Payment errors reached 12 percent.
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| Ivan Pentchoukov
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| Ivan Pentchoukov
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Good morning! It’s Friday. Here are today’s top stories: |
- States are racing to reduce faulty payments to food stamp recipients, in a bid to avoid penalties included in the signature budget bill passed by Republicans last year.
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President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Aug. 27 to officially rename Lake Ontario as Lake America, effective immediately.
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President Donald Trump said during a press conference in the Oval Office on Thursday that Russian President Vladimir Putin would not expand the war with Ukraine by attacking NATO countries.
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Russia warned the same day that it could strike British and French military targets both inside and outside Ukraine, following the UK’s pledge to share classified technical intelligence to help Kyiv build its own long-range cruise missiles.
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🍵 Health: Should you clean your ears? Doctors say that earwax does more to protect your ears than you might realize.
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Next year, states will have to pay for their SNAP mistakes. Penalties laid out in last year’s signature budget bill mean that California, New York, and Florida alone would be on the hook for more than $1 billion in combined costs. Texas would owe around $750 million. No wonder they are already scrambling to rein in their payment errors—which have ballooned over the decades. Our data reporter Sylvia Xu unpacks how the states are tackling the new compliance deadline. |
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Two Flock safety cameras in a neighborhood in Jessup, Md., on Aug. 26, 2026. (Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times) |
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A growing number of municipalities are ending their use of Flock Safety cameras amid concerns about how the automated license plate readers capture people’s movement. Tempe, Arizona, officials said that they’ve turned off their Flock system and are ending their contract with the company. Cave Creek, also in Arizona; Bellingham, Massachusetts; and several Texas counties are among the other municipalities that said this month they’re ending their use of Flock cameras.
- The outbreak caused by parasites found in iceberg lettuce has been confirmed in three more states—widening the scope to 20 states.
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Jury deliberations in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial started on Aug. 27 after five weeks of testimony. Clancy, a former labor and delivery nurse, is accused of killing her three young children while her now-ex-husband was running errands in January 2023. The 36-year-old mother faces three counts of first-degree murder, one for each child: Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and 8-month-old Callan.
- About 700 rogue OpenAI agents were involved in the breach on AI startup Hugging Face, according to independent researchers.
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General Mills said all of its cereals sold in the United States are now made without certified artificial colors, completing a goal the food giant set for this summer.
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Parts of many voting machines used in the United States are made in China, the Department of Homeland Security secretary warned in a letter released on Thursday.
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Mud covering properties following a flash flood in Trishuli, Nuwakot district, Nepal, on Aug. 27, 2026. (Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters) |
- President Donald Trump said the United States has offered to help Nepal with anything the country needs after a massive mudslide and flood devastated the Nepal–Tibet border region.
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The U.S. Treasury Department has imposed sanctions on three organizations it accuses of supporting far-left terrorism.
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Hungary labeled Russia a “threat to the global order” and formally condemned its military aggression, in a move that marks a sharp shift in Budapest’s outlook under its new government.
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More than 100 current and former staff members of the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees have been referred to the U.S. State Department for their alleged participation in the Oct. 7, 2023, attack against Israel or their links with the Hamas terror group that led it.
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- Ditching Net Zero—by John Stossel (Read)
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What Kind of War Is China Preparing For?—by James Gorrie (Read)
- The Story of Dolly Parton’s Most Famous Song—by Lee Habeeb (Read)
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The Real Reason Young Families Can’t Find Homes to Buy—by Peter St Onge (Read)
- The Jeffries-Kushner Meeting Reveals More Than Either Party Will Admit—by Armstrong Williams (Read)
- What Do Black Voters Want?—by Star Parker (Read)
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3 Cheers for the Book Lovers: A Thank You Note to Epoch Times Readers … And a Mission—by Jeff Minick (Read)
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All that stands between you and the vibes of a tropical island, crashing waves, and a cool ocean breeze are three ingredients, five minutes, and a blender. You’ll also need Patty Catalano’s recipe for whipped lemonade. |
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“Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence.” |
— Charles Dickens, "Great Expectations" |
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