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Country music's most beloved icon died Tuesday in Nashville at age 80, with her nephew Brin Seaver announcing the news on behalf of the family. Parton had struggled with health issues for months, cancelling her Las Vegas residency in May and missing a Dollywood event earlier in August. She leaves behind a catalog of hits, the Dollywood empire, and the Imagination Library, and had asked for a small, private family service.
A divided Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to immediately enforce revised mail-ballot restrictions across 23 states ahead of November's midterm elections. The order is a significant win for the White House's election-integrity push and reshapes voting rules with just over two months until Election Day. Democrats are already signaling emergency litigation at the state level.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement quietly arrested 1,328 illegal immigrants across Virginia and Maryland over a two-week operation, according to figures obtained first by Fox News Digital. Among those taken into custody were suspects wanted for murder, sexual assault, kidnapping, robbery, and DUI. The scale of the operation, conducted with little public announcement, is drawing sharp reaction from local officials on both sides.
The president escalated his feud with Ottawa Tuesday morning, floating a US push to rename Lake Ontario "Lake America" and accusing Prime Minister Mark Carney of lying about the administration's position on French-language protections. The taunt lands one day after Trump announced 50 percent tariffs on Canadian automobiles, auto parts, trucks and steel taking effect January 1, 2027. Cross-border trade talks are now effectively frozen.
Iranian forces struck an oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz just hours after Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent unveiled a sweeping new sanctions wave the administration is calling "Economic D-Day." Tehran says it has a two-year plan to absorb the pressure, and has warned that any country supporting the offensive will be treated as committing an act of war. Iran and Oman jointly proposed a temporary navigational corridor through the strait Tuesday, along with a mine-clearing effort.
The United States formally removed Syria from its state sponsors of terrorism list on Monday, ending a designation that had stood since 1979. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the move clears the last major barriers to investment and economic recovery in the country, and also delisted Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist entity. Cuba, Iran, and North Korea are now the only remaining countries on the list.
Ukraine observed its 35th Independence Day amid heavy Russian strikes, with officials describing a defiant national mood despite the shelling. Analysts quoted in the coverage characterized Vladimir Putin as "panicked" by the resilience of the commemorations and by battlefield conditions. The observance comes as European defense officials warn of large capability shortfalls across the continent.
NASA astronaut Anil Menon and ESA flight engineer Sophie Adenot conducted US Spacewalk 98 on Tuesday to finish installing a high-speed communications antenna on the International Space Station. The excursion carried the widest task variety of any recent EVA: power cables and data relays, cooling system prep, repairs to the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, a camera swap, and replacement of docking retroreflectors. They also swabbed the station's exterior and airlock to check for microorganisms clinging to the hull.
The Commerce Department has committed roughly $2 billion to IBM and eight other American quantum firms, one of the largest quantum-related federal investments to date. IBM is pairing $1 billion in CHIPS Act incentives with $1 billion of its own cash to build Anderon, a pure-play quantum wafer foundry, and plans more than $10 billion in quantum spending over five years. GlobalFoundries picked up an expected $375 million grant to stand up a secure domestic quantum foundry.
An anonymous X user calling himself "CyberLeek" has posted several minutes of Grand Theft Auto VI gameplay from what appears to be a full playable build, days before Rockstar's official Netflix reveal on August 27. In one clip he fires bullets into a wall to spell out "leek," which analysts say points to direct access to the game rather than secondhand footage. His stated demand: the leaks continue until Rockstar commits to a physical disc-based release of the November 19 title.
