The FDA's rare-disease guard is strained and political. Sarepta's Duchenne gene therapy, approved on limited data for $3.2 million, is tied to three liver deaths. The FDA asks a suspension; stock halved. Quick access fights safety.

Politics presses on. Mahmood vows rapid deportations after sentencing, Labour's Plan for Change. Kavanagh calls it 'an action of sheer panic' and says Labour are 'running scared' of Reform UK. Appeals and the European Court on Human Rights could stall it.

A grass fire in Ashcroft, BC, began when an osprey dropped a fish onto a power line. Embers burned dry grass; about 1,500 lost power. Crews joked the osprey was a suspect. No injuries.

Ali Velshi asked Jen Psaki if she fears Trump. She says fear comes only from threats to her kids and home; otherwise she is grateful for the platform. MSNBC canceled Joy Reid; Psaki's airtime expanded.

Iman Abdul, 27, was arrested in New York on terroristic-threat charges after threats toward a Brooklyn high school with Jewish students. AOC condemned; Abdul was never staff; he pleaded not guilty.

The Digest, 8/10/2025 @130PM, CDT

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