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CRISPR Takes on Cholesterol An experimental gene-editing treatment lowered "bad" cholesterol and triglycerides in patients for at least a year after a single dose, according to new results released yesterday from an early-stage trial. Among those receiving the highest dose, bad cholesterol fell by an average of 53% and triglycerides by 48%. The treatment uses CRISPR—a technology that allows scientists to make targeted changes to DNA—to switch off a gene in liver cells that helps regulate blood fats. Initial results released last November showed the approach worked for at least two months; the latest follow-up suggests the effect may be longer lasting. The trial involved 15 patients with severe cholesterol or triglyceride disorders. Researchers reported no serious treatment-related side effects, though larger trials are needed to assess long-term safety and effectiveness. Watch how CRISPR works. Cholesterol is a waxy substance that comes in two forms, low- and high-density lipoproteins (LDL and HDL), while triglycerides are energy stored as fat in the bloodstream. Too much LDL, or "bad" cholesterol, can contribute to plaque buildup in blood vessels, increasing the risk of heart attack and stroke.

Russia ‘losing 6,000 more troops in Ukraine each month than it can recruit’ Moscow recruits an estimated 1,000 people a day but western officials say it cannot keep up with casualty level https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/28/russia-losing-6000-more-troops-than-it-can-recruit-each-month-in-ukraine-says-west?

‘The butcher may be gone, but to many he is a hero’: victims condemn glorification of Mladić Architect of Srebrenica genocide is dead but those scarred by his atrocities say his ideology is still shockingly pervasive https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/29/bosnia-reaction-death-ratko-mladic?

Ireland will be united, says Gordon Brown Former PM believes Northern Ireland will leave UK in the long term – but remains opposed to Scottish independence https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/aug/29/ireland-will-be-united-says-gordon-brown?

Steering in the Wrong Direction (Rebecca Noble / Bloomberg / Getty)   View in browser Three hundred thousand metric tons of ground beef are on their way to the United States. There’s no easy way to visualize 300,000 metric tons of anything (for context, that’s about 12 times the weight of the Statue of Liberty). All of that beef could fill an important gap in the American market—but not everyone’s happy about it. President Trump announced last Friday that he’ll be temporarily lifting some tariffs on beef and that, as part of an ambiguous deal, the imports will be sold at “25 percent below current market prices.” He was likely hoping for a political win here: Affordability has been a losing issue for Trump and his party ahead of the midterms, and increasing the beef supply in an attempt to lower prices could be one way of giving shoppers a reprieve. But industry leaders immediately condemned the move, warning that it will do little to address the underlying dynamics that have driven up prices in recent years—and their allies in Congress joined them in the revolt. Now Trump’s on-again, off-again relationship with ranchers is becoming the whole country’s problem. There’s no great mystery as to why American beef is so expensive. The steaks we get from the supermarket represent the end product of a long, multiyear chain involving ranchers, auctioneers, feedlots, meatpackers, and grocery stores. But beef starts with cattle, and after years of drought, the number of cows now grazing on U.S. soil is the lowest it’s been in 75 years. The return of a certain flesh-eating parasite hasn’t helped things, either. This, combined with the fact that Americans are still hungry for beef, has created a basic supply-and-demand problem. Economists told NPR this week that the president’s move, which was made official on Wednesday, may shave only a small amount off what shoppers are currently paying for ground beef at the grocery store. It’s too soon to tell whether this will actually happen—the government won’t release its August data for another few weeks—but Trump’s announcement did depress cattle prices somewhat, which suggests that traders at least think that beef could become less valuable, as the president intended. This is a problem for ranchers, who applauded last year’s restrictive Liberation Day tariffs. Most of the beef that Americans consume is produced in the United States, and the duties had been helping prevent foreign imports from undercutting domestic producers; without these protections, meat-processing companies are free to buy the cheapest option, wherever it may come from. In a joint letter to the president, the heads of four livestock-industry groups expressed “deep concern” that the plan would undermine beef producers by devaluing cattle and would prevent the rebuilding of the dwindling herd. Ominously, the White House has declined to say where all of this beef will be coming from. When asked which countries will be supplying the beef, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins told reporters on Tuesday that she was “not part of any of those conversations” and is “not privy to talk about that.” Trump mentioned that “a few” different countries will be involved but hasn’t said which. (Thirty thousand pounds of Argentine beef were recalled earlier this month over concerns that it hadn’t been properly inspected; the White House declined to respond to my question about where the beef will be coming from but claimed, without elaborating, that the plan would reduce beef prices while allowing the U.S. cattle herd to grow.) Despite being a core MAGA constituency, beef producers and ranchers have been periodically annoyed at Trump’s tariff changes over the past year. What’s more unusual is that high-profile Republicans have also been breaking with the president on this issue. At least 13 GOP senators have publicly criticized the tariff adjustment to varying degrees over the past week. “Beef prices are too high for a simple reason: Our cattle herd is too small,” Senator Tom Cotton wrote on X. “I have advised the President against this ill-advised action in the past and I now urge him to reconsider.” Others suggested that what Trump is doing is unfair, a way of rigging the market against American producers, who “simply want a fair marketplace,” per Senator John Barrasso. (Rollins seems to be supporting the current plan, though she reportedly opposed a similar tariff rollback in May.) This isn’t the first time in recent months that the Trump administration—whose war with Iran has driven up consumer prices—has turned its attention to short-term solutions. As I’ve written, both Trump and Rollins have publicly praised business owners who have lowered their prices on certain goods, such as fuel and groceries. But these kinds of temporary cuts don’t amount to a lasting policy solution, and companies can’t be expected to shoulder this burden forever. The private-sector “commitment” to selling this imported beef below market price has a similarly short-term focus. The bigger issues remain unaddressed, and voters don’t believe that the administration has the economy under control. The president attempted to make peace with ranchers this morning, writing on Truth Social that he’d give them the “right to PROCESS THEIR OWN FOOD”—a nod to long-standing complaints about what farmers say is a monopoly among the Big Four meatpackers. But this olive branch is effectively just a promise to disrupt a different part of the industry. In trying to please everyone, Trump may end up creating even more beef. Related: Cattle ranchers are beefing with Trump. The beef administration’s blind spot ps:Wow is this man pathetic! He creates a problem on one end than try's to fix the problem on the other and screws it up there!! As I've said before whatever he puts his hands on he screws up!!

Trump says US has entered deal with Venezuela to take control of 65 billion barrels of oil reserves WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Friday that his administration has entered a sweeping agreement with Venezuela that, if realized, could give the U.S. access to vast amounts of the South American country’s untapped oil reserves, at cost. https://apnews.com/article/trump-venezuela-oil-reserves-eb0ed5a1e99602c21a7f690c3368020e? Trump announces new US oil agreement with Venezuela US president says US will have ‘majority’ control of 65bn barrels of proven oil reserves https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/28/trump-venezuela-oil-agreement?

"Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us". That being said it doesn't remove the penalty for the trespass. One can be forgiven and still have to pay the price for their sins. I'm certain God forgave Moses for what he did at the rock, but Moses still paid the price for what he did. If a family member stole money from their parents, yes, forgiveness is possible, but that forgiveness doesn't remove the penalty that needs to be paid in all cases.

New Jericho Destruction-Date Debate Part 1 Summary: The latest excavation reports from Jericho have prompted a new theory for the timing of Jericho’s destruction, rekindling a Biblical debate. https://www.patternsofevidence.com/2026/08/28/new-jericho-destruction-date-debate-part-1/?

Well, this is interesting as it shows there are even older manuscripts than the Codex Vaticanus, considered the oldest written in the 4th century (around 325–350 AD) and used to create some of the Modern Versions being used today. The Alexandrian codices, including Codex Sinaiticus, Codex Vaticanus, and Codex Alexandrinus are among the manuscripts of the New Testament with many changes and their textual reliability is widely contested. The Codex Vaticanus in conjunction with Codex Sinaiticus, form the basis for most modern Bible translations. However, these two manuscripts differ substantially from the text of the bulk of the manuscripts based on the Byzantine based Greek texts (Textus Receptus). Here is what has surfaced which shows the older manuscript: "Long before biblical texts settled into the forms familiar to modern readers, they circulated in several languages and in slightly different versions. Among the most important witnesses to that early period are Syriac gospel manuscripts, including the Curetonian and Sinaitic traditions, which preserve some of the oldest translations of the New Testament. A newly deciphered fragment now adds to that picture, after scholars uncovered a hidden passage from the Gospel of Matthew beneath the writing of an ancient manuscript in the Vatican. Early text layers According to WP Tech and Live Science, the discovery was made by Grigory Kessel of the Austrian Academy of Sciences while studying ultraviolet images supplied by the Vatican Apostolic Library. The results were later discussed in New Testament Studies. Live Science reported that the manuscript contains several overwritten layers, with later texts masking older ones beneath. Rather than discard expensive writing material, scribes often reworked parchment by clearing older script and using the surface again, a practice that has left many ancient texts partially buried. In this case, ultraviolet imaging exposed four layers of writing. One of them turned out to be a previously unknown Old Syriac passage from Matthew, hidden below Greek text and later Georgian writing. WP Tech reported that Kessel dates the surviving copy to the sixth century, while the translation tradition behind it may go back as far as the third century. That makes it part of the earliest known phase of gospel transmission outside Greek. “This fragment is so far the only known trace of a fourth manuscript testifying to the Old Syriac version,” Kessel wrote in New Testament Studies. Why it matters The recovered passage corresponds to Matthew 12:1, where Jesus and his disciples move through grain fields on the Sabbath. In many modern versions, the disciples simply pick grain and eat it. The newly revealed Syriac wording adds another action, saying they “began to pick the heads of grain, rub them in their hands, and eat them.” Live Science also cited Sebastian Brock, a retired Syriac scholar at the University of Oxford, who called it “an exciting discovery, and a brilliant piece of decipherment.” That difference may appear minor, but textual variants like this help scholars track how the gospels were copied, translated and interpreted across early Christian communities. Kessel has also suggested the fragment may once have belonged to a larger codex, raising the possibility that more pieces of the same manuscript still survive." Sources: WP Tech, Live Science, New Testament Studies https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/other/hidden-bible-passage-discovered-in-vatican-manuscript-using-uv-light/ar-AA1YEvGO?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=6a9408b7639e4390accd4cf1069fead5&ei=16

Juul gets OK to sell updated vaping device with age-gating technology Vaping company Juul Labs on Friday received federal permission to sell an updated version of its e-cigarette, which includes an optional age-verification system designed to prevent underage use. Read More.

Artemis II astronauts receive nation's highest space honor for their successful moonshot The Artemis II astronauts who flew around the moon earlier this year received the nation’s highest space honor on Friday. Read More.

National Park Service backs Trump's arch, despite its impact on Washington's sightline A new National Park Service report backs President Donald Trump’s proposed arch, despite what it says are adverse effects to the sightline between a host of iconic landmarks in Washington, including the Washington Monument and Lincoln and Jefferson memorials. Read More.

Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo spreads to 2 new health zones with a total of 60 areas now affected The fastest-growing Ebola outbreak in history has spread to two new health zones in eastern Congo, with a total of 60 now affected, according to the latest government figures published on Friday. Read More.

Market frenzy Prediction markets are gaining traction with young adults. Users ages 18 to 21 have traded an estimated $5.4 billion on Kalshi this year alone, sparking concern among experts.

One step closer For decades, scientists have struggled to develop effective treatments for autism. Their latest breakthrough, the largest-ever “map” of the disorder, could help pave the way for more targeted therapies.

Trump administration appeals latest ruling blocking his mail voting order from taking effect WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is appealing a judge’s ruling that blocked limitations on mail voting before the midterm elections, the latest twist in a court fight unfolding days before the first states begin sending out mail ballots for the pivotal November elections. https://apnews.com/article/trump-voting-mail-ballots-midterms-executive-order-8ef4a669a50f3406481ffb8387ccad3c? Thousands march in Washington to defend voting rights, in photos Thousands of protesters gather on the National Mall in Washington for the 2026 “Defend the Vote” March on Washington, calling for voting rights and racial justice ahead of the midterm elections. This is a photo gallery curated by AP photo editors. Read More. President Donald Trump loses again in bid to erase his hush money conviction A federal judge on Friday once again spurned Donald Trump’s effort to erase his hush money conviction, rejecting the president’s bid to move the state court case to federal court and have it dismissed on presidential immunity grounds. Read More.

📈 Fastest-growing jobs Data: BLS. Chart: Erin Davis/Axios Visuals Health care and social assistance jobs are projected to see the most growth over the next decade, Axios' Emily Peck writes from a new government report. 🧑‍⚕️ There will be about 847,000 new home health and personal care aide jobs created from 2025 to 2035, the Bureau of Labor Statistics projects. Other fields with big expected growth: registered nurses, health services managers and nurse practitioners. That's fueled by America's aging population, which needs more care. 🤖 Yes, but: The report also forecasts job losses across several occupations as a result of AI and automation. It projects about 752,000 fewer office and admin support jobs over the next decade, for example. Go deeper ... See the data.

Roman ready for launch A rendering of the Roman Space Telescope. Image: NASA NASA is preparing to launch the Roman Space Telescope — one of the agency's biggest and most promising scientific endeavors in years, Alex Fitzpatrick reports. 🔭 Roman is designed to help answer some of science's most tantalizing mysteries, including questions around dark matter and dark energy. Researchers also hope to use it to discover a plethora of new exoplanets — worlds outside our own solar system. 🚀 Launch is set for early Sunday from Florida's Kennedy Space Center aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket. Roman is carrying two scientific devices: the Wide Field Instrument and the Coronagraph Instrument. 📸 The first is a 300-megapixel near-infrared camera with a field of view 100x that of the esteemed Hubble Space Telescope. The result: much faster data collection and discovery-making. The second will be used for high-contrast imaging and spectroscopy of nearby exoplanets to better understand them. (Spectroscopy is a way of studying planets and other objects based on their color.) Roman is lifted into a portable clean room called the "Chariot" for transportation ahead of launch. Photo: Sydney Rohde/NASA 🪐 Researchers hope that data from Roman can help answer lingering questions about two of the universe's least-understood phenomena: dark energy and dark matter. Scientists have proposed dark energy as the driving force behind the universe's accelerating expansion. Dark matter is thought to be an invisible "glue" binding the universe together. 🛰️ Jeff Kruk, Roman's deputy senior project scientist, tells Axios: "I can't help but think that the biggest result from Roman 10 years from now is something that we just haven't thought of yet." Go deeper ... How to watch.

ADRA mobilizes aid for communities hit by earthquake in Colombia More than 1,200 food packages have been distributed to families in Quibdó as the church responds to the disaster's aftermath. https://adventist.news/news/adventists-mobilize-aid-for-communities-hit-by-earthquake-in-colombia

Trump Gets a Humiliating History Lesson Over His Lake Name Change It’s called a hydronym, Mr. President. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney taunted Donald Trump on X over his unhinged push to rename Lake Ontario “Lake America.” The 80-year-old president signed an executive order amid his escalating feud and trade war with Canada. “Canada has been ripping us off for a long time on trade,” Trump declared, as he ordered the Interior Department to update the Geographic Names Information System and adopt his newly invented moniker across the federal government. “It’s something I’ve been thinking about for a long time,” Trump said.The Canadian leader brushed off Trump’s attempt at a rebrand with a humiliating history lesson. Carney pointed out that the name Lake Ontario has survived for more than four centuries, and predates the founding of both Canada and the United States.“The name Lake Ontario comes from the Wendat word Ontari’io, which, appropriately, means ‘the lake is beautiful, the lake is big,’” Carney wrote on X, referring to the smallest of the Great Lakes. “The name is more than 400 years old, predating both the Confederation of Canada and the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America.” “We know that America is changing. Their trading relationships, their foreign policies, their national monuments, their hydronyms,” Carney continued, using the proper term for the name of a body of water while making a dig at Trump’s flip-flopping policies and his makeover of national landmarks since his return to the White House to the White House last January. Carney insisted that his country will not be adopting Trump’s made-up name. “Canadian women and men also know that things must be called by their name, and this lake is called Lake Ontario – today and forever.” The Daily Beast has contacted the White House for comment. Trump and Carney have clashed over the president’s tariffs on Canadian automobiles, with many Canadian provinces retaliating by pulling American liquor from store shelves. Tensions escalated last week when trade talks between the two neighbors collapsed and Trump slapped 50 percent tariffs on $20 billion worth of Canadian goods. Next month, Canada is hitting back with “dollar for dollar” counter tariffs. Trump’s executive order gives the Interior Department 30 days to update the name change. The aging president pulled a similar move on the first day of his second term last January, signing an executive order to rename the Gulf of Mexico the “Gulf of America.” Mexico pushed back against the change, arguing that the U.S. doesn’t have the authority to alter the name of a shared body of international water. https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-gets-a-humiliating-history-lesson-over-his-lake-name-change/?

Trump’s Top Army Goon’s Jan. 6 Fiasco Role Revealed The man the president and defense secretary want to lead the Army was at the heart of the Pentagon’s Capitol riot failure. Donald Trump’s favorite general was a key player in the Pentagon’s calamitous Jan. 6 response. General Chris LaNeve, who has been tasked by Pete Hegseth to lead the Army, was a central figure in the most disputed moment of the Pentagon’s botched intervention, documents reviewed by PunchUp show. It comes after reports of a reason behind LaNeve’s predecessor as Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George’s dismissal: his desire to push forward with the investigation of a bizarre Apache helicopter flyby of MAGA singer Kid Rock’s Tennessee estate. Days before George was dismissed as Army chief of staff in April, LaNeve, 59, reportedly told him the defense secretary did not want the probe to go ahead. Concerned, George confided in colleagues, only to be fired on Apr. 2, the Washington Post reported Wednesday. George also refused to strike two Black and two female officers from a promotion list. LaNeve, Hegseth’s former military aide who was handed his job in an acting capacity and is in line to keep it permanently, was spotted by Trump on an inaugural-ball video call in January 2025 and asked the room: “Is this man central casting, or what?” Months later, LaNeve returned from South Korea as Hegseth’s senior military assistant and, by Feb. 6, had a fourth star, rising from brigadier to full general in five years. But PunchUp, the Daily Beast’s sister investigations Substack, has uncovered documents that highlight a key role he played in the Pentagon’s ill-fated handling of the Capitol riots of Jan. 6, 2021. By mid-afternoon that day, the D.C. National Guard was in riot gear and on buses a few miles from the Capitol, awaiting an order. It came when Acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller approved the deployment at 3:04 p.m. But Maj. Gen. William Walker, the Guard’s commanding general, did not move his men until 5:09 p.m. He says nobody told him he could. McCarthy says somebody did—and that the man he used to pass on the message was LaNeve. Buried in the House Jan. 6 committee’s final report is the account of one phone call that could explain the bungle—about which three Army officials, including LaNeve, gave three different versions. Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy told investigators he issued the order telling Walker he was finally cleared to move at 4:35 p.m., and that he used LaNeve—then a one-star and his director of Army operations—as his go-between. The report states it was “a conversation Major General Walker said never happened.” LaNeve, however, told the committee that he had called Walker at 4:25 p.m. to say his forces should “get on the bus, do not leave.” On a second call ten minutes later, he said, he heard McCarthy give the order himself, then took the phone back to pass on the rally point and the officer Walker’s troops should meet. Walker, he recalled, replied “Roger,” but LaNeve also admitted there was “mass confusion in that room.” McCarthy says he never spoke to Walker, and Walker says neither call happened. He “never saw” LaNeve on the video teleconference that afternoon, he told the committee, and “didn’t hear General LaNeve’s voice.” Walker’s aide-de-camp, Lt. Timothy Nick, on just his second day in the job, had been ordered to keep a handwritten log. At 4:37 p.m., he appears to have scribbled down the same details McCarthy says he asked LaNeve to relay. Walker says his aide could only have gotten it from the video call he was on. Nick put the moment the orders came at 5:09 p.m. That was the same minute the Army’s chief of staff, Gen. James McConville, passed a teleconference screen and spotted Walker doing nothing. “General McConville came back into the call and said, ‘Hey, you’re a go,’” Walker recalled. The Guard reached the Capitol after the fighting was effectively over, three hours and 19 minutes after the first plea for help. “It shouldn’t take three hours to respond to an urgent request,” Walker told the Senate in March 2021. In the end, the committee gave up trying to settle the matter. The delay was “unnecessary and unacceptable,” it found, but not deliberate. The two sides held accounts that “are not reconcilable.” While the contradictions were never resolved, LaNeve was never accused of wrongdoing. Hegseth calls LaNeve “precisely the kind of leader the U.S. Army needs right now,” dismissing critics as out-of-touch insiders. Yet five months into the acting job, LaNeve has still not been nominated. Without unanimous Republican support, any nomination cannot clear the Senate Armed Services Committee, and several members have raised concerns about the speed of LaNeve’s rise and lack of experience. When asked about LaNeve’s role on Jan. 6, Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell did not address it, and instead told PunchUp that LaNeve “is delivering an outstanding performance,” adding the department was “actively coordinating with our Senate partners to lock in the optimal moment to formally submit his nomination.” He earlier called the Post’s reporting a “tired, old story simply to manufacture drama.” PunchUp also approached the Army for comment. They did not respond by the time of publication. https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-and-hegesths-top-army-goons-jan-6-national-guard-fiasco-role-revealed/? ps:So Pathetic!!!!!

A New Tree-Sit Movement to Block Trump’s Border Wall Of the more than $170 billion that President Donald Trump secured for his border regime in the “One Big Beautiful Bill,” nearly $50 billion is allocated to border wall construction. Even with these enormous resources, however, the administration continues to face challenges constructing its monument to violent exclusion along the southern border through tribal, private, and state lands. https://theintercept.com/2026/08/27/trump-us-mexico-border-wall-tree-sit-arizona/? “They Want People Scared”: Former Palestine Action Member Blasts Trump’s Terror Sanctions When police in Kent, United Kingdom, arrested American peace activist Max Geller in 2021 for chaining himself to a van parked in front of an Israeli-owned weapons factory, he knew he might be jailed and face charges for his protest. https://theintercept.com/2026/08/27/palestine-action-terrorism-sanctions-trump-ban-israel/? Palestinians Asked for Help Against Settlers. Israelis Detained Palestinian Workers Instead. Shortly before midnight on August 4, Israeli settlers arrived at the home of Loui Abu Ridi, a Palestinian American, in the village of Qusra in the occupied West Bank. https://theintercept.com/2026/08/26/settlers-israel-soldiers-west-bank-siege-qusra/? Conservative Groups Side With Minneapolis Protesters Against Trump Crackdown A trio of conservative and libertarian-leaning groups have asked a federal judge to force the disclosure of confidential files about undercover agents from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement infiltrating left-wing protest groups in Minneapolis. https://theintercept.com/2026/08/25/minneapolis-ice-protesters-undercover-agents/? It’s Time to Rein in Lethal AI Drones Drone warfare, for many years, meant mostly one thing: A U.S. Predator drone, a missile-armed winged lawnmower in the sky, stalked a single target and then assassinated him. Or someone, at least. Top-secret Pentagon documents showed that 90 percent of those killed during one campaign in Afghanistan were not the primary targets, according to a 2015 investigation by The Intercept. https://theintercept.com/2026/08/26/ai-drone-warfare-russia-ukraine-openai-anthropic/? Local Cops Flout Sanctuary Law to Help ICE Deport Immigrants Minutes after Riverton police officer Brad Herzog ran 31-year-old Daniel Torrez Perez’s name through a law enforcement database one night in April 2025, his phone rang. It was the FBI. https://theintercept.com/2026/08/25/illinois-trust-act-ice-deport-police-collaboration/? Sixty More U.S. Soldiers Reported Injured in Iran War The U.S. military revealed that an additional 60 service members have been injured in the Iran war, lifting the official toll to 776 troops wounded or killed. Some 345 of these casualties have occurred since July 7, after a second ceasefire imploded. As the numbers of dead and wounded troops have recently mounted, the Pentagon has quietly been seeking casualty and mortuary services, according to government contracting documents analyzed by The Intercept. https://theintercept.com/2026/08/25/military-soldiers-wounded-casualties-iran-war/? Trump Admin Said She Was Lying About Stillbirth in ICE Custody. New Evidence Points to Lack of Prenatal Care. Two months after Iris Dayana Monterroso Lemus lost her son to a stillbirth last year while detained by U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, the Trump administration issued a public response to her allegations that she did not receive prenatal care. https://theintercept.com/2026/08/27/trump-ice-custody-pregnancy-stillbirth-deport/?

🎉 Yahoo! It's Friday! You made it. In today's edition: College football primer, Braves sweep Dodgers, Air Jordan 41, Broadcast Box Score, the next Mike Tyson, LLWS Final Four, and more. Yahoo Sports AM is written by Kendall Baker and Jeff Tracy. Let's sports...   🚨 ICYMI HEADLINES ⚾️ Braves sweep Dodgers: The Braves completed a sweep of the Dodgers behind Chris Sale's first complete game shutout since 2019, an 11-strikeout, no-walk gem. The Cy Young contender's ERA is down to a microscopic 2.06, not that far off Jacob Misiorowski's 1.73. 🏒 Helly wants out: After months of rumors, longtime Jets goaltender and three-time Vezina Trophy winner Connor Hellebuyck has confirmed he's ready to move on from the team, saying in a statement shared by his agent that he "privately requested a trade" months ago. ⚽️ The draw is set: Some of the most intriguing matchups from Thursday's Champions League draw include Arsenal hosting Real Madrid, Man City visiting PSG and Barcelona, and Atlético Madrid hosting Bayern Munich and Man United. The action kicks off in 11 days. ⚾️ CBA update: MLB's latest proposal in the ongoing CBA negotiations includes shortening the free agency window while sticking firm on a salary cap system. The union quickly expressed its displeasure at the idea, saying it "would eliminate player rights…and reduce player leverage." 👟 Records fall in Zurich: Hurdlers ran wild on Thursday at Zurich's Diamond League event, where Brazil's Alison dos Santos broke the men's 400m hurdle world record (45.80 seconds) and USA's Masai Russell broke the women's 100m hurdle world record (12.09 seconds).   🏈 WEEK 0 COLLEGE FOOTBALL IS BACK (Henry Russell/Yahoo Sports) The college football season kicks off tomorrow after yet another change-filled offseason. Here's a quick primer to prepare you for the weeks and months ahead. 5 storylines: Eligibility crisis: The current rules about who can or cannot play college sports — up to and including former professionals — are as confusing as they are impermanent, thanks to court rulings, conference bans and more. The only certainty is that this eligibility crisis will continue to dominate headlines as the season gets underway. The CFP is different, again: The third year of the 12-team playoff features two key changes. First, all four power conference champions will automatically qualify (last season, that would have helped Duke); second, Notre Dame is guaranteed a playoff spot as long they're in the top 12 in the final rankings (that would have helped them last season, too). Big Ten > SEC? Fans of the Big Ten believe their conference has supplanted the SEC as the top dog, and there's plenty of evidence to support their claim. The Big Ten is seeking a fourth straight national championship, and earned all 69 first-place votes in the AP preseason poll, marking the first time since 2015 that SEC teams earned none. Pac 12, reborn: After two years with just Oregon State and Washington State, the Pac-12 has added six new members: Boise State, Colorado State, Fresno State, San Diego State, Utah State (via Mountain West) and Texas State (via Sun Belt). It's a far cry from what the Pac-12 used to be, but it might just be the best of the Group of Six. Old faces, new places: Lane Kiffin (Ole Miss to LSU), Kyle Whittingham (Utah to Michigan) and Matt Campbell (Iowa State to Penn State) headline the list of coaches with new teams; QB Darian Mensah (Duke to Miami), WR Cam Coleman (Auburn to Texas) and QB Sam Leavitt (ASU to LSU) headline the most notable QB and non-QB transfers. (Joseph Raines/Yahoo Sports) Fast facts: Yahoo Top 25: Oregon leads our preseason rankings, with Notre Dame, defending champion Indiana, betting favorite Ohio State and Texas rounding out the top five. Heisman favorites: Notre Dame QB CJ Carr (+750) and Texas QB Arch Manning (+750) are the co-favorites, followed by Ole Miss QB Trinidad Chambliss (+900) and Oregon QB Dante Moore (10-1). Ohio State WR Jeremiah Smith has the best odds for any non-QB at 12-1. Welcome to the FBS: Perennial FCS powerhouse North Dakota State (10 national titles since 2011) made the jump to the Mountain West, while Sacramento State joined the MAC.* Both make their FBS debuts tomorrow. Further reading: Dark horse playoff contenders 10 coaches on the hot seat 10 best non-conference games *Frequent flyers: Sacramento State is the latest team to experience the wonkiness of modern realignment, as they join a league comprising mostly schools in the Great Lakes region, roughly 2,000 miles away.   💯 STAT SHEET BIG NUMBERS No player has driven in more runs this season than this Reds 22-year-old rookie. (Bryan Kennedy/MLB Photos via Getty Images) ⚾️ 100 RBI Reds infielder Sal Stewart leads the majors with 100 RBI, making him just the third rookie in MLB history to be the first player in a season to cross the century mark. The other two? Jose Canseco in 1986 and Ted Williams in 1939. Stacked race: You'd think a guy with 28 HR, 100 RBI and an .806 OPS would be a shoo-in for NL ROY, but Stewart is in a fascinating four-man race with Cardinals 2B JJ Wetherholt (4.8 WAR), Mets OF Carson Benge (.990 OPS in August) and Mets RHP Nolan McLean (2.37 ERA in last 15 starts). The Air Jordan 41 "Ruby" launches today in China. (Nike) 👟 Air Jordan 41 The 41st edition (!!!) of Michael Jordan's iconic basketball shoe is available starting today in China ahead of its global release in late October. Jordan, 63, remains actively involved in the process of designing the sneaker that helped make him a billionaire, writes Yahoo Sports' Shlomo Sprung. What they're saying: "He's our competitive advantage," says Jordan Brand executive Donald Kelsey. "If you think about his access to what he sees, it's like the top 1%. Whether that's watches, automobiles, aircrafts. What he sees in the world of innovation and technology, he's already like five, 10 years ahead." Club América players celebrate a goal during their quarterfinal win over Columbus Crew. (Jim Sabo/ISI Photos via Getty Images) ⚽️ 0 MLS teams The Leagues Cup semifinals are set, and not a single MLS team made the final four. Only Liga MX sides León, Toluca, Monterrey and Club América remain in contention — a fitting conclusion to the first edition of the annual tournament to hold games in Mexico. Streak snapped: The MLS no-show is rather surprising considering the last three champions and runners-up all hailed from the U.S.-based league. Miami beat Nashville in 2023, Columbus beat LAFC in 2024 and Seattle beat Miami in 2025.   📺 TUNE IN BROADCAST BOX SCORE (Michael Reaves/Getty Images) This story is from Yahoo Sports Biz, our new sports business newsletter authored by Dylan Dittrich. 🏀 WNBA: The Indiana Fever have set two ratings records in the last week. Last Thursday's game against Dallas averaged 1.07 million viewers, the most ever for a WNBA broadcast on Prime Video. Then, Sunday's tilt against Chicago averaged 3.31 million viewers on NBC, making it the most-watched game since the league's inaugural weekend in 1997. Only prescription is more Fever: Caitlin Clark and company have entirely rewritten the leaderboards for the most-watched games in WNBA history this season. In addition to the above, their game against the Dream in August was the most-watched game on cable in WNBA history, reaching 2.6 million viewers on ESPN. (Chris Graythen/Getty Images) 🏎️ IndyCar: The Freedom 250 Grand Prix averaged 3.28 million viewers on Fox, becoming the most-watched non-Indianapolis 500 race for the series since before the open-wheel merger in 2008. The strength of spectacle: Per Nielsen, 44% of the race's audience hadn't watched any other IndyCar action this year. The introduction of new viewers is a worthy reward for an extensive investment in the race. It's also more good news for an IndyCar series performing well this season; the average viewership on Fox through 15 races is up 32% from 2025 and 70% from 2024. (Andrew Redington/Getty Images) ⛳️ PGA Tour: Across weekend telecasts on NBC and CBS, the PGA Tour's 2026 regular season tournaments averaged 2.5 million viewers, according to Sports Business Journal's Josh Carpenter. That was a narrow 2% increase over the prior year, when compared on a like-for-like basis using Nielsen's Big Data methodology. 'Yoff and running: The FedEx Cup Playoffs are off to a strong start. The final round of Scottie Scheffler's win at the FedEx St. Jude Championship averaged 3.9 million viewers, making it the tournament's most-watched final round in 13 years. The final round of the BMW Championship averaged 3.85 million viewers on CBS, a 10% improvement over last year and the largest audience for the event since Tiger Woods' 2007 win.   🥊 FIGHT NIGHT THE NEXT MIKE TYSON? (Hayden Hodge/Yahoo Sports) Moses Itauma, 21, has long been hailed as the next Mike Tyson. On Saturday, the British heavyweight prodigy finally gets his chance. Can boxing's next wunderkind live up to a lifetime of expectations? Elliot Worsell, Uncrowned: Call him Moses. It's easier that way. Easier to say, easier to remember, easier to promote. Call him Moses on the fight poster, the billboard and the on-screen graphics and call him Moses when trying to attract either sponsors or the eyes of the public. Simplify him, in other words. Make him a brand, a product. Think of him as one of those superstars whose power is so great they need only their first name. Think Beyoncé. Think Prince. Think Shaq. Think of all the Brazilian soccer players who achieved international fame with just their first name on the back of their shirt, like Romário, Rivaldo, Ronaldo and Neymar. If it can work for them, it can work for you too, Enriko Moses Itauma. That is the view of Itauma's team at least. They, with good reason, sensed they had a superstar on their hands the day Itauma hatched and have started to now nudge him toward the light ahead of his IBF heavyweight title fight against Filip Hrgovic on Saturday. To get him the attention his talent deserves, they have made a conscious effort to simplify Itauma for a mainstream audience. That's why his next fight was billed as "Moses X Hrgovic" on the DAZN ad I saw on the big red bus that passed while I began to write this piece. It's also why, on that same bus, we were greeted with the tagline "Britain's youngest ever world heavyweight champion awaits," and why Mike Tyson, the world's youngest, is someone to whom Itauma, just 21 years of age, is often compared.   📺 VIEWING GUIDE WEEKEND WATCHLIST For the second year in a row, the CFB season is kicking off at Dublin's Aviva Stadium. (Ben McShane/Sportsfile via Getty Images) 🏈 NCAA Football, Week 0 It's been 222 days since the Hoosiers toppled the Hurricanes for their first national championship. Finally, college football is back. Saturday's slate: UNC vs. TCU in Dublin (12pm ET, ESPN); San José State at No. 14 USC (3pm, NBC); NC State at Virginia (3:30pm, ESPN); Jax State at North Dakota State (5:30pm, CBSSN); Sac State at EMU (6:30pm, ESPN+); Hawaii at Stanford (7pm, ACC); New Mexico State at FSU (7pm, CW); Memphis at UNLV (10pm, Fox) ⛳️ Tour Championship The season finale continues at East Lake Golf Club (Fri-Sun, ESPN/Golf/CBS), where $40 million and the title of Tour Champion are up for grabs. Leaderboard: Min Woo Lee, who was struggling entering the playoffs, fired an 8-under 62 to take a two-stroke lead over Viktor Hovland, Chris Gotterup and Collin Morikawa. Scottie Scheffler is among those lurking at 5-under, and the entire field shot at least even par. 🎾 US Open, First Round The year's final grand slam begins on Sunday in Flushing Meadows, with matches beginning at 11am and cycling throughout ESPN's properties. The field is competing for a record $108 million purse, including $5.5 million each for the men's and women's singles champions. The late-summer double: Young Frenchman Arthur Fils is coming off the biggest win of his career in Cincinnati, which could bode well for his chances in New York: Each of the last three men's Cincy champions went on to win the US Open, too (Novak Djokovic in 2023, Jannik Sinner in 2024, Carlos Alcaraz in 2025). ⚾️ Red Sox at Yankees Baseball's biggest rivalry takes center stage this weekend in the Bronx, where Boston (73-60) could possibly pass New York (75-58) for the first wild card. There's a doubleheader tomorrow (1:05pm, MLB; 7:15pm, Fox) and a matinee on Sunday (1:35pm, ESPN+), while tonight's game (7:15pm, Apple) is available in VR for those with Apple Vision Pro headsets. Best of the rest: Mariners at Blue Jays (Fri. 7:15pm, Apple); Rangers at Brewers (Sat. 7:15pm, Fox); Astros at Mets (Sun. 3:10pm, NBC); Reds at Cubs (Sun. 7:20pm, NBC). ⚾️ LLWS, Final Four We're down to the last four in Williamsport, where Curaçao and Japan play in tomorrow's International Championship (12:30pm, ABC), followed by Nevada vs. Ohio in the U.S. Championship (3:30pm, ABC). The winners meet on Sunday (3pm, ABC) in the grand finale. A star is born: Though her team was eliminated on Wednesday, the breakout star of this LLWS was undoubtedly Kinley Rasmus. The daughter of former MLB pitcher Cory Rasmus tied Mo'ne Davis' record for most strikeouts by a girl (14) and broke the record for most hits by a girl (5). More to watch: 🏈 NFL Preseason: Commanders at Ravens (Fri. 6pm, NFL); Bengals at Eagles (Fri. 8pm, CBS); Vikings at Broncos (Fri. 9pm, NFL); Lions at Colts (Sat. 1pm, NFL); Bears at Titans (Sat. 6pm, NFL) … Final weekend. 🏀 WNBA: Sky at Liberty (Sat. 1pm, CBS); Lynx at Dream (Sun. 3pm, NBA) … The final weekend of games before the league takes a 17-day break for the FIBA World Cup. ⚽️ Premier League: Crystal Palace vs. Manchester City (Fri. 3pm, USA); Tottenham vs. Newcastle (Sat. 12:30pm, NBC); Chelsea vs. Brighton (Sun. 9am, Peacock) … Matchday 2. 🏁 NASCAR: Daytona (Sat. 7:30pm, NBC) … Five drivers are fighting for the final three playoff spots in the regular-season finale. 🥊 Boxing: Moses Itauma vs. Filip Hrgović (Sat. 5:30pm ET, DAZN); Chantelle Cameron vs. Mikaela Mayer (Sat. 2pm, ESPN+) … Title fights in England. Plus: 🚴 Vuelta a España: Stages 7-9 (Fri-Sun, Peacock);🥍 PLL: Quarterfinals (Sat. 6pm, ESPN+); 🏁 IndyCar in Milwaukee (Sat. 2:30pm, Fox); ⚽️ MLS: Week 23 (Sat-Sun, Apple); ⚽️ NWSL: Week 23 (Fri-Sun, Prime/ION/ESPN2); ⛳️ LPGA: FM Championship (Fri-Sun, Golf); ⚾️ WPBL (Fri-Sun, ESPN+)   🔎 LET'S PLAY GUESS THE LOGO Question: Can you guess this zoomed in FBS logo? Hint: They won a national championship this century. Answer at the bottom.   📸 THROUGH THE LENS PHOTO FINISH Jackson Goldstone of Canada competes during the Mountainbike World Series in Les Gets, France. (Billy Ceusters/Getty Images) Soaring into the weekend like…   Logo reveal: Florida Gators  

Trump Ditches GOP in Secret Midterm Panic The president is leaving Republicans to sweat it out as the midterms draw near. President Donald Trump is stoking GOP anxiety as he makes himself his party’s midterm mascot while leaving them in the lurch to chase his vanity projects. With less than 70 days until the midterms, the 80-year-old president’s poll numbers are in the basement as voters grow frustrated with his failure to deliver on the promises that propelled him back to the White House. But Trump, apparently unwilling to accept his own unpopularity or the damage it could do to GOP candidates across the country, continues to put himself front and center in the election fight, even headlining a “midterm convention” in Dallas next month. That has Republican strategists, desperate to keep the races focused on individual candidates rather than Trump, on edge, the Daily Beast’s Political Correspondent Farrah Tomazin said on The Daily Beast Podcast. “A lot of strategists that I’ve spoken to are asking, ‘Why on earth are we doing this? Why are we not sort of, you know, getting out there and really sort of localizing... these debates?’” she told the Daily Beast’s Global Editorial Director Nico Hines. But even as Trump makes himself the center of attention, he has appeared more interested in his vanity projects than helping Republicans win. “Not only has he not delivered, but he’s also shifted the focus so much to himself that his priorities are shot, and people can see that,” Tomazin said. “I mean, this morning he spent the entire morning... posting on Truth Social images of his vanity projects: the various fountains that he’s, you know, spruced up in Washington, D.C.” Tomazin noted that Trump had promised to usher in a “Golden Age” by bringing down prices and getting the U.S. out of foreign entanglements, but instead launched a quagmire of a war against Iran, sending gas prices soaring, with inflation now higher than when he took office.. “It’s like... you promised me all this. It’s not only not happening, but you’re also now focusing your attention on expensive projects like a White House ballroom, a helipad, a big arch in honor of yourself... and not talking enough about my problems,” Tomazin said, channeling a voter’s perspective. The billionaire president, however, has made little secret of his indifference toward winning over voters ahead of the midterms, while delivering lines like “I love the inflation,” and “I don’t care about the midterms.” While Americans have been left footing the bill for soaring energy costs, Trump has benefited from the surge in energy stocks fueled by his war and the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, with his oil and gas holdings potentially gaining as much as $15.5 million this year, according to a new report from Democrats on the congressional Joint Economic Committee. When reached for comment, White House spokesman Davis Ingle defended Trump’s building fixations and claimed the president was lowering gas prices. “President Trump can walk and chew gum at the same time,” Ingle told the Daily Beast. “As a result, the Trump administration continues to deliver on the president’s affordability agenda by lowering drug prices, reshoring American jobs, lowering gas prices, and more. Thanks to the Builder-in-Chief, no other president has done more to beautify our Nation’s interior than President Trump. From restoring our treasured landmarks, which had suffered years of abuse and vandalism, to cleaning our parks and the Reflecting Pool, President Trump’s bold vision is ensuring the People’s House and our Nation’s Capital will be properly glorified and remain in excellent condition for generations to come.” https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-ditches-gop-in-secret-midterm-panic/?