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Scams in the US are at a record high. Yet most victims get no help and some end up losing even more When Simon’s wife of 43 years passed away, it felt a bit like he’d died too. Read More. PHOTO ESSAY: Inside a detention center where scam workers wait for their return home He had lost count of the number of times he was sold from company to company in the Philippines. Read More.

Dutch central bank shifts billions in gold to London in 'crisis preparedness' move The Dutch central bank announced Wednesday that it has moved billions of dollars worth of its gold reserves out of North America in a move it described as “crisis preparedness” in a time of global political unrest. Read More.

She certainly had a huge impact on America. Possibly the person with the greatest impact in my lifetime. Here is some things many don't know. -------------------------- ....Still, Steinem’s upbringing was colored by her mother’s financial anxieties and her mother consequently suffered a nervous breakdown. Steinem’s parents then divorced when she was 10 and her father moved to California, leaving young Steinem and her sister, Susanne, to take care of their troubled mother.... Before Gloria Steinem was the face of second-wave feminism, she was an anti-communist operative for the CIA and went undercover with Playboy to expose their misogynistic practices. Gloria Steinem is a journalist and activist who rose to prominence as the stylish frontwoman of the women’s liberation movement in 1970s America..... https://allthatsinteresting.com/gloria-steinem ---------------------------- Some have questioned when she stopped working with the CIA She certainly was not a christian.

So the unvaccinated are the modern day Lepers?

Everyone publicly confesses they have "greatly sinned" at my Church; this is the 1st thing that happens before proceeding on.

Just imagine if the children of Israel decided not to listen to the high priest about Leprosy? God had these people isolate themselves from the rest so that the disease might not spread throughout the camp!!

We've seen or even heard of some that have committee the crime of killing someone and the family forgive that person. But that person still needs to pay the penalty of his crime!! As far as forgetting, some might, but some wont or just forget as time passes bye! The forgiving is for all not just for the doer of the crime but for the one that the crime was committed against!!

A judge blocks Trump’s new bid to curb birthright citizenship, citing Supreme Court precedent U.S. District Judge Deborah L. Boardman on Wednesday issued a preliminary injunction against an executive order that the administration said would target “birth tourism,” until a class-action lawsuit brought by immigrant families and advocacy groups is resolved. Read more. Why this matters: President Donald Trump has long wanted to end birthright citizenship, issuing a previous executive order declaring that children born to people who are in the United States illegally or temporarily are not American citizens. The Supreme Court struck down that attempt in June. “The Supreme Court has spoken: Children in the certified class are ‘citizens at birth,’” Boardman, appointed by President Joe Biden, wrote in the ruling. The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment. RELATED COVERAGE ➤ Immigrant rights group seeks to block use of federal databases it says could purge legal voters FACT FOCUS: Texans listed as ‘suspense voters’ can still cast a ballot if they confirm their address Trump promises to campaign for Republicans and says they have a winning midterm message Here’s a look at ‘reach’ election races where Democrats hope to pull off House upsets Trump’s plan for a fence at Lafayette Park near White House gets review by federal panel Apple changes Lake Ontario name to ‘Lake America’ for US users of its Maps, following Trump’s order Kennedy Center disassembles Blue sculpture from its grounds Heads or tails? $1 coin with Trump’s face and gold finish goes on sale

Lawmakers ask Army to explain why it told a military unit to stop specializing in drone warfare The 173rd Airborne Brigade, based in Europe, had been building its own drones and practicing the kind of warfare that Ukraine has pioneered against Russia and that Iran has fought against the U.S. — warfare that has killed and wounded American troops. Read more. Why this matters: This comes as the world’s battlefields rapidly evolve and military tactics increasingly rely on uncrewed systems to fight. The bipartisan group of lawmakers expressed deep concerns in a letter shared with The Associated Press. They said ending the unit’s focus on drones would limit the military’s abilities to learn from allies, particularly the Ukrainian Armed Forces. RELATED COVERAGE ➤ Driscoll offered no reason for his exit as Army secretary USS Lincoln crew hits the streets of Thai beach city after lengthy Middle East deployment Judge lacked power to overturn ex-soldier Bowe Bergdahl’s military conviction, appeals court rules Iran strikes Kuwait in retaliation for US bombardments

2 people killed and suspect is dead in downtown Minneapolis shooting The shooting Wednesday also left five others wounded, including two Minneapolis police officers. A sixth person, another officer, suffered other injuries. Read more. What to know: Authorities did not provide any details about the suspected shooter but said they were familiar with the person before the shooting. Video posted to social media showed police aiming rifles upward at an apartment tower near the Minneapolis Convention Center. Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz said in a post on social media that state officials were on the ground helping local law enforcement respond to the shooting. RELATED COVERAGE ➤ WATCH: Minneapolis mayor and police chief share information

September 3, 2026 By Sam Sifton Good morning. Gloria Steinem, the activist and journalist who personified the women’s movement, has died at 92. She challenged sexist assumptions, helping women expand their sense of self-worth and gain more equality in their lives. We have more on her life below. And The Times conducted a visual investigation into the attack this week on a wedding in southern Iran that killed at least five people and injured at least 67. American forces, we learned, dropped the bomb. The leader of those forces in Washington is Pete Hegseth, the secretary of defense. I’m going to turn to my editor, Adam Kushner, for a look at Hegseth’s tenure. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth Alex Kent/The New York Times Hegseth’s military By Adam B. Kushner I’m the editor of this newsletter. It’s been a weird summer for the Pentagon. Its leaders depleted much of the U.S. arsenal in a war with Iran. They’ve pushed out some of the most promising generals because the officers once said or did something that looks like “D.E.I.” They had to call home an aircraft carrier when the crew became demoralized about its much-longer-than-promised deployment. Then they punished a military newspaper that covered those sailors. This week, the Army’s civilian leader threw up his hands and quit. This is the military under Pete Hegseth, the aggressively MAGA secretary of defense — well, secretary of war, if Congress ever makes it official. Political appointees come and go from the Pentagon, and it’s their job to advance the president’s agenda. But reporting in The Times over the last year and a half shows how far Hegseth has gone to remake the agency in MAGA’s image. The armed forces today are not the ones you grew up with. Four Times reporters — Helene Cooper, John Ismay, Greg Jaffe and Eric Schmitt — have chronicled a chaotic transformation. What’s happened The changes fall into three categories. Ideology. President Trump campaigned against diversity efforts, and his defense secretary, a former Fox News host, has prosecuted that case with zeal. Hegseth has removed books from libraries and schools on military bases. Toni Morrison and James Baldwin are gone from classes at West Point, and sociology — a discipline that inherently studies identity — is no longer a major there. Officials told a geographer on the faculty that he couldn’t teach about the human causes of climate change. Hegseth has degrees from Princeton and Harvard, but he barred officers from graduate programs at Ivy League schools because they are “factories of anti-American resentment and military disdain.” Staffing. Hegseth says he wants to streamline the officer corps and make it more effective. But his cuts and his decision not to promote some 80 specific people — about 10 percent of the top officer corps — suggest his focus is elsewhere. More than half of the officers affected are Black or female. Some were apparently targeted for: writing a paper on why some Black officers choose logistics roles over combat; encouraging their troops to get the Covid vaccine; and serving in Afghanistan at the same time as the military’s withdrawal there. Now much of the department is rudderless, our reporters say. Transparency. Do you remember the first Gulf war? The generals were on TV constantly, wielding pointers and maps to explain the day’s maneuvers. After Sept. 11, similar briefings came daily. Today, we rarely hear from the brass, even though the United States is at war. The last Pentagon press conference was in May. Hegseth says reporters cover American casualties to “make the president look bad.” (The Times has sued the administration for restricting our journalists’ reporting on the agency.) Officials also don’t answer questions from Congress about the firing of officers or the endgame in Iran. “They seem to think that any effort to engage the public endangers America,” Greg told me. What’s at stake Some of this is just about vibes. For generations, the Pentagon built a corps of leaders who acquired graduate degrees at top schools and spoke eloquently about global strategy. They were overwhelmingly white men, though other groups were steadily making headway. Whatever you think about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the people who led them often thought of themselves as humanists, students of history, warrior-poets. Hegseth seems to see this as weak and unfocused. He has said women don’t belong in combat and discharged trans service members. He did away with some rules of engagement and said the department’s priority was “lethality.” He closed an office that worked to prevent collateral damage against civilians. He offers testosterone to soldiers, insists that men shave their beards (even the ones grown for medical reasons) and appears in sweaty videos pumping iron with the troops. President Trump and Hegseth in Dover, Del., in July, attending the transfer of a service member killed in the Iran war. Kenny Holston/The New York Times But other changes may systemically weaken the armed forces, experts say. The targeted firings make it look as if some types of Americans are not welcome in the military, or at least not in its leadership. And the insistence on ideological conformity makes it harder to get unvarnished advice from experienced combatants. If you want to be promoted, you have to mouth the right views. We’ve already seen caution set in. Gen. Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, says his job is not to tell the president whether an idea is good or bad but to present a range of options and their risks. That’s a departure. His predecessors, for instance, pleaded with President Biden not to withdraw from Afghanistan. Yet when the commander in chief made his call, they carried it out. This is the idea that underpins two centuries of military leadership: The generals can be trusted, their personal views notwithstanding, to follow orders. GLORIA STEINEM The New York Times Gloria Steinem, the feminist crusader, has died at 92. She helped usher in cultural transformations across virtually every facet of American life, from the boardroom to the courtroom to the bedroom. For more than half a century, she personified the women’s movement and became its most enduring symbol; “her tinted aviator glasses and curtain of streaked-blond hair parted in the center made her one of the most recognizable women in the world,” my colleague writes. Her death was announced in a post on social media, which did not give a cause. It said she had died peacefully at home, surrounded by loved ones. Read her obituary. MORNING READS In Brooklyn. José A. Alvarado Jr. for The New York Times We’ve made these links free for you. Barbecues: Younger Black Americans are finding creative ways to keep the traditional cookout alive. Robotaxis: Can driverless cars navigate London’s medieval streets? Jurassic soundscape: Scientists spent over a decade reconstructing the calls of ancient insects. Now, you can hear what the forest sounded like in the age of dinosaurs. Your pick: The most clicked story in The Morning yesterday was about a plan to kill nearly all the deer on Catalina Island. THE LATEST NEWS Elections The Department of Homeland Security has assigned hundreds of agents to identify noncitizens on voter rolls. There is no evidence of widespread fraud. The U.S. Postal Service has continued to develop a complex screening system for mail-in ballots before this year’s midterms, despite an ongoing court fight over its legality. Trump is headlining an unusual Republican pep rally before the elections. But congressional Republicans in the most competitive races are staying home to campaign instead. Politics Twenty-one states led by Democrats sued to block a Health and Human Services plan to end Medicaid funding for youth gender-transition treatment. The Trump administration imposed tariffs of up to 100 percent on foreign-made drones. It’s part of a long-running campaign to thwart the Chinese drone industry. A federal judge blocked Trump’s latest effort to limit birthright citizenship, ruling that the Supreme Court had already settled the issue. The White House is planning a $250,000 renovation of its basement bowling alley, the latest in a series of taxpayer-funded upgrades. The outdoor apparel company Patagonia joined environmental and Native American groups to sue Trump for trying to shrink Bears Ears National Monument in Utah. Other Big Stories In Chiapas, Mexico. Luis Antonio Rojas for The New York Times The U.S.-Mexico border reopened to cattle imports after a screwworm infestation. But the battle against a flesh-eating fly has only just begun. Jurors in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial are expected to return for a sixth day of deliberations today. A federal judge ruled that Google would not need to break up its advertising monopoly. IN ONE GRAPHIC The New York Times What caused last week’s devastating flood in the Himalayas? Experts now think the bedrock gave way below a glacier. Part of the mountainside had moved by more than a foot in the month before the catastrophe, and when it collapsed, it released enough debris to fill 70 football stadiums. That slurry flowed at 30 times the rate of Niagara Falls and exceeded 100 miles per hour as it raced downstream. The Times used satellite images to diagram the disaster. See what happened here. Get access to five locked games. Save 75% on your first year of a New York Times Games subscription. Get full access to Wordle, Spelling Bee, Crossplay, the Crossword and more. TODAY’S NUMBER Jake Osborne/Department of Conservation — New Zealand, via Agence France-Presse 325 — That is how many kakapos, a critically endangered parrot species, are in New Zealand now, after a mating frenzy this year delivered 90 new chicks. In 1995, there were just 51. Read about their surprising baby boom. THE CLIPPERS Kawhi Leonard Mark J. Terrill/Associated Press The N.B.A. imposed the largest punishment in its history on the Los Angeles Clippers and their owner, Steve Ballmer. A yearlong investigation determined that they circumvented the league’s salary-cap rules to help funnel millions to a star player, Kawhi Leonard. The Clippers will lose five first-round picks — selections in 2029, 2030, 2031, 2032 and 2033 — and will be fined $30 million, the league announced. Read more here. RECIPE OF THE DAY Rachel Vanni for The New York Times My pal Emily Weinstein, who runs NYT Cooking, has brought back The Weeknight 100, a bounty of easy dinner recipes well worth bookmarking for use over the next few months. I’ll start with this chile chicken and bean guisado, cinnamon-tinged and warmly spicy. LEANNE IS LISTENING Jared Soares for The New York Times “If you are a woman of a certain age and your algorithm is a deluge of pitches for magnesium,” Ginia Bellafante writes, “it is probably also full of Leanne Morgan.” The comedian has become a breakout star at 60, with a fan base that stretches from the churchgoing Southeast to the elite corridors of Hollywood. “It’s so rare, at this point, that someone delights me and makes me laugh so hard,” Judd Apatow said. Read about how she got here. More on culture For his latest feat of close reading, A.O. Scott takes on the first paragraph of Jonathan Franzen’s novel “The Corrections,” published 25 years ago this week. It’s revelatory — and really fun to read. Related: Our three staff book critics examine the book’s lasting mark. Just three works can help you understand the genius of Yayoi Kusama, the mesmerizing pop artist who died last month at 97. Look at them with us. THE MORNING RECOMMENDS Consider the new “it” bag, the LM1 tote from La Mama, only $1,650 (🤣!). T Magazine wrote about it. The pictures are great. Pace yourself, don’t race yourself, if you’re new to running. Sleep under a new comforter this fall. The picky somnologists at Wirecutter found the very best ones. GAMES Here is today’s Spelling Bee. Yesterday’s pangrams were flippant and plaintiff. And here are today’s Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections, Crossplay and Strands. Thanks for spending part of your morning with The Times and me. See you tomorrow. — Sam Sign up here to get this newsletter in your inbox. Reach our team at themorning@nytimes.com. Host: Sam Sifton Editor: Adam B. 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Storms raise flood risks across multiple states Tropical Depression Edouard dumped more than 20 inches of rain on parts of Texas, and dangerous flooding will persist today as the storm moves north. Downed trees and power lines have been reported across several counties, with tens of thousands of homes and businesses without electricity early today. Meanwhile, another round of storms is hitting the Northeast, raising fresh flooding concerns after weeks of wet weather. Severe weather alerts currently stretch across parts of the Midwest, Ohio Valley and Mid-Atlantic — including Chicago, Milwaukee, Detroit, Baltimore and Washington, DC. + Read more: Southeastern Texas under rare high flood risk, rescues reported as Edouard dumps over 20 inches of rain + Video: Car submerged as Edouard creates flood emergency + Stay ahead: Get local insights from meteorologists and more in the CNN Weather app

Deadly shooting leaves Minneapolis shaken At least two people were killed and multiple others injured, including three police officers, after a shooter opened fire at a Minneapolis apartment building on Wednesday, officials said. The shooter is also dead, and a motive remains unknown. The incident comes as Americans are increasingly confronting mass shootings in everyday public spaces. It happened just 5 miles from Annunciation Catholic Church, where a gunman killed two children and wounded 27 others just a year ago. + Read more: Two dead, multiple injured in Minneapolis mass shooting + Separately: Two killed outside Tucson gay bar in ‘targeted attack’ on the LGBTQ community, police say

What do rising bond rates mean for you? A specialist works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on August 27. (Yuki Iwamura/AP) The US bond market is flashing warning signs — and you don’t have to own bonds for it to hit your wallet. As the US war with Iran intensifies, defense spending and the cost of oil, gasoline, diesel and jet fuel are rising. That energy spike is adding to inflation worries in a bond market already nervous about America’s $40 trillion debt. On Wednesday, a key Treasury yield that influences borrowing costs across the US climbed to its highest level in nearly three years. For everyday Americans, higher bond yields can make mortgages, car loans and other forms of borrowing more expensive. Mortgage rates have already climbed from around 6% before the war to nearly 7%, a seemingly small jump that can add hundreds of dollars to a monthly payment. And if inflation stays elevated, the Federal Reserve may consider raising interest rates, squeezing borrowers even further. + Video: What do rising bond rates mean for you? + Analysis: Inflation is a drug and Washington is high on it + Read more: US 10-year yield touches highest level since 2023 + Latest on the war in Iran

🎾 1 for the road: Influencer reckoning Fans take photos at the US Open last week. Photo: Manuela Davies/USTA via Getty Images The U.S. Open has long been a "see and be seen" destination for fashion, business and Hollywood. Now, a growing class of content creators is joining the crowd — and getting schooled in tennis etiquette in real time, Axios Communicators author Simon Hernandez-Arthur writes. One incident during Naomi Osaka's first-round match — where a group in a suite was taking photos with flash while Osaka was preparing to serve — prompted a public rebuke from the umpire. Axios' Kerry Flynn, who's attended the U.S. Open every year since 2015, notes the etiquette has never felt this bad. It's always been rowdier than other tennis tournaments, but the party atmosphere has bled more into actual play. 🤳 Zoom out: The incident comes as the United States Tennis Association leans further into the creator economy. It approved credentials for "close to 100" content creators this year — nearly double the 54 it credentialed when it launched the program in 2025. USTA media operations director Jeanmarie Daly told Front Office Sports the goal is to reach the "broadest possible spectrum" of audiences, recognizing that traditional media and creators reach people differently.

🏛️ Leadership power play fuels Dem infighting Photo illustration: Sarah Grillo/Axios. Photo: Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images House Democratic leaders are trying to flex some muscle this week after two members defected on a key procedural vote. It's stoking fury among members across the political spectrum, Axios' Andrew Solender writes. Why it matters: The blowup offers a preview of the chaos that party leaders could face in January if they take back the House majority. At the same time, an effort to give House Democratic leaders more tools to keep their members in line next year is falling flat among rank-and-file members. "It'll be dead by next week," predicted one senior House Democrat, speaking to Axios on the condition of anonymity to comment candidly on the maneuver. 🔭 Zoom in: Reps. Jared Golden (D-Maine) and Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (D-Wash.) angered fellow Democrats on Tuesday by helping Republicans pass a rule, or procedural measure. Some members have suggested kicking both members off their committees, or at least removing Gluesenkamp Perez from the powerful House Appropriations Committee. Others have pitched a broader change to caucus rules requiring members to show up to key votes, stick with party leadership on rule votes and pay their dues to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. Keep reading.

👀 Witkoff meets powerful UAE official Vessels sit near the Strait of Hormuz along the coast of Oman this week. Photo: Reuters White House envoy Steve Witkoff met last weekend with the national security adviser of the United Arab Emirates to discuss next steps on Iran, Axios' Barak Ravid writes. Witkoff met with Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan (TBZ) on the Mediterranean island of Sardinia. Why it matters: The talks, which weren't announced by the White House and haven't been reported until now, took place amid the Trump administration's push to reopen the Strait of Hormuz while choking Iran economically. The UAE has been the key partner in the U.S.-led operation to reopen and guide oil tankers through the strait. Keep reading.

🧠 Brain implants fuel China rivalry Illustration: Brendan Lynch/Axios. Stock: Getty Images Brain implants like those being developed by Elon Musk's Neuralink are becoming the latest friction point in the intensifying U.S.-China rivalry in the life sciences, Axios' Adriel Bettelheim writes. Why it matters: The devices are bringing new hope to patients with strokes, Parkinson's disease and other neurological conditions. And tech billionaires have fueled advances by pouring billions into biotech startups focused on linking the brain with computers. But a new national security analysis says U.S. development efforts are being overtaken by Beijing's full-court press around manufacturing, data and commercialization. The consequences could extend beyond health care, affecting U.S. military capabilities and the ability to train the next generation of AI models, according to the analysis. 🔬 Zoom in: Brain-computer interfaces are going mainstream. Companies like Neuralink, Precision Neuroscience, Paradromics and Synchron are testing new applications, like helping to restore communication for people who have lost the ability to speak. Rapid advances in artificial intelligence are reducing the time it takes to calibrate a device to a patient's brain signals and use them for functions like controlling a prosthetic part. And China leveled up the field this spring, when it issued what's thought to be the world's first commercial approval of a brain-computer interface designed to revive hand movement in people with spinal cord injuries.

☎️ Pic du jour Photo: Doug Mills/The New York Times President Trump has a new Oval Office phone that says "The President," with a golden image of the White House and a scripted "Donald J. Trump." The phone has "45" and "47" branding for Trump, the 45th and 47th president. When asked about it yesterday by Fox News' Peter Doocy, Trump cracked: "You know who gave this to me? The phone company." The phone bears the logo of Cisco, the technology giant. See a close-up. Photo: Kylie Cooper/Reuters The U.S. Mint yesterday began selling golden $1 coins featuring Trump's portrait. Go deeper.

🛢️ Markets can't ignore war anymore Data: FactSet. (NY Harbor ultra-low sulfur.) Chart: Emily Peck/Axios Oil prices are heading back toward $100 a barrel and, perhaps more crucially, diesel fuel futures are now at an all-time high, Axios Markets co-author Emily Peck writes. Why it matters: Higher energy prices are showing up across the economy, driving up costs for companies, regular people and even governments around the world that are now facing higher borrowing rates. 🔎 Zoom in: After falling off early-war highs, oil prices started rising in July. At the time, attacks on commercial vessels in the Strait of Hormuz reignited fighting and President Trump said the "memorandum of understanding" the two countries had signed weeks before was "over." But over the past few days, tensions have intensified. The price of a barrel of Brent crude oil, the global benchmark, was trading at $95 yesterday afternoon, up from the low $80s a month ago. 💡 How it works: The rise in oil prices is driving up inflation expectations, as people expect higher energy costs to drive up both the cost of making things and the cost of moving those things from place to place. That's impacting government bond yields. Translation: Investors are demanding more interest to compensate for inflation eating away at the value of their money. The yield on the 10-year Treasury — a benchmark for mortgages and other loans — was hovering at around 4.8% yesterday, after touching its highest level in nearly three years.