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Ukraine launched one of its largest aerial assaults of the war against Russia overnight into Sunday, firing hundreds of drones at targets across the country, including a major logistics warehouse in the Moscow region, as Russia continued its own bombardment of Ukrainian cities in a war showing no signs of slowing.

Russia’s Defense Ministry said its forces shot down more than 800 Ukrainian drones overnight, describing it as among the largest such attacks it has faced. Russian state news agency TASS called it the largest Ukrainian drone attack since the beginning of the year, with many of the drones aimed at the Moscow region, home to much of the country’s political and economic elite. Andrey Vorobiev, governor of the Moscow region, said air defense forces and electronic warfare units shot down or neutralized 187 drones over the region alone.

At least six people were killed in the attacks. Five people died in Russia’s southern Rostov region, according to that region’s governor, while an 83-year-old man was killed by a separate drone strike elsewhere in the Moscow region, Vorobiev said.

Among the most visible targets was a Wildberries warehouse in the town of Koledino in the Moscow region, part of an extended Ukrainian campaign against the Russian online retailer’s logistics network. Geolocated video showed a large fire engulfing the facility, which the Ukrainian military said covered roughly 250,000 square meters. Ukrainian defense company Fire Point said the strike was carried out using domestically produced FP-1 long-range drones. Vorobiev said no one was injured in that particular strike. A separate fire broke out at a logistics complex in Domodedovo, south of Moscow, according to Ukrainian monitoring channels.

Kyiv has said Wildberries, often described as Russia’s equivalent of Amazon, plays a role in supplying the Russian military, an allegation the company and the Kremlin have denied. Ukraine’s military said Sunday’s strike brought the number of Wildberries’ 10 largest logistics centers it has hit to seven. Wildberries has suffered extensive cumulative damage from the campaign, with estimates cited by Forbes putting combined losses for the company and its sellers at up to 1 trillion rubles, or roughly $11.9 billion, and roughly a third of its total warehouse capacity reportedly destroyed. The company has said it plans to build new warehousing in neighboring Kazakhstan in response.

In the Rostov region, Ukraine’s military said it struck a defense-industrial facility that produces solid rocket propellant used in various Russian weapons systems, part of the broader strike responsible for the five deaths reported there. The Russian Defense Ministry said drones were intercepted over 17 regions in total, concentrated mainly across southern and western Russia.

Russia, meanwhile, continued targeting Ukraine’s capital with a mix of missiles and drones. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said six people were wounded in strikes on Kyiv early Sunday, with a book market among the sites hit. Ballistic missiles also struck Kremenchuk and Kryvyi Rih in central Ukraine, Zelensky said, killing two people in Kryvyi Rih and one more in the northern city of Sumy. At a steel factory in Kryvyi Rih operated by ArcelorMittal, 13 employees were injured and one person died, the company said, adding that rescue and search operations remained ongoing.

Ukraine’s air force said it did not shoot down any of the ballistic missiles fired at the country overnight, underscoring what officials have described as a persistent shortage of missile interceptors. Zelensky said Russia fired more than 1,550 attack drones, nearly 1,560 guided aerial bombs and 62 missiles at Ukraine over the past week alone. He called for greater urgency from Ukraine’s Western partners in supplying additional air defense equipment. “European interceptors cannot simply be allowed to sit in storage,” Zelensky said, arguing that lives depend on faster action and that Russia must be stopped.

The war’s reach extended beyond Ukraine’s and Russia’s own borders Sunday. Romania’s Defense Ministry said an unidentified drone was shot down in Romanian airspace after being intercepted by a Spanish F-18 fighter jet pilot flying a NATO air-policing mission. The ministry said radar detected the drone entering Romanian territory from neighboring Moldova, with fragments falling in an uninhabited area between two villages. It marked the fourth drone shot down over Romanian territory so far this year. In July, Romanian F-16 pilots shot down three Russian drones that breached the country’s airspace, the first such interceptions in the more than four years since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine began.

Sunday’s escalation reflects a broader pattern that has defined the war’s air campaign in recent months, with both sides increasingly targeting infrastructure deep behind the other’s front lines rather than limiting strikes to the immediate battlefield. Ukraine has focused heavily on Russian logistics, energy and industrial targets it says support the country’s war effort, while Russia has continued its long-running campaign of missile and drone strikes against Ukrainian cities, including civilian infrastructure such as the Kyiv book market hit early Sunday.

With no diplomatic resolution in sight and both countries continuing to expand the scale and reach of their respective aerial campaigns, officials on both sides show little indication that the intensity of the conflict is likely to ease in the near term.

Travis Kelce arrived at Arrowhead Stadium on Saturday for the Kansas City Chiefs’ preseason opener against the Los Angeles Rams sporting a very visible reminder of how his life has changed since last season: a gold wedding band, worn publicly for one of the clearest looks yet since he married Taylor Swift last month.

In a video the Chiefs shared on their Instagram account captioned “TK on site,” Kelce walked through the pregame tunnel wearing a black-and-tan outfit, sunglasses and black sneakers, carrying a canned Accelerator Active Energy Drink, a brand he has an investment and partnership with, in his left hand. That positioning put his thick, yellow-gold wedding band on full display, quickly drawing attention from fans in the comments, with one writing that Kelce was “now left-handed like his wife.”

Swift, notably, was not seen at the stadium. The pop star has become a familiar presence in Chiefs suites throughout her relationship with Kelce, but she was absent from Saturday’s preseason opener, having been spotted in London earlier in the week in one of her first public appearances since the couple’s wedding. The absence prompted playful commentary online suggesting Swift had “abandoned” Kelce for their first football outing as a married couple, though there is little indication of any actual tension between the two, with the far more mundane explanation being that their schedules simply didn’t align during the preseason.

Kelce and Swift married July 3 at Madison Square Garden in New York, in a ceremony Reuters reported drew roughly 1,000 guests from entertainment and the NFL. Speaking with reporters this week about the celebration for the first time, Kelce described the night in glowing terms. “Wedding was the best night of my life,” Kelce said, thanking everyone who came out to celebrate with the couple and describing the evening as a “crazy night” filled with celebration. He also reflected on the significance of getting married inside Madison Square Garden, a venue he has described as a childhood dream, and thanked the arena’s ownership for accommodating the couple’s request for a private event.

Despite the attention his ring drew, Kelce did not actually play in Saturday’s game, with Chiefs head coach Andy Reid holding him out of the preseason opener as a precaution. Quarterback Patrick Mahomes was also unavailable, sitting out a preseason game for the first time in his career as Kansas City continues managing his recovery from a serious knee injury suffered last season. With both Kelce and Mahomes on the sideline, the Chiefs turned to Justin Fields as their starting quarterback, with rookie Garrett Nussmeier and Chris Oladokun also seeing playing time.

Kelce, 36, is entering his 14th NFL season after what he has acknowledged was one of the more difficult stretches of his career. Kansas City finished 6-11 last season and missed the playoffs for the first time since 2014, and Kelce has said he could have done more to help the team, identifying leadership specifically as an area where he wants to improve heading into this season. He has said he wants to be someone teammates can count on when adversity hits, adding that there were things he could have handled better in that regard during the difficult 2025 campaign.

Kelce has also pushed back on any suggestion that his eventful offseason, capped by his wedding to one of the most famous performers in the world, has pulled his focus away from football. He has said he feels ready for the season and wants to set the right example for his teammates as camp continues.

Not everyone has been convinced Kelce can return to his earlier level of play. NFL insider Jason La Canfora recently relayed a blunt assessment attributed to an anonymous league scout regarding Kelce’s outlook heading into the season. “Kelce is done. That’s over. What you saw last year, that’s what he is,” the scout said, according to La Canfora, reflecting the skepticism some around the league have expressed about whether Kelce can bounce back after his numbers declined over the past two seasons.

Kelce reported to Chiefs training camp July 29 and has said his attention has fully shifted back toward football since then. He is expected to remain one of Mahomes’ top targets at tight end once the regular season begins, even as questions persist about his ability to match his earlier career production. Kelce has not formally announced whether the 2026 season will be his last in what has already been a Pro Football Hall of Fame-caliber career.

With the preseason underway and the newlyweds continuing to balance two extraordinarily demanding careers, Saturday’s game offered a small but telling glimpse into their post-wedding routine: Kelce back at work preparing for football, wedding ring in full view, while Swift attended to her own commitments elsewhere.

Rebel Creamery has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in Utah, reporting approximately $13.78 million in assets and $23.85 million in liabilities as it appeals a $23.785 million judgment awarded to rival Van Leeuwen Ice Cream in a trade-dress dispute.

Rebel ice cream is sold at Walmart, Kroger, Safeway and other grocery stores nationwide.

Rebel Creamery LLC filed for Chapter 11 protection on Aug. 14 in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Utah, according to court records.

Van Leeuwen is listed among Rebel’s unsecured creditors with a $23.785 million claim stemming from the federal judgment. Rebel listed the claim as disputed and noted that the judgment is under appeal.

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Rebel Creamery has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection following a multimillion-dollar judgment in a packaging dispute with rival Van Leeuwen Ice Cream. (Getty Images )

The Van Leeuwen judgment accounts for nearly all the unsecured liabilities that Rebel listed at fixed amounts in its bankruptcy schedules. The company also reported approximately $5.22 million in cash and cash equivalents, $2.59 million in accounts receivable and $5.65 million in inventory.

Rebel’s voluntary petition estimated both its assets and liabilities at between $10 million and $50 million and said funds would be available for distribution to unsecured creditors. The filing lists Austin Archibald as the company’s manager and member and Michael Johnson of Ray Quinney & Nebeker as bankruptcy counsel.

The bankruptcy filing came less than a month after U.S. District Judge Eric Komitee ruled that Rebel had intentionally infringed and diluted Van Leeuwen’s trade dress through its ice cream packaging.

Rebel ice cream is sold at Walmart locations. (Jeffrey Greenberg/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

“The evidence at that trial left no doubt that Rebel infringed and diluted Van Leeuwen’s trade dress and did so intentionally,” Komitee wrote in a July 16 memorandum and order.

Van Leeuwen sued Rebel in 2021, alleging that the company’s packaging copied the distinctive appearance of its ice cream pints.

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The court described Van Leeuwen’s trade dress as including monochromatic cardboard pints with matching lids, a primarily pastel color palette, black script lettering and an overall minimalist design.

Komitee found that Rebel’s packaging was similar and that the evidence supported findings of consumer confusion and bad faith. The judge ordered Rebel to stop selling products bearing trade dress likely to be confused with Van Leeuwen’s and required the company to redesign its packaging.

President Joe Biden, flanked by host Seth Meyers, patronized Van Leeuwen Ice Cream after taping an episode of “Late Night with Seth Meyers” in New York City on Feb. 26, 2024. (Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images)

Van Leeuwen sought $36.4 million in Rebel’s profits, but the court reduced the award by 33%, finding that some sales were driven by demand for keto and better-for-you ice cream rather than the packaging at issue.

The reduction left Van Leeuwen entitled to $23.785 million in Rebel’s profits from sales of ice cream pints bearing the infringing trade dress.

Court filings do not establish that the Van Leeuwen judgment was the sole cause of Rebel’s bankruptcy filing.

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Rebel’s bankruptcy paperwork lists the Van Leeuwen litigation as being on appeal.

Prince Harry is planning to make significantly more frequent trips back to the United Kingdom in the coming year, according to a report in The Times, following what a source close to the Duke of Sussex described as an “energising” reunion with King Charles III last month.

Harry last visited the UK in July, bringing his wife, Meghan Markle, and their two children, Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet, from their home in California. The trip marked the first time in more than four years that King Charles had been reunited with his grandchildren, now ages seven and four. The family met privately with Charles and Queen Camilla at Highgrove House, the King’s private residence in Gloucestershire, in a gathering that had been kept largely under wraps until after it occurred.

According to The Times, a source close to Harry said the success of that visit has convinced him to return to Britain considerably more often going forward. “The template for his visits has been working well, so the frequency of trips will increase,” the source said, adding that the pace of Harry’s trips would pick up further in the run-up to the 2027 Invictus Games in Birmingham, an event Harry founded and has said he is determined to make the best edition of the competition yet. The source said Harry has grown increasingly focused on his charitable patronages during these visits and hopes to spend less time on legal disputes going forward, while continuing to prioritize time with his family whenever he returns.

Harry’s next UK trip is expected in September, when he will attend the WellChild Awards, a charity event honoring seriously ill children and their caregivers that Harry has attended annually as the organization’s patron. That visit is expected to last roughly a week and will also include continued preparation for the Birmingham Games.

The Highgrove reunion followed a lengthy period of estrangement between Harry and his father. The two had not met in person since February 2024, a gap of roughly 19 months, before reconnecting for a private tea at Clarence House in September 2025. Harry has spoken candidly in the past about his desire to repair the relationship, telling the BBC following a separate visit that he did not know how much longer his father had, referencing Charles’s ongoing cancer treatment, and expressing hope for reconciliation. “I would love reconciliation with my family,” Harry said at the time, adding that he saw no benefit in continuing to fight with relatives.

The relationship between Harry and the royal family has remained strained since he and Meghan stepped back from their roles as senior working royals in 2020 and relocated to California. That estrangement deepened considerably following the couple’s 2021 interview with Oprah Winfrey, their Netflix documentary series, and Harry’s 2023 memoir, “Spare,” all of which detailed private family disputes and tensions with both Charles and Prince William. A separate legal battle over Harry’s publicly funded security arrangements during UK visits further complicated the relationship, with Harry saying in 2025 that his father had stopped speaking with him specifically because of the ongoing security dispute.

During the family’s July visit, Harry, Meghan and their children also traveled to Althorp in Northamptonshire, the ancestral home of the Spencer family and the burial site of Harry’s mother, Princess Diana. Harry spent time there with his uncle, Charles Spencer, the ninth Earl Spencer, and Spencer’s wife, Norwegian archaeologist Dr. Cat Jarman. Meghan later shared photos from the visit on Instagram, including images showing Harry and Archie carrying flowers believed to have been placed at Diana’s grave, along with photos from the family’s broader summer travels, including time spent at their holiday home in Portugal.

It remains unclear whether Meghan and the couple’s children will accompany Harry on each of his more frequent planned visits going forward, or whether some of the increased travel will involve Harry returning to the UK alone to focus specifically on his charitable and Invictus-related commitments. Buckingham Palace has not issued official comment on the reported plans for more frequent visits.

With Invictus Games preparations intensifying and Harry’s relationship with his father showing signs of continued warming following the July reunion, the coming months are likely to offer further indications of whether the reported shift toward more regular UK visits materializes as described, and whether it corresponds with any broader, sustained improvement in Harry’s relationship with the rest of the royal family beyond his father.

TUCSON, Ariz. — The president of the union representing Pima County sheriff’s deputies says the investigation into the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie, the mother of “Today” show co-anchor Savannah Guthrie, was hampered from its earliest days by a homicide unit left short of experienced detectives following an unrelated internal personnel dispute.

Sgt. Aaron Cross, president of the Pima County Deputies Organization, detailed his account of the staffing issues in an interview published August 15 by TMZ. According to Cross, two of the department’s most senior homicide detectives had been investigating a separate homicide case and were building probable cause against a suspect when a commander pressured them to make an arrest before they believed the case was ready. “What happened is two most senior detectives in the Homicide unit had been transferred out,” Cross said, adding that when the detectives declined to arrest the suspect prematurely, they were reassigned out of the Homicide Unit and into the Cold Case Unit.

Cross said that reassignment, which predated Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance and was unrelated to her case, ultimately left the Homicide Unit short-staffed and inexperienced by the time she vanished from her Tucson home in the early hours of February 1. According to Cross, the sergeant placed in charge of the Guthrie investigation had been promoted to that rank only in 2023 and had no prior homicide experience before rapidly moving from patrol duty into the unit. Cross said the detectives assigned to assist likewise had limited experience, generally three years or less, which he described as an unusual staffing decision for a case that quickly drew intense local and national scrutiny.

Cross’s account of the commander who ordered the earlier reassignment, whom he described as one of Sheriff Chris Nanos’s “favoured sons,” has not been independently confirmed. Cross has a documented history of political friction with Nanos. According to Fox News, Nanos placed Cross on administrative leave in the weeks before the sheriff’s contested 2024 re-election, which he won by just 481 votes, after Cross had publicly opposed him and allegedly collaborated with one of his election opponents. That history should be weighed alongside Cross’s latest allegations, which reflect his own characterization of internal department dynamics rather than an independently verified account.

Cross’s criticism echoes concerns raised earlier this year by separate sources. Fox News Digital reported in April, citing two sources with knowledge of the department, that only one detective assigned to the Homicide Unit at the time of Guthrie’s disappearance had more than three years of experience, while five others had less than two years, and that the sergeant supervising the unit had roughly six months of experience in that role and had never personally worked a homicide case before being placed in charge.

Sheriff Nanos has pushed back against ongoing criticism of the investigation’s handling. Addressing scrutiny of the case earlier this year, Nanos said internal or political commentary distracts from the active investigation, and that his department’s focus remains on pursuing justice and transparency for the Guthrie family. Nanos has also maintained publicly that the case remains active and has not become a cold case, despite the extended timeline.

Cross’s comments were not limited to detective experience levels. He also raised concerns about the department’s decision to allow Nancy Guthrie’s family control over the crime scene relatively early in the investigation, according to reporting from The Daily Beast, and pointed to broader coordination problems between local and federal investigators. A separate Wall Street Journal examination of the investigation reported additional concerns involving coordination between local and federal authorities and the handling of evidence during the case, adding to the broader scrutiny surrounding the department’s response.

Nancy Guthrie, 84, was last seen by family on January 31 at her home in Tucson’s Catalina Foothills neighborhood and was reported missing the following day. The FBI has said an armed individual appeared to tamper with her doorbell camera around the time of her disappearance, and blood found at her home has been confirmed to belong to her. The case is being investigated as a kidnapping, with two ransom notes tied to the disappearance made public in late July. No suspect has been publicly named, and Guthrie has not been found more than six and a half months after she vanished.

Cross was careful to frame his criticism around staffing and process decisions rather than claiming that different personnel choices would necessarily have solved the case. His allegations, however, add to a broader pattern of scrutiny surrounding the Pima County Sheriff’s Department’s handling of one of the most closely watched missing-person investigations in the country, at a moment when the Guthrie family continues to wait for answers about Nancy’s whereabouts.

Neither the Pima County Sheriff’s Department nor Sheriff Nanos has issued a detailed, on-the-record response specifically addressing Cross’s claims regarding the earlier detective transfers or the characterization of the commander involved in that decision.

Nicole Kidman says she and her “Lioness” castmates, including Morgan Freeman, have developed a demanding pre-scene ritual to keep up with the density of the scripts Taylor Sheridan writes for the CIA thriller, running through their lines together and quizzing each other on the meaning of nearly every word before cameras start rolling.

Speaking at Paramount+’s “The Icons of Taylor Sheridan’s Universe” event in April, Kidman described the sheer level of preparation required to make Sheridan’s dialogue feel natural on screen. “We have to understand every single thing we’re saying,” Kidman said, describing the scripts as dense and the process of fully absorbing them as a significant undertaking each episode.

Kidman said that before filming key scenes, she, Freeman and co-star Michael Kelly regularly run their lines together, then work through the material further to make sure every term and reference actually makes sense to them. She described the process as needing to become second nature, saying dialogue has to come across as though it’s language the actors would naturally use every day, even though much of the show’s specialized CIA and military terminology is far from their normal vocabulary. Kidman said she and her castmates work through that material by repeatedly asking each other to define and clarify terms until the meaning is fully locked in.

Beyond the line-running sessions with her co-stars, Kidman has said she works with a dedicated research team to help her understand every specific term she uses on screen, supplementing the fact-checking work Sheridan does himself as the show’s creator and primary writer. Kidman has previously compared the overall experience of preparing for the role to writing a thesis on the CIA, given the depth of research required to keep up with the show’s rapidly evolving, topical storylines. She said the show’s third season in particular has felt especially urgent and relevant, describing the experience of filming it as constantly navigating difficult, high-stakes subject matter that requires the cast to stay sharp scene to scene.

Freeman, 89, has offered his own praise for Sheridan’s writing style in a separate interview with The New York Times, crediting the creator’s ability to center the human experience within high-stakes, geopolitically charged storylines. Sheridan’s work, Freeman said, “has to do more with the human experience, what people are actually going through,” pointing to the emotional realism he says has defined Sheridan’s writing across multiple projects, including “Yellowstone.” Freeman specifically highlighted the character arc of Zoe Saldaña’s Joe McNamara within “Lioness,” noting the personal stakes involved for a woman balancing a dangerous covert career with a husband and children at home, and praising Sheridan for having what he called the courage to write honestly about those kinds of difficult, high-pressure personal decisions.

“Lioness,” which returned for its third season August 2 on Paramount+, follows Joe as she leads the CIA’s Lioness undercover program while navigating threats that increasingly bleed into her personal life. According to the show’s official logline, unseen forces circle Joe’s world throughout the new season as patterns emerge, names vanish and paths rearrange, forcing her to confront enemies operating in the shadows while managing a growing conflict between her professional duty and her home life. Kidman plays CIA supervisor Kaitlyn Meade, Kelly plays CIA Deputy Director of Operations Byron Westfield, and Freeman plays Secretary of State Edwin Mullins, rounding out the trio of senior officials who guide Joe’s missions from Washington.

Season three consists of eight episodes, released weekly on Sundays, following the same episode-count structure as the show’s first two seasons. The series, created by Sheridan and based loosely on a real CIA program, launched in 2023 and has grown into one of several Sheridan-created shows currently airing across Paramount+, alongside projects including “Yellowstone,” “Landman,” “Mayor of Kingstown” and “Tulsa King.”

Both Kidman and Saldaña serve as executive producers on the series in addition to their on-screen roles, giving them a hand in shaping the show’s direction behind the scenes as well. The extensive preparation Kidman has described, running lines, defining unfamiliar terminology and consulting outside research, reflects the broader approach the cast has taken toward capturing the technical authenticity that has become a hallmark of Sheridan’s high-profile television projects.

With new episodes continuing to release weekly through late September, “Lioness” remains one of the most closely watched entries in Sheridan’s expanding television universe, with Kidman, Freeman and the rest of the ensemble cast continuing to lean on their behind-the-scenes preparation routine to keep pace with the show’s dense, fast-moving scripts.