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Last week in USA, Part 2/2

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A firefighter battles the Pickett Fire in Napa County, California, on Saturday, August 23, 2025. (Photo by Noah Berger/AP Photo)

A firefighter battles the Pickett Fire in Napa County, California, on Saturday, Aug. 23, 2025.(Photo by Noah Berger/AP Photo)

Football star Travis Kelce and pop icon Taylor Swift posted news of their engagement to their Instagram accounts on Tuesday, August 26, 2025. The celebrity couple has been together since 2023. See more photos of their love story. (Phoot by Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce/Instagram)

Football star Travis Kelce and pop icon Taylor Swift announced their engagement in posts to their Instagram accounts on Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2025. The couple has been together since 2023. (Phoot by Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce/Instagram)

Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland man who was wrongfully deported to El Salvador in March and later brought back to the United States to face federal criminal charges, reports to a facility in Baltimore for an immigration check-in on Monday, August 25, 2025. He was taken into custody by immigration officials. A federal judge said Monday that she will order officials to keep Abrego Garcia in the country while she weighs a new legal challenge from him over the Trump administration’s plans to quickly deport him to Uganda. (Photo by Tierney L. Cross/The New York Times/Redux)

Kilmar Abrego Garcia reports to a facility in Baltimore for an immigration check-in on Monday, Aug. 25, 2025, where he was taken into custody. Abrego Garcia, a Maryland man, was wrongfully deported to El Salvador in March before being returned to the U.S. to face federal charges. A federal judge said she would order officials to keep him in the country while she considers a new legal challenge to the administration’s plans to deport him to Uganda.Photo by Tierney L. Cross/The New York Times/Redux)

Employees at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention bid farewell to top officials as they were escorted out of the agency’s main office in Atlanta on Thursday, August 28, 2025. The officials resigned their positions after the ouster of the agency’s director, Dr. Susan Monarez. (Photo by Elijah Nouvelage/Getty Images)

Employees bid farewell to top officials escorted out of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s main office in Atlanta on Thursday, Aug. 28, 2025. The officials resigned following the ouster of the agency’s director, Dr. Susan Monarez.(Photo by Elijah Nouvelage/Getty Images)

Jasmine Paolini hits a forehand during her first-round US Open match on Sunday, August 24, 2025 at USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in the Flushing neighborhood of the Queens borough of New York City. (Photo by Ray Giubilo)

Jasmine Paolini hits a forehand during her first-round US Open match on Sunday, Aug. 24, 2025, at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in New York City.(Photo by Ray Giubilo)

John Bolton, a former national security adviser to US President Donald Trump, waves as he arrives at his Bethesda, Maryland, home, where the FBI was conducting a court-authorized search on Friday, August 22, 2025. Bolton’s home and office were searched as part of a renewed investigation into whether he disclosed classified information in his 2020 book, according to two people familiar with the matter. Bolton served as Trump’s national security adviser in his first term, but the president fired him in 2019 and the two have been sharply at odds ever since. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Former national security adviser John Bolton waves as he arrives at his Bethesda, Maryland, home during an FBI search on Friday, Aug. 22, 2025. The search was part of a renewed investigation into whether he disclosed classified information in his 2020 book.(Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

A member of the DeKalb County Police honor guard hands a flag to the daughter of police officer David Rose during Rose's funeral in Atlanta on Friday, August 22, 2025. Rose was killed while responding to a shooting earlier this month on the campus of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. He was 33. (Photo by Arvin Temkar/Atlanta Journal-Constitution/AP Photo)

A member of the DeKalb County Police honor guard hands a flag to the daughter of police officer David Rose during his funeral in Atlanta on Friday, Aug. 22, 2025. Rose was killed while responding to a shooting on the campus of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention earlier this month. He was 33.(Photo by Arvin Temkar/Atlanta Journal-Constitution/AP Photo)

Fans cheer a Kansas touchdown during a college football game in Lawrence, Kansas, on Saturday, August 23, 2025. (Photo by Charlie Riedel/AP Photo)

Fans cheer a Kansas touchdown during a college football game in Lawrence, Kansas, on Saturday, Aug. 23, 2025.(Photo by Charlie Riedel/AP Photo)

This photo showing flood victims sitting at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center where they had been waiting for days to be evacuated in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, taken by AP photographer Eric Gay, is projected Tuesday, August 26, 2025, along the Mississippi River behind the convention center. (Photo by Gerald Herbert/AP Photo)

A photo by AP photographer Eric Gay, showing flood victims waiting for days to be evacuated in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, is projected along the Mississippi River behind the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans on Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2025.(Photo by Gerald Herbert/AP Photo)

The labubu of Naomi Osaka of Japan is seen before their Women's Singles Second Round match against Hailey Baptiste of the United States on Day Five of the 2025 US Open at USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center on August 28, 2025 in the Flushing neighborhood of the Queens borough of New York City. (Photo by Sarah Stier/Getty Images)

A Labubu figurine belonging to Japan’s Naomi Osaka is seen before her Women’s Singles second-round match against Hailey Baptiste of the United States on Day Five of the 2025 US Open, Aug. 28, 2025.(Photo by Sarah Stier/Getty Images)

Spectators watch play during the second round of the U.S. Open tennis championships, Wednesday, August 27, 2025, in New York. (Photo by Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP Photo)

Spectators watch play during the second round of the U.S. Open tennis championships on Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2025, in New York.(Photo by Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP Photo)

Visitors and members of the U.S. National Guard walk near the Lincoln Memorial, Thursday, August 28, 2025, in Washington. (Photo by Jon Cherry/AP Photo)

Visitors and members of the U.S. National Guard walk near the Lincoln Memorial on Thursday, Aug. 28, 2025, in Washington.(Photo by Jon Cherry/AP Photo)

President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office of the White House, Friday, August 22, 2025, in Washington. (Photo by Jacquelyn Martin/AP Photo)

President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office of the White House on Friday, Aug. 22, 2025, in Washington.(Photo by Jacquelyn Martin/AP Photo)

New Orleans native and Katrina evacuee Lonnie St. Junior II, who lives in Dallas now, looks through a window at the flooded House Museum, a one-of-a-kind life-sized diorama replicating what neighborhood homes looked like after Hurricane Katrina's floodwall failures, created in a gutted house next to the London Avenue Canal, as the 20th anniversary of Katrina draws near in New Orleans, Louisiana, on August 20, 2025. (Photo by Kathleen Flynn/Reuters)

New Orleans native and Katrina evacuee Lonnie St. Junior II looks through a window at the Flooded House Museum on Aug. 20, 2025. The museum is a life-sized diorama replicating what homes looked like after Hurricane Katrina’s floodwall failures.(Photo by Kathleen Flynn/Reuters)

People gather at a memorial for victims of yesterday's shooting in front of Annunciation Catholic Church on August 28, 2025 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. A gunman fired through the windows of the church while students were sitting in pews during a Catholic school Mass, killing two children and injuring at least 17 others. The gunman reportedly died at the scene from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, according to police. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

People gather at a memorial for victims of a shooting in front of Annunciation Catholic Church on Aug. 28, 2025, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. A gunman fired into the church during a school Mass the previous day, killing two children and injuring at least 17 others.(Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

A member of the National Guard patrol high fives a girl at the base of the Washington Monument on the National Mall on August 27, 2025 in Washington, DC. The Trump administration has deployed federal officers and the National Guard to the District in order to place the DC Metropolitan Police Department under federal control and assist in crime prevention in the nation's capital. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

A member of a National Guard patrol high-fives a girl at the base of the Washington Monument on Aug. 27, 2025. The administration deployed federal officers and the National Guard to place the DC police under federal control.(Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Young girls cling to their loved one, a migrant from Ecuador, as he is detained by ICE after his immigration court hearing at the Jacob Javits Federal Building in New York NY on August 26, 2025. (Photo by Carol Guzy/ZUMA Press Wire/Rex Features/Shutterstock)

Young girls cling to a loved one, a migrant from Ecuador, as he is detained by ICE after his immigration court hearing in New York on Aug. 26, 2025.(Photo by Carol Guzy/ZUMA Press Wire/Rex Features/Shutterstock)

A K-9 dog searches a front yard, after a shooting at Annunciation Church, which is also home to an elementary school, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on August 27, 2025. (Photo by Tim Evans/Reuters)

A K-9 dog searches a front yard after a shooting at Annunciation Church, which is also home to an elementary school, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on Aug. 27, 2025.(Photo by Tim Evans/Reuters)

Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the migrant whose wrongful deportation to El Salvador made him a symbol of Trump's aggressive immigration policies, holds his wife Jennifer Vasquez Sura's hand, as he appears for a check-in at the ICE Baltimore field office three days after his release from criminal custody in Tennessee, in Baltimore, Maryland on August 25, 2025. (Photo by Elizabeth Frantz/Reuters)

Kilmar Abrego Garcia holds his wife Jennifer Vasquez Sura’s hand as he appears for a check-in at the ICE Baltimore field office on Aug. 25, 2025. Abrego Garcia, whose wrongful deportation made him a symbol of Trump’s immigration policies, had been released from criminal custody three days prior.(Photo by Elizabeth Frantz/Reuters)

A worker plants U.S. flags in front of the Department of Labor building, displaying banners depicting President Trump, in Washington, on August 28, 2025. (Photo by Brian Snyder/Reuters)

A worker plants U.S. flags in front of the Department of Labor building, which is adorned with banners depicting President Trump, in Washington on Aug. 28, 2025.(Photo by Brian Snyder/Reuters)

Raymond Hinze
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