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By Sallee Ann Harrison

August 31, 2025

Good morning and welcome to the Sunday edition of Morning Wire, where we give you the weekend rundown to get ready for the week ahead. Today, President Donald Trump's envoys are causing diplomatic tensions with allied countries, biologists are battling wolves with drones, and check twice before taking a dip at a U.S. beach.

But first, what it could mean for the Federal Reserve to lose its independence.

UP FIRST

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell and Board of Governors member Lisa Cook, right, listen during a meeting at the Federal Reserve on June 25. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

How the Fed losing its independence could affect Americans' everyday lives

President Donald Trump's attempt to fire a member of the Federal Reserve's governing board has raised alarms among economists and legal experts who see it as the biggest threat to the central bank's independence in decades. The consequences could impact most Americans' everyday lives. Read more.

TOP STORIES

U.S. Ambassador to Turkey and Special Envoy to Syria Tom Barrack speaks during a press conference at the presidential palace in Baabda, Lebanon, on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Trump's envoys are ticking off other countries. The White House isn't doing much about it

Do not antagonize one's opponents unnecessarily, a basic principle of diplomacy says. But as the United States faces a trade war with China and various tensions overseas, President Donald Trump's emissaries are increasingly ticking off allied countries and being called to account. Read more.

Drones blasting AC/DC and Scarlett Johansson are helping biologists protect cattle from wolves

For millennia humans have tried to scare wolves away from their livestock. Most of them didn't have drones. But a team of biologists working near the California-Oregon border do, and they're using them to blast AC/DC's "Thunderstruck," movie clips and live human voices at the apex predators to shoo them away from cattle in an ongoing experiment. Read more.

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People relax at Rehoboth Beach, Del., on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Mingson Lau)

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Education: A Chinese student was questioned for hours in the US, then sent back even as Trump policies shift

Immigration: Federal judge issues order blocking Trump effort to expand speedy deportations of migrants

Explainer: Federal appeals court has knocked down Trump's tariffs. Here's what happens now

Crime crackdown: Democrats see crime as a major problem. Their party is struggling to address it

Gilgo Beach: Judge to decide if advanced DNA evidence will be used in serial killer trial

AI Apocalypse?: Why language surrounding tech is sounding increasingly religious

'Maybe Happy Ending': A Broadway show asks a white actor to replace an Asian one. The backlash was swift

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