News Headlines 8/28/25

Here's what is going on in the news today.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, it is eighth three and you are filling
in for Christine. Your name is Nina do Rio. We're
happy to have you. You have all the news.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
Thank you very much and good morning everyone. Fired CDC
director Susan Manarez is refusing to leave her post after
HHS posted on x she'd been fired. Her lawyers say
she clashed with the Secretary RFK Junior over a vaccine policy.
House Republicans are investigating Wikipedia for bias. The long awaited
rebuilding a Penn station is coming in twenty twenty seven.

(00:26):
Google is warning its two and a half billion Gmail
users to change their passwords after a significant amount of
successful intrusions by hackers, and the Hoboken pass station closes
at midnight tonight for urgent track switching repairs. Will reopen
Tuesday in time for the morning commute. The Yankees beat
the Nationals eleven to two, mets over the Phillies six
to zero. US open on the men's side, Carlos Alvarez,

(00:47):
Ben Shelton and Novak Djokovic advanced to the third round.
American Taylor townsend one. On the women's side, It's Week
one of college football. The season kicks off tonight with
Rutgers hosting Ohio and a weird perk of being super intelligent.
People who are really smart are better at guessing when
they'll die. Keeper with higher IQs do it more time.

(01:09):
They are twice they're accurate more than twice as often
as people who don't have the same amount of smarts.
But you wouldn't know until they actually die. Right, you
have to go back.

Speaker 1 (01:19):
Let's see how smart you are when you're kicking the bucket.

Speaker 2 (01:22):
Nita exactly write it down twenty forty eight.

Speaker 1 (01:25):
Oh my gosh, yeah, I don't say that.

Speaker 2 (01:27):
It's not gonna happen.

Speaker 1 (01:28):
Yeah, Kristin, when you're gonna die, Oh don't don't. We
hope to be here a long long time, all right, Okay,