Thanks for reading the Weekend Briefing, especially when summer holidays offer tempting alternatives to wallowing in news. Today's edition of the World News podcast discusses the plight of Gaza's children, while our latest AI&Us entry focuses on people using artificial intelligence for therapy. And City Memo takes us to Seoul.
From Jackson Hole: The Federal Reserve chair pointed to a possible rate cut at the central bank's September meeting but stopped short of committing. Some investors think markets are getting ahead of themselves, particularly as the White House tries to assert more political influence on monetary policy. Check out these nifty graphs that show how various stocks reacted.
Trump threatens Cook: The president said he would fire Fed governor Lisa Cook if she doesn't resign. The first Black woman to serve on the board said she had "no intention of being bullied to step down." Trump demanded her resignation based on allegations about mortgages she holds in Michigan and Georgia.
Revaluation: Syria will issue new banknotes, removing two zeroes from its currency – as well as pictures of Bashar and Hafez al-Assad – to try to restore confidence in the severely devalued pound.
The latest: Russia and Ukraine have stepped up their attacks on each other's energy infrastructure as President Trump pushes for a deal to end the conflict. Vladimir Putin has a long list of demands for Ukraine. Russia's foreign minister complained that Volodymyr Zelenskiy keeps saying "no to everything." Russian kids as young as 8 are getting military training.
Adviser turned critic: Bolton has called Trump unfit to serve and wrote a scathing book about his time in Trump's first administration. It was not clear why the FBI was searching his property.
Massacre: Rwandan-backed M23 rebels killed at least 140 people in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo in July, the group said. Rebels with machetes and hoes killed more than 50 in recent days, local officials said.
The replacements: Americans are deeply concerned that advances in artificial intelligence will put swaths of the country out of work permanently, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll. A Google Cloud survey shows that 87% of videogame developers are using AI agents to do some of their work. And some investors say AI gains in technology shares are overdone.
A dearth of education among Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh because of U.S. aid cuts is leading to child marriages and a generation of untaught children.
A 4-mile lake in northern Pakistan, created by a mountain mudslide, is threatening to burst and unleash potentially "catastrophic" floods downstream.
Ghislaine Maxwelltold a top Justice Department official in July that she was not aware of any "client list" belonging to Jeffrey Epstein and never saw Donald Trump behave inappropriately.
Luxury tourism in Africa is raining benefits down on many, but locals aren't among them, research shows.
Cracker Barreldispensed with the man in the overalls who's been sitting in their logo for years. Donald Trump Jr. and other social-media users engaged in outrage.
The tale that hangs by a thread: An art historian started a petition to block France from lending the Bayeux tapestry to Britain as part of an art exchange.
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