Mark Ladner, a master of Italian cooking and a Batali protégé, is reinventing the Manhattan restaurant under the same famous (and infamous) name.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/dining/mark-ladner-babbo-mario-batali.html
Also, Hurricane Katrina’s legacy. Here’s the latest at the end of Friday.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/briefing/tariffs-recission-katrina.html
The death of the 29-year-old, who was found in his cell after midnight, is the latest of several at the Rikers Island jail complex in New York.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/nyregion/rikers-death-ardit-billa.html
The Trump administration is focusing on a house in Ann Arbor, Mich., and condos in Atlanta and Cambridge, Mass.https://www.wsj.com/economy/central-banking/isa-cook-fed-governor-house-mortgage-5e94e0b7
A federal appeals court has ruled that most of President Donald Trump’s sweeping global tariffs are unlawful.https://abcnews.go.com/US/trumps-global-tariffs-unlawful-appeals-court/story?id=125110624
After being missing for nearly a month, a man who had left for a three-day hike in Wyoming was found dead in Bighorn National Forest, the sheriff's office said.https://abcnews.go.com/US/body-missing-hiker-found-wyomings-bighorn-national-forest/story?id=125092314
The rebranding episode highlights Trump’s ability to use a cultural touchpoint to his advantage.https://www.wsj.com/politics/trump-can-read-the-room-at-cracker-barrel-2e19ac15?mod=pls_whats_news_us_business_f
Amazon wants bigger teams. Bank of America is flattening. Corporate America is shedding managers, and the workplace is changing radically.https://www.wsj.com/business/boss-management-cuts-careers-workplace-4809d750?mod=pls_whats_news_us_business_f
Large-scale attacks by Russia against civilians in Ukraine could see any hopes of a lasting peace deal there rapidly fade, a senior UN official said during an emergency session of the Security Council on Friday. https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/08/1165750
In Iran, the increase in executions carried out this year indicates that the death penalty is being used as a tool of State intimidation, the UN human rights office (OHCHR) said on Friday. https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/08/1165749
In every corner of the world, educators are making choices that echo across generations – influencing everything from the preservation of forests to the writing of poetry, the building of bridges to the holding of peaceful elections.https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/08/1165746
The UN Security Council met in emergency session in New York on Friday afternoon following overnight strikes early on Thursday by Russia on Ukrainian cities including the capital, which left at least 23 dead, including four children. Assistant Secretary-General Miroslav Jenča told ambassadors that diplomatic momentum towards a possible peace deal was “at risk of rapidly fading” if large-scale attacks by Moscow continue.https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/08/1165745
Despite the ongoing ban on girls’ secondary education, more than 90 per cent of Afghan adults support girls’ right to be in class, according to a new alert from the UN’s gender equality agency, UN Women. https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/08/1165744
The UN Secretary-General appealed on Friday for an immediate ceasefire in and around the besieged Sudanese city of El Fasher, where hundreds of thousands of civilians have been trapped for over a year. https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/08/1165742
Amid reports of increased Israeli military operations across Gaza City on Friday, UN aid agencies repeated urgent warnings of ongoing famine and a likely rise in preventable disease, linked to the dire living conditions in the war-shattered enclave.https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/08/1165741
The United Nations confirmed on Thursday that France, Germany and the United Kingdom have initiated a process that could lead to the reimposition of sanctions on Iran over its nuclear programme within the next 30 days.https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/08/1165740
Humanitarians continue to push for more support for Sudan amid ongoing conflict, rising malnutrition and a cholera outbreak, a senior UN aid coordination official said on Thursday in New York. https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/08/1165739
State authority is crumbling across Haiti while gang violence engulfs the capital Port-au-Prince and beyond, “paralysing daily life and forcing families to flee,” UN Secretary-General António Guterres told the Security Council on Thursday.https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/08/1165738
The UN peacekeeping mission which patrols the so-called Blue Line of separation between Israel and Lebanon received the unanimous support of the Security Council on Thursday to extend through 31 December next year.https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/08/1165736
Haitians are enduring a “perfect storm of suffering” the UN Secretary-General António Guterres told the Security Council on Thursday as gang violence continues to paralyse daily life across the island. Around 1.3 million people – half of them children – have fled their homes and six million are relying on humanitarian assistance.https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/08/1165735