September 8, 2025

Good morning.

1. US immigration agents detained 475 workers at a Hyundai plant in Georgia, including over 300 South Koreans. South Korea said it reached an agreement with the US for its workers’ release (AP: nwppr.co/153z).

2. Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba announced his resignation, facing pressure within his own Liberal Democratic Party after parliamentary election losses (BBC: nwppr.co/153y).

3. President Trump signed an executive order restoring the name “Department of War” as a secondary title for the Department of Defense, as the White House seeks legislation for a formal name change (BBC: nwppr.co/153x).

4. Pope Leo XIV canonized Carlo Acutis, who died at 15 in 2006, as the Catholic Church’s first millennial saint. Nicknamed “God’s influencer,” he used technology to spread the Catholic faith (NBC: nwppr.co/153w).

5. Two Palestinian gunmen opened fire at a Jerusalem bus stop, killing at least six people and wounding several more before being fatally shot (BBC: nwppr.co/153v).

6. Russia launched its largest aerial attack against Ukraine since the war started, damaging a main government building in Kyiv for the first time (AP: nwppr.co/153u).

7. A federal judge blocked the Trump administration from ending Temporary Protected Status for about 1.1M Venezuelans and Haitians, ruling DHS Secretary Noem exceeded her authority and acted arbitrarily (AP: nwppr.co/153t).

8. Spain’s Carlos Alcaraz and Belarus’ Aryna Sabalenka won the men’s and women’s US Open tennis singles championships (ESPN: nwppr.co/153s).

–Editors