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How major US stock indexes fared Friday, 8/29/2025

4:42 PM on Friday, August 29

Stocks lost ground on Wall Street a day after the market hit its latest all-time highs

Execution date set for Florida man who fatally stabbed married couple during 1990 robbery

4:09 PM on Friday, August 29

A Florida man who fatally stabbed a married couple during a robbery is scheduled for execution in Florida under a death warrant signed by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis

Rhonda Grayson, foreground, and Jeffrey Kennedy leave a Muscogee Nation office after being unable to get citizenship cards from the Muscogee Nation, Thursday, Aug. 21, 2025, in Okmulgee, Okla. (AP Photo/Nate Billings)

Muscogee chief blocks tribal IDs for the descendants of Freedman amid a review

3:51 PM on Friday, August 29

Black descendants of Freedmen seeking Muscogee Nation citizenship will have to keep waiting to receive tribal citizenship

In this photo provided by the Department of Health and Human Secretary, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., right, conducts the swearing-in ceremony of Jim O'Neill as the Department's Deputy Secretary, June 9, 2025, in Washington. (Amy Rossetti/Department of Health and Human Services via AP)

Trump's new CDC chief: A Washington health insider with a libertarian streak

3:26 PM on Friday, August 29

President Donald Trump has picked a former investor and critic of health regulations to oversee the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

FILE - Student Marianna Torres, 11, center, cries as she evacuates Park Avenue Elementary School after jet fuel fell on the school in Cudahy, Calif., Jan. 14, 2020. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)

Delta agrees to pay $79M to settle lawsuit after jetliner dumped fuel on schools

3:04 PM on Friday, August 29

Delta Air Lines has agreed to pay $79 million to settle a lawsuit filed in 2020 after one of its airplanes experiencing engine trouble dumped fuel over schoolyards and densely populated neighborhoods east of Los Angeles

Lebanese army soldiers escort trucks carrying weapons handed over by Palestinian factions from Rashidiyeh refugee camp to the Lebanese army, as they pass in Tyre city, south Lebanon, Thursday, Aug. 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)

Lebanese army plans to carry out 'sensitive missions' amid US-backed Hezbollah disarmament plan

1:47 PM on Friday, August 29

Lebanon’s army chief says the military will soon carry out “sensitive missions,” in an apparent reference to the Lebanese government’s U.S.-backed plan to disarm the Hezbollah militant group by the end of the year

FILE - Immigrant rights supporters hold a rally in front of the federal courthouse in San Francisco, on Monday, March 24, 2025, ahead of a hearing for a lawsuit against the Trump administration. (AP Photo/Terry Chea, File)

Appeals court blocks Trump administration from ending legal protections for 600,000 Venezuelans

12:42 PM on Friday, August 29

A federal appeals court has blocked the Trump administration’s plans to end protections for 600,000 people from Venezuela who have had permission to live and work in the United States

The Chicago city skyline is seen from Diversey Harbor, Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Erin Hooley)

Chicago is in the Trump administration's sights for its next immigration crackdown

12:37 PM on Friday, August 29

President Donald Trump's administration plans to send officers to Chicago for an immigration crackdown

President Donald Trump speaks during a cabinet meeting, Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2025, at the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Trump blocks $4.9B in foreign aid Congress OK'd, using maneuver last seen nearly 50 years ago

9:52 AM on Friday, August 29

President Donald Trump has told House Speaker Mike Johnson he won't be spending $4.9 billion in congressionally approved foreign aid, effectively cutting the budget without going through the legislative branch

Thailand's suspended Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra waves as she leaves the Government House after being dismissed from her position, in Bangkok, Thailand, Friday, Aug. 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

Thai court dismisses prime minister over compromising phone call with Cambodian leader

4:52 AM on Friday, August 29

Thailand’s Constitutional Court has dismissed Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra for violating ethics rules in a phone call with a Cambodian official

Stocks pull back from their latest all-time highs on Wall Street

1:39 AM on Friday, August 29

Stocks lost ground on Wall Street a day after the market hit its latest all-time highs

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