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He has been under investigation since November 2025 regarding possibly violating various laws, rules, or other standards of conduct, specifically reviewing a local police response to a report that he had assaulted a woman with whom he was in a relationship. Mills lost his reelection bid in the Florida primary on Aug. 18.

Florida Democratic Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick resigned amid bipartisan scrutiny, an ethics investigation, and a criminal indictment alleging she stole $5 million in federal disaster relief.

Speaker Mike Johnson and Hakeem Jeffries launched the task force, which is co-headed by Republican Rep. Kat Cammack and Democratic Rep. Teresa Leger Fernández.

The committee is investigating whether Gomez may have engaged in sexual misconduct in violation of congressional conduct rules, which includes the possibility of engaging in inappropriate sexual contact with a House staffer.

In 2025, United Nations experts published a report documenting illicit mining in the area, including the involvement of armed groups and the use of extraction methods that posed serious health and environmental risks.

Doudou Marcel was a Cameroonian miner and father of two who had worked at the Zamboye site for approximately five years. His body was buried at the family compound in eastern Cameroon on Wednesday.

Gervais Ganagoro is a local Red Cross volunteer who stated that hopes of finding anyone alive were fading fast and that the Red Cross could not estimate how many miners remain trapped beneath the earth.

A court in the Baboua subprefecture confirmed that the tunnels caved in and triggered a landslide. Mayor Abdon Adamou also noted that heavy rainfall had weakened the soils in the area, which likely contributed to the tunnel failures.

The agencies identified include the Small Business Administration (SBA), the USDA, the Veterans Affairs (VA), and the Federal Child Nutrition Program.

Kelly Lee-Carroll, who claimed to be partially paralyzed, worked with her sister and son to defraud the Veterans Affairs Administration of $1.1 million. Lee-Carroll received 17 months in federal prison, and her son received 14 months.

The Edwards family, led by Pastor Evan Edwards and his sons (including Josh Edwards), created a fake ministry to claim Small Business Administration (SBA) Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans. While they sought $6 million, the SBA provided approximately $8.4 million. Josh Edwards was sentenced to four years and three months in prison, while Evan Edwards was deemed incompetent to stand trial and was never charged.

The 15 families identified in the August Squeal Award collectively swindled taxpayers out of roughly $50 million.

During an appearance on "The Joe Rogan Experience" in July, Robbins discussed an ayahuasca experience that he said helped him confront and attempt to release his own political anger.

Robbins diagnoses a "deeper sickness" in American political life where people build their identities around despising public figures they have never met, noting that the idea of finding worth, purpose, and virtue through hatred is a "terrible, terrible idea."

Tim Robbins is an actor and director best known for "The Shawshank Redemption" and his Academy Award for the 2003 film "Mystic River."

Tim Robbins stated that he is unhappy with both political parties but reserved his sharpest criticism for Democrats, telling them they need "better ideas," must "get their stuff together," and need to do more than simply oppose the other side if they want voters to take them seriously.

McConaughey considered a run for Texas governor in 2021 but ultimately decided not to run. Additionally, following the 2022 school shooting in his hometown of Uvalde, Texas, he traveled to Washington to advocate for bipartisan gun-safety measures.

McConaughey suggested the idea of a universal moral document, which he referred to as a "constitution," that could capture the common ground among the world's religions. He expressed interest in potentially adding to or working on such a project.

During the meeting, which took place in early August 2026, McConaughey discussed faith, governance, the moral stakes of artificial intelligence, religion's place in modern life, the decline of church attendance, and why young people are turning back toward religion. He did not disclose the specific substance of the conversation, stating that the details would remain between himself and the Pope.

The antagonist is Mayor Humdinger, who attempts to recklessly mine the island's natural resources, triggering a volcanic eruption.

Colossal Biosciences has deployed AI-enabled bioacoustic sensors to decode Red Wolf howls.

Colossal Biosciences states that Red Wolves are the most endangered wolf species, with only 14 left in the wild.

The video features Michael Dougherty, the writer and director of Godzilla: King of the Monsters, and Carter Young, the voice actor for the PAW Patrol character Marshall.

Sherif Fathy is the Minister of Tourism and Antiquities. He stated that the discoveries at the site highlight the strategic and cultural role the region played in protecting Egypt's eastern borders throughout history.

Earlier in the spring of 2026, a massive statue believed to depict Ramesses II was uncovered at the Tel Pharaoh site in the Nile Delta. Additionally, a separate team unearthed an ancient settlement at Tell el-Koua in Wadi Tumilat, a region linked to debates over the setting of the biblical Exodus.

Ramesses II was an influential pharaoh of the New Kingdom era, born around 1303 B.C. and dying roughly 1213 B.C. He is the ruler most often associated with the biblical Moses.

The site is located along the Horus Military Road, a strategic route that connected Egypt with the Sinai Peninsula and Canaan. Some scholars link this road to the "way of the land of the Philistines" mentioned in the Book of Exodus. If Tell Abu Seifi is confirmed to be the ancient city of Mesen, it would place a named city directly along a path central to the Exodus narrative.

Forecasters expect intermittent rain across the south of England over the coming two weeks, which may begin to break the dry spell.

Temperatures in Sandwich have climbed as high as 35 degrees Celsius in recent weeks.

Besides Royal St George's in Sandwich, Kent, the Aldwickbury Park in Harpenden and Richmond golf club in London are also showing significant damage, with Aldwickbury Park losing its color to dull grey-brown hues and Richmond golf club displaying spreading grey patches on its fairways.

In 1894, Royal St George's became the first course located outside of Scotland to be selected for the Open.

The report confirmed that Brian Hickerson and his brother Zach Hickerson were both present at the time of her death.

Skip Panettiere honored his daughter's memory in a statement to USA TODAY, describing her as "an incredible light and a force of nature who brought immeasurable love and joy to all who knew her, and to the millions who watched her onscreen."

Panettiere was found unresponsive at an apartment complex in Greenville, South Carolina, and she died on August 16.

Gayle King responded by saying, "You know guys you read this and all I can think of is 'thanks mom for nothing,'" and expressed sadness that Vogel chose to use the opportunity following her daughter's death to leave such remarks.

She trained in rapid transformational therapy under Marisa Peer, a well-known hypnotherapist.

Elizabeth Laing and her husband settled in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, which is approximately 35 miles southeast of London.

Laing used hypnotherapy to figure out why she kept choosing the wrong men; the sessions helped her trace her attraction to chaotic relationships back to patterns from her childhood.

The group workshop for her flirting coaching took place at the National Gallery in London.