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C.D.C. Loses Top Officials, and Why Israeli Reservists Aren’t Showing Up for Duty

C.D.C. Loses Top Officials, and Why Israeli Reservists Aren’t Showing Up for Duty

The Headlines
Aug 28, 2025 9 min
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<p>Plus, robots for rent. </p><p><strong>On Today’s Episode: </strong></p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/health/cdc-monarez-kennedy-vaccines.html" target="_blank"><strong>White House Says New C.D.C. Director Is Fired, but She Refuses to Leave</strong></a>, <i>by Sheryl Gay Stolberg, Apoorva Mandavilli and Christina Jewett</i></p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/us/minneapolis-school-shooting-suspect-gunman.html" target="_blank"><strong>Minneapolis Suspect Knew Her Target, but Motive Is a Mystery</strong></a>, <i>by Talya Minsberg, Amy Harmon and Aric Toler</i></p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/world/middleeast/israels-exhausted-reservists-gaza.html" target="_blank"><strong>Israel’s Exhausted Soldiers Complicate Plans for Gaza Assault</strong></a>, <i>by Aaron Boxerman</i></p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/business/factories-robot-rentals.html" target="_blank"><strong>Rented Robots Get the Worst Jobs and Help Factories Keep the Humans</strong></a>, <i>by Farah Stockman</i></p><p>Tune in every weekday morning. To get our full audio journalism and storytelling experience, <a href="https://apps.apple.com/us/app/nyt-audio/id1549293936"><strong>download</strong></a> the New York Times Audio app — available to Times news subscribers on iOS — and <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/newsletters/audio"><strong>sign up</strong></a> for our weekly newsletter.</p><p>Tell us what you think at: theheadlines@nytimes.com. </p> <p><p>Subscribe today at <a href="http://nytimes.com/podcasts">nytimes.com/podcasts</a> or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. You can also subscribe via your favorite podcast app here <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/activate-access/audio?source=podcatcher">https://www.nytimes.com/activate-access/audio?source=podcatcher</a>. For more podcasts and narrated articles, download The New York Times app at nytimes.com/app.</p></p><br/> <p>Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See <a href="https://pcm.adswizz.com">pcm.adswizz.com</a> for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.</p>

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