Legendary Broadway composer Andrew Lloyd Webber decried the “unsustainable cost” of producing big Broadway stage shows in an open letter posted to Instagram on Saturday.

Webber spoke out after the show Cats: The Jellicle Ball closed prematurely when the production could not put enough audience members in the seats.

The Phantom of the Opera composer wrote that he was “gutted” that the show was closing early and added that he is “immensely proud” of being part of the production. But it was all to no avail, and Webber used his note to worry over the costs of putting on stage shows.

“Maybe the show's closing just might be remembered as the moment that caused everyone involved with Broadway to come to their senses and address the unsustainable cost of producing and running any new show on The Great White Way, let alone daring new work,” Webber wrote. “My undying thanks to the producers and investors and everyone who believed in Jellicle Cats. I won't forget you.”

Polk County, Florida, Sheriff’s Office K9 Ace was released from the veterinary hospital Sunday with his front left leg amputated after being shot by a man who ambushed deputies August 6, 2026.

There are so many people and organizations that the Polk County Sheriff’s Office would like to acknowledge and thank for their part in getting our K9 Ace the help he needed after he was shot by a suspect on Thursday, August 6, 2026.

Immediately after he was wounded, Ace was… pic.twitter.com/R8o1olmXq3

— Polk County Sheriff 🚔 Grady Judd (@PolkCoSheriff) August 7, 2026

CBS 12 reported that deputies were trying to arrest Angel Bowers around 6:15 p.m. and he opened fire as Ace and three deputies closed in. One of the rounds “struck Ace in the left side of his chest and exited through his left shoulder, severely damaging his front leg and an artery.”

Ace’s handler, Deputy Natalie Oestreich, carried him from the scene and transported him to Parkway Veterinary Emergency Clinic in Lakeland, where they were able to stop the bleeding and stabilize the K9. He went into surgery and the leg had to be amputated.

AP — Ukraine attacked the petroleum hub of Nizhnekamsk in central Russia´s Tatarstan region on Monday, killing 13 people and injuring 75 others, local authorities said, in one of the deadliest attacks in the country in the 4-year-old war.

The Ukrainian military said it hit an oil refinery in Nizhnekamsk, which is about 1,200 kilometers (750 miles) east of the Ukrainian border and has a population of about 240,000.

Russian officials didn’t say what the drones targeted, but the city is home to two refineries and a petrochemical plant. Ukraine has targeted Russian oil facilities with long-range drones almost daily in recent months. The campaign has caused fuel shortages in Russia, eaten into its refining capacity and unsettled the population.
Also on Monday, several Ukrainian drones sparked a fire at an industrial facility in the Tyumen region of western Siberia, said Gov. Alexander Moor, without offering any details. Last month, Ukrainian drones hit a refinery in Tyumen, more than 2,400 kilometers (about 1,500 miles) east of the border with Ukraine.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says his country is trying to force Russian President Vladimir Putin to the negotiating table and

White House staff secretary Will Scharf, who often explains President Donald Trump’s executive actions to reporters before the president signs them in the Oval Office, will become White House counsel and assistant to the president beginning next month.

Trump announced Sunday night that Scharf will be moving into the role, as current White House Counsel David Warrington departs the administration.

Trump spoke glowingly of Scharf, saying he “has done an amazing job” as White House staff secretary and as chairman of the National Planning Commission:

I know Will well! He previously represented me in numerous cases, including at the Supreme Court, during the Biden Administration's corrupt and illegal campaign of Weaponization. He also previously served as a Federal Prosecutor, worked as an attorney in private practice, clerked for two

A shadowy specialist police task force in Britain tasked with monitoring anti-immigration sentiment online has reportedly referred over a hundred social media posts to local police for potential arrests.

According to data released following Freedom of Information requests, the National Internet Intelligence Investigations unit has notified local police forces about 106 social media posts, The Daily Telegraph reported.

This included 50 posts in June in the wake of the disclosures surrounding the murder of teen Henry Nowak, who was stabbed to death by Sikh man Vikrum Digwa and had his pleas for help ignored by police officers, who refused to believe the dying student because his killer claimed to have been a victim of racism.

Footage of Nowak’s final moments sparked protests and riots in Southampton and drew accusations of two-tier policing on social media, with critics claiming that Nowak was treated differently from Digwa because he was white.

The National Internet Intelligence Investigations task force was established in the wake of the Southport riots, which erupted after Rwandan-heritage teen Axel Rudakubana killed three young girls and injured 10 others in a mass stabbing at a Taylor Swith dance party.

Former NBA player Enes Kanter Freedom has now filed the paperwork to declare his intention to become an official prospect for the 2027 WNBA Draft.

In a social media post on Monday, Kanter says “rules are rules” as he is shown in the video filling out the paperwork to declare for the WNBA Draft.

Officially official, @WNBA

I have officially declared for the 2027 #WNBA Draft.

Rules are rules!#LetFreedomPlay pic.twitter.com/d1iXjPxqSY

— Enes Kanter FREEDOM (@EnesFreedom) August 10, 2026

In the video, Kanter wears a black t-shirt, upon which a message reads: “Invest in women, Pay women. Hire women.”

The document that Kanter signed and has been sent to the WNBA reads as follows:

Please accept this formal document as my official written notification to the Women’s National Basketball Association of my voluntary decision to enter the player pool for the 2027 WNBA Draft. Consistent with the current league collective bargaining agreement, I am submitting this notice to exercise my draft rights and to affirm that I am at least twenty-two years old and that I have no remaining intercollegiate eligibility, as required by Article XIII, Section 1(b). I request that the WNBA

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has published an essay outlining a philosophy for developing AI that he says should center on individual empowerment rather than concentrated institutional control.

In the essay, Zuckerberg argues that superintelligent AI should be distributed widely to individuals rather than restricted to a small number of companies, governments or institutions. He frames the approach around three principles: individual empowerment as “the source of prosperity,” invention as “the primary purpose of superintelligence,” and a balance of power as “the foundation of safety.” The essay extends Zuckerberg’s AI optimism position established at the end of July.

Zuckerberg criticized what he described as fatalistic rhetoric from other AI developers. “I do not understand why anyone who believes that AI will eliminate most jobs and much of humanity’s relevance would rush to build that future,” he wrote, adding that concentrating power in the hopes an “absolute power will benevolently provide for humanity” has historically failed to produce safe outcomes.

He outlined several products Meta is building under this philosophy, including a personal AI agent meant to work “24/7” on tasks such as health monitoring, career planning and hobbies,

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) announced that she had decided to start freezing her eggs, explaining that it was a choice she was “making to feel more in control” of her life.

In a series of Instagram stories, Ocasio-Cortez shared that she “felt empowered to make this choice,” the New York Post reported. Ocasio-Cortez, 36, also spoke about how she has been asked about a “potential 2028 presidential run,” pointing out that a lot of lawmakers “approach these considerations or these decisions through the larger context” of their lives.

“This is a choice that I am making to feel more in control of my life,” Ocasio-Cortez said. “And if people want to make assumptions about my decision, let them make those assumptions. I feel empowered to make this choice.”

AOC is starting her journey for freezing her eggs!

Sharing her doing the shot.

"Don't be weird about this even though I know you all will be".

She knows the internet so well. pic.twitter.com/2ywzN8R5d9

— Winter (@LeftyWinter) August 9, 2026

Ocasio-Cortez, who has been engaged to her fiancée Riley Roberts since 2022, added that prior to an interview on ABC News’s This Week, she “planned

Police arrested a man with a lengthy criminal history who is now accused of randomly sucker-punching a 61-year-old woman in Miami, Florida, on Thursday.

The incident happened in the Little Havana neighborhood when the woman was seen on surveillance camera as she walked along Southwest 8th Street, NBC Miami reported Thursday.

The suspect in the case was identified as 40-year-old Tavaris Greene whom the outlet said had been arrested several times in years prior and served time in prison for stealing and burglary.

Video footage showed the suspect, wearing a dark colored shirt and camouflage pants, as he approached the victim. As she moved to walk past him, the man allegedly punched her in the face and she fell to the ground.

The suspect ran from the scene as the woman lay on the pavement until locals ran over to help her.

WARING — GRAPHIC VIDEO:

NEW: Another felon psycho arrested for randomly sucker-punching a 61-year-old white woman in the face in Miami, FL.

The suspect, identified as 40-year-old Tavaris Greene, was charged with felony battery after allegedly punching the woman as

A small cruise ship operating in Southeast Alaska made an unexpected detour Monday night to help a 21-foot skiff that had run out of fuel between Petersburg and Juneau. Mark Zuckerberg’s $300 million superyacht reportedly was closer to the crippled vessel but ignored calls for help.

The Alaska Beacon reports that Michael Love, a passenger aboard the small cruise ship that rescued the stranded boat, described the incident on social media. What caught his attention most, he said, was when the ship’s captain announced that a nearby yacht belonging to Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg was closer to the stranded boat but had not answered the radio call for help.

“There was near unanimous booing when the captain announced this,” Love wrote in a post on the social media platform Bluesky.

Vessel tracking data from the area supports part of that account. The tracking shows the $300 million, 387-foot superyacht Launchpad slowing to a halt outside Farragut Bay while the UnCruise Adventures ship Wilderness Legacy travels around and past the Launchpad, stops near the apparent location of the skiff, and tows it into sheltered Farragut Bay.

In a message on

Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party has pledged to cut taxpayer money from local governments that refuse to protect female-only spaces as leftist councils are set to defy the Supreme Court ruling, which affirmed that “transgender women” are not actually women.

In a landmark decision made last year, the UK Supreme Court ruled that categories such as women refer to biology, not gender, when concerned with matters of the law, meaning that biological males who identified as women could not claim the special benefits society denotes specifically to biological women.

As a result of the ruling, public-facing institutions, including government branches and private businesses that frequently interact with the public, must provide single-sex spaces, such as female-only toilets.

Yet some on the political left appear set to defy the ruling, including the leftist-controlled Lambeth Council in London, which has vowed to defy such rules and continue to allow transgender individuals free rein in traditionally female spaces.

A further five London boroughs have also said that they intend to maintain an “inclusive” approach, claiming that the rules to protect women “feel like an attack” on transgender individuals.

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