Good evening. It’s Sunday, August 3.

1. Texas Dems Flee

2. Secret Service Halts Security Clearance for Ex‑Director

3. Tens of Thousands of Israelis Call for End to War

4. Loni Anderson, 'WKRP in Cincinnati' Star, Dies at 79

5. AI Genius Rejects $1B Offer from Zuckerberg

6. World’s ‘Oldest Baby’ Born from Embryo Frozen in 1994

7. Russian Volcano Erupts for First Time in 600 Years

1. Texas Dems Flee

Texas Democrats left the state Sunday in an attempt to prevent the state House from holding a vote Monday on new congressional maps that Republicans hope will net them several additional U.S. House seats in the 2026 midterm elections.

The dramatic move could expose Democrats to fines and other penalties — with the state’s attorney general having previously threatened to arrest them if they took such an action.

Refusing to attend legislative sessions is a civil violation, however, so Democrats legally could not be jailed and it’s unclear who has the power to carry out the warrants.

2. Secret Service Halts Security Clearance for Ex‑Director

The Secret Service was moving forward with renewing former Director Kimberly Cheatle’s top-level security clearance but reversed course after RealClearPolitics inquired about a key senator’s opposition, according to multiple sources in the Secret Service community.

Sen. Ron Johnson, a Wisconsin Republican who chairs the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations and previously chaired the full Homeland Security panel, argued that Cheatle should not have her security clearance renewed after her leadership decisions contributed to the agency’s numerous failures surrounding the assassination attempt against Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania.

“Following the security debacle in Butler, the former director of USSS made the right decision to resign,” Johnson told RCP. “I see no reason for her security clearance to be reinstated.”

3. Tens of Thousands of Israelis Call for End to War

Tens of thousands of Israelis protested in Tel Aviv on Sunday to call for an end to the war and freedom for the hostages in Gaza after Hamas aired propaganda videos showing emaciated captives.

Chants of “Stop the war!” and “Leave no one behind!” filled the city’s Hostage Square after attendees watched a broadcast of the latest terrorist video featuring skeletal Israeli hostage Evyatar David holding a shovel inside a dark tunnel and saying he was digging his own grave.

The video came just a few days after Hamas released images of Nova festival survivor Rom Braslavski appearing “thin, limp, and crying,” with the hostage so emaciated that his family did not recognize him when they saw him.

4. Loni Anderson, ‘WKRP in Cincinnati’ Star, Dies at 79

Loni Anderson, who famously portrayed receptionist Jennifer Marlowe in the comedy “WKRP in Cincinnati,” has died. She was 79.

Anderson died at a Los Angeles hospital following a “prolonged” illness, her longtime publicist, Cheryl J. Kagan, said in a statement to Fox News Digital. She was surrounded by her loving family.

“We are heartbroken to announce the passing of our dear wife, mother and grandmother,” Anderson’s family said in a statement.

5. AI Genius Rejects $1B Offer from Zuckerberg

An Australian artificial intelligence expert has reportedly turned down a staggering billion-dollar offer from Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta.

Andrew Tulloch, a University of Sydney graduate who grew up in Perth, spent more than a decade working at Facebook’s parent company before joining rival OpenAI.

In February, Tulloch co-founded AI start-up Thinking Machines Lab with former OpenAI chief technology officer Mira Murati. The company is now reportedly valued at US$12 billion (A$18.5 billion).

6. World’s ‘Oldest Baby’ Born from Embryo Frozen in 1994

An adopted embryo that was frozen for 30 and a half years has given rise to what some claim is the ‘oldest baby’ in the world.

According to an exclusive scoop from MIT Technology Review’s Jessica Hamzelou, the newborn baby boy was conceived in the United States in May 1994 to one set of parents and born on 26 July 2025 to another set of parents.

The biological mother, Linda Archerd, and her then-husband froze the embryo while undergoing in vitro fertilization (IVF) in the 1990s. After having a baby girl, the couple was left with three embryos in the bank.

7. Russian Volcano Erupts for First Time in 600 Years

A volcano on Russia’s far eastern Kamchatka Peninsula erupted overnight into Sunday for what scientists said is the first time in hundreds of years, days after a massive 8.8-magnitude earthquake.

The Krasheninnikov volcano sent ash 6 kilometers (3.7 miles) into the sky, according to staff at the Kronotsky Reserve, where the volcano is located. Images released by state media showed dense clouds of ash rising above the volcano.

“The plume is spreading eastward from the volcano toward the Pacific Ocean. There are no populated areas along its path, and no ashfall has been recorded in inhabited localities,” Kamchatka’s emergencies ministry wrote on Telegram during the eruption.