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August 25, 2026

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☰ × CBC Canada

-	White House publishes 'record of Canadian abuse' after Ottawa announces dollar-for-dollar counter-tariffs
-	Musicians, actors and more pay tribute to country icon Dolly Parton
-	Loblaw backtracks on dropping country-of-origin produce labels after customer backlash
-	Passenger recounts moment plane fatally struck Montreal airport ground worker
-	Canada's big banks are shrugging off Trump's trade war
-	This tiny township in Ontario almost shut down services last year. So far, no one's running for council
-	CIA director John Ratcliffe meets with Russian officials in Moscow, reports say
-	Alberta premier under pressure to take more 'Team Canada' approach to escalating U.S. trade war

☰ × BBC World

-	Canada announces 'dollar-for-dollar' retaliatory tariffs on US as high as 50%
-	China hits out at 'illegal' new US sanctions on Iran and trading partners
-	CIA chief travels to Moscow for unannounced talks, US media reports
-	Mass arrests in global crackdown on West African cyber-crime networks
-	Brain disease in dead NFL players 'higher than previously shown'
-	Tornado tears through French village, leaving dozens hurt and homes ravaged
-	European rights court orders Turkey to free imprisoned businessman
-	Nigeria's president orders manhunt after kidnappers upload victim video

☰ × Global News

-	Danielle Smith wants Ottawa to resume negotiations with U.S. before counter-tariffs
-	Recovery Alberta closes Edmonton addiction treatment program, drops hundreds from wait list
-	Ontario legislature faces calls to return amid trade war. Ford calls it ‘gutter politics’
-	3rd member of BC Conservative Party quits to sit as independent
-	Petition started to end e-scooter pilot program in Kamloops after teen’s death
-	Jason Kenney says oil needs to be on the table in U.S. tariff war
-	Blue Jays’ Dylan Cease launches capsule collection at AGO
-	Toronto’s election sets stage for several intriguing council battles

☰ × NPR News

-	Instagram head Adam Mosseri testifies in defense of Meta in child safety trial
-	South Carolina U.S. Senate runoff election will test Trump's endorsement
-	Dolly Parton, one of country music's most singular performers, has died at age 80
-	DHS acknowledges the noncitizen numbers it touted on voter rolls were inflated
-	Canada hits back at the U.S. with tariffs as the countries' trade fight escalates
-	'Forget about going back': 9 years on, Rohingya crisis enters dangerous phase
-	Several states will decide voter ID ballot measures this year
-	Trump calls leaders to isolate Iran. And, SCOTUS backs Trump for now on mail-in voting

☰ × The Guardian

-	Prince Harry quits board of wildlife charity after rangers’ human rights abuses
-	Video shows hundreds held captive after Nigeria mosque kidnapping
-	Children make up half of suspected mpox cases in Guinea-Bissau as epidemic spreads
-	Landslide at waste mound in Guinea capital kills 30, government says
-	US deports 20 people to Liberia, the first of 1,200 migrants under Trump deal
-	Wife of US soldier deported after Trump rollback on military family protections
-	At least 47 killed and dozens kidnapped in gang attack near Haiti capital
-	Supreme court threatens midterms mail-in voting as it backs Trump plan \| First Thing

☰ × Al Jazeera

-	Iran war live: Iran says Hormuz remains closed despite Oman route deal
-	Brazil fines TikTok $30m for child data privacy violations
-	Why can’t America agree on what time it is?
-	US judge blocks Ohio law requiring proof of citizenship to register to vote
-	Who was the ‘Queen of Country’ Dolly Parton?
-	Seven killed in Gaza as Israeli strike ‘destroys’ aid supply warehouse
-	US soldier who called for Trump impeachment facing military charges
-	US lawmakers urge Trump team to free American student held by Israel

☰ × The Verge

-	Garmin’s new Fenix 9 adds brighter screens and smoother map panning
-	Trump is upping the price of Big Tech’s favorite visa
-	At just $8, you owe it to yourself to grab Inscryption
-	The Witcher 3 is getting a remaster
-	Dreame’s dream of a rocket-powered car is dead
-	Take a look at Microsoft’s new 25th anniversary Halo accessories
-	Bose’s smallest Bluetooth speaker is a great deal at 35 percent off
-	Gamescom Opening Night Live 2026: The biggest announcements and trailers

☰ × TechCrunch

-	OpenAI loses a top data center exec, as stream of high-profile departures continues
-	X sends cease-and-desist to open source project Nitter over alleged scraping
-	Instagram’s ‘First Draft’ feature aims to make editing Reels less tedious
-	Stability AI, maker of image generator Stable Diffusion, raises $76 million in fresh funding
-	SpaceX will build a second, $100B ‘Starbase’ spaceport in Louisiana
-	Your vote matters! Decide which Audience Choice sessions will make it to TechCrunch Founder Summit
-	Tonight marks your last chance to save up to $300 on a TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 pass
-	Claude Cowork finally remembers what you told the app in chat

☰ × TechRadar

-	'The right approach is for people to deeply control the future': OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is worried about AI being controlled by just a few powerful players
-	Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2026 just released a sneak peek at its incredible shortlisted winning entries — and it proves that DSLR cameras still rule this photography genre
-	The death of the human web? Report finds over a third of web pages pushed live since the launch of ChatGPT show evidence of being written by AI
-	IBM reveals plans for 'quantum fridges' — its next-gen cooling hardware, which could be the key to quantum computers finally reaching their potential
-	Get ready for even more game reveals — here's how to watch the Future Games Show at Gamescom 2026
-	'We wanted to go out with a bang' — Geralt returns in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Songs of the Past's new trailer, promising a final action-packed journey ahead of The Witcher 4
-	Garmin Fenix 9 revealed — here are 5 things you need to know about the new flagship smartwatches
-	The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Remastered is a free upgrade with revamped gameplay systems — here's everything confirmed at the ONL reveal

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