Famine Declared In Gaza City And Judge Bars New Detainees At 'alligator Alcatraz': Morning Rundown

Famine is officially declared successful nan governorate that includes Gaza City. No further detainees will beryllium allowed successful “Alligator Alcatraz” aft a judge’s ruling. And Serena Williams opens up astir her determination to return a GLP-1 medicine aft struggling to suffer weight pinch fare and exercise.

Here’s what to cognize today.

Famine officially declared successful Gaza City by U.N.-backed body

Palestinian expert Ahmed Basal examines a kid for malnutrition astatine Al-Rantisi Hospital successful Gaza City, August 7, 2025.Dawoud Abu Alkas / Reuters

Famine was officially declared Friday successful an area of bluish Gaza that includes Gaza City, arsenic Israel vowed to raze nan area if Hamas doesn’t work together to its terms.

The declaration by nan Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, aliases IPC, comes arsenic deaths from starvation emergence crossed nan Palestinian enclave successful a spiraling situation nether Israel’s subject battle and assistance restrictions.

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Israel’s subject is preparing to push up pinch a caller cognition to prehend Gaza City that could displace hundreds of thousands of group and worsen nan dire business there.

“After 22 months of relentless conflict, complete half a cardinal group successful nan Gaza Strip are facing catastrophic conditions ... characterized by starvation, destitution and death,” nan IPC said.

The United Nations-backed assemblage had up until now only declared famine connected 4 different occasions since it was first established successful 2004, astir precocious successful Sudan past year.

It said that famine was projected to grow to nan Deir al-Balah and Khan Younis Governorates further southbound by nan extremity of September if nan humanitarian business does not change.

Mike Huckabee, nan United States’ ambassador to Israel, attacked nan IPC’s famine declaration earlier it was officially announced.

“You cognize who IS starving? The hostages kidnapped and tortured by uncivilized Hamas savages,” he said successful a station connected X early Friday. “Maybe nan complete fed terrorists could stock immoderate of their storage afloat they stole pinch quiet group particularly nan hostages.”

Meanwhile, Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz vowed Friday greeting to unfastened nan “gates of hell” connected Gaza City until Hamas agreed to Israel’s conditions for ending nan war.

Read nan afloat communicative here.

The tennis GOAT connected a GLP-1

Serena Williams features successful our latest podcast

In nan latest section of NBC News’ Here’s nan Scoop, Serena Williams shares her struggle pinch weight nonaccomplishment aft gestation — and really medicine helped her pinch what athleticism couldn’t. Listen to nan podcast.

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No further detainees allowed astatine ‘Alligator Alcatraz’

Donald Trump, Ron DeSantis, Kristi Noem astatine "Alligator Alcatraz" successful Ochopee, Fla. connected July 1, 2025.Andrew Caballero-Reynolds / AFP - Getty Images file

No further detainees tin beryllium brought into “Alligator Alcatraz,” nan contested ICE detention installation successful nan Florida Everglades, a national judge ruled precocious Thursday.

The ruling besides ordered nan removal of generators and state and sewage receptacles wrong 60 days, bringing into mobility really nan facility, which is portion of nan Trump administration’s crackdown connected immigration, would stay operational if those resources are removed.

The ruling allowed nan injunction that was requested complete National Environmental Policy Act violations. Environmental groups and Native Americans had protested building of nan site because of nan Everglades’ delicate and unsocial ecosystem, which is location to endangered and threatened type

The groups that sued demanding an injunction celebrated nan ruling successful a associated connection arsenic “a awesome triumph for Florida’s imperiled wildlife and vulnerable ecosystems which are threatened by nan detention center.”

The defense has appealed nan ruling, tribunal records show. Read nan afloat communicative here.

More authorities news:

• California voters are group to determine whether to o.k. a scheme by Democrats to gerrymander nan authorities legislature representation that could nett nan statement up to 5 much seats aft Gov. Gavin Newsom signed legislation to o.k. a typical predetermination vote.

• Alina Habba’s assignment arsenic U.S. lawyer for New Jersey was “unlawful,” a national judge ruled, leaving unfastened nan anticipation that her actions since July whitethorn beryllium declared void.

• President Donald Trump thanked rule enforcement personnel and National Guard troops for what he said was a successful commencement to his administration’s efforts to trim crime successful Washington, D.C.

• A New York appeals tribunal dismissed a $500 cardinal civilian fraud penalty against Trump and his companies.

Lyle Menendez faces parole committee aft his relative was denied

Lyle Menendez will dream for a different result than his brother, Erik, erstwhile he faces California’s parole committee coming to plead for his merchandise from prison.

The upcoming proceeding comes conscionable a time aft Erik Menendez’s bid for parole was denied for 3 years — a stunning determination aft a Los Angeles judge antecedently ruled that nan brothers do not airs an “unreasonable risk.”

Family members said they “remain cautiously optimistic and hopeful” that nan parole committee could determine otherwise for Lyle Menendez.

The brothers were convicted successful nan 1989 murders of their parents, José and Kitty Menendez, who they claimed to person killed successful self-defense aft years of maltreatment astatine their father’s hands. Prosecutors person disputed nan claims of self-defense. The lawsuit was catapulted backmost to nan spotlight aft a two-season TV bid astir their lawsuit and defense from immoderate high-profile figures. Read nan afloat communicative here.

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• Twenty-nine group were taken into custody successful an migration ambush astatine a package distribution storage successful New Jersey, marking 1 of nan largest national migration actions successful nan region to date.

• Rapper Lil Nas X was arrested and taken to nan hospital aft he was spotted stepping naked down a thoroughfare successful Los Angeles. Officers were unsure whether he was connected immoderate substances aliases successful intelligence distress.
• Cracker Barrel shares plummeted aft nan institution received pushback connected a caller logo that nan institution says was inspired by scrambled eggs and biscuits.
• A rainbow crosswalk memorializing nan victims of nan Pulse nightclub shooting successful Orlando, Florida, was removed by nan state.
• Ukraine has said that it expects accelerated advancement connected nan information guarantees its friends could supply successful a bid woody pinch Russia but that 1 of nan imaginable acme sites nan United States is pursuing would beryllium “challenging.”

Staff Pick: Serena Williams says weight nonaccomplishment narcotics aren’t a shortcut

I said to tennis champion-turned-entrepreneur Serena Williams astir her newest venture: a run to normalize weight nonaccomplishment medication. While getting glammed for The TODAY Show, Williams was candid astir her struggle to suffer weight aft nan commencement of her daughters. Even while training arsenic a master athlete, she told me, her weight would plateau and she worried it was exacerbating knee issues.

Williams said that she has been taking a GLP-1 medication for astir a twelvemonth (on and disconnected astatine first, but consistently since April) and is now down 31 pounds. The announcement was portion of her caller business pinch Ro, a institution that prescribes GLP-1 medications done telehealth. (Williams’ hubby is an investor.)

One point Williams made clear successful our conversation: She tried each she could earlier she cautiously proceeded pinch medication. “Believe me, I don’t return shortcuts,” she said. Having followed her profession since I was a young tennis subordinate myself, I had nary doubt. — Aria Bendix, wellness reporter

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