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Ivan Pentchoukov
National Editor

Ivan Pentchoukov
National Editor

Good morning. It’s Thursday. Here are today’s top stories.

  • As record-breaking wildfires are scorching swaths of the Pacific Northwest, more than 21,000 firefighters are toiling to contain the blazes. Epoch Times reporter TJ Muscaro joined a team of over 250 working on the front lines in Oregon. This is what he saw.
  • Federal immigration authorities arrested nearly 51,000 illegal immigrants throughout the United States in August, a record for a single month.
  • The U.S. government has sided with OpenAI in a legal case brought by The New York Times over OpenAI training artificial intelligence models on paywalled New York Times articles.
  • The Chinese communist regime revised its National Defense Mobilization Law, expanding its power to seize assets in the private and tech sectors and conscript citizens.