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Bronze medalist Noah Lyles of Team United States reacts after competing in the Men's 200m Final on day thirteen of the Olympic Games Paris 2024 at Stade de France on August 08, 2024 in Paris, France. (Richard Heathcote/Getty Images)

Noah Lyles underscores our COVID denial

Troy Farah

We keep pretending that the pandemic is done and over, but it keeps knocking us off our feet

Darryl George,18, stands next to his mother, Darresha George in front of Galveston County Court House on Thursday, May 23, 2024, in Galveston, Texas. (Raquel Natalicchio/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images)

The legal fight over Black hair in Texas

Tatyana Tandanpolie

A U.S. judge recently dismissed a Black teen's claim that he was being discriminated against for having dreadlocks

An overview shows Italy's Nicolo Martinenghi (L) celebrating with Britain's Adam Peaty (R) after winning the final of the men's 100m breaststroke swimming event during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games at the Paris La Defense Arena in Nanterre, west of Paris, on July 28, 2024. (FRANCOIS-XAVIER MARIT/AFP via Getty Images)

Cupping therapy and Olympic athletes

Nicole Karlis

It feels like you’re being “hugged by an octopus,” leaving you with hickey-like bruises. But does it do anything?

Democratic presidential candidate, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris and Democratic vice presidential candidate Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz appear at a campaign rally at Desert Diamond Arena on August 9, 2024, in Glendale, Arizona. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Harris campaigns in Arizona to 20,000

Griffin Eckstein

VP nominee Tim Walz claimed that the rally "might be the largest political gathering in the history of Arizona"

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A plane carrying Republican presidential candidate, former U.S. President Donald Trump arrives for a rally on May 1, 2024, at Avflight Saginaw in Freeland, Michigan. (Nic Antaya/Getty Images)

Trump makes emergency landing in Montana

Griffin Eckstein

A mechanical issue forced the former president's plane to land more than 100 miles away from its destination

Vice President Kamala Harris greets members of the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority after speaking at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center on July 10, 2024, in Dallas, Texas. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

Harris' sorority files to form PAC

Griffin Eckstein

The Divine Nine member with an impressive voter mobilization force is dabbling into the fundraising world

Blake Lively attends the "It Ends With Us" UK Gala Screening at Odeon Luxe Leicester Square on August 08, 2024 in London, England. (Jeff Spicer/Getty Images for Sony Pictures)

The real "It Ends With Us" controversy

Nardos Haile

Theories about costars Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni's relationship are distracting from the real issue

Gold Medallist Imane Khelif of Team Algeria kisses her medal during the Boxing Women's 66kg medal ceremony after the Boxing Women's 66kg Final match on day fourteen of the Olympic Games Paris 2024 at Roland Garros on August 09, 2024, in Paris, France. (Richard Pelham/Getty Images)

Khelif wins gold after gender attacks

Griffin Eckstein

The Olympian, facing false accusations of being transgender, took home Algeria's second gold medal of the Games

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U.S. President Joe Biden welcomes the 2023 World Series champion Texas Rangers to the White House in Washington DC., U.S., August 8, 2024 (Mostafa Bassim/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Court blocks Biden's student loan plan

Griffin Eckstein

The three GOP-appointed justices argued that the Biden administration made a "vast assertion of newfound power"

Donald Trump and Jack Smith (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Trump Jan. 6 case delay granted

Griffin Eckstein

Judge Tanya Chutkan granted special counsel Jack Smith's ask for a 3-week delay on deadline to present case roadmap

U.S. Secret Service Acting Director Ronald Rowe, Jr. (2nd R), and FBI Deputy Director Paul Abbate show a photo of the shooter's position as they testify during a U.S. Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs and Senate Judiciary joint committee hearing on the security failures leading to the assassination attempt on former U.S. President Donald Trump, at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC, on July 30, 2024. (ROBERTO SCHMIDT/AFP via Getty Images)

FBI gives Trump new info on shooter

Griffin Eckstein

The FBI gave Trump non-public details on the shooter during what was meant to be a “standard victim interview"

KJ Apa as Wes Neal in "One Fast Move" (Frank Masi/Prime Video)

"Riverdale" star on riding motorcycles

Gary Kramer

Riverdale's KJ Apa talks Prime Video's "One Fast Move," being an adrenaline junkie, and his abs

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Julia Louis-Dreyfus speaks onstage during The 2023 New Yorker Festival at Webster Hall on October 06, 2023, in New York City. (Bryan Bedder/Getty Images for The New Yorker)

Julia Louis-Dreyfus backs abortion fund

Griffin Eckstein

The "Veep" star took to social media to promote a fund to boost abortion access votes on ballots across the country

The Perseid meteor shower is seen over the Ulanbum grassland in Chifeng city, Inner Mongolia, China, August 14, 2023. (CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty Images)

Perseid meteor shower peaks this weekend

Griffin Eckstein

Peak views of the shooting stars, expected in the pre-dawn hours on Sunday, can be enjoyed all over the world

Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris and Democratic vice presidential candidate Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz appear on stage together during a campaign event at Temple University's Liacouras Center in Philadelphia, Pa., on Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2024. (Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Latino group endorses Harris-Walz ticket

Nandika Chatterjee

The endorsement is the first in LULAC's nearly century-long history

Kamala Harris | A view of the U.S. - Mexico border wall in El Paso, Texas (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

GOP "border czar" attack based on a lie

Nandika Chatterjee

Vice President Kamala Harris was put in charge of a "diplomatic effort," not border security

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Flavor Flav, Snoop Dogg and B-Boy Mounir Biba. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

American hip-hop wins the Paris Olympics

Melanie McFarland

More than half a century after its birth, hip-hop's ambassadors Snoop Dogg and Flavor Flav are hyping up viewers

Empty chairs and table in library (Getty Images/Alberto Guglielmi)

Utah bans 13 books from all schools

Nandika Chatterjee

The state's Board of Education is seeking to comply with a new law that ostensibly aims to ban "pornography"

Starbucks Coffee cup (Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Starbucks discontinues its value meal

Ashlie D. Stevens

After a splashy debut, the coffee giant has backed off its $5 and $6 pairings

A .22 pistol firing at a target. (Getty Images/Jesse Bacon)

Second thoughts about gunshot detectors

Rod McCullom - Undark

Studies on technology that alerts police to gunfire have found it has little impact on shootings or prosecutions

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Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks during a press conference at Mr. Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate on August 08, 2024, in Palm Beach, Florida. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Confused Trump made up "helicopter" tale

Nandika Chatterjee

The former president falsely claimed he almost died in a helicopter crash with Kamala Harris' ex-boyfriend

Governor Tim Walz from Minnesota in Sydney during a trade mission to Australia between November 10-18, 2023. Photographed at the Intercontinental Hotel. (James Brickwood / Sydney Morning Herald via Getty Images)

GOP tries "China" attack on Tim Walz

Nicholas Liu

Walz taught English in China for a year, and often returned with groups of American students

George Harrison performs onstage at the Concert for Bangladesh which was held at Madison Square Garden on August 1, 1971 in New York City, New York. (Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)

George Harrison's Concert for Bangladesh

Kenneth Womack

The concert featuring Harrison, Ravi Shankar, Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton and more was a paradigm shift in rock music

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks during a press conference at Mr. Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate on August 08, 2024, in Palm Beach, Florida. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Dour Donald Trump: Where's the fun gone?

Heather Digby Parton

We are currently watching Trump realize for the first time that he might lose again

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