🇺🇸 CRUISE SHIP WATER SLIDE CRACKS MID-RIDE A relaxing trip turned chaotic when a water slide on Royal Caribbean’s Icon of the Seas split open, injuring 1 guest mid-ride. Video shows water gushing from the damaged slide and passengers yelling “Stop the slide!” as an acrylic panel shattered around the rider. Royal Caribbean says the injured guest is in stable condition and receiving medical care. The slide has been shut down for the rest of the voyage, and an investigation is underway. The world’s largest cruise ship is set to return to Miami by Saturday, just 2 weeks after another onboard safety scare involving a fall from an infinity pool barrier. Source: NewsNation

🇺🇸 APOLLO 13 HERO JIM LOVELL DIES AT 97 Lovell helped pilot humanity’s first trip around the moon, and later steered one of NASA’s worst disasters into a legendary comeback. He was part of the first crew to orbit the Moon on Apollo 8. He was also the calm voice during Apollo 13’s crisis, guiding his crew home after a mid-space explosion nearly cost them their lives. NASA confirmed his death on August 7, honoring him as a symbol of courage, precision, and cool under pressure. Source: USA Today, Fox News

🇺🇸 $79B CRYPTO TREASURY RACE Big-money crypto companies are trying to raise $79 billion this year just to buy Bitcoin, and some are drifting into smaller coins, but MicroStrategy CEO, Michael Saylor, says, “nah, Bitcoin’s the boss.” His company holds $74B in it and even slices it into fancy products. Retail investors have gone wild, throwing in $30M at 1st and now over $600M, with Wall Street sharks joining the party. Trump is slapping tariffs on gold bars? Saylor says that just proves Bitcoin’s better; you can’t tariff something that lives in cyberspace. Source: @pete_rizzo_

THE WORLD’S MOST EXPENSIVE SWEET TOOTH FIX This isn’t your grandma’s sugar, 10 grams costs nearly seven hundred bucks, but people are lining up because it’s pure, 0 additives, and made like an ancient treasure. 1st, farmers grab young, super-sweet sugar cane, wrap it in straw, and literally set it on fire, not to cook, but to smoke out impurities so it won’t sour. Then they ditch machines and crush it by hand in stone mortars to protect the flavor. The juice is cooked low and slow for hours until it’s thick syrup, then left in wooden barrels for a whole month to crystallize into golden rock sugar with caramel and herbal notes. Source: soulfood.46

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🇺🇸 DOJ FLIPS THE SCRIPT TO HUNT DOWN ABUSIVE NY AG The nation’s top law enforcers just opened a grand jury investigation into NY AG Letitia James for using her powers to mess with someone’s constitutional freedoms. Pam Bondi gave the green light after claims James went after Trump for “non-crimes” just because she didn’t like him, bragged about it on the campaign trail, and slapped him with a $450 million court loss he’s now fighting. Subpoenas are flying, but it’s still early days, and nobody’s been charged yet. For now, it’s basically “stay tuned” while the hunter tries not to become the hunted. Source: Fox News, @DC_Draino

GROK IMAGINE LEVELS UP Scene lengths are getting extended... and that’s just the beginning! Soon, you’ll be able to animate longer, richer stories without lifting more than a finger. And for families? A Kids Mode is coming to the Android app, with PIN protection to lock in safe content. Source: @elonmusk

🚨🇺🇸 BREAKING: FAITH LEADERS DETAINED AFTER NYC ICE DEMONSTRATION The anti-ICE protest at NYC’s Federal Plaza, led by faith leaders demanding access to the 10th floor for “holy business” has now turned into mass arrests. What started as a clergy-led standoff is ending with protesters getting loaded into police vans instead of elevators. Source: @GuntherEagleman

🇺🇸 CALIFORNIA WILDFIRES FORCE MASS EVACUATION ALERT Wildfires have reignited in California, fueled by strong winds. Officials warn that up to 50,000 people may need to evacuate as flames spread rapidly. Source: CNN, @stairwayto3dom

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