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Top News Stories for Monday, August 25th 2025
Sunday, Aug 24th, 2025 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Sunday threatened to expand his military deployments to more Democratic-led cities, responding to an offer by Maryland's governor to join him in a tour of Baltimore by saying he might instead "send in the 'troops.'" Last week, Trump said he was considering Chicago and New York for troop deployments similar to what he has unleashed on the nation's capital, where ...
Source: pbs.org
Sunday, Aug 24th, 2025 -
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Saturday promised to quickly sign off on a new, Republican-leaning congressional voting map gerrymandered to help the GOP maintain its slim majority in Congress. "One Big Beautiful Map has passed the Senate and is on its way to my desk, where it will be swiftly signed into law," Abbott said in a statement. Texas lawmakers approved the final plans just hours before, inflaming an already ...
Source: wbur.org
Sunday, Aug 24th, 2025 -
Health officials report dozens of casualties in Sana'a, including six deaths Israeli strikes have hit the Yemeni capital, Sana'a, in retaliation for Houthi missiles fired towards Israel , with Houthi health officials saying the attack had killed six people. The strikes on Sunday were the latest in more than a year of direct attacks and counterstrikes between Israel and Houthi militants in Yemen , part of a ...
Source: theguardian.com
Sunday, Aug 24th, 2025 -
Protesters have rallied in cities and towns across the United Kingdom, demanding that Prime Minister Keir Starmer's government stop housing asylum seekers at hotels. The rallies on Saturday were met with counterprotests by antiracism campaigners, triggering scuffles between the opposing groups, and police intervention to keep the camps separated. According to UK media, protests against asylum seeker hotels were ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Sunday, Aug 24th, 2025 -
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in a new interview that no meeting is currently planned between Russian leader Vladimir Putin and as President Donald Trump pushes for peace talks. "It was not discussed in Anchorage. It was raised later. It's something which is kind of impromptu, appearing from the meeting in Washington between President Trump and his guests," Lavrov told NBC's "Meet the ...
Source: aol.com
Sunday, Aug 24th, 2025 -
P resident Donald Trump threatened to "send in the 'troops'" to Baltimore in a lengthy social media post on Sunday directed at Maryland's Democrat governor, Wes Moore. The threat came in response to an invitation from Moore for the President to take part in a safety walk in Baltimore following Trump's . "As President, I would much prefer that he clean up this Crime disaster before I go there for a 'walk,'" Trump ...
Source: aol.com
Sunday, Aug 24th, 2025 -
Anders Lorenzen The potential for significant local job losses and the headache faced by the Danish wind energy giant Ørsted have intensified after the US government cancelled a major offshore wind power project that was approved by the Biden Administration and was nearing its completion. Revolution Wind, an offshore wind project off the coast of England that Ørsted is jointly developing in ...
Source: agreenerlifeagreenerworld.net
Saturday, Aug 23rd, 2025 -
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Immigration officials said they intend to deport to Uganda after he declined an offer to be sent to Costa Rica in exchange for remaining in jail and pleading guilty to human smuggling charges, his defense attorneys told a court Saturday. The Costa Rica offer came late Thursday and included a requirement that he remain in jail for the time being and then serve whatever sentence he would ...
Source: news4jax.com
Saturday, Aug 23rd, 2025 -
Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein's imprisoned former girlfriend and accomplice, repeatedly denied in her interview with the Justice Department having witnessed any sexually inappropriate interactions with Donald Trump, according to records released Friday meant to distance the president from the sex-trafficking case. The Trump administration issued transcripts from interviews that Deputy Atty. Gen. Todd Blanche ...
Source: latimes.com