News for August 29, 2025

Social Security whistleblower Charles Borges says he is resigning involuntarily after what he calls retaliation and intolerable work conditions tied to his complaint about the Department of Government Efficiency.

The US has revoked Mahmoud Abbas’s visa and blocked him and dozens of Palestinian officials from attending the UN General Assembly in New York.

Minneapolis police said they have been in contact with the mother of the church shooter, and she has hired a criminal defense attorney as investigators continue to probe the attack at Annunciation Catholic School.

U.S. immigration agents arrested two workers at a Washington wildfire site after a Bureau of Land Management check tied to a probe of the contract crews.

The U.S. government is offering military funeral honors for Ashli Babbitt, the Jan. 6 Capitol rioter killed during the attack, in a move backed by President Donald Trump’s administration.