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August 31: U.S. Strikes on Larak Island and Grand Canyon Flood Evacuations
In U.S. energy
President Trump says Venezuelan oil will be used to refill the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve, following an oil deal between Washington and Caracas. The announcement links a diplomatic opening with an effort to rebuild emergency crude supplies.
In U.S. emergencies
In Trenton, New Jersey, a shooting killed two people and injured eight others. Authorities had not released further details.
California's Big Sur region is facing evacuations after two fast-moving wildfires breached containment lines along the coast. At Grand Canyon National Park, a flash flood forced dozens of evacuations, while park officials sought information on up to 20 people who may still be unaccounted for. No injuries had been reported there.
At the Strait of Hormuz
U.S. forces struck two Iranian rocket launchers on Larak Island, saying Revolutionary Guard personnel were preparing rockets carrying sea mines toward the Strait of Hormuz. It was the first known U.S. strike on Iran in more than a month.
Iran says several soldiers were killed and has vowed economic and military retaliation. A U.S. source also said Iranian missiles were fired toward U.S. forces in Jordan and intercepted, with no major damage reported. The risk is not just another exchange of threats, given the waterway's central role in global oil shipments.
In the West Bank
Britain has raised with Israeli authorities the detention of Finn Joughin, a 22-year-old British student activist arrested in Umm Al-Kheir, a Palestinian village in the occupied West Bank.
In tech and security
The Linux Foundation says AI-related web scrapers are overwhelming the servers behind the Linux kernel's Git repository. It estimates that legitimate users account for roughly 2 percent of about six million daily requests for random code commits. The site has restricted anonymous access and disabled features that generate huge numbers of crawlable links, while keeping the underlying data available for download.
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