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#Peace & Community #European #Middle East #Asia #UN #North America #Oceanian #AfricanKari Lake announces 532 positions nixed at Voice of America, parent company
Kari Lake, President Trumpβs top adviser to the U.S Agency for Global Media (USAGM), announced Friday night that 532 positions were nixed at USAGM and Voice of America. In a post on X, Lake said the layoffs were conducted at President Trump's direction "to help reduce the federal bureaucracy, improve agency service, and save the...
Published on: August 30, 2025 | Source:
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Palestinian President Abbas’ office urges U.S. to reinstate his visa ahead of key UN meetings
The Palestinian president's office on Saturday urged the U.S. government to reverse its unusual decision to revoke his visa, weeks before he was meant to appear at the U.N.βs main annual meeting and an international conference aboutcreating a Palestinian state.
Published on: August 30, 2025 | Source:What to know about flesh-eating screwworms (and why you don’t need to panic)
Doctors found a flesh-eating worm in a Maryland resident but it's not the time to panic. The screwworms hitched a ride to the U.S. from El Salvador and overall risk to public health is low.
Published on: August 30, 2025 | Source:Sanders pressures RFK Jr. to resign as Health chief after CDC chaos
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is pressuring Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to resign after this weekβs tumult at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that saw top officials depart after the agency director was ousted. Sanders, the ranking member on the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP)...
Published on: August 30, 2025 | Source:Private Social Security accounts offer a path to reform
Social Security is broken and needs to be fixed with a transition plan to private accounts, which would provide higher retirement income, promote economic growth, and eliminate the government's massive unfunded liability.
Published on: August 30, 2025 | Source:Trump dispels health rumors, hits golf course
President Trump on Saturday spent time on the golf course, dispelling rumors that health issues were keeping the president out of the public eye. He was spotted at Trump National Golf Club in Sterling, Va., after his schedule was void of public events for several days in a row. The empty agenda set off a...
Published on: August 30, 2025 | Source:Green ideology cripples NATO, invites Russian aggression
NATO faces a crisis of readiness due to the EU's green policies increasing energy costs and undermining military preparedness, with Spain prioritizing green initiatives over security and the U.S. risking being drawn into a European conflict if deterrence through strength fails.
Published on: August 30, 2025 | Source:Trump casts doubt on Putin-Zelensky meeting: 'Maybe they have to fight a little longer'
President Trump cast doubt on the prospects of a meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as part of an effort to end the war in Eastern Europe, suggesting that βmaybe they have to fight a little longer.β The president, in an interview with The Daily Caller, expressed confidence that a...
Published on: August 30, 2025 | Source:Israel plans to halt or slow aid to northern Gaza as it expands military offensive
Israel will soon halt or slow humanitarian aid into parts of northernGazaas itexpands its military offensiveagainst Hamas, an official said Saturday, a day after Gaza City was declared a combat zone.
Published on: August 30, 2025 | Source:3 dead after mob sets fire to Indonesian regional parliament building amid week of protests
Protests have erupted across Indonesia, sparked by reports of lawmakers receiving excessive housing allowances. The unrest intensified after the death of a 21-year-old ride-hailing driver during a rally in Jakarta on Thursday.
Published on: August 30, 2025 | Source:Chicago plans to maintain peace amid federal deployment
Despite no word from the White House, Illinois officials are bracing for a large federal presence after Labor Day
Published on: August 30, 2025 | Source:Chinaβs surging auto industry doesnβt signal a global takeoverΒ Β
In a world where China is shut off from the most developed markets, Chinaβs car industry and BYD, its leader, may be the ones without a future.
Published on: August 30, 2025 | Source:Israeli strike in Yemen kills Houthi prime minister, other officials
An Israeli strike on Yemen earlier this week killed the prime minister of the Houthi-controlled government and several other officials, according to the Iran-backed rebel group. Ahmed al-Rahawi, the prime minister and most senior Houthi official, was killed in a Thursday Israeli attack in the Yemeni capital of Sanaa, the group said in a statement...
Published on: August 30, 2025 | Source:3 Scottish brothers complete record-setting row across the Pacific Ocean
The trio from Edinburgh endured storms, seasickness, injuries and violent storms, while raising nearly $1 million for clean water projects.
Published on: August 30, 2025 | Source:Haberman calls tariff ruling a 'big blow' to Trump agenda
National Political Correspondent Maggie Haberman said the latest appeals court ruling on President Trump's sweeping tariffs represents a "big blow" to the Trump administration's agenda. "This is the one that a lot of people who follow trade issues have been concerned about and is the outcome that they anticipated, frankly," Haberman told CNN's Jake Tapper...
Published on: August 30, 2025 | Source:Ask at-risk Americans about Trumpβs security measures for crime-ridden cities
Since when did protecting the most at-risk residents of Americaβs major inner cities against violent, rampant and often indiscriminate crime become a bad thing?
Published on: August 30, 2025 | Source:Israeli airstrike killed Houthi prime minister in Sanaa, rebel group confirms
Ahmed al-Rahawi was killedin a Thursday strike in Sanaaalong with a number of ministers, the rebels said in a statement. Other ministers and officials were wounded, the statement added without providing further details.
Published on: August 30, 2025 | Source:Trump 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.
Published on: August 29, 2025 | Source:Social Securityβs 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 Efficiencyβs (DOGE) decision to upload sensitive data to a βvulnerable cloud environment.β βRecently, 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 stateβs 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 stateβs 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 stateβs U.S. House districts as part of a growing national battle between Republicans and Democrats seeking an edge in next yearβs 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. Itβs home to hundreds of thousands of Palestinians already facing starvation and yet another round of forced displacement. The U.N. warns that Israelβs evacuation orders are a βrecipe 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 wasnβt 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 Hamasβ 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 countryβs mood, 693 days since the war began.
Published on: August 29, 2025 | Source:Public health in βuncharted watersβ 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 βuncharted watersβ 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
Itβs not as well-known as the Federal Reserve or the CDC, but the Surface Transportation Board is the latest agency in the Trump administrationβs 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 monthβs 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...
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