AUGUST 2025 NEWS

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In a social media post on Sunday, Donald Trump demands homeless residents of Washington DC leave the country’s capital or face eviction, and again promised to use federal officers to jail criminals, even though violent crime in the city was at a 30-year low when he took office in January. 

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel defended on Sunday his government’s plan to launch a renewed offensive against Hamas in parts of Gaza, following a wave of international condemnation from traditional allies and critics at home. 

NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte said Friday's summit between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska will be an important test in ending the war in Ukraine. "Next Friday will be important because it will be about testing Putin, how serious he is on bringing this terrible war to an end," Rutte told ABC News' "This Week" co-anchor Jonathan Karl.

A Georgia man who had blamed the COVID-19 vaccine for making him depressed and suicidal has been identified as the shooter who opened fire late Friday on the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention headquarters, killing a police officer. The 30-year-old suspect, who died during the incident, had also tried to get into the CDC's headquarters in Atlanta but was stopped by guards before driving to a pharmacy across the street and opening fire, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press on Saturday.

Severe storms struck the Midwest this weekend, dumping around a foot of rain on Milwaukee, causing flooding that canceled the last day of the Wisconsin State Fair, and damaging a Nebraska prison to the extent that inmates had to be moved, officials said. At least one death occurred in the storms, which struck several states. One person died Saturday and another suffered serious injuries when a tree fell on the car they were in at Two Rivers State Park in Nebraska, officials said.

Rick Ross often divides his time between his mansions in Atlanta and Miami. So, where does the rapper and entrepreneur prefer relaxing most? “Swimming pools in Atlanta,” Ross told CNN during a recent interview, smiling. “The ocean, the beach in Miami.” He knows a thing or two about pools, it turns out. Ross’ expansive estate of more than 300 acres outside of Atlanta – which he named The Promise Land – features one of the largest residential pools in the country. It holds 350,000 gallons of water and requires a crew of four from Georgia Plaster and Tile to maintain it.

Connor Zilisch, the NASCAR Xfinity Series points leader, picked up another win on Saturday but his celebrations quickly came to an unexpected end when he broke his collarbone slipping off his car. The 19-year-old driver was climbing onto the roof of his No. 88 Chevrolet car to celebrate his latest victory at Watkins Glen International in New York but as he attempted to move, his left foot apparently got caught on the window netting.

The nominations for the 2025 MTV Video Music Awards, known as the VMAs, were announced Tuesday, and it’s a crowded playing field. Lady Gaga leads this year’s nominees with 12, including nominations in the video of the year, artist of the year and best album categories. She is followed by Bruno Mars with 11; Kendrick Lamar with 10; and ROSÉ and Sabrina Carpenter, tied with eight each.

Brooke Hogan Oleksy may not have honored her father Hulk Hogan in the most traditional of ways, but she wants her followers and his fans to know how she did remember the legendary wrestler. “My father hated the morbidity of funerals. He didn’t want one,” she wrote in the caption of an Instagram post shared Tuesday in reference to the elder Hogan, who died last month at the age of 71. “And although I know people grieve in many ways - and I’m so grateful for all celebrations and events organized to honor him, as his daughter, I had to make my own decision to honor him the best and most genuine way I knew how…privately…the way that made me feel the closest to him.”

Loni Anderson, who played a struggling radio station’s empowered receptionist on the hit TV comedy “WKRP in Cincinnati,” died Sunday, just days before her 80th birthday. Anderson died at a Los Angeles hospital following a “prolonged” illness, said her longtime publicist, Cheryl J. Kagan.

Popular Food Network star and celebrity chef Anne Burrell’s death has been ruled a suicide, according to authorities. The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in New York City confirmed to CNN on Thursday that Burrell died by suicide and that her cause of death was acute intoxication due to the combined effects of medications and alcohol.

Professional wrestler Hulk Hogan died of a heart attack, according to authorities. Hogan’s official cause of death is cited as “acute myocardial infarction” – which in layman’s terms means a heart attack – according to a cremation approval summary report from the medical examiner’s office in Pinellas County, Florida shared with CNN on Thursday.

Police in a central Illinois town were searching for the suspect who shot two law enforcement officers after responding to a report of a naked man, state police said. David Jordan, 70, of Gibson City, was last seen unclothed and should be considered armed and dangerous, according to authorities. He may be riding a red bicycle. At approximately 2:31 a.m. on Saturday, officers with the Gibson City Police Department and Ford County Sheriff's Department responded to a report of a naked man walking along Ash Street near South Sangamon Avenue in Gibson City.

Name a better flavor duo than chocolate and peanut butter. I’ll wait. The two are divine in ice cream, creamy spreads, layered desserts, chewy cookies, you name it. So earlier this month when Oreo and Reese’s announced they were collaborating on an Oreo x Reese’s cookie and a Reese’s x Oreo cup, I RACED (aka swiftly emailed the brands) to snag some more details. I was lucky enough to try some ahead of their official launch (work perks!), and I’m happy to report that this collaboration is everything I dreamed of and more.

A father of one of the slain University of Idaho students is calling for a harsher form of justice for Bryan Kohberger. Steve Goncalves, whose daughter Kaylee was among the four students murdered, said in a new interview that he initially thought that the convicted killer's commissary funds should be used to pay for a firing squad.

Six people, including a 5-year-old girl, were injured in a Baltimore shooting on Aug. 9. Baltimore police said they responded to the scene of the shooting at 8:46 p.m. Shots rang out at Spaulding and Queensbury Avenues, an intersection in northwestern Baltimore, police said in a statement on X. They called the incident a mass shooting.

Cambodia’s prime minister said on Thursday he has nominated US President Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize, lauding his “extraordinary statesmanship” in halting a border conflict between Cambodia and Thailand. 

 QUITO, Ecuador — He says he was 18 years old when he first joined a gang in Ecuador a decade ago. Now a senior commander with a wife and kids, the man almost casually acknowledges he’s contributing to the deadly drug trade plaguing the country.