September 2, 2026
September 2, 2026
Tens of thousands of people filled plazas across Spain on Wednesday night, from Madrid's Cibeles to Valencia, Barcelona, Seville and Ceuta itself, demanding that Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez act on the migrant crisis that has left a Spanish city of about 85,000 residents overwhelmed for more than a month. Spaniards are chanting that Interior Minister Marleska must resign immediately. The official count in Madrid was about 50,000. City Hall put the figure closer to 150,000....
BLACK ROCK CITY, Nev. - The annual pilgrimage to Burning Man began with a familiar rite of passage: hours of sitting still in the desert. On Sunday, Aug. 30, the first full day of Burning Man 2026, the line of cars, RVs, and trucks waiting to reach the gate stretched for miles across the Black Rock Desert. Wait times peaked at more than eight hours before easing to about five hours by evening, according to official traffic updates and reports from SFGATE. Aerial photos of the...
In an incredibly salacious story as old as the internet, influencer Tia Billinger, known as Bonnie Blue, announced first child after C-section at London's Lindo Wing over the weekend. She did not name the father but teased that she might later. Influencer Bonnie Blue, whose real name is Tia Emma Billinger, has announced the birth of her first child. She said the delivery was by Caesarean section at the Lindo Wing of St Mary's Hospital in Paddington - the same private...
A 32-year-old Bank of America vice president was fatally stabbed Monday afternoon in a random attack in Times Square, authorities said, before police shot and killed the assailant after she refused to drop two knives and charged officers. The incident began around 4:24 p.m. on Aug. 31 near West 41st Street and Seventh Avenue. Pamela Cisneros, 49, of Queens, pulled two kitchen knives from a red Target bag and stabbed a 68-year-old man in the abdomen as he waited to cross the...
WASHINGTON - U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth posted a photograph of two women in uniform from a Canadian youth cadet program on X on Sept. 1, 2026, with the caption "🇨🇦 (this is real)." The post, viewed more than 17 million times, was widely interpreted as mocking the physical appearance of a Cadet Instructors Cadre officer. The image originated from an Aug. 24 Instagram post by the Vernon Cadet Training Centre in British Columbia celebrating the conclusion of its...
GLENDALE, Calif. - A Porsche Panamera driver tore the car's rear bumper off Friday, Aug. 28, 2026, while trying to escape a tow truck that had already lifted the vehicle's rear wheels off the ground. Video posted by Instagram account @kakonauto shows the sedan hooked to the truck with its back end suspended. The driver then accelerated. The car's all-wheel-drive system pulled it free, dragging the tow arm down the street as the bumper ripped away and other parts scattered...
Update repairs were completed at 6:30 pm PST SANTA MONICA - A water main break on Michigan Avenue on Sunday, Aug. 30, left adjoining households without service, according to local accounts of the outage. City crews said they were working to isolate the break and restore water as soon as possible. Residents along the street reported taps running dry after the line failed. Santa Monica Public Works crews were on scene and said the priority was shutting off the damaged section,...
A Spanish regional lawmaker has accused Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez's government of abandoning Ceuta, colluding with Morocco, enforcing a media blackout, and leaving thousands of remaining migrants-including alleged criminals-in the North African enclave nearly a month after a mass border crossing. Virginia Martínez, a deputy in the Regional Assembly of Murcia, made the claims in an interview with GB News published around 24 August 2026. She described the late-July events...
Santa Monica police and campus officers searched Santa Monica College on Saturday after a report of a man possibly carrying a handgun, but later said they found no suspect and no evidence supporting the claim. Officers from the Santa Monica Police Department and Santa Monica College Police Department responded at about 4:30 p.m. on Aug. 29 to a report of an individual who might have been armed near the 14th Street side of the campus. They set up a perimeter and searched the...
Santa Monica council candidate Derrick Townsend highlighted what he called an ironic first advertisement on one of the city’s newly installed downtown LED billboards: a promotional display for the homelessness services nonprofit The People Concern. Townsend, who is running for Santa Monica City Council in 2026, posted a nighttime photo of the large curved digital board on August 29, 2026. The ad features two people in conversation and the claim that “92% of the people we...
Updated Saturday, August 29, 2026--A glacial collapse on the Nepal–Tibet border has killed at least 633 people by the latest combined tallies, and more than 2,400 remain missing. If a large share of the missing are later confirmed dead, the final toll could reach 15,000 to 25,000. That range may still be low if official figures from the Chinese side of the border understate what happened at Gyirong Port. Nepal's death count has kept climbing. A Friday report from the...
A woman died Saturday morning after jumping from the roof of a seven-story building at the intersection of West 12th Street and South Grand Avenue in Downtown Los Angeles, according to eyewitness reports and emergency alerts. Local resident Stella X (@Stellaaa) posted an update from the scene: "She reportedly landed in front of the coffee shop, Awesome Coffee, at 12th & Grand." The shop is located at 1200 South Grand Avenue. Los Angeles Fire Department and Police Department...
On a late-August Saturday in Downtown Santa Monica, the city's premier indoor public amenity performed its most honest civic function yet: it stopped pretending the air was conditioned. The Main Library at 601 Santa Monica Boulevard has spent years on the municipal highlight reel as a "cooling center." Official posts show books, sunlight, and the gentle implication that if you are overheating, civilization still has a plan. The plan, it turns out, has a compressor. By...
Sofia Tsarsitalidou, a rising star in Greek track and field, has rapidly emerged as one of the most compelling young talents in women's track and field. Born on August 17, 2007, the 19-year-old from Western Macedonia competes for the Aiolos Ptolemaidas club and has shown steady, impressive progress over the past couple of seasons. What began as consistent junior-level performances has blossomed into senior-level breakthroughs, with her combination of speed, technique, and...
Thursday night the moon rose already bitten. Over Los Angeles it climbed out of the southeast just after 7:18 p.m., a pale disk with a dark notch already eating its edge. By 9:13 p.m. nearly all of it had slipped into Earth's shadow. Ninety-six percent of the face vanished into the umbra, and what remained glowed the color of old copper and dried blood. Clouds kept arriving in ragged sheets. Griffith Observatory canceled the lawn viewing hours earlier, citing heavy cover and...
