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The alumni association at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point has canceled an award ceremony for actor and veterans advocate Tom Hanks …
Hanks, 69, was to receive the prestigious Sylvanus Thayer Award, which recognizes an “outstanding citizen” who did not attend West Point and has a distinguished record of service that exemplifies the academy’s ideals: “Duty, Honor, Country.” A ceremony and parade were scheduled for Sept. 25.
The decision marks a dramatic shift from June, when the association announced Hanks as its 2025 Thayer recipient.
Hanks, in the same announcement, called it “humbling and meaningful” to be recognized by the institution. Other recipients have included presidents, defense secretaries, diplomats, senators and journalists.
In January, Trump issued an executive order calling for a rollback of programs promoting diversity, equity and inclusion in the armed forces, saying leaders, curriculums and instructors at all of the U.S. service academies should be scrutinized. Other changes followed, including the cancellation of some classes and the disbanding of numerous “affinity groups” for cadets, such as the National Society of Black Engineers and Latin Cultural Club.
More recently, Army Secretary Dan Driscoll directed West Point to revoke the appointment of Jen Easterly, a cybersecurity expert and West Point graduate who had served in the presidential administrations of Biden and George W. Bush, a Republican whom Trump has attacked in the past. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/09/06/tom-hanks-west-point/?utm_source=alert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=wp_news_alert_revere&location=alert
For astronauts, these findings mean that long missions could weaken the blood and immune systems, potentially raising health risks, said Arun Sharma, a stem cell biologist and an associate professor of biomedical sciences at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in California. Sharma, who was not involved with the study, agreed with Jamieson that the findings may help scientists understand the aging process and develop new therapies that slow or reverse it.
The study provides strong evidence of the potential damage that radiation exposure and microgravity can have on stem cells, highlighting the possible health risks associated with long-range space expeditions, said Luis Villa-Diaz, an assistant professor in the biological sciences and bioengineering departments at Oakland University in Michigan. Villa-Diaz was also not involved in the research.
“The good news is that knowing the potential negative effects that low Earth orbit has on (stem cell) aging and function gives us directions to address these issues and develop strategies to prevent or counteract these effects, and support future space exploration,” he added. “This often translates into biomedical advances that can be applied to patients on Earth.”
While earlier space research on stem cells suggested vulnerabilities in more indirect or limited ways, this study provides much clearer evidence of aging, said Elena Kozlova, a professor in the department of immunology, genetics and pathology at Sweden’s University of Uppsala.
Kozlova, who was also not part of the new research, noted that not all studies on stem cells in space point in the same direction. Her own research with early developmental stem cells on microgravity research rockets — operated by the Swedish Space Corporation — showed an increase in growth-associated genes.
That finding, she added, suggests that under certain conditions spaceflight may even promote a more youthful state in some stem cell populations. https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/05/science/human-stem-cells-aging-spaceflight
Through July, the US economy has added about 85,300 jobs per month. For the comparable periods in 2024, 2023 and 2022, that tally was roughly 153,300, 240,400, and 466,850, respectively.
Slower job growth has long been expected. The nation’s labor market was coming down from pandemic-era hiring highs and supposed to be settling into a new normal. https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/04/economy/us-jobs-report-august-preview
The new data exposed the widening gap between the booming economy Trump promised and the more anemic reality of what he’s managed to deliver so far. The White House prides itself on operating at a breakneck speed, but it’s now asking the American people for patience, with Trump saying better job numbers might be a year away. https://apnews.com/article/trump-economy-jobs-promises-inflation-time-employment-e0ca5354f6cd426d25f353e1a54d1fb5
The American job market, a pillar of U.S. economic strength since the pandemic, is crumbling under the weight of President Donald Trump’s erratic economic policies. https://apnews.com/article/jobs-economy-unemployment-trump-firing-f686eab61f7d6b702ca10b12b0250498
On Thursday, Bolton posted to X that “Putin’s KGB training and flattery campaign is working Trump over, as seen by Trump’s statement recently about how Ukraine shouldn’t have taken the war on. It’s important to remember: Ukraine didn’t take anything on, they were invaded.”
“A Massive Fraud of this type and magnitude allows for the termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution,” Trump wrote on his social media site, though no evidence has emerged to support his claims.
Bolton called the comment “disqualifying” and cast a possible second Trump term as a threat to national security.
He had also considered running both in 2016 as well 2012, when he later endorsed and advised the eventual GOP nominee, Mitt Romney. https://apnews.com/article/john-bolton-fbi-search-trump-eef733c0c1671e5e14008eaa33585a94
The 92-year-old star of Alfred Hitchcock’s “Vertigo” had made the long trek from Oregon to Venice, Italy, for the film festival. There she’d be receiving a lifetime achievement award and supporting the world premiere of a documentary about her life and career, “Kim Novak’s Vertigo.”“It’s time at the end of your life to put the puzzle pieces together and make them fit,” Novak said. “It’s an incredible experience to see them all falling in place and somehow coming to this festival is like putting some of the other pieces that you couldn’t put together that now come together and make a whole beautiful, beautiful, picture.”
Even the “Vertigo” suit she once hated so much as taken on a different light. In the film, she gets to see the costume for the first time since making the film. The fabric that she remembered having been so rough and hard had softened with time, which seemed like an apt metaphor.
“The opportunity to see it when you have all this life behind you, it makes you think that what you thought was right when you were young is not necessarily so. It could be wrong, and vice versa,” she said. “But all this you gain over time. And so becoming old is a beautiful thing, you know? And this festival, being able to experience it through Hollywood eyes, it’s just incredible. I loved it, I love it. I’m experiencing great joy.” https://apnews.com/article/kim-novak-venice-film-festival-interview-vertigo-bb1ce394c1f6b0d7bb64f65584b7a42e
Many of the nation’s leading public health and medical societies, including the American Medical Association, American Public Health Association and the American Academy of Pediatrics have decried Kennedy’s policies and warn they will drive up rates of vaccine-preventable diseases. https://apnews.com/article/kennedy-senate-cdc-3a5a090fc9d9f547377203fe5c61ffa2
President Donald Trump is trying to strip collective bargaining rights from approximately one million unionized federal workers. Just last week, he signed an executive order affecting union workers at federal agencies, including the National Weather Service and NASA, citing national security concerns. Earlier this year a similar order targeted unions at, among others, the departments of state, defense, justice and health and human services.
And because of the importance of public sector unions to the broader US labor movement, Trump’s moves could deal a massive blow to the union momentum that had been growing under President Joe Biden. https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/01/business/trump-vs-unions-labor-day
And it was yet another example of Trump trying to walk a narrow line between touting what he has at times called his greatest accomplishment — the rapid development of the Covid vaccine in 2020 during his first term — and embracing the vaccine skepticism popular with his MAGA base and promoted by his top health official, US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
During a Cabinet meeting last week, Trump called his Operation Warp Speed “one of the greatest achievements ever in politics.” https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/01/politics/covid-vaccines-trump-cdc
“(T)he Court’s role is to respect the choices that the people have agreed upon, not to tell them what they should agree to,” Barrett writes in “Listening to the Law,” set to be published on September 9. https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/02/politics/amy-coney-barrett-book-supreme-court-abortion
3G was also behind the formation of Restaurant Brands International — a merger of Burger King, Tim Hortons and Popeyes — and Anheuser-Busch InBev. It’s known for strict cost controls and so-called zero-based budgeting, which requires all expenses to be justified each quarter. https://apnews.com/article/kraft-heinz-oscar-mayer-lunchables-79a6fe0491da98bcda8c77a8227994c3
More than 1.2 million immigrants disappeared from the labor force from January through the end of July, according to preliminary Census Bureau data analyzed by the Pew Research Center. That includes people who are in the country illegally as well as legal residents.
Immigrants make up almost 20% of the U.S. workforce and that data shows 45% of workers in farming, fishing and forestry are immigrants, according to Pew senior researcher Stephanie Kramer. About 30% of all construction workers are immigrants and 24% of service workers are immigrants, she added.
The loss in immigrant workers comes as the nation is seeing the first decline in the overall immigrant population after the number of people in the U.S. illegally reached an all-time high of 14 million in 2023. https://apnews.com/article/labor-day-immigration-trump-9a40f9e371209cc1d145e4a7f157a499
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