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Ivan Pentchoukov
National Editor

Ivan Pentchoukov
National Editor

Good morning! It’s Friday. Here are today’s top stories:

  • States are racing to reduce faulty payments to food stamp recipients, in a bid to avoid penalties included in the signature budget bill passed by Republicans last year.
  • President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Aug. 27 to officially rename Lake Ontario as Lake America, effective immediately.
  • President Donald Trump said during a press conference in the Oval Office on Thursday that Russian President Vladimir Putin would not expand the war with Ukraine by attacking NATO countries. 
  • Russia warned the same day that it could strike British and French military targets both inside and outside Ukraine, following the UK’s pledge to share classified technical intelligence to help Kyiv build its own long-range cruise missiles.