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Top News Stories for Friday, August 8th 2025
Thursday, Aug 7th, 2025 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump began levying higher import taxes on dozens of countries Thursday, just as the economic fallout of his monthslong tariff threats has begun to create visible damage for the U.S. economy. Just after midnight, goods from more than 60 countries and the European Union became subject to tariff rates of 10% or higher. Products from the EU, Japan and South Korea are taxed at ...
Source: pennlive.com
Thursday, Aug 7th, 2025 -
If there's a playbook companies can follow to avoid more tariffs, Apple ( AAPL ) may have found it. President Donald Trump said yesterday that the iPhone maker and other companies like it could be exempt from future semiconductor tariffs , based on its recent investments in U.S. manufacturing, in a major win for Apple after a tough start to the year dogged by worries about tariffs and its progress in AI ...
Source: investopedia.com
Thursday, Aug 7th, 2025 -
He clearly has no idea what antigenic shift means. If anyone needed a reminder that US health secretary and fervent anti-vaccine advocate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has no background in science or medicine, look no further than the video he posted on social media Tuesday evening. In the two-and-a-half-minute clip, Kennedy announced that he is cancelling nearly $500 million in funding for the development of mRNA-based ...
Source: arstechnica.com
Thursday, Aug 7th, 2025 -
Mass protests have erupted across Israel as the country's security cabinet was meeting to decide on a full reoccupation of Gaza , a move that would mark a major escalation of the war. opposition from the Israeli military and domestic fears the operation will endanger hostages, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has pushed for a complete takeover of the besieged enclave nearly two years into the war. In an interview ...
Source: aol.com
Thursday, Aug 7th, 2025 -
Not for the first time, Donald Trump might have jumped the gun when it comes to Vladimir Putin, leaving President Zelenskyy and a mutually agreeable ceasefire in Ukraine appearing equally lost. CNN . He plans to meet the Russian president as soon as next week – although Moscow might "bristle at the rush" – and Trump told European leaders on Wednesday that he wants to follow it with a trilateral meeting ...
Source: theweek.com
Thursday, Aug 7th, 2025 -
SAN FRANCISCO — ChatGPT maker OpenAI on Thursday released GPT-5, an upgraded version of the artificial intelligence technology that powers its popular chatbot, promising better results on tasks including answering health questions, writing and generating computer code. ChatGPT has more than 700 million users every week, OpenAI has said, and is used by people to help out at home, work and school. The company ...
Source: washingtonpost.com
Thursday, Aug 7th, 2025 -
Republicans are exploring ways to redraw congressional maps in their favor well beyond Texas as President Donald Trump pushes for aggressive changes, worrying some in the party who have little appetite for an escalating redistricting war with Democrats. The White House has been driving the GOP redistricting effort, according to people familiar with the process, some of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity to ...
Source: washingtonpost.com
Thursday, Aug 7th, 2025 -
The Trump administration recently unveiled a new action plan relating to artificial intelligence (AI) technology that focuses on removing regulations and/or other barriers, building upon President Donald Trump's prior executive orders (EO) related to AI. The plan seeks to pressure states to deregulate, as many states and local jurisdictions are expected to step in to address regulatory gaps left by the federal ...
Source: natlawreview.com
Thursday, Aug 7th, 2025 -
President Donald Trump announced on social media Thursday that he would nominate his White House economic adviser Stephen Miran to the Federal Reserve Board, in his first bid this term to shape the institution that he has aggressively pushed to lower rates. Miran is the chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, and Trump said he would serve through Jan. 31, 2026, the end of the current vacancy. "It is my Great ...
Source: washingtonpost.com
Thursday, Aug 7th, 2025 -
By After a recent breakout of a mosquito-borne virus in China, the United States Center for Disease Control (CDC) has issued a travel warning to help prevent the spread of the disease. Like the United States Department of State does with its extensive list of travel advisories, the CDC regularly issues travel advisories, as well, warning travelers about disease outbreaks and other health-related issues around the ...
Source: miamiherald.com
Thursday, Aug 7th, 2025 -
By Nupur Anand and Saeed Azhar NEW YORK (Reuters) -Decisions by some major U.S. banks to close accounts were based on rules around reputational risk, people familiar with the matter said, pushing back on President Donald Trump's accusation that he and his conservative supporters were denied services for political reasons. Trump on Tuesday renewed his criticism of JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America, saying they ...
Source: aol.com
Thursday, Aug 7th, 2025 -
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday allowing alternative assets such as private equity, cryptocurrencies and real estate into workplace retirement plans. The entrance of private equity investments — funds that invest in non-publicly traded businesses — into workplace plans is a big win for the world's largest money managers, who stand to profit from expansion of access to an ...
Source: cnbc.com
Thursday, Aug 7th, 2025 -
President Donald Trump on Thursday instructed the Commerce Department to have start work on a new census that would exclude immigrants who are in the United States illegally from the head count which determines political power and federal spending. The census will be based on "modern day facts and figures and, importantly, using the results and information gained from the Presidential Election of 2024," the ...
Source: news4jax.com
Thursday, Aug 7th, 2025 -
a new federal report . Nutrition research has shown for years that ultra-processed foods make up a big chunk of the U.S. diet, especially for kids and teens. For the first time, however, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has confirmed those high levels of consumption, using dietary data collected from August 2021 to August 2023. The report comes amid growing scrutiny of such foods by Health ...
Source: cleveland.com
Thursday, Aug 7th, 2025 -
Eli Lilly, the pharmaceutical company behind GLP-1 injection , is working to bring its weight loss drug to the market in pill form. In an Aug. 7 earnings call , Eli Lilly CEO David Ricks told investors that the company plans to submit the drug, orforglipron, to the FDA for approval by the end of the year. Dan Skovronsky, chief scientific officer and president of Lilly Immunology, said that the company was "very ...
Source: aol.com
Thursday, Aug 7th, 2025 -
Our Brains Contain Lithium—and Its Loss Might Help Drive Alzheimer's, Study Finds Alzheimer's disease is one of the cruelest conditions a person can develop. And even with recent advances, there's only so much that can be done once its symptoms emerge. Research out this week might highlight a critical and previously missed factor driving the disease, one that could even lead to new treatments. Scientists at ...
Source: gizmodo.com
Thursday, Aug 7th, 2025 -
The Walt Disney Company has just fired off a streaming triple play, revamping Hulu , ESPN and its broader subscriber strategy—all in a bold move to future-proof its digital empire. In a major update to its streaming roadmap, the company announced three big changes in its quarterly earnings report yesterday (Aug. 6): the standalone Hulu app in the U.S. is being retired; ESPN's long-anticipated standalone ...
Source: observer.com
Thursday, Aug 7th, 2025 -
Wildfires that tore through Los Angeles early this year may have caused hundreds more deaths than official reports show, new research suggests. While the fires were said to have taken 31 lives, a study published Wednesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association estimates that about 440 more deaths may be linked to the disaster. Researchers looked at death rates in L.A. County between Jan. 5 and Feb. 1, ...
Source: upi.com
Thursday, Aug 7th, 2025 -
If you've logged into Instagram in the last day, you're probably aware of Instagram Map — a new feature that allows you to share your location with friends on the app through your posts. Because of, you know, everything , you might feel pretty wary of letting your online followers know where you are and what you're doing in real time. Meta launched new Instagram updates on August 6, including this new ...
Source: teenvogue.com
Thursday, Aug 7th, 2025 -
Microsoft and CISA urge admins to quickly plug a high-severity vulnerability. Administrators with hybrid Exchange Server environments are urged by Microsoft and the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) to quickly plug a high-severity vulnerability or risk system compromise. Hybrid Exchange deployments offer organizations the ability to extend the user features and admin controls of the on-prem ...
Source: csoonline.com
Thursday, Aug 7th, 2025 -
Kelly Clarkson's former husband and the father of her two children died after a three-year battle with cancer , his representative said Thursday. He was 48. "It is with great sadness that we share the news that Brandon Blackstock has passed away," a spokesperson for Blackstock said in a statement. "Brandon bravely battled cancer for more than three years. He passed away peacefully and was surrounded by family. We ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Thursday, Aug 7th, 2025 -
France's biggest wildfire this summer has been brought under control, authorities said Thursday, after it killed one person and destroyed thousands of hectares of land and dozens of homes in the south. Around 2,000 firefighters were mobilized in France's southern Aude department to contain the blaze that started Tuesday. Thirteen people have been injured, two of them seriously. But authorities said the most severe ...
Source: phys.org
Thursday, Aug 7th, 2025 -
A U.S. soldier has been arrested for attempting to share classified information about vulnerabilities in the Army's main battle tank with Russia in exchange for citizenship, the Justice Department announced Wednesday evening. Spec. Taylor Adam Lee, 22, a tank crewman stationed at Fort Bliss in Texas, was charged under the Espionage Act and the Arms Export Control Act, according to the arrest warrant dated Tuesday. ...
Source: washingtonpost.com
Thursday, Aug 7th, 2025 -
By Stephen Beech three times a week raises the risk of by 20%, warns new research. But scoffing similar amounts of boiled, baked or mashed potatoes is not associated with such a "substantial" increase, say scientists. The study, published by , found that eating three servings of French fries a week is associated with a 20% increased risk of developing type 2 . The American research team also found that replacing ...
Source: insidenova.com
Thursday, Aug 7th, 2025 -
U.S. Rep. Cory Mills , a Central Florida Republican, has been accused by a beauty pageant titleholder of threatening to release intimate videos and private images of her after she ended their romantic relationship, according to a report filed with law enforcement in July. Mills on Wednesday denied the allegations, which were first made by the woman in a July 14 report filed with the Columbia County Sheriff's Office ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Thursday, Aug 7th, 2025 -
THOMPSON, Pa. — A suspect who ambushed and shot two Pennsylvania state troopers Thursday died and the troopers were hospitalized, officials said. The attack took place in the rural area near Thompson shortly after 11 a.m., state police Col. Christoper Paris told reporters after he and Gov. Josh Shapiro met with one of the wounded officers in a hospital. Both troopers were said to be in stable condition. Paris ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Thursday, Aug 7th, 2025 -
We break down complex business news to help you understand how money moves in Chicago and how it affects you. Mall-based teen accessories retailer Claire's, known for helping to usher in millions of teens into an important rite of passage — ear piercing — but now struggling with a big debt load and changing consumer tastes, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Claire's Holdings and certain of ...
Source: chicago.suntimes.com
Thursday, Aug 7th, 2025 -
Five US soldiers shot at Army base in state of Georgia A United States Army sergeant opened fire at Fort Stewart-Hunter Army Airfield in Georgia on Wednesday, injuring five fellow soldiers before being subdued and arrested by others on the base, military officials said. According to Brigadier-General John Lubas, the base commander, all five soldiers are in a stable condition and are expected to recover, but three ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Thursday, Aug 7th, 2025 -
Border Patrol agents used a Penske moving truck to storm a Home Depot, despite a court order barring ICE raids at workplaces. and street vendors selling breakfast lined the parking lot of the MacArthur Park Home Depot in Los Angeles early Wednesday morning, a yellow Penske moving truck pulled into the lot. Its driver claimed he was looking for movers, according to organizers, security guards, and a day laborer who ...
Source: theintercept.com
Thursday, Aug 7th, 2025 -
Temporary halt for facility in Florida Everglades comes as attorneys argue whether environmental laws being violated A coalition of conservation groups has welcomed a federal judge's ruling on Thursday that halts construction work on the immigration jail in the Florida Everglades known as Alligator Alcatraz . US district judge Kathleen Williams ordered workers to stop adding any new paving, infrastructure or ground ...
Source: theguardian.com
Thursday, Aug 7th, 2025 -
The families of transgender service members in the U.S. Air Force could lose hundreds of thousands of dollars in denied retirement benefits due to a memo sent by the military branch this week. As Reuters reported Thursday, an official at the Air Force informed transgender members with 15-18 years of military service that they would no be eligible for early retirement and would instead be forced to leave the Air ...
Source: commondreams.org
Thursday, Aug 7th, 2025 -
This asthma treatment might eliminate deadly food allergies A common asthma medication could be the key to preventing life-threatening reactions to food allergies. That's from a multi-year effort by researchers at Northwestern University in Illinois; they identified a previously unknown biological trigger for anaphylaxis, which is most commonly caused by common foods like cow's milk, eggs, peanuts, shellfish, and ...
Source: newatlas.com
Thursday, Aug 7th, 2025 -
Brian Driscoll, who briefly served as acting director of the FBI in the early days of the second Trump administration, is being pushed out of the bureau, two sources familiar with the matter told CBS News. Driscoll must vacate his current role at the bureau's Washington field office by Friday, the sources said. The same goes for Steve Jensen, assistant director in charge of the bureau's Washington field office. It ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Thursday, Aug 7th, 2025 -
Deal gives NFL 10% equity stake in ESPN in exchange for NFL Network and RedZone assets The ESPN-NFL deal reportedly faces a major roadblock from the United States Department of Justice (DOJ). The sides agreed to a deal, formally announced Tuesday, in which ESPN will acquire NFL Network and other media assets, including NFL RedZone, from the National Football League in exchange for the league taking a 10% equity ...
Source: foxbusiness.com
Thursday, Aug 7th, 2025 -
Two people were killed Thursday after the helicopter they were in struck power lines crossing the Mississippi River and crashed onto a barge below, police said. The accident happened around 11 a.m. as the crew of the helicopter was conducting work on the power lines that cross the river in the area of St. Charles County, Missouri, State Patrol Cpl. Dallas Thompson told reporters. The helicopter crashed onto the ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Thursday, Aug 7th, 2025 -
Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani is accusing Andrew Cuomo of coordinating with President Donald Trump following a New York Times report that the two men have spoken about the mayoral race, going so far as to call it "disqualifying." During an appearance on WNYC on Thursday morning, Mamdani said, "The fact is that the president has three candidates in this race: one that he's directly been in touch with, ...
Source: nymag.com
Thursday, Aug 7th, 2025 -
President Donald Trump on Thursday ordered the Education Department to begin collecting extensive admissions data from colleges and universities, including the grades and test scores of applicants and admitted students, broken down by race. The administration's goal, officials said, is to ensure that schools are not giving preferences in admissions based on race. The effort follows a Supreme Court decision in 2023 ...
Source: washingtonpost.com
Thursday, Aug 7th, 2025 -
The Bank of England has cut the interest rate to 4% in its fifth reduction so far this year. On the other hand, though, the Bank upgraded its inflation forecasts. The economy is stagnating and job losses are mounting. Now is the time to cut interest rates again. That was the view of the Bank of England's nine-member rate setting committee on Thursday. Well, at least five of them. The other four presented us with a ...
Source: news.sky.com
Thursday, Aug 7th, 2025 -
One month after delaying the opening night of her Las Vegas residency, Kelly Clarkson has postponed shows for the rest of the month of August as she reveals that her ex-husband Brandon Blackstock "has been ill." Writing on Instagram on August 6, Clarkson told fans, "Unfortunately, I need to postpone the remainder of the August Studio Session dates in Las Vegas. While I normally keep my personal life private, this ...
Source: instyle.com
Thursday, Aug 7th, 2025 -
A request from Vice President JD Vance led to a temporary rise of the Ohio River water levels to accommodate his family vacation. On Wednesday, The Guardian reported that a statement from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) stated that the Secret Service had contacted the agency to fulfill the request, citing the need for "support" for a "safe navigation" to accommodate Vance's bodyguards on Caesar Creek Lake. ...
Source: huffpost.com
Thursday, Aug 7th, 2025 -
A woman working at a hospital in Florida drew blood, administered medications, and started IV lines, treating about 4,500 individuals over seven months. She did her job so well that she was offered a promotion at the start of this year. But when the hospital, AdventHealth Palm Coast Parkway in Palm Coast, Florida, checked the status of the woman's nursing license, they discovered that she had an expired certified ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Thursday, Aug 7th, 2025 -
Italy has given final approval to a long-delayed plan to construct the world's longest suspension bridge, connecting the mainland to Sicily in a project worth €13.5bn ($15.5bn). Transport Minister Matteo Salvini hailed the Strait of Messina Bridge as "the biggest infrastructure project in the West" after a key government committee cleared the path on Wednesday. He said the project would generate 120,000 jobs ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Thursday, Aug 7th, 2025 -
CLEVELAND, Ohio - U.S. Rep. Shontel Brown on Wednesday denounced the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs' decision to terminate contracts with most of its workers' unions, describing it as a "a shameful assault on the workers who serve our veterans and keep the VA running every day. "The nurses, caregivers, and frontline staff at (Louis Stokes Cleveland Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center) and facilities ...
Source: cleveland.com
Thursday, Aug 7th, 2025 -
A new study shows cockatoos in captivity dance more often than expected, with the birds pulling out moves like the "body roll" and the "moving jump". The researchers observed cockatoos showing off a total of 30 distinct dance moves. Some stylish birds showed off unique moves not seen in any other bird. "The work suggests that playing music to parrots may provide a useful approach to enrich their lives in captivity, ...
Source: cosmosmagazine.com
Thursday, Aug 7th, 2025 -
Google has confirmed that it is among the victims of an ongoing data theft campaign targeting Salesforce instances. The tech giant confirmed that data has been retrieved by the threat actor, however this was largely publicly available business information, such as business names and contact details. The cyber-attack has been linked to ShinyHunters, tracked by the Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) as UNC6040 ...
Source: infosecurity-magazine.com
Thursday, Aug 7th, 2025 -
Microsoft has unveiled a new AI agent named Project Ire, which is able to classify malware at a global scale with precision. Announced during Black Hat USA 2025, Project Ire is capable of fully reverse engineering a software file without any clues about its origin or purpose. It uses decompilers and other tools to review the software's output to determine whether it is malicious or benign. The system uses advanced ...
Source: infosecurity-magazine.com
Thursday, Aug 7th, 2025 -
Stone tools may hint at ancestors of Homo floresiensis The stone flakes don't look like much, but they're a clue in an ancient cold case. Some stone tools found near a river on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi suggest that the first hominins had reached the islands by at least 1.04 million years ago. That's around the same time that the ancestors of the infamously diminutive "Hobbits" may have reached the island ...
Source: arstechnica.com
Thursday, Aug 7th, 2025 -
An Arizona teenager was arrested after he threw a sex toy into the crowd at a Phoenix Mercury game, police said, the fourth time such a "stupid prank" has unfolded at a WNBA contest in the past two weeks. Kaden Lopez, 18, was booked on suspicion of disorderly conduct, assault and public display of explicit sexual material after he threw a green sex toy toward seats in front of him at PHX Arena during Tuesday's game ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Wednesday, Aug 6th, 2025 -
United Airlines temporarily grounded all of its mainline flights on Wednesday evening due to a technical issue, the carrier confirmed. Mainline operations refer to flights run directly by United using its aircraft and crew, including Boeing 737, 757, 767, 777, and 787 jets, along with Airbus A319 and A320 models, reports Fox News. "Due to a technology issue, we are holding United mainline flights at their departure ...
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Wednesday, Aug 6th, 2025 -
Gunfire erupted at the Army base Wednesday morning, prompting the commander to lock down facilities in the wake of an "active shooter" incident. Coverage on this live blog has ended. Please for the latest updates. The soldier accused of shooting five other service members at Fort Stewart today is a 28-year-old who has been assigned to the Georgia base for around three years, officials said. Sgt. Quornelius Radford, ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Wednesday, Aug 6th, 2025 -
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Republican U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn announced Wednesday that she is entering the open Tennessee governor's race in 2026, setting up a primary clash with U.S. Rep. John Rose. Blackburn's announcement makes official what had been expected for some time from the ally of President Donald Trump. She had made no secret that she was planning on running for the position. It sets up a ...
Source: pbs.org
Wednesday, Aug 6th, 2025 -
The General Services Administration signs this new OneGov pact to help agencies adopt advanced artificial intelligence tools as part of the Trump administration's push for AI leadership. The General Services Administration has signed a new partnership agreement with OpenAI for the company's ChatGPT offering, a move the agency says supports President Trump's AI Action Plan. ChatGPT Enterprise will be offered to ...
Source: nextgov.com