Grand Canyon floods kill at least two, one hiker still missing

This is the evening edition of the One News Page Global Briefing, for Tuesday, the first of September, twenty twenty-six. Here is what matters now.

At least two people have died and one hiker remained missing on Tuesday as search teams pressed on through hazardous weather in the Grand Canyon after weekend flash flooding, officials said. More than eighty others were rescued from the park. The flooding struck Saturday in the Bright Angel Canyon and Phantom Ranch area, destroying nearly all footbridges across Bright Angel Creek and cutting off hikers' access, according to the National Park Service. The deluge also wrecked the only water pipeline serving tourists and residents, prompting emergency water restrictions. Earlier reports put the number of missing or unaccounted for at about fifteen, but by Tuesday officials had confirmed two fatalities and a single missing person. Monsoon rains continued to complicate rescue operations, and the park warned that more flash flooding was possible.

Meanwhile, in Las Vegas, a jury on Monday convicted Duane "Keffe D" Davis of murder with a deadly weapon committed with the intent to promote, further or assist a criminal gang for his role in arranging the one thousand nine hundred and ninety-six killing of rapper Tupac Shakur. The verdict is the first conviction connected to the drive-by shooting. Davis, sixty-three, a former South Side Compton Crips gang leader, was found guilty after the jury deliberated for about three hours, according to court reports. Prosecutors relied heavily on his own confessions. Davis said in court that he would appeal.

In Washington, The U S Supreme Court ruled five-four on Monday that construction of a four hundred dollarsm, ninety thousand-square-foot ballroom at the White House may continue, blocking lower-court orders that had halted above-ground work. The decision granted the Trump administration's request to pause the injunction. Lower courts had found the administration should have sought congressional approval before beginning the project and had temporarily stopped work. The justices did not rule on whether the ballroom is lawful. Chief Justice John Roberts dissented, writing that "construction is likely unlawful."

In North Carolina, prosecutors have charged a seventeen-year-old girl with murder by aiding and abetting for recording and disseminating a livestream of the May shooting at the Islamic Center of San Diego that left three people dead, Forsyth County District Attorney Jim O'Neill said. She also distributed the attackers' manifesto, according to prosecutors. The teenager, identified as Sarah Santiago, will be charged as an adult, O'Neill's office said. Authorities described her as having "run with the pack" in sharing the white-supremacist writings of the two teenage gunmen.

In Massachusetts, jurors in the murder trial of Lindsay Clancy told the judge they were deadlocked after about eighteen hours of deliberations, but the judge instructed them to keep trying to reach a unanimous verdict. Clancy, a former labor and delivery nurse, is charged with killing her three children at the family home in twenty twenty-three. She does not deny strangling the children; her defense argues postpartum psychosis led to her actions. The jury entered its fourth day of deliberations on Tuesday.

At the Pentagon, Army Secretary Dan Driscoll has resigned after months of reported friction with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, the White House said Monday. His departure follows a period of turmoil at the Pentagon that has included leaked investigations and the ousting of senior officials. Driscoll, who had served eighteen months, is the latest high-ranking military leader to leave during the Trump administration. His resignation had been expected.

In New York City, police fatally shot a woman who stabbed two people in Times Square in what Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch called a random and unprovoked attack. One victim, a woman, died in hospital; a man was injured. The suspect, identified as Pamela Cisneros, forty-nine, was wielding two knives and had a history of mental health contacts with police but no prior arrests, authorities said.

In the United Kingdom, Summer twenty twenty-six was the United Kingdom’s hottest since records began in one thousand eight hundred and eighty-four, according to provisional Met Office data. The season brought five widespread heatwaves and forty days above thirty degrees Celsius, surpassing the previous record of thirty-four days. The average mean temperature of sixteen point five degrees Celsius was made one hundred and thirty times more likely by the climate crisis, the Met Office said. In England, temperatures peaked at thirty-eight point one degrees Celsius.

On the U S Gulf Coast, Tropical Storm Edouard churned toward the coast on Tuesday, with forecasters warning it could make landfall in Texas or Louisiana and bring heavy rain and flooding. The system was upgraded from a tropical depression on Monday night. Tropical storm warnings stretched from Louisiana to Texas as the storm approached.

On Capitol Hill, the U S House of Representatives voted three hundred and seventy-forty-eight on Tuesday to pass a continuing resolution that funds the government through eleven December, heading off a shutdown ahead of the November midterm elections. The measure now goes to President Donald Trump.

On the campaign trail, Senator J D Vance called Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed "evil" at a campaign rally and told him to "keep my wife's name the hell out of your mouth." El-Sayed is facing Trump ally Mike Rogers in a race marked by personal attacks.

Also in Massachusetts, Senator Ed Markey held a double-digit lead over Representative Seth Moulton in polls ahead of Tuesday's Democratic Senate primary. Moulton has argued the eighty-year-old incumbent is too old for another term, though both men share progressive platforms.

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