. “At the end of the day, all Republicans need to start getting satisfied with everybody pretty quickly, so that we can get the voters to be satisfied with us, and we maintain our majority at least in the Senate,” he told the publication. “I look at political data almost every day of the week,” he went on. “I don’t see [the SAVE America Act] as one of the major factors that are going to get [voters] out to the polls.” The Daily Beast contacted the White House for comment on this story. “The American people overwhelmingly support election integrity and the SAVE America Act,” spokesperson Lauren Bis said. “Republicans must use reconciliation to pay our troops, support our farmers, secure our elections and thwart Democrats’ obstructionist tactics.” https://www.thedailybeast.com/republican-senators-fear-trump-is-about-to-make-a-new-midterm-nightmare-with-election-threat-obsession/?

Magnitude 7.4 quake rocks western Colombia, killing at least 111 people CALI, Colombia (AP) — A powerful 7.4 magnitude earthquake struck western Colombia on Monday, killing at least 111 people, damaging hundreds of buildings and leaving many trapped under debris while their loved ones and rescue workers searched through rubble. https://apnews.com/article/colombia-ecuador-earthquake-26fd40f93272d834fced47a4a673edc9? 🇨🇴 A powerful 7.4-magnitude earthquake killed over 100 people and collapsed dozens of buildings in cities across western Colombia. Get the latest. Magnitude 7.4 quake rocks western Colombia, killing at least 111 people A powerful 7.4 magnitude earthquake struck western Colombia on Monday, killing at least 111 people, damaging hundreds of buildings and leaving many trapped under debris while their loved ones and rescue workers searched through rubble.Search teams and civilians picked through the remains of destroyed buildings in the country’s third-largest city, Cali, passing large pieces of concrete and other rubble down a long line of volunteers. Read More.

👋 Good morning! Happy Monday. World record: Stephen Biebelhausen inspired dads everywhere on Saturday when he ran Cleveland's Guardian Mile race in 4 minutes, 17 seconds… while pushing his child in a stroller. In today's edition: Senate punts on college sports bill, Mad Max makes history, Rivera repeats as top U.S. gymnast, "Eala Mania," Baker's Dozen (it's back!), and more. Yahoo Sports AM is written by Kendall Baker and Jeff Tracy. Let's sports...   🎓 CAPITOL HILL SENATE PUNTS ON COLLEGE SPORTS BILL Senator Ted Cruz speaks with a reporter following a series of votes at the U.S. Capitol on Friday. (Win McNamee/Getty Images) Last week began with legitimate hope that the Protect College Sports Act would be on a glide path toward becoming law. It ended in an all too familiar place: mired in the nuts and bolts of American politics. Driving the news: The U.S. Senate adjourned for its annual five-week August recess on Saturday without voting on legislation that intends to regulate college athletics, kicking any possible vote to September, as Yahoo Sports' Ross Dellenger first reported. What happened? Politics happened. As the PCSA inched toward a vote, a wave of detractors emerged to block the path. Instead of being jammed through without much scrutiny, which seems to be what co-authors Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Maria Cantwell (D-WA) intended, the bill is now riddled with amendments and various outside groups imploring senators not to pass it. Mounting opposition: The Congressional Black Caucus released a statement slamming the bill; more than a dozen Republican senators filed objections or amendments; several labor unions sent a joint letter in opposition. Other priorities: A logjam of agenda items before the Senate last week took precedence over college sports. Bills to fund the government, implement sanctions against Russia and balance the budget, as well as administrative nominations, shoved the act aside. Dan Wolken, Yahoo Sports: Though NCAA officials and university presidents may believe they have allies in Congress who want to fix their problems, expecting Congress to actually do something ignored the underlying reality of our system. When you ask for a political solution, you will get politics whether you like it or not. And what do you know? Just when it seemed like the PCSA was headed for a floor vote, politics happened in a big way. And while the bill sits on the shelf for the next five weeks, there's no telling what might happen in America or the world that will demand more immediate attention when Congress returns. Where it stands: Cruz is confident that the Senate will prioritize the PCSA when it returns on Sept. 14. "We look forward to [President Trump] signing the bill on College GameDay in the fall," he told Yahoo Sports. But some supporters fear that a five-week long break will invite more detractors, and ultimately hurt the bill's chances. Keep reading: The NCAA begged Congress to fix its problems. Now it's paying the price as Washington politics take over.   ⚾️ STRIKEOUT MERCHANTS MAD MAX: THE LAST OF A DYING BREED? (Hassan Ahmad/Yahoo Sports) Max Scherzer yet again etched his name in the MLB history books on Saturday, passing Walter Johnson for 10th on the all-time strikeout leaderboard. By the numbers: Mad Max reached 3,516 career punchouts in just 2,999 innings. That is by far the fewest of anyone in the top 10 thanks to his sterling mark of 10.55 strikeouts per 9 IP — the eighth-best mark ever and second only to Randy Johnson (10.61) among those in the top 10. The future Hall of Famer notched three-quarters of his strikeouts with the Nationals (1,610) and Tigers (1,081). The rest came with the Mets (294), Diamondbacks (240), Blue Jays (109 and counting), Rangers (93) and Dodgers (89). He joins Justin Verlander (3,554 strikeouts) as the only active players in the top 10, while Johnson (4,875) and Roger Clemens (4,672) are the only others who pitched this century. How high could he climb? Injuries have limited the 42-year-old Scherzer to just nine starts this season, but if he stays healthy the rest of the way he should get about seven more. At his current strikeout rate, that should move him past Gaylord Perry (3,534) into ninth. If Scherzer returns for one more year, he'd likely pass Verlander, who's retiring at the end of this season, and Don Sutton (3,574) to claim seventh place. Scherzer pumps his fist after recording the final out of the fifth inning on Saturday. (Isaiah Vazquez/Getty Images) The last of a dying breed? Given the state of the modern game, with innings decreasing and injuries on the rise, it's fair to wonder whether we'll ever see another pitcher crack the top 10 on the all-time strikeout list. Chris Sale (2,730 strikeouts) and Gerrit Cole (2,338) are the closest active pitchers. Sale's late-career renaissance in Atlanta gives him some hope, but he's 37 and still four elite seasons away from the top 10. Cole's a year younger, but also 400 strikeouts behind and coming off Tommy John surgery. Six more ~185-strikeout seasons? Sorry, not happening. Maybe 29-year-old Tarik Skubal (1,011) remains dominant for another decade-plus. Maybe 24-year-old Paul Skenes (548) avoids the injury bug and becomes the GOAT. Maybe the game evolves. Maybe we invent a new way to surgically repair an elbow. Maybe anti-aging makes it possible to pitch well into your 50s. That's a lot of maybes. Bottom line: Scherzer is one of 35 pitchers in MLB history with multiple no-hitters, and one of 11 with at least three Cy Young Awards — accomplishments that, while extraordinary, could realistically be matched by future legends. But when it comes to knocking down the door of the sport's most prolific strikeout merchants, he may just be the last of his kind.   🇺🇸 SNAPSHOTS PHOTOS ACROSS AMERICA (Michael Reaves/Getty Images) Chicago, Illinois — The Sky's DiJonai Carrington was ejected from Saturday's game against the Fever after committing a flagrant 2 foul against Sophie Cunningham, who's been at the center of the WNBA's latest controversy following her comments about transgender women in sports. The Fever went on to win, 90-86, behind big games from Kelsey Mitchell (27 points) and Caitlin Clark (26 points, 11 assists). Fanning the flames: Carrington took to social media right after her ejection, posting "WHITE PRIVILEGE" and tagging the Fever. "I think the league is taking care of that ," Cunningham said after the game. "This has nothing to do with race." (Chris Coduto/Getty Images) Phoenix, Arizona — Hezly Rivera won her second straight U.S. gymnastics all-around title on Sunday. The 18-year-old, a gold medalist two years ago in Paris, is the first American woman not named Simone Biles to go back-to-back in this event since 2011. On the men's side: Frederick Richard, aka Frederick Flips, won his first national title despite giving up a points deduction for wearing a non-conforming uniform — an intentional move the Michigan grad and social media star also made last year in hopes of bringing more visibility to the men's side of the sport. (Caleb Bowlin/Getty Images) Greensboro, North Carolina — Michael Brennan (-22) ran away with the Wyndham Championship on Sunday, winning the PGA Tour's regular-season finale by three strokes to climb into the top 70 and secure a spot in the FedEx Cup Playoffs. Meanwhile, in New York: LIV Golf also held its regular-season finale, where Joaquin Niemann won for the ninth time on the breakaway tour and Jon Rahm secured his third straight season-long title.   🌍 SNAPSHOTS PHOTOS AROUND THE WORLD (Mert Alper Dervis/Anadolu via Getty Images) 🇨🇦 Toronto, Canada — Alex Eala fell to Belinda Bencic on Sunday at the Canadian Open, snapping her seven-match winning streak but doing nothing to dim the shine of "Eala Mania" that has recently followed the rising Filipina star everywhere she goes. What she's saying: "The atmosphere this whole week has been just incredible," said the 21-year-old who played in front of adoring crowds all week in Toronto, which boasts the largest Filipino population in Canada. "I'll carry these memories with me for a really long time." (Tim de Waele/Getty Images) 🇫🇷 Nice, France — Dutch rider Demi Vollering won her second Tour de France Femmes on Sunday, becoming the first two-time winner of the nine-stage event that debuted in 2022. Redemption: The 2023 champion lost the 2024 race by just four seconds to Poland's Katarzyna Niewiadoma-Phinney, who held the yellow jersey this year entering the final weekend. But Vollering went on to win each of the final two stages to erase the deficit and defeat her rival by a little over a minute. (David Gray/AFP via Getty Images) 🇦🇺 Sydney, Australia — More than 90,000 people took part in the annual "City to Surf" fun run on Sunday, with participants running from downtown Sydney to Bondi Beach to raise money for charity. American inspiration: The race, first run in 1971, was inspired by a similar fun run in San Francisco called Bay to Breakers, which debuted in 1912. In addition to both going from downtown to the waterfront, runners are also known to don novelty costumes.   📺 VIEWING GUIDE WATCHLIST: MONDAY, AUG. 10 Jódar celebrates his fourth-round victory. (Minas Panagiotakis/Getty Images) 🎾 Canadian Open, Quarterfinals In Montreal, we've got No. 18 Arthur Fils vs. No. 20 Rafael Jódar (6pm ET, Tennis) followed by No. 19 Luciano Darderi vs. No. 28 Brandon Nakashima. And in Toronto, it's No. 7 Iga Świątek vs. No. 15 Diana Shnaider (7pm) followed by No. 9 Elina Svitolina vs. No. 16 Ekaterina Alexandrova. Exclusive club: Jódar, 19, is just the third teenager ever to reach three consecutive Masters 1000 quarterfinals since the format was introduced in 1990. The other two? Fellow Spaniards Rafael Nadal and Carlos Alcaraz. Decent company. More to watch: ⚾️ MLB: Phillies at Cardinals (7:45pm, FS1) … Philly (63-56) maintains a narrow hold on the third wild card. St. Louis (59-59) is 3.5 games back. 🏀 WNBA: Tempo at Dream (8pm, NBCSN/Peacock); Sky at Storm (10pm, USA) … Toronto (10-21) and Seattle (6-28) have lost a combined 19 consecutive games.   🏈 HALLOWED HALLS TRIVIA TIME The Class of 2026 was enshrined on Saturday. (Nick Cammett/Getty Images) The Pro Football Hall of Fame is located in Canton, Ohio, home of the NFL's first repeat champion (in 1922 and 1923). Question: What was the name of that team? A) Canton Bulldogs Canton Cardinals C) Canton Tigers D) Canton Maroons Answer at the bottom.   🍿 BAKER'S DOZEN TOP PLAYS OF THE WEEKEND (Savannah Bananas) A huge shoutout to Ashton R. in New York City, who just turned 9 years old, loves Jalen Brunson and the Knicks, and enjoys watching Baker's Dozen with his dad. Great news, Ashton: The highlights are back! And this weekend delivered some real gems. 🍌 Best trick catch ever ⚽️ From way downtown ⚾️ Catch of the year?! ⚽️ Throw-in assist ⚾️ Corbin HR robbery 🏈 Cam Coleman!!! ⚾️ Luis Lara at the wall 🥏 This dude took flight ⚾️ Is that Derek Jeter? 🥍 Behind-the-back goal ⚾️ Carson in the corner 🎾 Insane reflexes 🏈 Great throw, great catch Watch all 13.   Trivia answer: A) Canton Bulldogs