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The Brief: Wednesday, August 26
A Himalayan flood, a Silicon Valley check, a country-music funeral, a strait that is “clear,” and a bag of ice in Phoenix. Here is the board.
- Nepal: Flash floods on the Tibet border. At least nine dead, 384 missing, including 291 foreigners. Developing.
- Meta: Up to $18 billion and teen time limits to settle child-safety claims. Confirmed. Florida sat out.
- Dolly Parton: Died Tuesday at 80, cancer, Vanderbilt-Ingram. Flags ordered lowered.
- Hormuz: Trump says the lane is demined. A tanker still took a projectile in the engine room. Shooter unknown.
- Canada: $20 billion in retaliatory tariffs on U.S. goods, effective September 8.
- Colombia: Earthquake death toll above 300; conflict-displaced families uprooted again.
- Phoenix: Heat response includes distributing ice. This is not a metaphor.
- Maui: Three years later, survivors are still sick.
- USPS: States sue over a presidential mail-in voting order.
- Moscow: C.I.A. Director Ratcliffe met Russian intelligence, not Putin.
If you read one thing besides the flood and the settlement, read the Maui file. It is what a news cycle looks like after the news cycle leaves.
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