Health
Portland, Seattle and Boise Are Under Smoke Advisories From Fires Most Residents Cannot See
Roughly 50 large uncontained wildfires are burning across the Pacific Northwest, about 30 of…
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Mark Masterson
Mark Masterson has written more than 1,700 articles for Live News Chat since 2022 and files most days. His beat is the news the networks on this site are carrying live: US politics, world affairs, breaking news, and the courts, with regular work on technology, sport and entertainment. Because the site exists to point readers at live coverage, most of his reporting is written within hours of the broadcast it follows, and is sourced from primary material where one exists: the filing, the transcript, the agency release, the company statement. Originally from Canada, he has worked in online publishing for over a decade. Corrections and story tips go to security@livenewschat.eu, and the standards his work is held to are set out in the Live News Chat editorial policy.
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Celebrities
DiCaprio and Bezos Put $200 Million Into 100 Species. The Five-Year Term Is the Real News.
Leonardo DiCaprio’s Re:wild and the Bezos Earth Fund launched the Phoenix Species Project on…
Society/Culture
A Plane Crash Killed All 18 US Skaters in 1961. Peggy Fleming Won Gold Seven Years Later.
Peggy Fleming is the most-searched name in the United States today, which is an…
News Media
The Paramount-Warner Trial Starts March 2, 2027. CNN Has to Live Somewhere Until Then.
A federal judge has scheduled the antitrust trial over Paramount Skydance’s $111 billion media…
Elections
AIPAC Spent a Record $30 Million to Stop Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan. He Won Anyway.
Abdul El-Sayed is Michigan’s Democratic nominee for Senate, a result NBC News projected early…
War & Conflict
Russia Killed 17 Around Kyiv Using the One Weapon Ukraine Can No Longer Intercept
Russian forces fired 24 ballistic missiles at Kyiv and the surrounding region overnight into…
Crime
The Man Arrested at Trump’s Golf Club Was Filming Security Prep. The Public Found Out Hours Before Trump Arrived.
Plainclothes federal agents spotted Jeanine John Taele at Trump National Golf Club in Rancho…
Government
Chipotle’s Own Supply Records Named the Jalapeños. The FDA’s 212-Case Salmonella File Still Names Nothing.
Minnesota linked 110 Salmonella Javiana cases to jalapenos served at Mexican-style restaurants. Chipotle's own…
Law & Justice
Police Stopped the Old Trails Fire Suspect Saturday With Matches in His Pocket. The Arrest Took Two Days.
An Airway Heights police officer found Aaron Farinacci roughly a mile and a half…
Artificial Intelligence
MiniMax Shipped H3 as an API, Then Put the Weights on Hugging Face Three Days Later
MiniMax announced H3, also called Hailuo 3.0, on July 31 as an API product.…
Sports
Mike McCarthy Wants Aaron Rodgers Playing Preseason Snaps Against Green Bay and the Jets
Mike McCarthy would like his 42-year-old quarterback, the one playing out an announced farewell…
Entertainment
Chicago Fire Is Losing an Original Cast Member and Its Showrunner in the Same Year
Dermot Mulroney went to a horror convention in Chicago over the weekend and got…
Immigration
36 People, One Statute: How the DOJ Turned ICE Protests Into Federal Conspiracies
The Justice Department has charged more than three dozen people in at least ten…
Economy
HOA Foreclosures Jumped 40% Because the Associations Themselves Ran Out of Money
More than 6,300 properties picked up an HOA-related foreclosure filing in the first quarter…
Breaking News
Russia’s Beach Alert Lasted Ten Minutes. Seven People Died After It Was Called Off.
Seven people, three of them children, were killed on a crowded pebble beach at…
Food
Michigan’s Cyclospora Outbreak Killed Two People and the Traceback Still Has Not Closed
Michigan health officials reported two deaths in the state’s cyclosporiasis outbreak on Monday, the…
finance
4 Top Personal Loans for Bad Credit of August 2026
Finding a personal loan with bad credit can be challenging, but legitimate options are…
Government
Gavin Newsom Released 700 Pages of Tax Returns. The Reason Is in the Timing.
Gavin Newsom put four years of federal tax returns in front of reporters on…
Sports
Travis Hunter Wants Every Snap. The Jaguars’ Practice Script Already Said No.
Asked at Jacksonville’s training camp how many snaps a week he wants, Travis Hunter…
Entertainment
Gwyneth Paltrow Joined TikTok at 53 and Gave Up 25 Years of Image Control
Gwyneth Paltrow joined TikTok on Friday at the age of 53 and opened the…
Entertainment
Zac Brown Gave 35,000 Fenway Fans a Free Cruise and Nobody Saw It Coming
Zac Brown stopped his show at Fenway Park on Sunday night to tell a…
Top News
Spokane Lost 640 Homes in Two Days and None of the Three Fires Is Contained
Three wildfires that did not exist Saturday morning had destroyed roughly 640 structures around…
World News
Greece Grounded Its Bell Helicopters After a Midair Collision Killed Two Aircrew Over Psatha
Two Bell 214ST helicopters collided in the air over Psatha on Sunday afternoon, killing…
Politics
Trump’s Gaza Deal Set a 300-Day Disarmament Clock and No Date to Stop Shooting
Israeli warplanes hit Gaza City, Deir al-Balah and Khan Younis from dawn on Sunday,…
Breaking News
Indonesia Is Searching for 41 People From the Mutiara Sentosa 2. The Manifest Is the Problem.
A passenger ferry bound for Makassar caught fire in the Java Sea early Sunday,…
Entertainment
Spider-Man: Brand New Day Set a $168 Million Opening Day Record and Nobody Agrees on the Weekend
Sony’s Spider-Man: Brand New Day took roughly $168 million domestically on Friday, the biggest…
War & Conflict
Trump Called Off a Second Iran Strike for a Deal Iran Has Not Confirmed
President Donald Trump announced late Saturday that he was canceling a planned attack on…
Breaking News
Idaho Police Won’t Confirm a Death Toll at an In-N-Out That Opened Eight Days Ago
Twin Falls Police Chief Matthew Hicks stood in front of reporters on Saturday evening…
World News
The Avalanche That Killed Nirmal Purja Caught All Ten of His Climbers at Once
Elite Exped confirmed on Saturday that Nirmal Purja, the Nepali-born British mountaineer who turned…
Politics
Trump Blames Minnesota for the Iran-Linked Water Hack. The Flaw Has No Patch.
In Braham, Minnesota, a city of roughly 1,700 people, the cyberattack that hit the…