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News in Brief: August 29, 2025 [1]
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Date: 2025-09-05 15:00:23+00:00
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Global
Gaza
On Aug. 20, 2025, Israel entered its “first stages of attack on Gaza city,” according to Israeli military official and Israel Defence Forces spokesman Effie Defrin. Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu defended the takeover, saying it would be the “best way to end the war.”
The first phase of the original ceasefire and hostage release deal, made on Jan. 19, expired on March 1. Israel first broke the ceasefire on March 18. According to the BBC, second stage negotiations were supposed to start on February 4. This did not occur, according to Qatar, the mediator with Egypt and the U.S, said Reuters. On Feb. 18, Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar told a press conference in Jerusalem, “It will happen this week.”
In early August, Israel’s security cabinet approved Netanyahu’s plan to invade and occupy the city.
Before the press conference, Netanyahu told Fox News that Israel “intends” to take control of Gaza but not “keep or govern” it.
In response to this interview, according to ABC, Hamas said in a statement, “Netanyahu’s statements represent a blatant reversal of the negotiation process and clearly expose the real motives behind his withdrawal from the latest round of talks, despite us nearing a final agreement.”
As of Aug. 21, Aljazeera’s death toll live tracker reports that the Palestinian Ministry of Health has counted at least 62,192 Palestinian people who have been confirmed killed, including at least 18,430 children, in the Israel-Gaza War; at least 157,114 have been injured.
On Aug. 10, an Israeli strike killed four Al Jazeera journalists: Anas Al-Sharif, correspondent Mohammed Qreiqeh, cameraman Ibrahim Zaher, and crew driver and cameraman Mohammed Noufal. Israel targeted Anas Al-Sharif, a 28-year-old Al Jazeera Arabic Correspondent, claiming he worked for Hamas, which he denied, according to the New York Times.
The food shortage in Gaza has been described by 115 organizations as “mass starvation.” The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification said that the “worse-case scenario of famine” is happening in Gaza as Israel continues to restrict aid from entering. Al Jazeera reports that at least 272 people have died from starvation since the beginning of the conflict.
National
Tariffs, an Update
On Aug. 11, Trump extended the U.S. and China tariff truce until mid-November, pushing off the start of higher tariffs for another 90 days.
According to the Yale Budget Lab, the average tariff rate is the highest it’s been since 1933, during the Great Depression. The tariffs are Trump’s strategy to reduce the national debt. Trump also hopes to “make a dividend to the people of America.”
However, according to National Treasury data analyzed by Fortune, “tariff revenues don’t even cover the interest on the debt.”
According to Oxford Economics, “Tariffs are taxes imposed by a government on goods and services imported from other countries.” Businesses pay, not countries. Tariffs are usually instated to raise government revenue, protect domestic industries, or correct trade imbalances.
As of August, tariffs are as high as 50%. The Washington Post has a chart comparing the most recent rates with rates from 2024. In 2024, Mexico paid 0.25% tariffs, but in 2025, it’s up to 25%. The tariffs mean that goods will likely cost more in the coming months — clothing, food, and cars. Retailers stocked up on product earlier in the year to offset rising costs, but stocks are running out.
“[Trump] wants to deal one-on-one with foreign leaders, applying an arm twist at the highest level to try and eke out final concessions. That doesn’t work as well with the European Union, the 27-nation bloc that makes decisions, literally, by committee,” explains a Politico article.
The Stanford Daily and Freedom of Speech
On Aug. 6, Stanford’s student newspaper, The Stanford Daily, filed a lawsuit against the Trump Administration for violating free speech.
The lawsuit is against Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. The lawsuit accuses “the administration of using the provisions to threaten deportation and the revocation of visas,” and that the “situation has led to censorship and violations of free speech rights.“
The Stanford Daily staff in the United States on student visas have refused to report on Gaza for fear that it could “jeopardize their lawful immigration status.” The fear comes from arrests that occurred earlier this year, when the Trump administration targeted prominent student activists. It echoes the fear international students had in April of last year, when the Trump administration began revoking student visas without warning.
The Stanford Daily, the plaintiff in the case, specifically wishes to focus on the Deportation Provision and the Revocation Provision in the Immigration and Nationality Act. The court document names the Deportation Provision as “allow[ing] the Secretary of State to render a noncitizen deportable if he ‘personally determines’ their lawful ‘beliefs, statements, or associations’ ‘compromise a compelling United States foreign policy interest.’“ The Revocation Provision, in the same document, “allows the Secretary to ‘at any time, in his discretion, revoke’ a ‘visa or other documentation.’”
Tricia McLaughlin, spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security, described the lawsuit as “baseless.”
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