Pittsburgh headlines the hour. ICE arrests top 580 this year, triple the Biden pace. Eight agencies sign 287(g) deals; city police stay out. Activists condemn the raids; ICE says the Aug 7 restaurant raid started a kitchen fire when workers fled. The talk runs between the "far right" and the "progressive" camps. Businesses warn of labor shortages and higher costs.

USCIS resumes neighborhood checks for naturalization, asking neighbors and employers to verify good character. They say standards hold; Biden changes sped naturalizations: 3.5M granted in four years, 23M eligible to vote.

Two Afghan asylum seekers deny charges in Nuneaton over a 12-year-old girl’s alleged abduction and rape. Mulakhil faces abducting a child and rape; Kabir faces attempting to take a child. Remanded; trial set for Jan 26; protests planned Aug 9.

Summers and Copeland sue Sting in London for not being credited on Every Breath You Take or paid royalties. Sting’s 2022 catalog sale to Universal follows a 1997 Puff Daddy sample dispute that left him with all royalties.

Focus Features drops a Bugonia trailer, a sci‑fi dark comedy with Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons, and Aidan Delbis; Stone reunites with Lanthimos. The plot centers on a kidnapped exec thought to be an alien. Venice debut; opens Oct. 24.

The Digest, 8/29/2025 @200AM, CDT

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