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Who Is Minneapolis Shooter's Mum Mary Grace Westman — and Why Won't She Cooperate with Police?

Police say Mary Grace Westman, mother of the Minneapolis shooter, is refusing to cooperate with their investigation. Her silence has raised questions about what she knows and why she won't assist detectives.

International Business Times UK

ACLU, other groups sue to block Texas' DEI ban on K-12 public schools

The suit alleges the new state law unconstitutionally silences the viewpoints of students and teachers. The law’s supporters say DEI programs use public funds to promote political agendas.

The Texas Tribune

Alabama town’s Black mayor wins election four years after white residents locked him out of town hall and refused to let him serve

Patrick Braxton has been elected as the mayor of Newbern, Alabama, after the town voted 66 to 26 in his favor

The Independent UK

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March for Australia: how are police and government responding to anti-immigration rally promoted by neo-Nazis?

Sunday march organised by ‘White Australians’ condemned as hateful by federal government

The Guardian - AU

Comorian woman says justice minister among men who raped her for years

A young Comorian woman, Raanti A, has spoken to RFI about multiple rapes she alleges she was subjected to by a man she is related to, who she says also invited several other men to sexually abuse her – one of whom she claims is the Comorian minister of justice.

Radio France Internationale

Immigration Agents Arrest Two Mexican Contractors Who Were Fighting a Fire: 'Deeply Concerned'

Customs and Border Protection (CBP) arrested two Mexican contractors helping fight a fire in Washington

Latin Times

Utah Family Wins Nearly $1B After Girl Left Disabled by 'Hellish' Hospital Delivery — What Really Happened?

A Utah judge awards a record $951m after a 'hellish' 2019 birth at a West Valley hospital left a girl disabled, with Steward Health Care's bankruptcy clouding payouts.

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Trump administration faces rare bipartisan pushback for firing CDC director

Susan Monarez was reportedly fired by Robert F Kennedy Jr but her lawyers say only Trump himself can remove her

The Guardian - US

Taiwan has ‘right to remain free’, US senator says in visit criticised by China

Roger Wicker and Deb Fischer meet island’s president in Taipei as Beijing says trip sends ‘gravely wrong signal’

The Guardian - UK

With CDC in chaos, scientists and physicians piece together replacements for agency's lost work

The CDC is in turmoil, with outside groups stepping in to handle work once done by the agency

The Independent UK

Trump revokes Kamala Harris’s Secret Service detail extended by Biden

President’s new security directive cancels one-year extension signed by Biden before leaving office

The Guardian - US

Employers have used E-Verify for years. ICE's arrest of a Maine police officer raises new questions

The case of a Maine police officer arrested by immigration authorities even though he was vetted by a government system called E-Verify is raising questions about what employers can do to make sure they’re employing people who can legally work

The Independent UK

DC eateries suffer as workers terrified of Ice stay home: ‘You don’t want to go outside’

Some restaurants in the US capital have closed their doors as workers stay home rather than risk deportation

The Guardian - US

Nearly 1,000 ‘worker over billionaire’ actions planned for Labor Day in US

Rallies from Alaska to Hawaii will highlight cuts to wages, unions and social safety nets under Trump policies

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US appeals court rules most of Trump’s sweeping global tariffs illegal – as it happened

Ruling upholds decision from trade court while president attacks ‘Highly Partisan Appeals Court’ and says he will win tariff fight

Fortune

Trump’s EV tax credit cuts are fueling a U.S. battery surplus that could lead to factory cancellations, ‘a poison pill for U.S. manufacturing hopes’

“If you believe—as many people do—that batteries are a key technology as the world moves towards more electrification, that’s not a good scenario,” one expert said.

The Guardian - UK

Trump’s Venezuela gunboat diplomacy: sabre-rattling or prelude to invasion?

Some fear US dispatch of three warships to patrol off South American coast may be part of a regime-change operation – but is it?

The Independent UK

Iran’s ambassador breaks silence after being expelled from Australia over antisemitic attacks

Sadeghi told reporters the allegations were ‘baseless’

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International Business Times

Japan Seeks Record Defence Budget, To Triple Drone Spending

Japan's defence ministry is aiming for a major boost to its drone arsenal as part of another record spending request made Friday to deal with a "severely intensifying security environment".

The Independent UK

Father of boy killed in Minneapolis church shooting: Remember his love, not the violence

The families of the two Catholic school students fatally shot while celebrating Mass at a Minneapolis church are continuing to wrestle with their grief

The Texas Tribune

Texas Senate tightens, passes bill that shields some police complaints

Hours before debate, a Senate committee advanced a version of HB 15 that stripped changes the House added last week, including one that addressed the release of Uvalde shooting documents.

The Guardian - AU

Porepunkah manhunt day five: what we know so far about the Victoria police shooting and suspect Dezi Freeman

Police are looking for Dezi Freeman, who allegedly killed two officers at the regional Victorian town of Porepunkah, about 300km north-east of Melbourne, Australia

The Guardian - AU

Ukraine war briefing: Thousands of cruise missiles for Kyiv in Europe-funded package

Germany’s Merz says ‘obvious’ Putin won’t agree to meet Zelenskyy; Ukrainian retort to Hungary in Russian oil pipeline row. What we know on day 1,283

Al Jazeera

White House picks Robert Kennedy Jr’s deputy to replace ousted CDC director

Former CDC head was expelled after clashing with Trump administration over policies she says were not driven by science.

The Guardian - US

Trump news at a glance: CDC chief was fired for resisting vaccine changes that ‘flew in the face of science’

A deputy of Robert F Kennedy Jr will reportedly replace Susan Monarez as acting head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Key US politics stories from Thursday 28 August at a glance

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