CDC revolt; Minneapolis shooting victims; Newsom vs. Trump; ultra-processed foods; and more
The 7
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🗓️ 29 August 2025
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Friday, August 29. The seven stories you need to know today.
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| 0:30.6 | CDC staff are fighting back against the Trump administration. |
| 0:39.7 | That's where we're starting the seven from the Washington Post. I'm Hannah Jewell. It's Friday, August 29th. Let's get you caught up with |
| 0:46.4 | today's seven stories. At least three senior leaders of the CDC resigned yesterday. |
| 0:56.2 | They did it to protest the Trump administration's firing of director Susan Menares on Wednesday. |
| 1:03.0 | Lawyers for Menares accused Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. of weaponizing public health |
| 1:09.2 | health for political gain and putting millions of American lives at risk. |
| 1:14.7 | Dmitri Daskalakis is one of the officials who resigned yesterday. He spoke to the Post about why he |
| 1:21.6 | left his role as the director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases. |
| 1:28.2 | As we saw the day unfold with Susan, realizing that we potentially would not have such a scientific |
| 1:34.1 | leader anymore, that we would then be sort of in an unfettered situation where undue influence |
| 1:42.2 | and ideology would drive the science. that is where my line is. |
| 1:45.6 | Yesterday, the White House tapped Kennedy ally Jim O'Neill to be the acting director of the CDC. |
| 1:52.7 | The pick reflects Kennedy's influence as he seeks to remake federal vaccine policy. |
| 2:04.2 | Number two, the children who were killed in the Minneapolis school shooting were identified. |
| 2:11.7 | Minneapolis is grieving after a shooting at a Catholic school mass on Wednesday. |
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