Good morning, NewsNation! With the start of a new week, there’s a lot going on. Let’s catch up:
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What’s happening: Members of a bipartisan task force investigating the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump will tour the site of the July 13 shooting in Butler, Pennsylvania. Lawmakers will be assessing the Butler Farm Show grounds and meeting with local officials to discuss security lapses. The visit, just over six weeks after the shooting, comes as Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson accuses the FBI and Secret Service of not cooperating with the task force’s investigation. The latest >
Secret Service: At least five Secret Service agents, including the special agent in charge of the Pittsburgh field office, are now on administrative leave. The agents are reportedly still working in a different capacity that does not include security planning. Read more >
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‘Still fighting’: The Defense Department knows of about 400 Iraq war veterans who experienced “possible or probable” exposure to chemical weapons during their service. But, according to some of those vets, they’re not getting the help they need, according to a report in Stars and Stripes.“I am still fighting just to get recognized by the VA and we’re kind of getting nowhere,” said Istvan Gabor, a sergeant who worked at an Iraq weapons destruction site called Arlington Depot where abandoned arsenals were removed from bunkers and detonated. The Department of Veterans Affairs has formed a new team to evaluate and offer treatment to those vets. Read more >
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Shorts debate: An outfit choice has sparked an online debate after a woman shared she was sent home from a job interview for wearing shorts. In a video posted to TikTok earlier this month, a woman job hunting in Texas said a recruiter rescheduled her interview and asked if she wanted to change clothes before returning. The woman said she looked “very neat and professional,” but some users grilling her in the comments said they would have told her the same thing. Read more >
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Recall alert: Walmart is recalling nearly 10,000 cases of apple juice due to potentially harmful levels of arsenic, according to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The recall applies to Great Value brand apple juice sold in six-packs of 8 ounce bottles. The recall was initiated on Aug. 15, but the FDA gave it a more urgent risk classification Friday. Read more >
Rocket fuel chemical: In a separate case, a chemical used in rocket fuel, fireworks and air bags has been detected in various supermarket and fast-food items, according to a recent study. But how worried should you be? Full report >
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A landslide that prompted a mandatory evacuation in the Alaska city of Ketchikan left one person dead and three injured. The latest >
A voluntary evening lockdown has been enacted in four Massachusetts towns amid a potentially fatal mosquito-borne disease. What to know >
An Iowa man has been charged for his participation in a group chat that commissioned and shared videos of monkeys being tortured. The investigation >
Three Utah residents died after being caught in a whirlpool during a canyoneering trip in the Sierra Nevada mountain range Friday. Read more >
Walmart said it is “working to quickly resolve the issue” following an alleged outbreak of bed bugs at a Tennessee store. What to know >
A Florida delivery driver put a 4-month-old child back in his stroller after striking the baby boy and his mother in a hit-and-run crash, police said. Read more >
Rapper Juvenile stormed off his United Airlines flight to Fort Worth, Texas, after his first-class ticket was downgraded to a coach seat. Full report >
Former President Donald Trump‘s lack of intel about Thursday’s threats in Arizona “sparked some concerns” for Mark Dannels, the sheriff of Cochise County, Arizona. Watch the interview >
A man who allegedly posed as a doctor and performed unlicensed cosmetic surgery on a woman in California has been charged with assault and battery. Read more >
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Rep. Tim Burchett, R-Tenn., calls UAP whistleblower Lue Elizondo “an American hero” for publicly sharing what he says he knows about unidentified anomalous phenomena, aka UFOs.
Elizondo, a former U.S. Army counterintelligence special agent and former employee of the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, says the U.S. military has been running an unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) retrieval and reverse engineering program for years — and has even recovered nonhuman specimens.
Burchett says there will be more UAP hearings by House committees, and he expects the witnesses to be more forthcoming than others have been.
“I think that the American public has a right to know,” he said. Watch the interview >
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A Kentucky teacher has taken the nurturing of his students to greater heights than most. Justin Padgett, a Danville, Kentucky, native adopted Jayden — a fifth grade student of Padgett’s — and his three siblings. The adoption reportedly came after Jayden typed “I have to be adopted” on his school computer. Read more >
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This NewsNation email is written by Caitlyn Shelton and NewsNation staff.
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