Democratic state Rep. Angie Nixon, a progressive who identifies as a democratic socialist, won Florida's Democratic primary for U.S. Senate on Tuesday, defeating Alex Vindman despite being heavily outspent. She will face Republican incumbent Sen. Ashley Moody in November's general election. The Associated Press projected both primary wins.
NYTimes – US NYTimes – US Democratic state Rep. Angie Nixon, a progressive who identifies as a democratic socialist, won Florida's Democratic primary for U.S. Senate on Tuesday, defeating Alex Vindman despite being heavily outspent. She will face Republican incumbent Sen. Ashley Moody in November's general election. The Associated Press projected both primary wins.
NYTimes – World Israel's military has opened criminal investigations into the 2024 killing of five-year-old Palestinian girl Hind Rajab and six relatives in Gaza, and into the deaths of 15 emergency and aid workers in March 2025. The army admitted its troops fired at the car carrying Rajab. Rights groups note such internal inquiries rarely result in convictions.
NYTimes – World Prince Harry and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, are reportedly planning an extended return to the United Kingdom this fall, six years after moving to the United States. The couple will remain non-working royals, according to a person familiar with the decision. Their children, Prince Archie, 7, and Princess Lilibet, 5, are reported to be enrolled to start at a British school in September.
NYTimes – World A luxury safari helicopter crashed in a remote part of northern Kenya on Wednesday morning with no survivors, killing all seven people on board. Five of the dead were Americans, the US State Department said. Among those killed were Ecuador's director of national intelligence, Michele Sensi-Contugi, his wife Stephany Hollihan, and NBCUniversal journalist José Alberto Suárez, a Florida-based Telemundo executive. Search and recovery efforts were hampered by fire at the site and difficult terrain, officials said.
NYTimes – US President Donald Trump ordered the U.S. Defense Department to reduce joint military exercises with South Korea, calling the drills “hostile” toward North Korea. South Korea’s joint chiefs of staff said the Ulchi Freedom Shield exercise would end six days early, on 21 August, at the request of the United States. The move comes as Trump seeks talks with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and has drawn mixed reactions in Seoul, where President Lee Jae Myung had previously backed stronger homegrown defenses.
Sky News – World Australian tennis player Nick Kyrgios, 31, has been provisionally suspended from tennis after testing positive for cocaine at an ATP 250 event in June. Kyrgios said on Instagram on Wednesday that he had "made a huge mistake" and acknowledged difficulties coming to terms with being near the end of his career after two years of injuries.
NYTimes – Business President Trump announced he's nominating Dr. Heidi Overton, a deputy assistant to the president for domestic policy, to be the next head of the FDA.
Two Pennsylvania State Police troopers were injured in the crash at Carlisle Airport, officials said.
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BBC News – UK Israel's military has opened criminal investigations into the 2024 killing of five-year-old Palestinian girl Hind Rajab and six relatives in Gaza, and into the deaths of 15 emergency and aid workers in March 2025. The army admitted its troops fired at the car carrying Rajab. Rights groups note such internal inquiries rarely result in convictions.
