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FILE - Palestinians struggle to get donated food at a community kitchen in Gaza City, northern Gaza Strip, Saturday, Aug. 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi, File)

A quick look back at this week’s biggest stories

9:02 PM on Friday, August 22

The world’s leading food authority says Gaza is experiencing famine

An art installation, which displays black and white images of people detained or deported as a result of ICE raids in Southern California, stands outside the federal building in Los Angeles, Thursday, July 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Judge blocks Trump from cutting funding from 34 cities and counties over ‘sanctuary’ policies

6:32 PM on Friday, August 22

A judge has ruled the Trump administration cannot deny funding to Boston, Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles and 30 other cities and counties because of policies that limit cooperation with federal immigration efforts

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell walks outside of Jackson Lake Lodge during a break at the Jackson Hole Economic Policy Symposium in Moran, Wyo., on Friday, Aug. 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Amber Baesler)

Fed Chair Powell faces fresh challenges to Fed independence amid potential rate cuts

6:01 PM on Friday, August 22

Now that Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell has signaled that the central bank could soon cut its key interest rate, he faces a new challenge: how to do it without seeming to cave to the White House’s demands

FILE - Pedestrians cross University Ave on the campus of Arizona State University in Tempe, Ariz., July 25, 2018. (AP Photo/Matt York, File)

Justice Department won't defend grants for Hispanic-serving colleges, calling them unconstitutional

5:21 PM on Friday, August 22

The Trump administration said Friday it will not defend a decades-old grant program for heavily Hispanic universities that is being challenged in court, declaring that the government believes the funding is unconstitutional

FILE - Vehicles pass underneath the Cedar Viaduct, designed to take high-speed trains over Cedar and North avenues and State Route 99, on April 15, 2025, in Fresno, Calif. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez, File)

California's long-delayed bullet train slated to run in the Central Valley by 2032, report says

3:51 PM on Friday, August 22

California's long-delayed high-speed rail project is slated to be operating in the Central Valley by 2032, according to a report released Friday by the High Speed Rail Authority

Epstein's former girlfriend told Justice Department she did not see Trump act in 'inappropriate way'

11:56 AM on Friday, August 22

Jeffrey Epstein’s imprisoned former girlfriend repeatedly denied to the Justice Department witnessing any sexually inappropriate interactions with Donald Trump

President Donald Trump speaks with members of law enforcement and National Guard soldiers, Thursday, Aug. 21, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

The Latest: Justice Department releases transcript interviews with Ghislaine Maxwell

5:13 AM on Friday, August 22

The Justice Department has released transcripts of interviews its No. 2 official did with Jeffrey Epstein’s imprisoned former girlfriend as the Trump administration scrambles to present itself as transparent amid a fierce backlash over an earlier refusal to disclose a trove of records from the sex-trafficking case

FBI agents carry empty boxes to former national security adviser John Bolton's house, Friday, August. 22, 2025, in Bethesda, Md. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

FBI searches home and office of ex-Trump national security adviser John Bolton

4:38 AM on Friday, August 22

The FBI has searched the Maryland home and Washington office of ex-Trump national security adviser John Bolton as part of an investigation into the handling of classified information

FILE -Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi attends the 17th annual BRICS summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres, File)

Iran confers with European nations on its nuclear program as sanctions deadline nears

11:37 PM on Thursday, August 21

Iran's foreign minister has spoken with his French, German, and British counterparts, trying to stop the reimposition of U.N. sanctions over Tehran's nuclear program

FILE - Florida Sen. Joe Gruters watches during a legislative session April 30, 2021, at the Capitol in Tallahassee, Fla. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee, File)

Trump's new RNC chairman Joe Gruters is a longtime believer. Here's what to know about him

9:23 PM on Thursday, August 21

A Florida conservative who has been a Donald Trump cheerleader dating back to the president’s days as a reality TV star is now the Republican National Committee chairman

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