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Pritzker: FBI can’t arrest Texas lawmakers sheltering in Illinois

By Peter Hancock
Aug 07, 2025 5:23 pm - Gov. JB Pritzker brushed aside suggestions Thursday that FBI agents could be deployed to arrest a group of Texas Democratic lawmakers who have fled to Illinois to delay voting on a mid-decade Republican redistricting plan.
Hurricane season is picking up. These conditions have forecasters most concerned.

By Ben Noll
Aug 07, 2025 4:37 pm - After a slow but deadly start to hurricane season, the Atlantic Ocean is turning more active as the typical peak of activity approaches in September.
July was Earth’s third-warmest on record, EU scientists say

By PAOLO SANTALUCIA and SUMAN NAISHADHAM
Aug 07, 2025 4:10 pm - The world experienced its third-warmest July on record this year, the European Union agency that tracks global warming said Thursday, with temperatures easing slightly for the month as compared with the record high two years ago.
Soldiers hailed as heroes for tackling armed assailant at Georgia Army base

By RUSS BYNUM and JEFF MARTIN
Aug 07, 2025 3:51 pm - Sgt. Aaron Turner was helping lock down a supply warehouse on Fort Stewart after gunshots were reported in a neighboring office building. Then he saw a fellow soldier walking past, wearing a hooded sweatshirt over his uniform and holding a handgun.Instead of ducking for cover, Turner said, he approached the gunman and started talking — asking what he was doing there and where he was heading.
FBI fires senior officials, including former acting head

By Jeremy Roebuck, Ellen Nakashima and Perry Stein
Aug 07, 2025 3:32 pm - The FBI has forced out at least two senior officials, including the bureau’s former acting director, in its latest purge of leaders who drew the ire of right-wing supporters of President Donald Trump, according to people familiar with the dismissals.
US applications for jobless benefits rise modestly, but remain in a range considered healthy

By MATT OTT
Aug 07, 2025 7:47 am - The number of Americans filing for jobless benefits rose modestly last week, a sign that employers still retaining workers despite economic uncertainty related to U.S. trade policy.
The Bank of England cuts its main interest rate to 4%, the lowest level since March 2023

Aug 07, 2025 6:50 am - The Bank of England cut its main interest rate Thursday by a quarter percentage point to 4%, as policy makers seek to bolster the sluggish U.K. economy.
Trump’s push for drilling, mining sharpens debate for Alaska Natives about land they view as sacred

By PETER SMITH
Aug 07, 2025 6:45 am - When Alaska Natives debate proposals to drill and mine the landscape of the nation’s largest state, it involves more than an environmental or economic question. It’s also a spiritual and cultural one.
Trump to meet Putin soon, the Kremlin says as a White House deadline looms on Ukraine

By DASHA LITVINOVA and BARRY HATTON
Aug 07, 2025 6:41 am - A meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump has been agreed, a Kremlin official said Thursday, the eve of a White House deadline for Moscow to show progress toward ending the 3-year-old war in Ukraine.
Trump’s broad tariffs go into effect, just as economic pain is surfacing

By JOSH BOAK
Aug 07, 2025 6:37 am - 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.

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