good morning! I am Jane, the author of Daily Briefing. “Jaws” is returning to the theater today for the 50th anniversary of the Steven Spielberg thriller.
Take a quick look at Friday’s news:
It’s been 20 years since Hurricane Katrina denounced the Gulf
Friday marks the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina’s landing on the Gulf Coast on the morning of August 29, 2005. The storm has devastated many parts of Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana, but it was New Orleans that was damaged when the city’s levees and floods were slashed. More than 1,300 people have been killed, about 80% of the city have been in the water for several weeks, and the city has lost more than 120,000 residents who have fled and never returned. How Katrina redefines New Orleans 20 years later depends on where you ask in the city. The two regions, Broadmoor and The Lower Ninth Ward, tell the competing stories of the storm.
Takeout from JD Vance’s exclusive interview with USA Today
Vice President JD Vance sat down with USA Today’s White House correspondent Frances Ca Chambers as the Trump administration discussed the whirlwind opening beyond the seven-month mark.
The Trump terminology features aggressive display There is an executive power and the moment when you drop many jaws, sometimes a vanse in the center.
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Family remembers children injured in Minnesota shooting
Describing “an unimaginable loss,” the family recalls the murdered child the day after the attackers fired from the window of a Minneapolis Catholic School church, dived into the back of their feet. Fletcher Merkel’s father, Jesse Merkel, 8, called the suspected shooter the “co-sick man” who took the life of his son. The fatal shooting occurred before 8:30am local time on August 27 at a Catholic Catholic School, a private elementary school in Minneapolis with around 395 students. The two children killed in the shooting were 8 and 10 years old. Eight other people were injured.
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College football season begins
College football season will begin fully this weekend, with three major matches of teams ranked in the top 10 polls of preseason US LBM coaches. It starts with the first Texas and Archmanning visiting Ohio No. 2. No other games to watch. 6Clemson will host No. 9 LSU, and No. 5 Notre Dame will visit No. 10 Miami. Bill Belichick’s debut in North Carolina on Workers’ Night. It’s a great start to a season that should be full of unpredictability when teams compete for a college football playoff. To stay up to all the action, sign up for our college football newsletter, a pass to the playoffs.
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Labor Day weather forecast will be “mixed bags”
Good and bad, but not ugly, most of the country explains Labor Day weather forecasts. “It’s kind of a mixed bag, but overall it’s like a thumbs that a lot of people live in,” Accuweather meteorologist Carl Erickson told USA Today. “For most of us, it looks really good – there’s no big heat, no low humidity.” The sweet spot includes a strip of nations that travel from the Great Lakes through the Ohio Valley, through most of the Mississippi Valley and across the Middle Atlantic countries. These areas “all look really nice,” Erickson said.
Today’s Photo: Wildlife Photographer of the Year Contest
Canadian elusive Arctic wolf packs, sloths clinging to barbed wire fence posts in Costa Rica, standoffs between lions and Tanzanian cobras, gold giving the UK a mighty light llow. These are just a few of the highly acclaimed images of the 2025 Wildlife Photographers of the Year Contest at the Museum of Natural History of London. Take a look at the amazing photos of the cut.
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