Sunday, August 2, 2026
The Week in Review
A Week of Strikes, Reversals and Fragile Deals →
Sports, Entertainment & Culture
Science & Technology
-119.4°F
Temperature recorded at Antarctica's Concordia research station this week -- Earth's lowest reading in more than a decade. It came just weeks after another part of the continent saw unprecedented winter warmth.
Source: Smithsonian
40,000 years
Age of two thumbnail-size bird sculptures carved from mammoth ivory, discovered beneath Germany's Hohle Fels Cave -- home to some of the world's oldest known figurative art.
Source: Smithsonian
50%+
Share of treated children whose cavities stopped progressing after silver diamine fluoride was brushed on in seconds, according to a major U.S. trial. The finding could spare millions from the dentist's drill.
Source: Science Daily
Thursday: Japan marks the 81st anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima with memorial ceremonies, followed by Nagasaki's commemoration on Sunday.
Friday: The US Labor Department releases the July jobs report, the first broad read on hiring for the second half of the year.
Next week: Fallout from LeBron James' move to Philadelphia continues to ripple through the NBA. The 76ers are integrating their new superstar, and rivals are reacting to a reshaped Eastern Conference.
Next week: Gianni Infantino's future atop FIFA remains in question after UEFA said it has lost confidence in his leadership -- watch for further moves from European soccer's power brokers.
Next week: Protests over India's exam leak and youth unemployment crisis show no sign of abating, keeping pressure on the Modi government.
All week: The Perseid meteor shower builds toward its annual mid-August peak -- clear skies permitting, one of the year's best sky shows.
- 1776Members of the Continental Congress began formally signing the engrossed copy of the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia.
- 1876Frontier legend 'Wild Bill' Hickok was shot dead while playing poker in Deadwood, Dakota Territory -- holding the 'dead man's hand' of aces and eights.
- 1934Adolf Hitler merged the offices of chancellor and president to become Führer of Germany following the death of President Paul von Hindenburg.
- 1939Albert Einstein signed a letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt warning that Nazi Germany might develop an atomic bomb, helping spur the creation of the Manhattan Project.
Young guns for hire - the teenage hitmen recruited to kill across Europe
A chilling investigation into the criminal networks recruiting teenagers -- some barely in their mid-teens -- as contract killers across Europe, and why gangs increasingly see disposable young hitmen as the perfect weapon.
BBC World
An exam leak in India exposed a Gen Z jobs crisis that goes much deeper
How a leaked exam in India ignited protests and exposed something much bigger: a Gen Z jobs crisis in the world's most populous country, and mounting pressure on the Modi government to deliver work for millions of young people.
CNBC Top News
Yellowstone Is Among the World's Best Places to See Wild Wolves. Here's the Story of the Animal Called Both 'Public Enemy' and Cultural Icon
Yellowstone is among the world's best places to see wild wolves -- this sweeping history traces how an animal once branded 'public enemy' became a cultural icon, and what its return to the park has meant.
Smithsonian
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