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Israel plans to take over Gaza City to pressure Hamas. Worries rise for civilians and hostages

By WAFAA SHURAFA, SAM METZ and SAMY MAGDY
Aug 08, 2025 9:27 am - Israel said Friday it will intensify its 22-month war with Hamas by taking over Gaza City, drawing a dismissal from the militant group and renewed international calls to end the conflict, while stirring fears for Palestinian civilians and Israeli hostages still held in Gaza.
Ukrainian troops have little hope for peace as Trump’s deadline for Russia arrives

By VASILISA STEPANENKO
Aug 08, 2025 6:52 am - Ukrainian soldiers on the battlefield expressed little hope for a diplomatic solution to the war with Russia, as U.S. President Donald Trump’s Friday deadline for the Kremlin to stop the killing arrived and he eyed a possible summit meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss the conflict.
Trump seeks to force universities to turn over admissions data on race

By Anumita Kaur and Susan Svrluga
Aug 07, 2025 7:38 pm - 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.
Trump calls for major changes to census amid GOP redistricting effort

By Dan Merica and David Nakamura
Aug 07, 2025 7:32 pm - President Donald Trump said Thursday that he plans to conduct a census that would not count people present in the country illegally, an order that clashes with the Constitution and would face legal challenges.
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.
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.
Krishnamoorthi leading investigation into license plate readers

By Steve Zalusky
Aug 07, 2025 2:08 pm - U.S. Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi is demanding answers from the leading provider of automatic license plate readers about the use of their cameras to gain information about immigrants and those seeking abortion services.
Underwood: ICE ‘completely unresponsive’ after enforcement in Joliet

By Felix Sarver
Aug 07, 2025 11:57 am - U.S. Rep. Lauren Underwood told a crowd during a Joliet town hall that she has received no response from top federal officials regarding a report of a “reckless” immigration enforcement incident in the city.
GOP Sen. Cornyn says FBI will help locate Texas Democratic lawmakers

By Dylan Wells & Molly Hennessy-Fiske
Aug 07, 2025 11:06 am - Sen. John Cornyn, a Texas Republican, said Thursday that the FBI had granted his request for the agency to assist Texas law enforcement in locating Democratic state lawmakers who have left the state to stall a Trump-backed effort to redraw the state’s congressional map.
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.

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