{"id":175665,"date":"2025-08-26T00:31:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T00:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/175665\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T00:31:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T00:31:15","slug":"evening-briefing-aug-25-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/175665\/","title":{"rendered":"Evening Briefing: Aug. 25, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good evening, New York City.<b>\u00a0<\/b>We&#8217;re wrapping up the day for you with the most important stories you need to know about for tonight and tomorrow, as well as your weather outlook.<\/p>\n<p>Your Weather Planner<\/p>\n<p>It will be a clear night, with less humidity than there was earlier.<\/p>\n<p>Look for bright skies and warm temperatures for the rest of the first half of the week.<\/p>\n<p>Our Forecast<\/p>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 110px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Clear_night.png\" style=\"cursor: pointer;\"\/>\n<\/td>\n<td><b>Highs:<\/b>\u00a0Low 80s<br \/><b>Lows:<\/b>\u00a0Low 60s<br \/>Clear skies<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ny1.com\/nyc\/all-boroughs\/weather\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hourly Forecast<\/a> |\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ny1.com\/nyc\/all-boroughs\/weather\/interactive-radar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Interactive Radar<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.spectrumnews1.com\/snpluslive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Spectrum_News_Plus_PromoCard_4-11-2023.jpeg\" width=\"100%\" class=\"hashed-image\" img-data-alignment=\"center\" img-data-width=\"percent-hundred\"\/><\/a><br \/>\nIntroducing Spectrum News+<br \/>Watch the latest news and more local stories from across the country.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s Big Stories<\/p>\n<p><b>1.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ny1.com\/nyc\/all-boroughs\/news\/2025\/08\/25\/nypd-detective-friendly-fire-carjacking-hospital-release-queens\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NYPD detective hurt by friendly fire during carjacking released from the hospital<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>An NYPD detective who was shot and injured by friendly fire while responding to a carjacking in Queens last week has been released from the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Detective Corey Fisher was met with cheers and applause as he was escorted out of Jamaica Hospital Medical Center this morning.<\/p>\n<p><b>2.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ny1.com\/nyc\/all-boroughs\/news\/2025\/08\/25\/trump-signs-order-to-potentially-withhold-funds-from-states--cities-with--no-cash-bail--policies-as-he-talks-larger-crime-crackdown\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Trump signs order to potentially withhold funds from states, cities with &#8216;no cash bail&#8217; policies<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump has taken steps to potentially withhold federal funds from cities and states that have\u00a0what he refers to\u00a0as &#8220;cashless bail&#8221; policies, as he floats expanding his crackdown on crime in Washington to other areas beyond the nation\u2019s capital.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Several states, such as Illinois, New York,\u00a0California\u00a0and\u00a0New Jersey, have moved away from relying on cash bail as a condition for pretrial release.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>3.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ny1.com\/nyc\/all-boroughs\/news\/2025\/08\/25\/columbia-student-among-victims-in-deadly-bus-crash-near-niagara-falls\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Columbia student among victims in deadly bus crash near Niagara Falls<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>A small vigil took place over the weekend in Pembrook, New York to commemorate the lives lost in a bus crash about 40 miles east of Niagara Falls.<\/p>\n<p>Staten Island-based tour bus M&amp;Y was en route from Niagara Falls to New York City when officials said the bus driver got distracted,\u00a0lost control of the vehicle and overcorrected. Among the victims was 22-year-old Xie Hongzhou, a Columbia University student.<\/p>\n<p><b>4.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ny1.com\/nyc\/all-boroughs\/news\/2025\/08\/23\/basketball--queens-college--coaching\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Legendary Queens College basketball coach now a Hall of Famer<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>It was October 2017 when the basketball court at the Queens College Fitzgerald Gymnasium was named for Lucille Kyvallos. The legendary coach says it was quite a day.<\/p>\n<p>In June, another honor came to the trailblazing former women\u2019s basketball coach, when was inducted into the Women\u2019s Basketball Hall of Fame in Knoxville, Tennessee. She spoke with NY1&#8217;s Roger Clark about the experience.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>5.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ny1.com\/nyc\/all-boroughs\/news\/2025\/08\/25\/journalists-killed-israeli-strikes-gaza-hospital\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AP freelancer among 5 journalists killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza hospital, health officials say<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Israeli strikes on a hospital in southern Gaza killed five journalists today, including a freelancer who worked for The Associated Press, according to health officials.<\/p>\n<p>Mariam Dagga, 33, a visual journalist, freelanced for the AP during the war, as well as other news outlets. The AP said in a statement that it was shocked and saddened to learn of Dagga&#8217;s death, along with those of other journalists.<\/p>\n<p><b>6.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ny1.com\/nyc\/all-boroughs\/news\/2025\/08\/25\/kilmar-abrego-garcia-surrenders-to-ice\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kilmar Abrego Garcia detained by ICE in Baltimore, faces deportation efforts<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Kilmar Abrego Garcia, whose case has become a flashpoint in President Donald Trump&#8217;s aggressive effort to remove noncitizens from the U.S., was detained by immigration authorities in Baltimore today to face renewed efforts to deport him after a brief period of freedom.<\/p>\n<p>Abrego Garcia&#8217;s attorneys quickly filed a lawsuit to fight his deportation until a court has heard his claim for protection, stating that the U.S. could place him in a country where &#8220;his safety cannot be assured.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ny1.com\/nyc\/all-boroughs\/nyer-of-the-week\/2025\/08\/19\/new-yorker-of-the-week--martha-foley\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">In Case You Missed It<\/a><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/nyer_of_the_week-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"hashed-image image\" img-data-alignment=\"center\" img-data-width=\"percent-hundred\" loading=\"lazy\" img-data-caption=\"Martha Foley has been volunteering at the Brooklyn Women's Exchange for more than two decades. (Spectrum News NY1\/Chelsea Katz)\" img-data-wrap-text=\"true\" img-data-editing=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Martha Foley has been volunteering at the Brooklyn Women&#8217;s Exchange for more than two decades. (Spectrum News NY1\/Chelsea Katz)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ny1.com\/nyc\/all-boroughs\/nyer-of-the-week\/2025\/08\/19\/new-yorker-of-the-week--martha-foley\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Martha Foley: Creating opportunities for craft makers<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Martha Foley is a volunteer at the Brooklyn Women&#8217;s Exchange. The 171-year-old organization provides space for hundreds of local craft makers to sell their products.<\/p>\n<p>Foley is also compiling the Exchange&#8217;s historic documents to be donated to the Brooklyn Historical Society. For ensuring that craft making can continue for generations to come, Foley is our New Yorker of the Week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Good evening, New York City.\u00a0We&#8217;re wrapping up the day for you with the most important stories you need&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":175666,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,12762,7448,14360,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-175665","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-app-evening-briefing","10":"tag-app-top-stories","11":"tag-deanna-garcia","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-newyork","15":"tag-newyorkcity","16":"tag-ny","17":"tag-nyc","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-united-states-of-america","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","22":"tag-us","23":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115092251301999227","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}