Britain baked. It was the hottest summer on record. June to August averaged 16.1C. Drought pressed water supplies. High pressure, warm seas, dry soil fed the heat. Climate change makes summers like this more common, roughly every five years.

Rep. Jerry Nadler will retire after 34 years in Congress. Generational change. The retirement opens a Manhattan primary; Micah Lasher may run. Nadler rose to notice as Trump’s impeachment manager and on immigration policy. The race will frame the voices of "progressive" and "far right".

Violence followed the West Indian Day Parade in Crown Heights. Six shot, one slashed. A woman in her 40s grazed; a man in his 20s shot in the leg; both hospitalized. More injuries, a person of interest in custody; investigation ongoing.

The Digest, 9/1/2025 @1000PM, CDT

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