A rising professional boxer was killed after being struck by a vehicle while bicycling on a road northeast of Austin on Saturday morning, local authorities said.

Hannah Rapp, 26, was riding in Brazos County with another cyclist when a driver identified as 31-year-old Charles Medina passed both cyclists, stopped in front of them, and reversed into Rapp, the Brazos County Sheriff’s Office said.

Rapp was taken to a local hospital where she died from her injuries. Medina was arrested and charged with manslaughter, authorities said.

According to court documents obtained by local station KBTX, the cyclist with Rapp, identified as her boyfriend, said Medina’s vehicle first closely sped past them at a high rate of speed. After he shouted and raised his hands at the driver, the vehicle abruptly stopped and reversed.

The collision reportedly shattered Medina’s rear windshield and crumpled part of its body. Skid marks were found in the road, suggesting that his vehicle braked at a high rate of speed, which Medina denied.

Medina — who KBTX reported has a long rap sheet with past arrests for assault, hit-and-run, and reckless driving — reportedly denied intentionally hitting Rapp. He said he thought the cyclists were trying to flag him down, prompting him to stop and reverse.

Rapp recently competed for the World Boxing Council’s Featherweight title.

Seventeen American service members have died so far in President Donald Trump’s war with Iran. At least 400 more have been injured, but that figure remains an estimate at best. The Pentagon has stopped updating the total and on Monday The New York Times reported that the department was intentionally withholding information about the true human costs of the war.

The Defense Department called the report “baseless and malicious” in a hostile — and defensive — response that further accused the paper of being “desperate to smear America’s military and its leadership.”

“Claims of concealment are fabrications meant to further distress the American people in the wake of three service members killed in action,” DOD spokesperson Sean Parnell wrote in a statement. “Disgusting behavior, even for the New York Times.”

“This is the most transparent Department of War in history,” Parnell continued. “We challenge the so-called journalists who wrote these lies, one of whom was recently subpoenaed regarding an alleged violation of federal criminal law, to stop the smears against the finest warfighting force on Earth.”

Of note regarding Parnell’s claim of transparency: Last year, the Pentagon expelled dozens of reporters after they refused to agree to new rules that would severely restrict what they could report on. Even Fox News and Newsmax, two conservative outlets, joined the walkout.

NEWARK, N.J. — Hang around outside the largest immigration jail on the East Coast long enough, and you will hear a volunteer ring a bell.

“Seven!” one volunteer yelled recently. “Seven of them!”

Guards employed by GEO Group, the corporation that runs Delaney Hall on behalf of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, pushed the chain-link gate aside to reveal seven men who were being released from the facility. The industrial haze of petroleum storage tanks and waste processing plants hung low in the air. Trucks whizzed by. But the men dropped to their knees and kissed the ground, then raised both arms to the sky and wept.

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South Carolina Rep. Russell Fry has announced his candidacy for the late Sen. Lindsey Graham’s Senate seat.

Fry said Monday he will campaign in the special election for the seat, which is currently held by Graham’s sister, Darline Graham, following the senator’s death on July 11.

“We need a conservative fighter in the Senate who delivers real results,” Fry said in a statement. “I will be your conservative MAGA candidate in the special primary Senate election this summer.“

Rep. Ralph Norman told Fox News on Saturday that he is also running for Graham’s former seat.

The election is scheduled for Tuesday, Aug. 11.

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At least 930 people are dead in Congo from the current Ebola outbreak, which has been the fastest-growing on record, the country’s Ministry of Health said, according to The Associated Press and Reuters.

The deaths are among 2,344 confirmed cases as of Saturday.

“Most new cases are being detected outside known contact lists, and two-thirds of deaths are occurring in communities,” the director-general of the World Health Organization, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said Friday of the rising cases.

On top of the ongoing efforts to prevent the virus’ spread, local authorities have continued to combat armed attacks on Ebola treatment centers. This violence has placed both patients and medical workers at risk.

“Health interventions alone will not stop this outbreak,” said Tedros, following an attack at a treatment center in Bunia. “Urgent political action is needed to secure access, protect health workers and scale up the response. Even a temporary ceasefire would help.”

President Donald Trump has shared the first photo of Vice President JD Vance’s newborn baby.

“Congratulations! A perfect baby boy for the wonderful Vance family,” he wrote with his photo shared on Truth Social.

Vance’s wife, Usha Vance, gave birth to the couple’s fourth child, Alec Neel Vance, on Sunday morning.

Andy Burnham, the former mayor of Greater Manchester and the new leader of the Labour Party, has become the new prime minister of the United Kingdom.

King Charles III instructed Burnham to form a government after Keir Starmer formally resigned as prime minister earlier on Monday.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer formally resigned as prime minister during a meeting with King Charles III.

Andy Burnham, the new leader of the Labour Party, has just arrived at Buckingham Palace for his own meeting with Charles as he prepares to take over the country’s leadership.

During his farewell address outside Downing Street, Starmer declared, “My work is done.”

He added, “I go with good grace, I go with a smile, and I go proud of everything that we have achieved.”

The Trump administration on Monday identified two soldiers killed in action last week as part of the U.S. war with Iran.

The Defense Department said in a statement that 1st Lt. Tyler James Feehan, 25, of Ewa Beach, Hawaii, and Pvt. Isabella Gonzales, 19, of Carrollton, Texas, were killed in Jordan, where they were supporting a U.S. mission against the Islamic State. It’s unclear how they were killed.

On Saturday, the U.S. Central Command had two service members were killed in Jordan while defending against Iranian ballistic missile and drone attacks.

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Ukraine fired more than 400 drones toward Moscow in its latest major attack on the Russian capital, the city’s mayor said Monday.

The blitz came hours after Russia bombarded Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities with ballistic missiles in a relentless cycle of tit-for-tat strikes that make a settlement to end Moscow’s more than 4-year-old all-out invasion appear a distant possibility.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, meanwhile, said he would hold “key talks” on Monday as he tries to defuse a domestic political crisis, after last week’s government reshuffle exposed a deep split between the military’s old guard and young innovators over how to fight the war.

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The average price of regular gasoline in the U.S. is back to $4 a barrel, the AAA motor club federation said Monday, as the U.S. and Iran have continued trading attacks.

Meanwhile, Brent crude, the international standard for oil, fell back to below $90 a barrel after Iran suggested that negotiations between Tehran and Washington could soon resume.

Earlier on Monday, Brent crude topped $91, the highest it’s been since mid-June.

U.S. and Iran have been fighting since an interim deal signed by their presidents that was meant to pave the way for a permanent end to the war collapsed.

Andy Burnham, the new leader of the U.K. Labour Party, is set to succeed Keir Starmer as Britain’s prime minister on Monday.

Starmer is expected to formally submit his resignation to King Charles III after delivering a speech at Downing Street.

Burnham will then head to Buckingham Palace himself, where the king will ask him to form a government, kicking off Burnham’s premiership.

Burnham is expected to deliver his first speech as prime minister this afternoon.

The United States conducted a new round of airstrikes early Monday targeting Iran after announcing the death of another American service member, hitting around a northwestern city believed to be home to underground missile bases. Iran responded by launching an attack targeting Bahrain, the home of the U.S. Navy’s 5th Fleet, and Kuwait.

The latest attacks again showed how, step by step, the U.S. and Iran have inched closer to all-out war as last month’s interim deal meant to permanently end the fighting has crumbled and shipping traffic in the Strait of Hormuz has largely stalled. Both sides have targeted civilian infrastructure relied on by millions of people, while benchmark Brent crude rose Monday above $90 a barrel, further fueling a global energy crisis sparked by the conflict.

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Influencer brothers Andrew and Tristan Tate are scheduled to appear before a federal magistrate in Miami on Monday after they were arrested to face rape and sex trafficking charges in the United Kingdom.

The Tates are being held in federal detention following their arrest on Saturday. In the coming weeks, a U.S. district judge will consider whether they meet the conditions for extradition.

An attorney for the brothers, Joseph McBride, blasted the latest charges as “filth and slander.” On Sunday, McBride said he was confident the extradition request would be denied.

Prosecutors in Britain said the new charges relate to four further victims and were brought after authorities received evidence from Bedfordshire Police in southeastern England. The charges that span alleged incidents between 2010 and 2017 include rape, assault, trafficking and offenses relating to “indecent images of a child and extreme pornography.”

The brothers already face previous charges of rape, bodily harm, human trafficking and controlling prostitution for gain relating to three other alleged victims in the U.K. between 2012 and 2015.

The new allegations are the latest in a long-running international legal saga involving the Tates that has spanned the U.S., Britain and Romania. The brothers have repeatedly denied wrongdoing.

Their social media empire promoting wealth, male dominance and misogyny has made them among the world’s most polarizing internet personalities.

The dual U.S. and British citizens moved to Romania in 2016. They were arrested there in 2022, accused of participating in schemes to lure women for sexual exploitation. They denied those allegations and the Romanian case hasn’t gone forward because of legal and procedural problems.

Last year, they were allowed to leave Romania and flew to Florida.

President Donald Trump said Sunday night he is sending the new Boeing 747 he solicited from Qatar back for more modifications.

“As I understand it, in about a month or so, they’re going to send it to have it be maxed out,” he said, standing beside the plane he asked the Qatari royal family to give him within months of returning to office last January.

Trump claimed that the plane, which has already cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars for communications equipment and other alterations, “has a lot of capability,” although he did not specify which ones. “So they’re going to be sending it, and they’ll have it be maxed out. It’ll take about a month,” he said.

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Ferran Torres believed it was Spain’s destiny to win this World Cup. And he struck his decisive finish like a man certain of his convictions

Torres powered home an emphatic half-volley from nine yards out in the 106th minute to lift Spain to their second World Cup title with a 1-0 win over gutsy, 10-man Argentina in Sunday’s final.

“I think that in the end, the goal belonged to 47 million people, not to me or the 26 players here,” Torres said via an interpreter. “I believe that today destiny was written, it was meant for us to win, far from our fans, but we tried to make them feel as close as possible.”

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