Summary of Events On August 27, 2025, the Trump administration abruptly ousted Susan Monarez, who had been confirmed as CDC director just weeks earlier. The Department of Health and Human…

According to the Universal Postal Union (UPU), a specialized agency of the United Nations overseeing global mail coordination, at least 25 countries have suspended postal package deliveries to the United…

A Minnesota woman was arrested after a viral video captured her directing a racist slur at a Black child. The incident occurred earlier in August 2025 and quickly spread across…

On August 27, 2025, a tragic shooting occurred at Annunciation Catholic School in south Minneapolis during a morning Mass service. The shooter, armed with multiple weapons including a rifle and…

What’s happening: The House Oversight Committee, led by Chairman Rep. James Comer (R–Kentucky), issued a sweeping subpoena to the estate of Jeffrey Epstein on August 25, 2025 ABC News The…

On August 25, 2025, President Donald Trump announced he had dismissed Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook, citing mortgage fraud allegations tied to her reporting two primary residences in 2021—an act…

A Utah judge, Dianna Gibson, has ruled the state’s 2021 congressional redistricting map unconstitutional. The current map, redrawn by a Republican-controlled legislature, violated Proposition 4, a 2018 voter-approved law mandating an…

Kilmar Abrego Garcia—a Salvadoran national living in Maryland with U.S. citizen family—was detained by ICE on August 25, 2025, following a mandatory check-in at the Baltimore ICE office. His arrest…

Summary of the News Thousands of previously unseen documents tied to the 1955 lynching of Emmett Till were made public by the Civil Rights Cold Case Records Review Board, under…

A Research Triangle Park–based startup, Counterforce Health, has developed an AI tool to help patients and clinics appeal health insurance denials. The platform—which is free for patients and caregivers—is gaining…