The Sunday, August 23, 2026 Edition
Judge Voids 75-Country Visa Ban, Super El Niño Declared, and Dogs Know Your Mood
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The Week in Review
A Week Measured in Trillions, Yields and Eleventh Hours →
17 years
How long Usain Bolt's 100-meter record stood before anything finally outran it -- and the record-breaker was a Chinese-built humanoid robot at Beijing's World Humanoid Robot Games. No human sprinter has touched Bolt's mark since he set it; it took a machine to do it.
Source: Bleacher Report
Today: The U.S. Open begins in New York, where Serena Williams and Carlos Alcaraz pair up in the mixed doubles championship.
Tomorrow: The Duane 'Keffe D' Davis murder trial resumes in Las Vegas for its second week of proceedings.
- 1926Silent film star Rudolph Valentino dies at 31, sparking mass public mourning
- 1927Anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti are executed in Massachusetts after a disputed trial
- 1939Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union sign the Molotov-Ribbentrop nonaggression pact
- 1966Lunar Orbiter 1 takes the first photograph of Earth from the moon's orbit
Why some of America's biggest brands are losing ground in China
Why some of America's biggest brands are steadily losing ground to homegrown competitors in China, once their most promising growth market.
CNBC
Strangers in their own land: Mexicans deported from Trump's America find refuge in 'Little LA'
How Mexicans deported from Trump's America are rebuilding their lives in Mexico City's 'Little LA' -- strangers in the country of their birth.
The Guardian · Oscar Lopez
Traveling the road that led to our national identity
How a historic highway championed by Henry Clay helped forge America's national identity, retraced mile by mile.
Washington Examiner · Carl Paulus
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