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Claim: A video features an authentic audio recording of the late country music legend Dolly Parton revealing her “final wish.” Rating: Following singer Dolly Parton’s death on Aug. 25, 2026, people on social media shared and commented on videos allegedly featuring a special audio recording from the country music legend revealing her “final wish.” For example Instagram users continued to comment on a video (archived) posted nearly two weeks earlier on the Spotlight Hollywood (@spotlighthollywood) account. The Aug. 12 video purportedly features a mix of Parton clips with an audio recording, kind of like a voice-over recording under footage. The…

The international body declared Uganda Ebola-free after 42 days without any new transmission, though cases are rising in DR Congo.Published On 26 Aug 202626 Aug 2026Uganda has been declared free of Ebola, with the World Health Organization (WHO) confirming that the East African country had passed the mandatory 42-day monitoring period without any new cases.WHO made the announcement at a joint news conference on Tuesday with Uganda’s Ministry of Health.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listBut the declaration came roughly a month after Uganda had declared that the local outbreak was over, based on its own analysis of the…

With primary elections in the key 2026 battleground states largely complete, Democrats have emerged with several open paths to take the majority in the US Senate.The basic contours of the national map remain uphill for Democrats. They currently hold 47 seats in the Senate, meaning they need to flip four Republican seats and hold their current ones, including in Michigan and Georgia, which President Donald Trump won in 2024.But presiding over an unpopular Iran war that has dragged on for six months and resulted in high gas and grocery prices, Trump’s approval rating is now consistently below 40 percent, a…

The SOC we’ve always known was built around a model that guarantees most of the alert queue will never receive analyst review. There’s never time. In a traditional SOC, the typical progression follows a well-known pattern: an alert arrives; a detection engine assigns a severity score. The issue then waits for a human to decide if it should escalate to an investigation. Given the volume of network telemetry in the security stack, the queue is an unavoidable result of humans as the investigative layer. Long alert queues also force security teams to decide which signals to analyze before they even…

In the wake of Coldcard’s catastrophic entropy bug, self-custody advocates and experts have begun recommending a new standard, multi-vendor multisignature wallets, an approach that looks to minimize —among other threats— dependency on any single hardware wallet manufacturer. The Coldcard entropy bug that went undiscovered since at least 2021 has taught a hard lesson to the Bitcoin self-custody advocates and users. No matter how legitimate or competent a wallet provider might seem, how well recommended and reputable, a major bug may be possible. As a result, Bitcoiners are questioning old recommendations and assumptions, including many declaring the ‘death of single sig’…

When the fruit runs low, some monkeys’ appetite for meat gets a boost.  Bearded capuchin monkeys (Sapajus libidinosus) hunt and eat small vertebrates more often when fruits are less abundant. The findings may help researchers get insights into the early evolution of human diets and our lineage’s move to meatier fare, researchers report August 26 in PLOS One. In the 2000s, Noemi Spagnoletti and her colleagues were engaged in a long-term study of the behavior and ecology of bearded capuchins in northeastern Brazil. “We repeatedly observed the monkeys actively hunting and consuming vertebrates, including lizards, snakes and iguanas,” says Spagnoletti, a…

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (left) and House Majority Leader Steve Scalise have distributed the most money from leadership PACs so far this cycle. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) Republican lawmakers are pouring significantly more money into candidate campaigns through leadership PACs than their Democratic counterparts, according to an OpenSecrets analysis of political action committee reports. Politicians often form PACs to earn support for their own leadership ambitions by raising money that they distribute to candidates. OpenSecrets found nearly 750 leadership PACs have made contributions to candidates during the 2025-26 cycle, with Republicans continuing to outpace Democrats. GOP-affiliated leadership PACs have…

I was at the National Theatre in London on Tuesday night, at a production of Pride, which tells the story of the unlikely alliance between gay activists and Welsh miners during the 1984 miners’ strike, when news broke of Dolly Parton’s death. Well. Against the sadness, one couldn’t help smiling. At a very gay production, attended by a majority gay audience, I half expected them to stop the show or call out a team from St John Ambulance bearing stretchers. In the script for Pride, references to Judy Garland and Ethel Merman serve as shorthand for gay sensibilities, but it…

ICE agent Christian Castro faces criminal charges for shooting a Minnesota man in the leg during an immigration raid.Published On 26 Aug 202626 Aug 2026A United States judge has denied a request to compel the extradition of a federal immigration agent charged with shooting a man during an immigration raid in the state of Minnesota and lying about it.Wednesday’s decision concerns the case of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent Christian Castro, who has been detained in a county jail in Texas since May.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listMinnesota has sought his extradition as he faces charges of…

Regulation, regulation, regulation The technology was badged as a simpler solution for renters or other people without space at home for traditional rooftop panels.  People who want to install the kit may need permission from landlords, freeholders or councils, therefore. And some are already not playing ball.  One housing association, Sovereign Network Group — which manages 86,000 homes across London and the south of England — said it has a blanket ban on letting residents install plug-in solar in the buildings it manages.   “While solar panels may be installed through our planned retrofit programme, we do not permit plug-in or…