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#Peace & Community #European #Middle East #Asia #UN #North America #Oceanian #AfricanTrump administration cancels $679 million in funding for offshore wind projects
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.
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Social Securityโs chief data officer resigns, cites 'culture of panic and dread'
Social Security Chief Data Officer Charles Borges submitted a Friday resignation letter days after citing policy violations in a whistleblower report documenting the Department of Government Efficiencyโs (DOGE) decision to upload sensitive data to a โvulnerable cloud environment.โ โRecently, I have been made aware of several projects and incidents which may constitute violations of federal...
Published on: August 29, 2025 | Source:California energy regulators halt efforts to penalize oil companies for high profits
The penalty was considered a landmark piece of Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom's government and the stateโs ambitious goals to curb climate change.
Published on: August 29, 2025 | Source:News Wrap: Trump trying to block $5B in foreign aid already approved by Congress
In our news wrap Friday, President Trump is trying to block nearly $5 billion in foreign aid funding already approved by Congress, an emergency hearing on Trump's firing of Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook concluded with no immediate ruling, GOP Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst reportedly won't seek reelection and Trump revoked the Secret Service detail for former Vice President Harris.
Published on: August 29, 2025 | Source:Utah Supreme Court blocks firing squad execution of prisoner with dementia
Theimpending executionof a man by firing squad in Utah was blocked by the stateโs Supreme Court on Friday after his attorneys argued he should be spared because he has dementia.
Published on: August 29, 2025 | Source:What consumers can expect as de minimis exemption ends
Americans are no longer able to import cheap foreign goods tariff-free. The Trump administration ended the de minimis exemption, which allowed packages valued under $800 to enter the U.S. with no import tax. Last year, there were nearly four million such packages a day. Amna Nawaz discussed the latest with Clark Packard. He is a trade expert at the libertarian Cato Institute.
Published on: August 29, 2025 | Source:Missouri’s governor orders redrawing of U.S. House map in response to Trump’s urging
Republican Gov. Mike Kehoe said Friday that he is calling Missouri lawmakers into a special session to redraw the stateโs U.S. House districts as part of a growing national battle between Republicans and Democrats seeking an edge in next yearโs congressional elections.
Published on: August 29, 2025 | Source:WFP’s Cindy McCain describes dire conditions after visit to famine-gripped Gaza
Israel launched its Gaza City offensive, labeling it a Hamas stronghold. Itโs home to hundreds of thousands of Palestinians already facing starvation and yet another round of forced displacement. The U.N. warns that Israelโs evacuation orders are a โrecipe for disaster." William Brangham discussed more with Cindy McCain of the World Food Programme, who just returned from a mission to Gaza.
Published on: August 29, 2025 | Source:Appeals court finds Trump had no right to impose tariffs, but leaves them in place for now
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled Trump wasnโt legally allowed to declare national emergencies and impose import taxes on almost every country on earth, a ruling that largely upheld a May decision by a specialized federal trade court in New York.
Published on: August 29, 2025 | Source:Frustrations rise in Israel as war endures and hostages remain in Gaza
Israel said it recovered the body of a hostage kidnapped and killed during Hamasโ Oct. 7 attacks, along with the remains of another hostage it did not identify. The announcement was yet another reminder of how the country lives in the shadow of Oct. 7. Nick Schifrin and producer Karl Bostic report on the countryโs mood, 693 days since the war began.
Published on: August 29, 2025 | Source:Public health in โuncharted watersโ amid CDC tumult
Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Health Care Health Care The Big Story CDC upheaval pushes public health into โuncharted watersโ In less than a week, the public health sector has been plunged into chaos as leaders at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) leave the agency amid heightened...
Published on: August 29, 2025 | Source:Democrat warns Trump firing challenges integrity of STB ahead of railway merger decision
Itโs not as well-known as the Federal Reserve or the CDC, but the Surface Transportation Board is the latest agency in the Trump administrationโs sights. President Trump abruptly fired Robert Primus, one of only two Democrats on the five-member board, just as regulators weigh the largest railroad merger ever proposed. Geoff Bennett spoke with Primus about the timing of his firing.
Published on: August 29, 2025 | Source:U.S. revokes visas of Palestinian president, other officials ahead of UN General Assembly
Secretary of State Marco Rubio has revoked the visas of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and 80 other officials ahead of next monthโs annual high-level meeting of the U.N. General Assembly, a step the Palestinian Authority decried as against international law.
Published on: August 29, 2025 | Source:Brooks and Atkins Stohr on the political response to the Minnesota school shooting
New York Times columnist David Brooks and Boston Globe columnist Kimberly Atkins Stohr join Amna Nawaz to discuss the week in politics, including the tragic school shooting in Minnesota, the Trump administration's actions to remake the government and the Ukraine war continues two weeks after the Trump-Putin summit.
Published on: August 29, 2025 | Source:Katrina victims reflect on how the storm changed their lives
Friday marks the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, which decimated New Orleans and communities along the Gulf Coast, leading to one of the largest and most sudden relocations of people in U.S. history. Some 1.2 million Louisianans were displaced for months or even years. We spoke with a few of the thousands of Katrina survivors who relocated permanently.
Published on: August 29, 2025 | Source:20 years later, a look at the legacy of Hurricane Katrina
To discuss how the Gulf Coast has changed in the two decades since Hurricane Katrina, Geoff Bennett spoke with historian Douglas Brinkley. He was a professor at Tulane University in New Orleans in 2005 when Katrina hit, and is the author of "The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans and the Mississippi Gulf Coast." He's now a professor at Rice University in Houston.
Published on: August 29, 2025 | Source:Who is Jim O'Neill, Trump's new CDC director
The White House quickly named a new leader of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) after Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. pushed out Director Susan Monarez this week. Jim O'Neill, a senior Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) official with deep ties to President Trump donor Peter Thiel,...
Published on: August 29, 2025 | Source:Missouri governor calls special session to address redistricting
Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe (R) has called for a special session for the state Legislature to address redistricting, queuing it up to potentially be the next state to redraw its congressional district lines. Kehoe announced his decision Friday in a release, saying the Legislature will convene Wednesday and unveil his map proposal. As expected, the...
Published on: August 29, 2025 | Source:Macron: Putin 'played' Trump if no Zelensky meeting commitment by Monday
French President Emmanuel Macron issued a reminder Friday of President Trump's deadline for Russian President Vladimir Putin to agree to meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. "If that doesn't happen by Monday, the deadline set by President Trump, it means that once again President Putin played President Trump," Macron said Friday during a joint press conference...
Published on: August 29, 2025 | Source:Federal appeals court rejects Trumpโs emergency tariffs
A federal appeals court on Friday rejected President Trumpโs assertion that emergency powers justify his worldwide tariffs, a blow to his efforts to refashion global trade. In a 7-4 decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed a lower courtโs ruling that the tariffs were not authorized by the statute Trump cited...
Published on: August 29, 2025 | Source:Alligator Alcatraz conversion could cost Florida $218M
The state of Florida could lose $218 million after a judge ordered the closure of Alligator Alcatraz, a detention facility based in the Everglades that was once a training airport. The site was created with funding from the Florida Division of Emergency Management and was quickly retrofitted to house people detained for federal immigration purposes....
Published on: August 29, 2025 | Source:Trump's controversial cutting move
Welcome to The Hill's Business & Economy newsletter {beacon} Business & Economy Business & Economy The Big Story What to know about Trumpโs โpocket rescissionโ President Trump is using a tool known as a โpocket rescissionโ to cut roughly $5 billion in congressionally approved funding, sparking bipartisan pushback. Evan Vucci, Associated Press The...
Published on: August 29, 2025 | Source:Zelenskyy seeks meeting with Trump and European leaders on slow progress of Russia talks
The proposed meetings appeared designed to add momentum to the push for peace, as Zelenskyy expressed frustration with what he called Russiaโs lack of constructive engagement in the process while it continues to launchdevastating aerial attacks on civilian areas.
Published on: August 29, 2025 | Source:Modi and Ishiba agreed to expand India and Japan’s ties. Here’s what they said
The two nations released a โjoint visionโ for cooperation for the next 10 years after Indian Prime MinisterNarendra Modiand his Japanese counterpartShigeru Ishibaheld talks in Tokyo.
Published on: August 29, 2025 | Source:Duffy pulls $679M in funding from offshore wind projects
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said he pulled $679 million in funding for offshore wind projects Friday, suggesting investments be made elsewhere. โWasteful, wind projects are using resources that could otherwise go towards revitalizing Americaโs maritime industry,โ the Transportation secretary said in a Friday statement. โJoe Biden and [former Transportation Secretary] Pete Buttigieg bent over backwards...
Published on: August 29, 2025 | Source:Why is Donald Trump signing an executive order against cashless bail
Trumpโs claims conflict with national crime data that shows violent crime has dropped consistently for the last several years, following a peak during and after the pandemic. A trend that happened in jurisdictions whether or not they were among the handful which enacted bail reform.
Published on: August 29, 2025 | Source:Asylum-seekers can remain in UK hotel after government wins appeal to keep it open
Britain's Court of Appeal on Friday overturned a ban on asylum-seekers from being housed at a hotel northeast of London thathas been the site of protestsfor weeks and has become a political flashpoint across the country.
Published on: August 29, 2025 | Source:FTC chair alleges Gmail uses partisan filtering
FTC Chairman Andrew N. Ferguson has warned Gmail that it may face a federal investigation over allegations that it intentionally suppresses messages sent by Republicans, which could violate the FTC Act's prohibition of unfair or deceptive trade practices.
Published on: August 29, 2025 | Source:CVS withholding COVID-19 vaccines in 15 states and DC, citing 'regulatory environment'
Related video: Changes Atop the CDC CVS Health does not currently plan to offer the updated annual vaccine COVID-19 vaccine in more than a dozen states, citing the current "regulatory environment" after the updated shots receiving approval for high risk groups this week. A spokesperson for CVS said in a statement that "based on the...
Published on: August 29, 2025 | Source:School districts sue Education Department over transgender policy funding loss threats
Arlington Public Schools and Fairfax County Public Schools sued the Department of Education on Friday after the federal agency threatened funding losses over the Virginia school districts' policies regarding transgender students. The Education Department said five school districts in Northern Virginia were at risk of losing funding over their refusal to change policies that...
Published on: August 29, 2025 | Source:Court blocks Trump administration from ending deportation protections for Venezuelans in US
A federal appeals court has blocked the Trump administration from ending protections from deportation for some 600,000 Venezuelans living in the U.S. The decision from a three-judge panel for the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals reinstalls Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Venezuelans in the U.S., which were lifted by the Supreme Court despite a lower...
Published on: August 29, 2025 | Source:South Korean prosecutors indict ex-prime minister Han and wife of ousted president Yoon
The wife of South Korea's jailed ex-President Yoon Suk Yeol and his former prime minister were indicted Friday as part ofinvestigationsinto his administration and his attempt to overcome opposition by declaring martial law.
Published on: August 29, 2025 | Source:Kennedy, Epstein, funding fights set to grip Capitol Hill
Plus: Judge weighs Trump firing of Fedโs Lisa Cook {beacon} LAWMAKERS WILL RETURN from August recess next week to dive into funding fights and multiple controversies involving the Trump administration: one focused on Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., and another over convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Congress will also...
Published on: August 29, 2025 | Source:Donald the audacious: Why Trump winsย ย
Donald J. Trump is not merely a politician; he is a phenomenon, a paradigm.
Published on: August 29, 2025 | Source:Thai court ends prime minister’s term over compromising phone call with Cambodian leader
Thailandโs Constitutional Court on Friday dismissed Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra, ruling that she violated ethics rules in aphone callwith a high-ranking Cambodian official.
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