TIL Date: 2025-08
155 headlines found.
- Global stocks drop after Trump raises tariffs on more than 90 countries
August 1, 2025 - Opposition leaders say 'democracy in El Salvador has died' after scrapping of presidential term limits
August 1, 2025 - Smithsonian removes reference to Trump's impeachments from presidency exhibit
August 1, 2025 - France suspends Gaza evacuations after student antisemitism row
August 1, 2025 - Trump orders firing of statistics chief after weak jobs report and data revisions
August 1, 2025 - Budapest mayor questioned by police over banned pride march
August 1, 2025 - Twelve years house arrest for Colombian ex-leader Álvaro Uribe
August 2, 2025 - Tesla found partly to blame for fatal Autopilot crash
August 2, 2025 - Trump says he's ordered nuclear submarines repositioned after Russian official's 'highly provocative' remarks
August 2, 2025 - Corporation for Public Broadcasting will shut down after Trump funding cuts
August 2, 2025 - Hamas refuses to disarm until Palestinian state established
August 2, 2025 - US officials open investigation into former special counsel Jack Smith
August 3, 2025 - Israeli minister sparks anger by praying at sensitive Jerusalem holy site
August 3, 2025 - Russian volcano erupts for first time in more than 500 years
August 3, 2025 - Loni Anderson, star of 1980s sitcom WKRP in Cincinnati, dies aged 79
August 4, 2025 - Tesla board awards $29bn of shares to Elon Musk
August 4, 2025 - Marjorie Taylor Greene suggests she may abandon the Republican party
August 4, 2025 - Danish zoo asks pet owners to donate rabbits and horses to feed its predators
August 4, 2025 - Democrats flee Texas to block Republican redistricting map backed by Trump
August 4, 2025 - Israel's government votes to fire country's attorney general
August 4, 2025 - Texas House moves to allow civil arrest warrants for Democrats who fled state
August 4, 2025 - US attorney general orders grand jury hearings on Trump-Russia probe
August 5, 2025 - US condemns Brazil supreme court judge for ordering house arrest of ex-president Jair Bolsonaro
August 5, 2025 - Tommy Robinson arrested over alleged assault at London station
August 5, 2025 - Jim Acosta interviews 'made-up' AI avatar of Parkland victim Joaquin Oliver
August 5, 2025 - BP says it makes biggest oil and gas find in 25 years
August 5, 2025 - Netanyahu to urge 'full conquest' of Gaza as ceasefire talks reach an impasse
August 5, 2025 - Titan sub firm used 'intimidation tactics' and 'critically flawed' safety practices, Coast Guard report finds
August 5, 2025 - Trump says EU could face 35% tariffs if it fails to make $600bn investment 'gift'
August 5, 2025 - 'We didn't vote for ChatGPT': Swedish PM under fire for using AI in role
August 5, 2025 - RFK Jr's health department to halt $500m in mRNA vaccine research
August 6, 2025 - Hiroshima marks 80 years since atomic bombing
August 6, 2025 - Trump threatens India with 50% tariff as negotiations fizzle and Modi keeps importing Russian oil
August 6, 2025 - Stanford's student newspaper sues Trump administration over use of immigration law to target pro-Palestinian students
August 6, 2025 - Dozens more countries face higher taxes on exports to US as new Trump tariffs come into effect
August 7, 2025 - Former Superman actor Dean Cain reveals he's becoming an Ice agent to support Trump's mass deportation agenda
August 7, 2025 - Trump and Putin to meet in coming days, Kremlin says
August 7, 2025 - Trump calls for a new census to exclude undocumented immigrants
August 7, 2025 - Israel intends to take control of all of Gaza, Netanyahu says as security cabinet meets
August 7, 2025 - Israel's security cabinet approves plan to take control of Gaza City
August 8, 2025 - Mushroom murderer tried to kill husband with pasta, cookies and curry, court was told
August 8, 2025 - Plan to reintroduce banned pesticide in France overruled by constitutional council
August 8, 2025 - Germany to stop arms sales to Israel that could be used in Gaza after takeover plan approved
August 8, 2025 - Trump administration targets Harvard's patents
August 9, 2025 - Ukraine will not give up land, Zelenskyy warns ahead of Trump-Putin meeting
August 9, 2025 - Jim Lovell, Apollo 13 astronaut, dies aged 97
August 9, 2025 - Gunfire riddled CDC offices in Atlanta.
August 9, 2025 - Trump and Putin to meet in Alaska for Ukraine talks next week
August 9, 2025 - North Korea dismantles propaganda speakers at border
August 10, 2025 - Zelenskyy welcomes European leaders' insistence on Ukraine role at peace talks
August 10, 2025 - Israel kills prominent Al Jazeera journalist and four colleagues in targeted attack in Gaza
August 11, 2025 - Australia to recognise Palestinian state in September
August 11, 2025 - Trump demands homeless people 'immediately' move out of Washington DC
August 11, 2025 - Nvidia and AMD to pay 15% of China chip sales to US
August 11, 2025 - Trump announces federal takeover of DC police and mobilization of National Guard
August 11, 2025 - Finland charges tanker crew members with sabotage of undersea cables
August 11, 2025 - Colombian Senator Miguel Uribe dies two months after being shot
August 11, 2025 - Federal judge rejects Trump DOJ's bid to unseal grand jury materials in Ghislaine Maxwell case
August 11, 2025 - North Koreans tell BBC they are being sent to work 'like slaves' in Russia
August 12, 2025 - Ukraine's borders must not be changed by force, EU leaders say
August 12, 2025 - Thousands evacuated in Spain amid deadly wildfires and new heatwave
August 12, 2025 - National Guard troops arrive in Washington DC on Trump's orders
August 12, 2025 - South Korean court orders arrest of wife of jailed ex-President Yoon Suk Yeol
August 12, 2025 - Dairy farmers say worker shortage is threatening UK food security
August 13, 2025 - Temperature records broken as extreme heat grips parts of Europe
August 13, 2025 - Lithuania to give children drone training to counter Russia threat
August 13, 2025 - Lammy refers himself to watchdog after fishing illegally with JD Vance
August 13, 2025 - Israel advances controversial settlement plan, aiming to 'bury the idea of a Palestinian state'
August 14, 2025 - Kim Jong Un's powerful sister turns up the volume on loudspeaker standoff with South Korea
August 14, 2025 - Just two Navajo Code Talkers remain alive.
August 14, 2025 - Russian hackers seized control of Norwegian dam, spy chief says
August 14, 2025 - Baby Shark song not plagiarised – South Korean top court
August 14, 2025 - Putin ready to make Ukraine deal, Trump says before Alaska summit
August 14, 2025 - People held under UK's 'one in, one out' asylum deal say they had not heard of it
August 15, 2025 - Putin ready to make Ukraine deal, Trump says before Alaska summit
August 15, 2025 - Louisiana sues Roblox alleging the popular gaming site fails to protect children
August 15, 2025 - Trump says he's not going to Alaska to 'negotiate for Ukraine'
August 15, 2025 - DC attorney general sues Trump administration over police takeover
August 15, 2025 - No deal, and no answers, after brief Trump-Putin talks on Ukraine in Alaska
August 16, 2025 - Sudden, heavy rain in Pakistan, India-administered Kashmir and Nepal kills more than 300 people
August 16, 2025 - Air Canada suspends operations as flight attendants go on strike
August 16, 2025 - Washington DC and White House agree to scale back Trump 'takeover' of city police
August 16, 2025 - Call to ban 'intolerant' child-free resorts and hotels in France
August 16, 2025 - Putin demands full control of Donetsk and Luhansk as condition for ending Ukraine war
August 16, 2025 - Russia complicating end to war, Zelensky says as Trump pursues peace deal
August 17, 2025 - Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Ted Hui reportedly granted asylum in Australia
August 17, 2025 - Air Canada to resume flights after directive ending strike
August 17, 2025 - British actor Terence Stamp, 'Superman' star and famed figure of swinging London, dies at 87
August 17, 2025 - Trump tells Zelensky to give up Crimea and agree to never join NATO
August 18, 2025 - Air Canada delays return to flights after union defies government order
August 18, 2025 - Zelensky says he and Trump discussed Ukraine security guarantees in 'best' talks yet
August 18, 2025 - US State Department revokes 6,000 student visas
August 18, 2025 - Son of Norway's crown princess charged with four counts of rape
August 18, 2025 - Intel secures $2bn lifeline from Japan's SoftBank
August 19, 2025 - Trump pushes for meeting between Putin and Zelensky
August 19, 2025 - Kremlin yet to commit to meeting after Ukrainian and European leaders seek US security guarantees for Kyiv as part of any deal
August 19, 2025 - Air Canada to resume flights after pay deal struck with union
August 19, 2025 - Trump rules out sending US troops to Ukraine as part of peace deal
August 19, 2025 - US to screen for 'anti-Americanism' in immigration applications, a move critics liken to McCarthyism
August 20, 2025 - Kremlin plays down Zelensky talks as Trump warns Putin may not want to make deal
August 20, 2025 - Netanyahu accuses Australian PM of 'betraying' Israel
August 20, 2025 - Israel calls up 60,000 reservists ahead of planned Gaza City offensive
August 20, 2025 - Denmark to abolish VAT on books in effort to get more people reading
August 20, 2025 - Trump administration expands 'good moral character' requirement to become naturalized citizen
August 20, 2025 - California resident tests positive for plague
August 21, 2025 - Texas lawmakers approve new electoral map favouring Republicans
August 21, 2025 - Ukrainian held in Italy over Nord Stream gas pipelines blast mystery
August 21, 2025 - Appeals court tosses Trump's $500m civil fraud penalty
August 21, 2025 - Bolsonaro planned to flee to Argentina, Brazil police say
August 21, 2025 - Three more species of giraffe than previously thought, scientists say
August 21, 2025 - Revealed: Israeli military's own data indicates civilian death rate of 83% in Gaza war
August 21, 2025 - Russia rules out European troops in Ukraine as Trump makes veiled threats
August 21, 2025 - Erik Menendez denied parole three decades after killing his parents in LA
August 22, 2025 - Federal judge orders closure of Trump's 'Alligator Alcatraz' immigration jail
August 22, 2025 - FBI conducts search at John Bolton's home
August 22, 2025 - Trump again gives Putin 'a couple of weeks' with no sign of Ukraine peace talks underway
August 23, 2025 - Lyle Menendez joins brother in being denied parole in parents' LA murder
August 23, 2025 - Hegseth fires general whose agency's intel assessment of damage from Iran strikes angered Trump
August 23, 2025 - Deal to get ChatGPT Plus for whole of UK discussed by Open AI boss and minister
August 23, 2025 - Trump's plan to send troops to Chicago is abuse of power, Illinois governor says
August 24, 2025 - Marjorie Taylor Greene joins Bernie Sanders in urging US to end Gaza famine
August 24, 2025 - Protests as newborn removed from Greenlandic mother after 'parenting competence' tests
August 24, 2025 - Trump threatens to deploy troops to Baltimore to 'clean up' crime
August 25, 2025 - SpaceX scrubs attempt to launch Starship megarocket after months of mishaps
August 25, 2025 - Abrego Garcia detained by ICE as possible second deportation looms
August 25, 2025 - Postal services in Europe suspend parcel shipments to US amid uncertainty over tariffs
August 25, 2025 - National guard start carrying firearms in DC as Trump says Chicago may be next
August 25, 2025 - Trump signs executive order establishing 'specialized' National Guard units to address crime in cities
August 25, 2025 - Trump orders removal of Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook
August 26, 2025 - Israeli double strike on Gaza hospital that killed journalists 'completely indefensible', UK PM says
August 26, 2025 - Norway wealth fund sells Caterpillar stake over Israel allegations
August 26, 2025 - Trump's 50% tariff on India kicks in as Modi urges self-reliance
August 27, 2025 - SpaceX Starship completes successful test flight
August 27, 2025 - South Korea bans phones in school classrooms nationwide
August 27, 2025 - Denmark summons top US diplomat over alleged Greenland influence operation
August 27, 2025 - North Korea's Kim Jong Un to join Putin at China military parade
August 28, 2025 - White House fires CDC director as other officials resign from health agency
August 28, 2025 - UK and EU summon top Russian diplomats after strikes hit British Council and EU offices in deadly attack on Kyiv
August 28, 2025 - Cracker Barrel quietly removes DEI and Pride pages from its website after logo upheaval
August 28, 2025 - Trump tariffs: global parcel shipments to US lose exemption
August 29, 2025 - National security or xenophobia? Texas restricts Chinese owning and renting property
August 29, 2025 - India's Modi to meet Xi and Putin on first China trip in seven years as US tariffs bite
August 29, 2025 - Zelensky rejects proposals for buffer zone to end Ukraine war
August 29, 2025 - Trump moves to cut $5bn in foreign aid already approved by Congress
August 29, 2025 - US announces it is 'denying and revoking visas' for Palestinian officials ahead of UN General Assembly
August 29, 2025 - Thailand's prime minister removed from office over leaked phone call scandal with Cambodian strongman
August 29, 2025 - Appeals court strikes down many Trump tariffs, saying he overstepped his authority
August 29, 2025 - Missouri governor calls special redistricting session amid Trump pressure
August 29, 2025 - Houthis confirm their prime minister killed in Israeli strike
August 30, 2025 - Prominent Ukrainian politician Andriy Parubiy shot dead in Lviv
August 30, 2025 - Aid flotilla with Greta Thunberg set to sail for Gaza to 'break illegal siege'
August 31, 2025 - Australian ban on fish-shaped plastic soy sauce dispensers a world first
August 31, 2025 - Scottish brothers complete record 139-day row across Pacific, calling for pizza and beer on land
August 31, 2025 - Chicago mayor signs order to resist potential Trump crackdown
August 31, 2025 - Neo-Nazis and politicians among protesters at anti-immigration March for Australia rallies
August 31, 2025