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Top News Stories for Sunday, August 31st 2025
Saturday, Aug 30th, 2025 -
Aug. 30 (UPI) -- The California Highway Patrol reportedly will provide security protection for former Vice President Kamala Harris after she lost her Secret Service protection on Thursday. California officials on Friday bestowed dignitary status on Harris, who has been a private citizen since leaving office on Jan. 19, and will provide her with security protection instead of the Secret Service, The Los Angeles ...
Source: upi.com
Saturday, Aug 30th, 2025 -
" Robert F. Kennedy Jr. , the secretary of health and human services, is endangering the health of the American people now and into the future. He must resign." That's how US Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee Ranking Member Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) began a New York Times op-ed on Saturday, amid mounting calls for Kennedy to leave the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), by ...
Source: commondreams.org
Saturday, Aug 30th, 2025 -
Each fall, nurses and doctors brace for an all-too-familiar seasonal surge. Patients struggle to breathe. Older adults lean forward, lips pursed as if trying to drink air through a straw. Infants take more than one shallow breath per second, their wide-eyed panic reflected in their parents' faces. As an internist, I have cared for too many young, previously healthy patients laid low by ...
Source: statnews.com
Saturday, Aug 30th, 2025 -
A federal judge on Friday blocked a Trump administration effort to expand fast-track deportations throughout the U.S. under a process known as expedited removal, indicating that officials are trampling on migrants' due process through the policy's expansion. While it will almost certainly be appealed, Friday's order is a major setback for the Trump administration's mass deportation efforts, including its campaign ...
Source: aol.com
Saturday, Aug 30th, 2025 -
Missouri's Republican Governor Mike Kehoe has called state lawmakers for a special session to redraw Missouri's congressional maps, after a push from President Donald Trump. In a video statement posted to social media, Kehoe explained his justification for calling the session, and introduced the new "Missouri First" map that will be implemented. Today, I am calling on the General Assembly to take action on ...
Source: thedailybeast.com
Saturday, Aug 30th, 2025 -
A hospital's cooling tower was harboring bacteria as seven people died and 90 were hospitalized over three weeks New York City has declared the deadly legionnaires' disease outbreak in central Harlem over, nearly three weeks since it began. On Friday, city health officials announced that there have been no new cases among residents who live or work in the area since 9 August. As of Friday, there have been 114 cases ...
Source: theguardian.com
Saturday, Aug 30th, 2025 -
Texas lawmakers are on track to pass one of the toughest laws aimed at reducing the use of abortion medication, one way people still have abortions in a state that has banned them. SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Texas banned abortion after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade three years ago. Now Texas lawmakers are working on legislation to further restrict abortion medication sent in from other states. The bill ...
Source: npr.org
Friday, Aug 29th, 2025 -
Questions about whether President Donald Trump had cause to try to push out Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook dominated a court hearing Friday, as a judge weighs whether he had proper reasons to order her removal from the US central bank. US District Judge Jia Cobb peppered lawyers for Cook and the administration for about two hours Friday, before ending the hearing without ruling on the Fed governor's request for ...
Source: news.bloomberglaw.com
Friday, Aug 29th, 2025 -
Speed: 0.5x Speed: 1x Speed: 1.5x Speed: 2x 🎙️ Voice is AI-generated. Inconsistencies may occur. A federal appeals court blocked the Trump administration's effort on Friday to end Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans living in the United States. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a lower court's freeze on the terminations, preserving legal status for ...
Source: newsweek.com
Friday, Aug 29th, 2025 -
Commerce Department releases closely watched inflation data The Federal Reserve's preferred inflation gauge showed that inflationary pressures remained elevated in July, as the central bank mulls an interest rate cut at its meeting next month. The Commerce Department on Friday reported that the personal consumption expenditures (PCE) index rose 0.2% from a month ago in July and remained at 2.6% on a ...
Source: foxbusiness.com
Friday, Aug 29th, 2025 -
– The Transportation Department on Friday canceled $679 million in federal funding for a dozen offshore wind projects, the latest attack by the Trump administration on the reeling U.S. offshore wind industry. "Wasteful, wind projects are using resources that could otherwise go towards revitalizing America's maritime industry," Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy . "Thanks to President Trump, we are ...
Source: news4jax.com
Friday, Aug 29th, 2025 -
'Pocket recession' tool used for first time since 1977 to bypass Congress's power over budget Donald Trump has told the House speaker, Mike Johnson , that he won't be spending $4.9bn in congressionally approved foreign aid, in effect cutting the budget without going through the legislative branch. Trump, who sent a letter to Johnson on Thursday, is using what is known as a "pocket rescission" – when a ...
Source: theguardian.com
Friday, Aug 29th, 2025 -
LARGO — Adarius Hayes, a former Largo High standout and University of Miami football player, surrendered to police Aug. 29 on charges stemming from a May crash that killed three people, including two young children, the Largo Police Department announced. Hayes, 20, was charged with three counts of vehicular homicide and one count of reckless driving with serious bodily injury in connection with the May 10 ...
Source: tbnweekly.com