Search Intensifies for Missing Hiker After Grand Canyon Floods

This is the morning edition of the One News Page Global Briefing, for Wednesday, the second of September, twenty twenty-six. Here is what matters now.

Rescue teams are pressing ahead with an intensive search at the Grand Canyon after flash flooding over the weekend left at least two people dead and one hiker still missing, officials said. More than eighty people were rescued as torrents of water swept through the area, washing out footbridges over Bright Angel Creek and cutting off access for hikers. The flooding, which struck Saturday afternoon near Bright Angel Canyon and Phantom Ranch, also destroyed the main water pipeline serving tourists and residents, forcing emergency water restrictions. Search efforts have been complicated by continued rain and thunderstorms across the region, a seasonal monsoon pattern that forecasters and park officials warn could produce more flash floods. The National Park Service initially listed about fifteen people as missing or unaccounted for, but the tally later narrowed to one person still unaccounted for as operations continued.

Meanwhile, in the United States, a Las Vegas jury has found Duane "Keffe D" Davis guilty of murder for his role in arranging the one thousand nine hundred and ninety-six drive-by killing of rapper Tupac Shakur, marking the first conviction in a case that had gone unsolved for nearly three decades. Davis, a sixty-three-year-old former South Side Compton Crips gang leader, was convicted of murder with a deadly weapon in connection with a gang-related attack; the jury reached its verdict after about three hours of deliberation. He told the court he would appeal.

In Massachusetts, the jury in the murder trial of Lindsay Clancy could not reach a unanimous verdict after roughly eighteen hours of deliberations, raising the prospect of a mistrial in the case of the former labor and delivery nurse accused of killing her three children. The judge sent the jurors back to continue deliberating. Clancy does not deny strangling her children but has pleaded not guilty to murder, arguing she was suffering from postpartum psychosis. Jurors had deliberated about ten hours last week and another seven hours on Monday before reporting the impasse.

In Washington, the Supreme Court ruled five-four that construction of a new White House ballroom may continue, blocking lower-court orders that had temporarily halted above-ground work on the ninety thousand-square-foot project. The lower courts had found the Trump administration should have sought congressional approval before proceeding. Chief Justice John Roberts dissented, writing that the construction is likely unlawful; the majority did not decide whether the project itself is legal.

In New York, a Bank of America vice president, thirty-two-year-old Erin Piacenti, was fatally stabbed in Times Square in what authorities described as a random, unprovoked daylight attack. Police said the assailant, Pamela Cisneros, forty-nine, was wielding two knives when she stabbed Piacenti and a man before officers shot and killed her. Investigators said Cisneros had a history of mental health contacts with police but no prior arrest record.

In Europe, the German government has accused Russia of carrying out an attempted drone attack at Leipzig airport on four August, saying an explosive-laden drone discovered near Ukrainian cargo planes was part of a systematic campaign of hybrid attacks aimed at causing serious damage. Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt and the foreign minister called the incident dangerous behaviour and announced retaliatory measures, including the closure of a Russian consulate.

In Hong Kong, pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong, twenty-nine, pleaded guilty to a national security charge of conspiring to seek foreign sanctions against Hong Kong and China. Prosecutors accused him of urging Western politicians, including former U S House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senator Marco Rubio, to pressure the city through sanctions, blockades and other hostile measures. Already imprisoned on a separate conviction, Wong could face a minimum of three additional years and up to life imprisonment when sentenced.

In California, a seventeen-year-old North Carolina girl has been charged as an adult with murder for aiding and abetting the May shooting at the Islamic Center of San Diego that killed three people. Prosecutors said Sarah Santiago recorded a livestream of the attack and disseminated the gunmen's white-supremacist manifesto. Forsyth County District Attorney Jim O'Neill said she "ran with the pack" in sharing the violence.

In Massachusetts politics, incumbent Senator Ed Markey, eighty, won the Democratic Senate primary on Tuesday, defeating Representative Seth Moulton, forty-seven, who had argued Markey was too old to be effective. Markey, the oldest senator in Massachusetts history, ran on a progressive platform and is heavily favored to win a third term in the Democratic-leaning state.

In the United Kingdom, summer twenty twenty-six was the hottest on record, according to provisional Met Office data, with an average mean temperature of sixteen point five°C made one hundred and thirty times more likely by the climate crisis. The season brought five widespread heatwaves and forty days above thirty°C, surpassing the previous record of thirty-four days. The record extends back to one thousand eight hundred and eighty-four.

On the Gulf Coast, Tropical Storm Edouard made landfall Tuesday, drenching parts of Texas and Louisiana after strengthening rapidly from a tropical depression late Monday in the Gulf of Mexico. Tropical storm warnings had stretched from Louisiana to Texas, and forecasters warned of heavy rain and flooding along the coast.

In Michigan, Vice President J D Vance called Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed "evil" during a campaign speech on Monday and told him to "keep my wife's name the hell out of your mouth." El-Sayed fired back, accusing Vance of using a "dog whistle" and arguing that depriving people of healthcare and affordable groceries is the real evil. The exchange escalated an already bitter contest between El-Sayed and Republican nominee Mike Rogers.

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