The New York Times
The contested region is where Russia’s war in Ukraine began a decade ago. Scores of Ukrainian soldiers have died defending it. Would Ukraine give it up now?
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This page is an archive of main headlines from the US for 24.08.2025.
It displays 127 headlines from many sources chronologically, as they appeared throughout the day, accompanied by AI overviews that were written in real time.
24.08.2025 ⇢ The Day Federal Crackdown Met Urban Resistance
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US media on August 24 prominently featured President Trump's escalating domestic agenda, beginning with reports of planned military deployments for crackdowns in Chicago and the continued threat to deport Kilmar Ábrego García to Uganda. Early afternoon saw an intensifying focus on ICE's scaled-up deportation plans and a reported Jan. 6 prosecutor purge. A new significant domestic narrative emerged around California's swift partisan redistricting, reflecting a nationwide political "war for power." By late afternoon and evening, editorial focus shifted dramatically to Trump’s expanded threats to deploy military forces to cities like Baltimore to combat crime, drawing strong condemnation and threats of resistance from local leaders in Chicago and Baltimore. This federal push also included linking Baltimore bridge funding to political disputes. Concurrently, international coverage detailed Russia's blame on Ukraine for a nuclear plant fire and later reports of Russia making "significant concessions" in Ukraine negotiations with Trump.
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The Daily Beast
Timing is everything in Trumpland, and it’s only a matter of time, according to Trump biographer Michael Wolff.
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00:56⇢Trump's Revenge Agenda and City Deployments
⌨US media maintains focus on President Trump's assertive agenda, notably the continued threat to deport Kilmar Ábrego García to Uganda, with new scrutiny on the judiciary's role and "lawfare" (Breitbart, CBS, ABC News, Common Dreams, The Daily Wire). This aligns with reports of Trump fulfilling his "revenge" promise (Boston Globe, AP News) and planning military deployments for crackdowns, including in Chicago (Washington Post, HuffPost). Other reports address Trump's decreasing approval and potential implications from Epstein files (The Hill, The Daily Beast).
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New York Post
The troubled son of “The Walking Dead” star Norman Reedus was hit with additional charges Saturday as prosecutors said that he choked his girlfriend with such force that he lifted her off the ground.
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Associated Press
Hospital officials in Gaza say Israeli strikes and gunfire have killed at least 33 Palestinians sheltering in tents or seeking scarce food aid.
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The Daily Beast
Timing is everything in Trumpland, and the clock is ticking, according to Trump biographer Michael Wolff.
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At historic summit between Japan and South Korea, Trump’s presence looms large
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A page published by the White House entitled "President Trump Is Right About the Smithsonian" lists exhibits, educational sites and more that the administration seems to take issue with.
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Associated Press
U.S. immigration officials say they intend to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Uganda, after he declined an offer to be deported to Costa Rica in exchange for remaining in jail and pleading guilty to human smuggling charges.
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The New York Times
The Trump Justice Department has fired or demoted more than two dozen Jan. 6 prosecutors, even as those they sent to prison walk free.
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Los Angeles Times
Richard Z. Santos
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New York Post
The troubled son of “The Walking Dead” star Norman Reedus was hit with additional charges Saturday as prosecutors said that he choked his girlfriend with such force that he lifted her off the ground.
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The bus was carrying 54 people, many of whom were ejected from the vehicle after it careened out of control near Buffalo, New York.
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At historic summit between Japan and South Korea, Trump’s presence looms large
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These communities are hoping to benefit as rising home costs and high interest rates push people further out of city centers.
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Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, is key in President Donald Trump’s plan for mass deportations.
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Zohran Mamdani’s comrades at the Democratic Socialists of America openly call to end what they call “the criminalization of working-class survival,” and want to wipe out all misdemeanor offenses, The Post has learned.
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08:07⇢Mass Deportation Push
⌨US media expands its focus on President Trump's assertive agenda. Internationally, headlines discuss Russia blaming Ukraine for a nuclear plant fire, with Trump urging peace, and Russia vowing to improve its 'nuclear shield' after a Trump-Putin meeting (ABC News, Fox News). Domestically, the threat to deport Kilmar Ábrego García to Uganda persists, alongside ICE's scaled-up mass deportation plans and a reported Jan. 6 prosecutor purge (Breitbart, CBS, Common Dreams, The Daily Wire, AP News, NYTimes).
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$500 Million To Paint the Border Wall? 5 of Trump's Strangest, Most Expensive Vanity Projects
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Los Angeles Times
In the last week, with lightning speed, the nation’s foremost political leaders have jettisoned any pretense of political fairness in favor of an all-out partisan war for power.
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About 450 immigrant workers hired to disinfect New York City’s subways at the height of the pandemic were given inadequate equipment and paid less than the city’s prevailing wage. They have now won more than $3 million in back pay.
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) hopes to turn a special election in November on his gerrymandered congressional map into a referendum on President Donald Trump, rather than on his own partisan ambition.
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The Daily Beast
The MAGA figurehead conspicuously took matters into his own hands after a glob of makeup failed to do the trick.
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Simon Sandoval-Moshenberg, one of Abrego's attorneys, said he would "fight tooth and nail" against any form of deportation to Africa.
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A U.N.-backed initiative on Friday declared a famine in Gaza City.
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Twenty-five titles — including a work by Booker Prize winner Arundhati Roy — have been banned in Kashmir. The crackdown has left authors, students, and booksellers navigating fear and defiance, as the state seeks to erase history and police memory.
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The Daily Beast
The vice president claimed “every major human conflict in history” has been ended through negotiation.
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Nearly 1,400 people died after Hurricane Katrina crashed into Louisiana and Mississippi. Most of the deaths were in New Orleans, which has had an uneven recovery in the past 20 years.
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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) predicted Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” that Republicans can not gerrymander enough House seats to stop Democrats from winning the majority in the House of Representatives in the 2026 midterm elections.
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As Texas approves new congressional maps, California is fighting back. Caught in the middle are frustrated voters.
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11:59⇢Redistricting War Escalates
⌨US media highlights intensifying partisan battles over redistricting, with California's swift actions reflecting a nationwide "war for power" and Democratic leaders raising concerns about gerrymandering (Breitbart, LA Times, USA Today). Concurrently, the controversial threat to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Uganda persists, drawing legal challenges, while new details emerge on state-level pacts with ICE (Boston Globe, NBC News, AP News). International discussions include Putin's role as an obstacle to peace in Ukraine.
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One America News
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov revealed that Russia is willing to allow a coalition of United Nations Security Council members to guarantee Ukraine’s security as part of a peace agreement, while blaming Western European nations for obstructing a potential peace agreement.
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New York Post
“This was a tragic accident — not a deliberate act. While accountability matters, the severity of the charges against him does not align with the circumstances of the incident,” the petition reads.
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Mother Jones
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Los Angeles Times
Richard Z. Santos
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The president's threat comes amid the National Guard's deployment to D.C. in what he has described as an effort to fight crime.
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One America News
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson slammed President Donald Trump’s “threat” to deploy the National Guard to Chicago, as the Trump administration seeks to expand its initiative to make major American cities safe.
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Associated Press
President Donald Trump is threatening to deploy military forces to more Democratic-led cities. On Sunday, the president added Baltimore to a list that already includes Chicago and New York.
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Governor Wes Moore (D-MD) claimed Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation” that the cost of President Donald Trump’s Washington D.C. crime crackdown means it was the “not sustainable.”
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Governor Wes Moore (D-MD) claimed Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation” that the cost of President Donald Trump’s Washington D.C. crime crackdown means it was the “not sustainable.”
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The state's tourism campaign offers a fragrance for the summer with notes of the beach, wineries and lavender. They struck a chord with some people relaxing by the water.
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President Donald Trump lashed out at Gov. Wes Moore after the Maryland Democrat criticized his efforts in Washington.
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15:28⇢Trump's Urban Military Escalation
⌨US media primarily reports on President Trump’s expanded threats to deploy military forces to cities like Baltimore to combat crime, drawing criticism from local leaders (NBC News, AP News, Mother Jones, One America News Network). These threats are fueling political spats, with Trump linking federal funding for Baltimore bridge repairs to his disagreements with Maryland’s governor (USA Today, Breitbart). Simultaneously, there are reports of Russia making concessions on Ukraine (ABC News).
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One America News
Vice President JD Vance said that Russian President Vladimir Putin made several “significant concessions” in his demands to end the war in Ukraine during his recent meeting with President Donald Trump.
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New York Post
Late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein’s convicted accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell was an honored guest at an exclusive Clinton Global Initiative conference in September, 2013, more than five years after sexual abuse allegations first surfaced against her,…
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The Daily Beast
The president fumed that Maryland Gov. Wes Moore’s invitation to perform light cardio was “nasty and provocative.”
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The New York Times
A single afternoon in court illustrated the new ways in which laws are being enforced after President Trump’s takeover of the city’s police.
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The Washington Post
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One America News
El exasesor de Seguridad Nacional de Trump, John Bolton, debería ser procesado por el presunto envío de información clasificada altamente sensible a través de un servidor privado, según informaron al New York Post altos funcionarios del Buró Federal de Investigaciones (FBI, por sus siglas en inglés).
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One America News
A group of up to 20 violent rioters ambushed immigration agents in San Francisco, with one individual wearing a keffiyeh and wielding a knife threatening to “stab” one of the agents, according to a criminal complaint filed on Thursday.
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The Atlantic
Only part of the left’s most promising political party even wants to win elections or come to power.
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In a poll from YouGov/The Economist, two-thirds say they have strong feelings about Donald Trump - either positive or negative. Here's the breakdown.
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Mingus Reedus pleaded not guilty to charges of assault and harassment as his attorney pushed back on the prosecution's version of events.
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Los Angeles Times
The Trump administration urged the Supreme Court to confirm that immigration agents have ‘reasonable suspicion’ to stop and question Latinos whose occupations draw many undocumented workers.
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The lawyer for Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the man wrongly deported by the Trump administration to an El Salvadoran prison and then returned months later, says his client is now facing deportation again.
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After three catastrophic in-flight failures in a row, SpaceX readied a huge Super Heavy-Starship rocket for launch Sunday evening from the Texas Gulf Coast.
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Sunday on MSNBC’s “The Weekend,” Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson (D) said that if President Donald Trump sent the National Guard to his city, the people would rise up against “tyranny.”
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Sunday on MSNBC’s “The Weekend,” Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson (D) said that if President Donald Trump sent the National Guard to his city, the people would rise up against “tyranny.”
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The Daily Beast
More makeup may be in order for the president.
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New York Post
Mingus Reedus, 25, was hit with assault and harassment charges Saturday for allegedly kicking and choking his 33-year-old girlfriend in Chelsea.
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19:18⇢Cities Resist Federal Crackdown
⌨US media continues to focus heavily on President Trump's assertive domestic agenda, particularly his expansion of federal crackdowns and threats of military deployment to cities like Chicago and Baltimore. Local leaders, including Chicago's mayor, are denouncing these plans and even threatening resistance against perceived tyranny (Breitbart, Common Dreams, Washington Post, AP News, Mother Jones, NYTimes). This federal enforcement push extends to immigration, with the Supreme Court weighing broader powers for agents and continued deportation threats for individuals like Kilmar Abrego Garcia (LA Times, NPR, One America News Network).
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Sunday on MSNBC’s “The Weekend,” Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson (D) said that if President Donald Trump sent the National Guard to his city, the people would rise up against “tyranny.”
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One America News
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis reaffirmed his decision to remove a rainbow-colored crosswalk outside of the Pulse nightclub in Orlando despite outrage from local Democrats and LGBTQ activists.
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Taking no chances, SpaceX called off an attempt to launch its huge Super Heavy-Starship rocket after running into problems with ground equipment.
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Stewards of Japanese American history are calling out the use of Fort Bliss to detain immigrants.
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Associated Press
Some National Guard units patrolling the nation’s capital at the direction of President Donald Trump have started carrying firearms.
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Associated Press
Some National Guard units patrolling the nation’s capital at the direction of President Donald Trump have started carrying firearms.
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Associated Press
Some National Guard units patrolling the nation’s capital at the direction of President Donald Trump have started carrying firearms.
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Some National Guard units patrolling the nation’s capital at the direction of President Donald Trump have started carrying firearms.
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Some National Guard members in Washington D.C., likely fewer than 50, will be armed starting Sunday night, a military official told CBS News.
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The Washington Post
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Associated Press
Some National Guard units patrolling the nation’s capital at the direction of President Donald Trump have started carrying firearms.
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HuffPost
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As Texas approves new congressional maps, California is fighting back. Caught in the middle are frustrated voters.
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The Daily Beast
Troops helping control traffic will now be carrying firearms.
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The 7-0 victory is the team's 18th title, the most of any country beside the United States.
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“You’ve misled the family, and now to compound matters, you’ve violated this family and their rights,” Tiffani Lucero Pastor, one of the brothers’ relatives, screamed at the parole board.
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22:51⇢D.C. National Guard Armed
⌨US media significantly emphasizes President Trump's escalating federal presence, with reports confirming National Guard units in Washington D.C. are now armed, intensifying federal control (CBS, Washington Post, AP News, The Daily Beast). This development occurs amid ongoing threats of federal crackdowns in cities like Chicago, prompting Democratic accusations of manufactured crises and local resistance (Breitbart, Common Dreams, NYTimes, Mother Jones). Debates also continue on immigration powers and specific cultural controversies (LA Times, Fox News, One America News Network, Boston Globe).
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The athletes are chasing the first Grand Slam singles trophy for an American man since Andy Roddick triumphed in New York in 2003.
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