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From the New York Times, it's The Headlines. I'm Tracey Mumford. Today's Thursday, August 29th. Here's what we're covering. Israel's wide-scale military operation in the West Bank this week appears to be the largest in over a year. Hundreds of troops went into the occupied territory, targeting what the Israeli military said are militant strongholds.

In many past raids, Israel has gone into these places and left within a number of hours, but we're now speaking more than 24 hours since the start of this raid, and the Israeli forces are still on the ground.

Adam Raskon covers Israel for the Times. He says, even as Israel has been at war in Gaza, it's also been conducting near daily raids in the West Bank for the last year. Hundreds of Palestinians there have been killed, and thousands have been arrested on suspicion of being involved with armed groups.

Israel sees as a operation focused on routing out militancy in parts of the West Bank, whereas much of the Palestinian population sees it as a raid that's upending their lives and forcing them to huddle in their homes. We spoke to many people on the ground, and they spoke about hunkering down in their homes, fears of snipers on roofs nearby. These individuals that we spoke to hadn't been outside for the entirety of the day.

An Israeli military spokesman said yesterday that the operation in the West Bank is in its, quote, first stages. So far, it's been concentrated in the cities of Janine and Tultarum. Israeli officials claim that more than 150 attacks against Israelis have originated from those areas in the past year. The Family of a military veteran buried at Arlington National Cemetery has expressed concern that Donald Trump's campaign filmed footage at his grave without permission. Trump visited the cemetery in Virginia on Monday for a ref laying ceremony honoring American troops killed in a bombing in Afghanistan in 2021. The family of a Marine killed in that incident granted permission to film and take photos, but the family of a veteran buried next to him, Master Sergeant Andrew Marcasano, did not. Photos and videos of Trump's visit to the graves were published to Trump's TikTok account and online, including a photo of Trump giving a thumbs up to the camera, with Marcasano's grave clearly visible a few feet away. Marcasano's sister told the Times she supports the family of the Marine who did grant permission, but said the Cemetery told her Trump campaign staffers did not adhere to Arlington's rules.

According to Arlington officials, filming and taking photos at the graves for political purposes violates federal law. A Cemetery employee tried to stop Trump's team from taking photos and clashed with his staffers, according to three military officials. Members of Trump's campaign later publicly insulted the employee, calling her a despicable individual. She's declined to press charges related to the altercation. Military officials say it's because she's worried about retaliation from Trump supporters. It's unclear if the Department of Defense will pursue a legal claim related to the photos. Tonight, Kamala Harris will give her first major interview since starting her campaign for the presidency. It'll be a joint appearance with her running mate, Tim Walls. The question of if and when she do an interview has been hanging over her campaign. She hasn't really interacted with reporters in unscripted settings since jumping into the race last month. Her critics, especially Trump, have repeatedly asked why she hasn't opened herself up to questions. The interview will be taped this afternoon and air on CNN at 9:00 PM Eastern. President Biden's plan to wipe out student loan debt for millions of Americans hit another roadblock yesterday when the Supreme Court upheld a temporary pause on the Save program.

The program is one of the newer piecemeal efforts by the Biden administration to forgive student loans loans after his initial broad push to cancel $400 billion in debt was struck down by the court last year. Save would have cut required monthly payments in half for many borrowers and offered a faster path to erase some of the debt completely. But a group of Republican-led states have been trying to block the effort, arguing that the plan is too expensive and that it should have been approved by Congress. While the fight over the program continues in court, the 8 million borrowers enrolled in Save have had their payments paused, and they're not being charged interest for now. Yesterday in California, lawmakers overwhelmingly approved a new law regulating artificial intelligence. Since many of the biggest AI companies are based in the state, the legislation could effectively set a national standard for regulating the technology. Among other requirements, the bill mandates safety testing of AI tech before it can be released to the public, requires companies to have a way to quickly shut down a system like an off switch, and lets the state sue companies if their tech causes serious harm like mass property damage or death.

The bill has created warring camps of those who support it and those who oppose it.

Cecilia Kong covers AI policy for the Times and has been reporting on the intense disagreements in the state about whether the bill should be signed into law.

Those who support it include civil society groups and academics such as Jeffrey Hinton, who is known as one of the godfathers of AI. They say that the technology is so dangerous and potentially has the ability to cause so much harm that regulators need to step up now and create guardrails for the technology. Then you have those who oppose it, which include companies like OpenAI, Meta, and Google, who say it's way too early in the progress of artificial intelligence to try to put straps of regulation on how the technology is created, and that creating such regulations can impede innovation and also really deter and hurt the US's lead on the development of artificial intelligence globally. Now, all of these parties are trying to pressure the governor of California, Gavin Newsom, to either sign it or it. He has a month to do so, and he has so far not shown his hand.

Finally, the night sky in Paris, France. Approaching midnight there.

Lit up with the cauldron once again.

Today in France, the 2024 Paralympic Games kick off. More than 4,000 athletes are set to compete in front of the Eiffel Tower, Versailles, and other iconic sites that were the backdrop of the Olympic Games earlier this summer. This year, there will be 22 individual and team sports. There's wheelchair tennis, para-swimming, and blind football. Americans would call it blind soccer. The players rely entirely on their hearing, and fans are asked to stay completely quiet so the athletes can detect the sound of the ball as it moves around the field. There are also Paralympic events that don't have an equivalent in the Olympics. Like Boccia, a relative of the lawn bowling game Bocce. According to the reigning men's champion of the sport, Boccia is tactical, aggressive, and cutthroat. The Paralympic Games will run until September eighth. Those are the headlines. Today on The Daily, if you feel like you're being asked to leave a tip more than ever before, you're right. The story of how tipping took over. You can listen on the Times audio app or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Tracy Mumford. We'll be back tomorrow.