Trump Starts IndyCar Race on Washington Streets

This is the morning edition of the One News Page Global Briefing, for Monday, the twenty-fourth of August, twenty twenty-six. Here is what matters now.

President Donald Trump opened the Freedom two hundred and fifty Grand Prix IndyCar race through downtown Washington, D.C., on Sunday, taking a ceremonial lap of the course in his presidential limousine before waving the green flag to start the field. American driver Kyle Kirkwood won the race in a dominant performance, securing his second victory of the IndyCar season. D C Mayor Muriel Bowser served as grand marshal. The event was staged as part of a summer of celebrations marking the two hundred and fiftyth anniversary of the founding of the United States. The Guardian described the president initially holding the flag awkwardly until First Lady Melania Trump and Command Sgt Maj Matt Williams showed him how to hold it, after which he waved it vigorously.

Meanwhile, in the United States, nearly two weeks after storms struck northwest Indiana on Aug. eleven, thousands of residents were still without electricity as of Saturday, and full restoration was not expected until the following week. The storms killed at least seven people, displaced about one thousand residents, and brought record rainfall that flooded several communities, including Gary, where roughly a third of residents live below the poverty line. Indiana Governor Mike Braun called on the local utility to match the urgency of residents enduring the prolonged outage.

Elsewhere in the region, a fast-growing wildfire known as the Hawk Fire pushed from the Sierra foothills toward Reno, Nevada, on Sunday, scorching more than thirteen thousand acres and forcing nearly forty-two thousand residents to evacuate. Flames threatened neighborhoods and reached the edge of the University of Nevada, Reno campus. The blaze apparently began Saturday and grew rapidly, fueled by strong gusty winds, low humidity and dry vegetation. At least two hundred new fires erupted nationwide over the weekend.

In the United Kingdom, CrossCountry cancelled almost all of its train services across Great Britain on Sunday after a power cut disabled its control centre in Birmingham, with most routes suspended until further notice. Affected corridors included services between Glasgow and Edinburgh, Manchester and Birmingham, Cheltenham and Cardiff, and Newcastle and Edinburgh. The Transport Secretary asked publicly owned operators to lay on extra services where possible, and passengers described the disruption as the worst case scenario.

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