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Hello and welcome to The Brief. Dolly Parton, who died on Tuesday at the age of 80, was American royalty. The country-music icon appeared in TIME’s pages many times over the years, including in 1977, when a reporter followed her on tour. Read on for coverage of her life, music and philanthropy. |
We also have tips for how to best view the blood moon lunar eclipse this week, and results from the runoff Senate primary to replace Lindsey Graham. |
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IN TODAY’S BRIEF |
Google’s airline data raid Graham wins in South Carolina A blood moon lunar eclipse Dolly Parton’s life 332,411,218 books from Dolly Fingerhakeln
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READ THIS FIRST |
Why Google bid $10 million for a failed airline’s data |
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Spirit Airlines stopped flying in May; now the AI industry has come knocking. Rebecca Noble—Getty Images |
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What would a company like Google want with data from a failed airline? Google won a bankruptcy auction this month with a bid to spend $10 million on the corporate data of Spirit Airlines, which stopped flying in May. Google’s offer beat a $7.5 million bid for the data from an AI data company, Mercor. |
The cache includes 100 million emails and 500 million Microsoft Teams messages, and around 30 million lines of code. |
AI companies have been battling it out this year to make the best AI coding agent—and they have benefited from an abundance of publicly available code to train these models. But teaching agents to do other kinds of white-collar work may require data that is largely private, buried in corporate emails and chats. If that effort succeeds, it could send ripples across the labor market. —Billy Perrigo |
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HAPPENING NOW |
Darline Graham Nordone wins runoff in South Carolina’s special GOP Senate primary |
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Sen. Darline Graham (R, S.C.) speaks during a campaign event following her win on Aug. 25, 2026. Megan Varner—Getty Images |
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South Carolina Republicans voted to try to keep one of the state’s U.S. Senate seats in the Graham family, as Darline Graham Nordone, who was appointed to fill it temporarily, has won the runoff for the special Republican primary election to replace her late brother Lindsey Graham on the ballot in the November general election. |
The Associated Press called the race at 9:01 p.m. ET, as Nordone led with about 52.5% of the vote. |
Nordone said in a speech after securing the nomination that she has mixed emotions about her primary victory and that she misses her brother. |
“There is still a big hole in my heart,” Nordone told supporters at a rally, “but I know he’s looking down right now very proud of everyone in this room.” —Chantelle Lee |
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SCIENCE AND SPACE |
Summer is ending with a 'blood moon' lunar eclipse. Here's what to know |
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The partial phase of the Jan. 31, 2018 blood moon eclipse, shot from NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston. Robert Markowitz - NASA - Johnson |
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It’s not often that 3.6 billion people—or 44.4% of the world’s population—look at the same thing at the same time. And it’s not often that something comes along that’s worth the attention of all those billions. But that will happen on the evening of Aug. 27 when much of the world will be able to witness a blood moon lunar eclipse, during which 96% of the face of the full moon will fall into Earth’s shadow, glowing a deep orange-red in the process. |
Finding a flat area with few buildings and a clean sight line may be necessary to witness the eclipse, since in many places the moon will be low in the sky, close to the horizon. In the U.S., the eclipse will begin at 9:23 p.m. ET on Aug. 27, and end at 3:01 ET the next day. —Jeffrey Kluger |
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IN FOCUS |
Dolly Parton loved us all, darlin' |
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David Gahr—Getty Images |
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Dolly Parton, the beloved country-music superstar known for writing about the lives of regular people in more than 3,000 songs and, in later years, for giving away more than 300 million books to children around the world, has died in Nashville. She was 80. Parton had recently shared updates about health issues she’d been dealing with since the death of her husband Carl Dean last year, and her representatives told People that her death in Nashville came after a “brief battle with cancer.” Her nephew and bodyguard Bryan Seaver announced her death in an Instagram video posted to her account on Aug. 25, saying, “Dolly has lived in the light and is in the arms of Jesus, surely met by Carl, her parents, and countless others who have watched her and longed for her to meet them in the heavens.” |
To her fans around the world, she was Saint Dolly—the American godmother who channeled the sorrows of everyday life into song, wrapping ugly truths in pretty packages. Though she was described by music journalist Robert Oermann as “the Mozart of our times,” Parton’s larger-than-life hair, excess in rhinestones, surgical implants, and cosmetic work concealed the iron will through which she confronted the day’s realities with her craft. Most importantly, she wrote and sang with a woman’s voice and heart about topics that uniquely touched her gender. Her songs include stories of stillborn births (“Down From Dover”), suicide (“The Bridge”), shame (“Just Because I’m a Woman”), abuse (“A Gamble Either Way”), adoption (“Doing This for Your Sake”), isolation (“Two Doors Down”), mental institutions (“Daddy Come and Get Me”), and prostitution (“The Bargain Store”). |
Parton was a genius from humble origins. Because of them, she remained vulnerable, even relatable, in the public eye. Many wealthy folk prefer to be compassionate from on-high, if at all, never getting their feet wet or hands dirty. Parton rolled in the mud. She claimed she modeled her look on “the town trash whore,” whom she thought was “beautiful.” She dressed in a way that was her idea of glamour: yellow hair piled atop her head, bright red lipstick and nails, high-heeled shoes, and a tight skirt. “I thought [that woman] was the prettiest thing I’d ever seen,” she once said on Ellen. “So I grew up to look just like her!” |
Read the full obituary here. |
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ONE NUMBER |
332,411,218 |
Dolly Parton started her Imagination Library, a free book gifting program for children under five, in tribute to her father, who grew up unable to read. Since its founding in 1995, it has gifted 332,411,218 books to children. |
SOURCE: DOLLY PARTON’S IMAGINATION LIBRARY |
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A VIRAL MOMENT |
Finger-pulling championship |
Competitors gathered in the Bavarian village of Pflugdorf-Stadl, for Germany's finger wrestling championships this week. The wrestlers hook their fingers into a leather loop and try to drag each other across the table. |
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