No final decision has been made, but the proposal comes as President Trump increasingly uses the military in various aspects of domestic life.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/us/politics/military-lawyers-immigration-judges.html
The Secret Service usually protects a former vice president for six months after they leave office.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/us/politics/secret-service-vice-presidents-harris-trump.html
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s assault may have dealt lasting damage to the agency, experts fear, with harsh consequences for public health.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/health/cdc-kennedy-public-health.html
The mutually beneficial relationship between President Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is based on a striking alignment of some of their views.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/us/politics/trump-kennedy-alliance-vaccines.html
The selection of Jim O’Neill, a former Silicon Valley executive, drew objections from Democrats, who noted his lack of medical or scientific training.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/health/james-oneill-cdc.html
Following Texas, Gov. Mike Kehoe called a special legislative session to redraw his state’s Congressional district lines to boost Republicans.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/us/missouri-governor-redistricting-maps.html
The impact of the deaths of Fletcher Merkel, 8, and Harper Moyski, 10, and the injuries sustained by 18 others are only beginning to be felt.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/us/minneapolis-shooting-victims-families.html
A woman unexpectedly went into labor at the desert festival. Within minutes, a neonatal nurse, an OB-GYN, a pediatric doctor and other attendees filled her camper.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/us/burning-man-baby.html
Mark Ladner, a master of Italian cooking and a Batali protégé, is reinventing the Manhattan restaurant under the same famous (and infamous) name.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/dining/mark-ladner-babbo-mario-batali.html
Also, Hurricane Katrina’s legacy. Here’s the latest at the end of Friday.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/briefing/tariffs-recission-katrina.html
The death of the 29-year-old, who was found in his cell after midnight, is the latest of several at the Rikers Island jail complex in New York.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/nyregion/rikers-death-ardit-billa.html
The Trump administration is focusing on a house in Ann Arbor, Mich., and condos in Atlanta and Cambridge, Mass.https://www.wsj.com/economy/central-banking/isa-cook-fed-governor-house-mortgage-5e94e0b7
A federal appeals court has ruled that most of President Donald Trump’s sweeping global tariffs are unlawful.https://abcnews.go.com/US/trumps-global-tariffs-unlawful-appeals-court/story?id=125110624
After being missing for nearly a month, a man who had left for a three-day hike in Wyoming was found dead in Bighorn National Forest, the sheriff's office said.https://abcnews.go.com/US/body-missing-hiker-found-wyomings-bighorn-national-forest/story?id=125092314
The rebranding episode highlights Trump’s ability to use a cultural touchpoint to his advantage.https://www.wsj.com/politics/trump-can-read-the-room-at-cracker-barrel-2e19ac15?mod=pls_whats_news_us_business_f
Amazon wants bigger teams. Bank of America is flattening. Corporate America is shedding managers, and the workplace is changing radically.https://www.wsj.com/business/boss-management-cuts-careers-workplace-4809d750?mod=pls_whats_news_us_business_f
Large-scale attacks by Russia against civilians in Ukraine could see any hopes of a lasting peace deal there rapidly fade, a senior UN official said during an emergency session of the Security Council on Friday. https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/08/1165750
In Iran, the increase in executions carried out this year indicates that the death penalty is being used as a tool of State intimidation, the UN human rights office (OHCHR) said on Friday. https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/08/1165749
In every corner of the world, educators are making choices that echo across generations – influencing everything from the preservation of forests to the writing of poetry, the building of bridges to the holding of peaceful elections.https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/08/1165746
The UN Security Council met in emergency session in New York on Friday afternoon following overnight strikes early on Thursday by Russia on Ukrainian cities including the capital, which left at least 23 dead, including four children. Assistant Secretary-General Miroslav Jenča told ambassadors that diplomatic momentum towards a possible peace deal was “at risk of rapidly fading” if large-scale attacks by Moscow continue.https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/08/1165745