Border wall materials auctioned off under the Biden administration will be returned to the Trump administration. The materials are believed to be worth between $260 million and $350 million.
Disney+ has canceled its Goosebumps reboot, a teen horror series that critics say injected sexual themes and LGBTQ messaging into programming aimed at children. The streaming platform quietly dropped the show, which featured Friends actor David Schwimmer and trans-identifying activist Miles McKenna, after just one season. The cancellation follows the removal of other Disney+ titles praised for “queer representation,” including The Acolyte and Willow.
Activists searching for missing persons in Mexico have uncovered a killing field and incineration site near the Texas border that the Gulf Cartel has resumed using to execute and dispose of victims. The grisly discovery was made Sunday by members of the Amor Por Los Desaparecidos collective at an abandoned warehouse west of Reynosa, Tamaulipas, close to the Anzalduas International Bridge.
California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) demanded that President Donald Trump end the redistricting efforts across the country, warning that Trump and Republicans are "playing with fire."
Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is taking aim at Democratic mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani, accusing him of abusing the city’s rent-stabilization system by living in a $2,300-a-month Astoria apartment while earning $147,000 annually as a state lawmaker. Cuomo, now running as an independent after losing to Mamdani in June’s Democratic primary, says the apartment should go to a low-income family instead.
The southeastern United States is on alert as forecasters monitor Invest 97L, a developing system in the Atlantic that could become Hurricane Erin — the first named storm of the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season. The National Hurricane Center (NHC) reported Monday morning that the disturbance has a 90% chance of forming into a tropical depression or storm within the next seven days, with possible development as early as today.
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced that the nation will recognize Palestine as a state in September, joining Canada, France, and the United Kingdom in doing so.
AOL has announced it will shut down its dial-up Internet service on September 30, 2025, ending a technology era that helped bring millions online in the early days of the Internet. The company confirmed the closure in a customer support update, which also noted the discontinuation of AOL Dialer and AOL Shield software. While the reasons were not explicitly stated, the widespread availability of faster broadband and mobile Internet connections has rendered dial-up largely obsolete.
U.S. Vice President JD Vance met Saturday at Chevening House in Kent, England, with UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy and representatives from Ukraine and Europe in what a U.S. official described as “significant progress” toward ending the war in Ukraine. The meeting, hosted by Lammy at Washington’s request, lasted several hours and was aimed at advancing President Donald Trump’s stated goal of securing peace between Russia and Ukraine.
