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Monday, August 31, 2026
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Compiled Monday, August 31, 2026.
Monday, August 31, 2026
Space
NASA said the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launched at 7:26 a.m. EDT Sunday, Aug. 30, 2026, aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center. The agency said the observatory is on a three-month, million-mile trip to the second Sun-Earth Lagrange point (L2). Science operations have not begun.
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Monday, August 31, 2026
Public health
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Aug. 31, 2026, that it launched the CDC Overdose Prevention Data Channel, combining fatal and nonfatal overdose data, prevention strategies, and program information. CDC said the latest monthly provisional NVSS data predicts 67,798 drug overdose deaths in the United States during the 12 months ending in March 2026, a 12.3 percent decrease from the same period a year earlier.
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Monday, August 31, 2026
Food safety
CDC, in an investigation update dated Aug. 24, 2026, said it and officials in several states are investigating a multistate outbreak of E. coli and Salmonella infections linked to alfalfa sprouts. The agency reported 55 total cases in 15 states, 4 hospitalizations among 48 people with information available, and 0 deaths.
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