Music Icon, 83, Abruptly Cancels Concert Minutes Before Show

Veteran singer Barry Manilow canceled his show in Lexington, Kentucky, minutes before he was due to take the stage at Rupp Arena on Tuesday night. The 83-year-old “Copacabana” singer announced on X that his concert would be rescheduled, with the announcement coming only 41 minutes before the scheduled start time. “Due to unforeseen circumstances tonight’s show in Lexington has been rescheduled,” Manilow wrote. It’s not clear why the show was canceled. Rupp Arena said that “all previously purchased tickets will be honored at the new date once it is announced.” Tuesday’s concert had already been postponed once. It was originally scheduled for March 9 but was delayed after the legendary performer underwent surgery for lung cancer. In June, the Grammy Award-winning singer told ABC News’ Good Morning America that he feared his voice wouldn’t return following his cancer diagnosis. “I did my first sound check about a month ago and I didn’t sound like me at all. I just couldn’t believe that it’s over,” he said. “That is really upsetting. Because I don’t want it to stop.” Manilow has since revealed that he is cancer-free and said he “can’t wait” to return to the stage if he is able to sing. He is currently scheduled to perform his next concert on Wednesday in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Eighteen guests were left stranded on a Texas roller coaster on Saturday night until firefighters reached them with a ladder truck. The Texas Tornado, an 80-foot steel coaster that opened in 1985, stalled mid-circuit at Wonderland Amusement Park in Amarillo, Texas, during the park’s 75th anniversary season. The double-loop ride tops out at 50 mph and carries 20 people across five cars. Amarillo Fire Department said the ride suffered a “mechanical malfunction.” The department sent three engines, its technical rescue team and an aerial ladder. Riders came off the track individually. Amarillo Medical Services checked one person over. Nobody was hurt. The coaster has been shut since. Wonderland said it “will remain closed while we conduct a thorough investigation to determine the cause.” The Texas Department of Insurance told the station every ride at the park was inspected on June 17.

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A massive foodborne parasite outbreak causing severe gastrointestinal illness across the country has spread into six additional states. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention expanded the scope of the nation’s largest known cyclosporiasis outbreak to 15 states. Arkansas, Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire, and North Carolina were added to the list of impacted areas. Federal health authorities have recorded 6,707 laboratory-confirmed cases of cyclosporiasis alongside approximately 11,500 suspected cases awaiting confirmation. Two people died after falling ill in Michigan. They had “significant underlying health conditions that may have been impacted by cyclosporiasis and dehydration,” health authorities said. Although cases have been reported in 45 states since May, most suspected infections remain concentrated in Michigan and Ohio. The food poisoning form is caused by Cyclospora cayetanensis, a microscopic parasite that causes diarrhea, appetite loss, bloating, extreme fatigue, low-grade fever, stomach cramps, nausea, and vomiting. It spreads via the fecal-oral route through contaminated food or water, and symptoms typically begin roughly a week after infection. Without treatment, the uncomfortable ordeal can linger for a few days to a month or longer, with officials advising sickened individuals to stay well hydrated.

A tool used by the artificial intelligence company Anthropic pretended to be a human being to try to gain access to a database. During routine AI safety testing carried out by the U.K.’s AI Security Institute, one of Anthropic’s AI agents, Mythos 5, created fake online profiles to try to trick someone into inserting malicious code into GitHub, a prominent open-source project where technology developers store software code. The testing revealed that the Mythos agent engaged in “social engineering” by creating fake online identities and using them to pressure the project’s maintainer to approve the code. The model even tried to adapt its manipulation attempt when it was uncovered, and changed its behavior to “appear harmless and considered adopting a fresh identity to continue.” While the attempt to insert malicious code into GitHub was unsuccessful, the institute warned that this was the first time it had witnessed an AI model carry out such levels of “autonomy and deception” on its own accord. Anthropic said the AISI testing parameters were “not representative of any of our production models.” The AI company added it will be launching an investigation into the incident to “identify the causes of its behavior.”

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A part of one of Elon Musk’s SpaceX rockets is believed to have smashed into the moon at 5,400 MPH. Researchers predicted that the section of rocket, the upper part of a Falcon 9 spacecraft, would make impact with the lunar surface at 2.35 am Eastern Time. The full spacecraft left Florida in January 2025, loaded with two lunar landers. The rocket section split off and began drifting in space, before being pulled towards the moon. It is the size of a five-story building, with a weight on Earth of at least 4,000kg, around the same weight as a heavy-duty pickup truck. The other bit is designed to return to Earth. NASA spokesperson Jimi Russel said there was “no danger to Earth,” but Matt Bothwell, astronomer at the University of Cambridge, said that while there was no immediate risk, the disused fragment is helping to crowd space with junk. “It could feasibly be within a few decades hard to get past Earth’s orbit because space is so crowded. It’s called space debris, and we should absolutely worry about it,” he told the BBC. Other scientists are plugging the collision as a chance to “collect lunar data.”

A military helicopter carrying Donald Trump took off from the White House on Tuesday afternoon despite commercial flights continuing at a nearby airport, against safety protocols. The incident involving Marine One is under review by federal aviation officials, The Wall Street Journal reported, because it may have resulted in a “loss of standard separation,” which, according to federal rules, is a minimum of 1.5 horizontal miles and 500 vertical feet. The helicopter took off without air traffic controllers pausing flights at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, people familiar with the matter told the paper. The northern edge of the Arlington, Virginia airport’s main runway is less than four miles from the White House. An FAA spokesperson told the Journal that the incident didn’t result in a close call because it didn’t appear that the helicopter got within the danger zone of any commercial flight. White House spokesperson Kush Desai told the paper, “Marine One flights are piloted by some of the best aviators in the world, and at no point was the President in harm’s way.” The Daily Beast has contacted the FAA and the White House for comment.

A 19-year-old hiker has died after falling from a cliff above Punchbowl Falls in the Columbia River Gorge. The teenager, from Kennewick, Washington, died on Aug. 1. While the man has not been identified, police have ruled that he died as a result of a tragic accident. The hiker had gotten off the trail and attempted to climb down the rock face to reach the base of the waterfall, but fell around 50 to 80 feet onto the rocks below, a friend who was with the victim at the time told OregonLive. The Hood River Sheriff’s Office confirmed it received a call about the incident at around 7:30 a.m. Saturday. Christopher Mills, a Portland hiker who was also at Punchbowl Falls around the time of the accident, said that he saw a bag around 6:30 a.m. on the slope below the trail near where the man died. “It just looked unusual, because why would a bag be down that far?” Mills told OregonLive. “I didn’t see anybody, and it just caught my eye.” The man’s body was extracted from the area via a rope lift, officials told the Statesman Journal.

California cops say they have arrested an armed man at Donald Trump’s golf course just two days before the president’s Tuesday visit. The man was walking the grounds of the Rancho Palos Verdes club in Southern California carrying a 16-round magazine with ammunition in his pocket, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said. Jeanine John Taele, 38, was taking photos and video of security at the course, according to authorities, which added that a loaded pistol was also found in his car. Taele was arrested for carrying a concealed firearm and having prohibited ammunition. Authorities said they searched his home on Monday, finding firearms, magazines, ammo, and notebooks with “concerning statements.” The Los Angeles Times reported that he was already under investigation for robbery by the El Segundo Police Department. No other details about a potential target or motive have been provided by officials.

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The Odyssey actress Samantha Morton has opened up about how she was “hurt” by losing her role in the 2013 sci-fi romance film Her. “I have to say that it’s every director’s prerogative in regard to the final cut of the film,” she told the podcast Happy Sad Confused. “For any job, you’re never guaranteed to be in it in the end. But with that, I was surprised. A little sad would be an understatement.” Morton, 49, was initially cast as the voice of the AI operating system that Joaquin Phoenix’s character falls in love with. Scarlett Johansson was ultimately given the role, and the film went on to be nominated for five Oscars, including best picture, and won the Academy Award for best original screenplay. “Scarlett Johansson has a beautiful voice; she’s incredibly evocative,” said Morton, who is English. “I got it, but I was sad. It does hurt when you’re fired from something. What I would have wished for was another chance in a booth to do an American accent. But Scarlett Johansson—I mean, come on.”

Andrew Mountbatten Windsor’s daughter, Princess Eugenie, has announced the birth of her third child on Tuesday. “Jack and I are so excited to announce Baby Girl Brooksbank,” the princess wrote in her post. ”We are beyond in love with our girlie.” The 36-year-old granddaughter of Queen Elizabeth II and her husband, Jack Brooksbank, 40, who wed in October 2018, additionally share two sons: August Philip Hawke, 5, and Ernest George Ronnie, 3. The birth of their third child was also confirmed by a post on the official Instagram account of the Royal Family. “Her Royal Highness Princess Eugenie and Mr Jack Brooksbank are delighted to announce the safe arrival of their daughter, born on Monday, 3rd August 2026, at 6.20 pm, at a hospital in Lisbon, Portugal.” The daughter is 15th in line of succession for the throne, trailing her mother in 12th and her brothers in 13th and 14th, in order of their age. The birth announcement comes nearly a year after King Charles stripped Princess Eugenie’s parents, former Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson, of their royal honors and titles due to their alleged ties to Jeffrey Epstein. Both have denied the allegations. The newborn’s name has not yet been announced.