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Today — 29 August 2025NYT | Top Stories

Israel Military Says It Recovered Body of Ilan Weiss, Oct. 7 Victim, From Gaza

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By: Johnatan Reiss
29 August 2025 at 22:20
Ilan Weiss, who was killed in the Hamas-led attack, and the remains of another person, who was not identified, were found as the government looks set to expand a military offensive.

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Demonstrators hold posters with photographs of Ilan Weiss at a rally in Tel Aviv last year.

Britain Bars Israeli Government From a Leading Arms Trade Fair

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By: Mark Landler
29 August 2025 at 22:15
The British government said it was acting in response to Israel’s escalating military operation in Gaza. Israel condemned the decision.

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The Defense and Security Equipment International fair in London in 2023.

He Paved the Way for CNN, Fox News and the Internet. He’s Not Sure We’re Better Off.

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By: Benjamin Mullin
29 August 2025 at 22:32
John Malone helped create the modern media industry over the last half century. In a new memoir, “Born to Be Wired,” he looks back on what he has wrought.

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John Malone, a captain of the media industry over the past several decades, aboard his yacht in the Boothbay region of Maine.

Trump Cancels Kamala Harris’s Secret Service Protection

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By: Tyler Pager
29 August 2025 at 21:56
The Secret Service usually protects a former vice president for six months after they leave office, but President Joseph R. Biden Jr. had extended Ms. Harris’s protection beyond that.

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Kamala Harris, then the vice president, on her way to a campaign rally in Wisconsin in October 2024.

U.K. Court Overturns Ruling on Hotel at Center of Asylum Seeker Debate

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By: Lizzie Dearden
29 August 2025 at 21:35
The decision was a temporary reprieve for the government but will intensify a political battle over how Britain should house tens of thousands of asylum seekers.

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Outside the Bell Hotel in Epping, southeastern England, this month. The hotel became the center of protests after an asylum seeker who was being housed there was charged with sexual assault.

Weapons to Start Flowing to Ukraine Under European Deal With Trump

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By: Lara Jakes
29 August 2025 at 21:36
A package of U.S. cruise missiles is among the first shipments of purchases by NATO allies to be sent to the embattled country.

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Russia has continued to pound Kyiv and other areas of Ukraine with airstrikes, including a barrage on Wednesday that killed at least 23 people in the capital.

Israel Resumes Daytime Operations in Gaza City, Signaling Buildup to Assault

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By: Adam Rasgon
29 August 2025 at 21:25
The Israeli military ended a policy of pausing operations during the day that was intended to allow more aid in, calling Gaza City a “dangerous combat zone.”

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Displaced Palestinians leaving Gaza City toward the southern areas of the Gaza Strip on Thursday. The Israeli military has not issued a blanket evacuation order for the city.

Emil Bove Continued to Work at Trump’s Justice Dept, Even After Judicial Confirmation

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By: Devlin Barrett
29 August 2025 at 20:56
The code of conduct for federal judges does not appear to apply to Mr. Bove, who has yet to be sworn in. But his continued presence at the department has raised eyebrows.

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Emil Bove III was narrowly confirmed last month to serve on a powerful appeals court judgeship.

PCE Inflation Stayed Stable in July, Keeping Fed on Track to Lower Interest Rates

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By: Colby Smith
29 August 2025 at 20:44
The latest economic data keeps the central bank on track to lower interest rates at its next meeting in September.

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Shoppers look through the various items on display during the grand opening of a new Aldi grocery store.

Tran Trong Duyet, John McCain’s Captor at the ‘Hanoi Hilton,’ Dies at 93

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By: Damien Cave
29 August 2025 at 20:50
Mr. Duyet endorsed Mr. McCain’s presidential bid in 2008 after insisting no Americans were tortured under his watch in the Vietnam War.

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Tran Trong Duyet pointing at himself in a photograph speaking to captured U.S. pilots before their release in 1973.

20 Years After Katrina, New Orleans Is ‘at a Tipping Point’

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By: Eduardo Medina
29 August 2025 at 17:02
The city has taken pride in its ability to endure. But many residents, fed up with dysfunction and soaring costs, want it to strive for more.

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Charity Hospital, which permanently closed after Hurricane Katrina, sits in the Central Business District of New Orleans.

3 Ways Hurricane Forecasts Have Changed Since Katrina

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By: Judson Jones
29 August 2025 at 07:13
Modern technology has given meteorologists more detail than they’ve ever had on how storms behave. Here’s what they’re doing with it.

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Katrina’s forecast track initially indicated that it would move into the Florida Panhandle, but the storm moved west into New Orleans.

Ukraine’s Donetsk Faces Water Crisis Under Russian Occupation

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By: Nataliya Vasilyeva
29 August 2025 at 18:37
The Russian authorities have seized on the crisis in Donetsk to argue that taking over the rest of the region from Ukraine would allow Moscow to restore the water supply.

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Residents waiting last month to collect drinking water in Donetsk, a Russian-controlled city in Ukraine.

How the Future of the Fed Came to Rest on Lisa Cook

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By: Colby Smith and Ben Casselman
29 August 2025 at 17:03
President Trump’s effort to oust the Federal Reserve governor has kicked off a landmark legal battle, one that will have far-reaching consequences for the institution’s independence.

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Lisa Cook, who was appointed to the Fed’s board of governors in 2022, during a July conference at the Federal Reserve in Washington.

Trump’s ‘Maximalist’ Plan for the Presidency, and a Major Loophole Closes for U.S. Shoppers

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By: Tracy Mumford， Will Jarvis， Ian Stewart， Jessica Metzger and Luke Broadwater
29 August 2025 at 18:00
Plus, your Friday news quiz.

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President Trump has targeted the Fed and the C.D.C. this week. His officials say he is within his rights to fire officials who do not share his agenda.

After Minneapolis Church Shooting, Families Seek Healing and Comfort

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By: Ann Hinga Klein
29 August 2025 at 09:34
Families and neighbors sought comfort on Thursday. “Give your kids an extra hug and kiss today,” the father of a victim said.

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Jesse Merkel, left, whose son Fletcher died in the attack, delivered remarks at a news conference outside Annunciation Catholic Church on Thursday.

2 Weeks, 1,000 Arrests: How a Surge of Feds Changed D.C. Policing

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By: Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs， Jeff Adelson， Campbell Robertson and Bernard Mokam
29 August 2025 at 17:02
Crime has fallen since federal agents started policing the streets of Washington in large numbers. Court records show that they have been involved in about a third of arrests that resulted in prosecution, many of them for minor offenses.

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Many of the arrests in Washington, D.C., involving federal agents have been for low-level offenses. A man was taken into custody in the Columbia Heights neighborhood Aug. 22 on a charge of smoking marijuana in public.

Gregory Bovino Is Leading the California Immigration Crackdown

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By: Hamed Aleaziz and Jesus Jiménez
29 August 2025 at 17:01
Gregory Bovino has orchestrated thousands of arrests, using confrontational tactics that have made him a MAGA star. His critics say he’s crossing legal and political lines.

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Earlier this summer, Gregory Bovino, 55, was named the tactical commander in charge of immigration enforcement operations in the Los Angeles area.

This Summer, a Hostile Reception for Many Israelis Abroad

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By: Isabel Kershner and Niki Kitsantonis
29 August 2025 at 17:05
Against the backdrop of the devastating war and hunger crisis in Gaza, Israeli travelers have been harassed and accosted in Europe, sometimes just for speaking Hebrew.

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Greek riot police officers stood guard as pro-Palestinian demonstrators protested against the arrival of a cruise liner carrying Israeli tourists, in Agios Nikolaos on the island of Crete, in July.

N.Y.C. Covid Cases Appear to Be Rising. So Are Inquiries on Vaccines.

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By: Samantha Latson
29 August 2025 at 15:00
Patients are flooding medical practices with reports of the telltale signs of Covid and questions about whether they will be able to get vaccinated.

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People waited outside an urgent care clinic in 2021 in the Bronx neighborhood of New York City, during the height of the coronavirus pandemic.

As Bolsonaro Heads to Trial, Brazil Faces a Dilemma: How to Prosecute a President?

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By: Jack Nicas and Ana Ionova
29 August 2025 at 17:02
Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil’s former president, is heading to trial. But his path there has stirred concern that the judiciary has overstepped its bounds.

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Jair Bolsonaro, the former president of Brazil, during an interview with The New York Times at his party’s headquarters in January.

Politicians Are Polarized. American Voters, Not So Much.

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By: Kristen Soltis Anderson
29 August 2025 at 17:01
Where the center of American politics may be alive and well.

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Rodion Shchedrin, Composer Who Captured Russia’s Soul, Dies at 92

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By: Jonathan Kandell
29 August 2025 at 15:45
Mr. Shchedrin drew on Russian literature for stage works and was an eager experimenter, inspired by folk tales, religious mysticism and melodrama.

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Rodion Shchedrin in New York in 1977.
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