Trump News for Tuesday, August 11, 2026

California’s attorney general accused billionaire David Ellison of “blackmail”

The president has spent the past week re-litigating old conflicts.

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The viral moment came during a consequential health-policy announcement on child vaccinations.

North Korea on Wednesday performed its second ballistic missile test in less than a week, its neighbors said, a likely protest of the upcoming South Korea-U....

In modern times, as threats have evolved, deception with moving the president has been an integral part of the Secret Service protective methodologies.

Aug 11 () - The Trump administration on Tuesday finalized a rule exempting U. companies and individuals from ‌reporting beneficial ownership information to t...

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Republicans falsely accused Anthony Fauci of ignoring Covid vaccine miscarriage risks to pregnant women, based on his 2021 text messages.

By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON, Aug 11 (Reuters) - Two Democratic senators are demanding answers from two Belgian firms about an 18-carat gold ring encrusted wi...

Donald Trump labels US Democratic nominees 'jihadists' in inflammatory remarks made in the Oval Office.

CENTCOM says helicopter fired at engine room of Panama-flagged Vela Nova as US-Iran diplomacy remains stalled.

Government officials told The Intercept the War Department’s latest civilian casualty report was “sickening” and a “joke.” The post “Total Whitewash”: New Pentagon Report Claims It Killed No Civilians in Boat Strikes appeared first on The Intercept.

The history of a semantic mess––and a way out of it

President Trump’s approval rating has fallen to yet another low for his second term in the White House, according to a new Economist/YouGov poll.

The ACLU is asking a federal court to block President Trump's latest order on birthright citizenship.

Trump, meanwhile, is aiming to slash the federal government’s cybersecurity defense budget by more than $700 million.

Colombia experienced a number of aftershocks on Tuesday, as efforts continued to free survivors trapped in rubble and buildings.

Despite cutting diplomatic ties with Israel in 2009, Caracas has shifted alignment in wake of Maduro abduction.

Paramount's CEO David Ellison warns of a California exit if the US state does not agree to talks, according to reports.

Prominent organisation charge sanctions against international tribunal trample consitutional rights, hinder their work.

The decline in Bitcoin’s price and merger-related legal costs hurt results, prompting a push into new businesses.

For many, many years now we’ve been calling out how the entire narrative around the “censorship industrial complex” was absolute bullshit, made up by a group of either deliberate misinformation peddlers or confused “contrarian” journalists too stupid to under…

Trump's latest executive order threatens to further unravel our progress against resurgent diseases like measles.

Despite previous Supreme Court ruling, Trump has sought new approach to limit the longstanding practice.

President Donald Trump and other Republican officials had criticized this chapter as biased against fossil fuel companies

President Donald Trump secretly switching planes before departing Turkey last month might seem non-controversial, but it raises some very real issues.

Tesla exhausted its share of California’s MyFirstEV rebate between August 3 and August 8. The $50,000 price cap is waived for California-headquartered EV-only makers like Rivian and Lucid, but not Tesla. Tesla used up its entire allocation of California’s new…

Top AI firms revealed autonomous AI cyberattacks in recent weeks.

Will anyone ever hold an ICE officer accountable for shooting or killing someone? Maybe, but it won’t be anyone from this administration — one that has actively blocked state investigators from following up on ICE shootings and even pulled FBI agents from ong…

The Washington Post has reported on a secret presidential plane swap.

A U.S. official tells NBC News that President Trump's team used an elaborate ruse to fly him out of Turkey after the NATO Summit amid threats to his life dur...

US media reports say the president secretly left via a catering truck to avoid a threat to his life from Iran.

The new state program is meant to fill the gap left by federal EV subsidies that expired last year.

DUBAI, Aug 11 (Reuters) - Pakistan said on Tuesday the United States and Iran were close to "some sort" of deal, and fellow mediator Qatar said talks on mana...

Mixed reactions persist in Washington, DC, a year after Trump deployed the National Guard to address crime concerns.

In Bit Reactor's XCOM-style tactics RPG Star Wars: Zero Company, you play a custom character called Hawks who is referred to using they/them pronouns. With my armchair producer hat on, I suspect this is partly just a way to avoid recording several sets of voi…

If there’s a true populist issue built for our time, it might be opposition to AI data centers. Lawmakers and candidates from both parties across states are...

By Steve Holland and Jonathan Landay WASHINGTON, Aug 11 (Reuters) - Moscow on Tuesday freed a former U.S.

Trump Media & Technology Group, the parent of Truth Social, reported a net loss of $238.1m for the second quarter of 2026, a figure that dwarfs the $20m loss it posted a year earlier and turns the company’s slow drift from social network to crypto holding veh…

While Abdul El-Sayed works to unite Democrats, the GOP nominee is embracing dangerous parts of the MAGA agenda

Immigration is at the centre of another closely watched Democratic Senate race.

President Donald Trump has issued a new executive order calling for an overhaul of the childhood vaccine schedule that would reduce the number of vaccines ki...

After a treat against Trump, the President was secretly removed from Air Force One. The reporters stayed as bait for an Iranian attack.

“At worst,” the congresswoman said, “[this] emphasizes many Americans’ growing concern that the Trump administration uses ICE to surveil political opponents and may interfere with our democracy.”

Oil prices surge as talks stall over competing demands, hampering prospects for reopening crucial strait.

Following the NATO summit in Turkey in July, President Donald Trump was seen boarding a decoy Air Force One. The Washington Post reports that after boarding...

US Democrats face another test after Michigan as voters choose nominees for governor and Congress.

A U.S. helicopter reportedly fired a missile at a Panama-flagged ship's rudder after it attempted to evade a blockade.

Last week, President Donald Trump issued a new executive order that purports to strip citizenship from some Americans.  This isn’t our first time here: Last year, Trump issued an executive order that attempted to strip citizenship from many Americans born in …

There's no other way to spin the executive order saying children should no longer get vaccines for diseases like meningitis and hepatitis.

One of Apple’s proposed solutions – or at least mitigations – for the memory shortage was to buy RAM from two Chinese companies, CXMT and YMTC. While it was not technically banned from doing so, this would have put it into conflict with the US government, and…

Tuesday's special election will pick a Republican challenger for the midterm Senate race transformed by Graham's death.

Volodymyr Zelenskyy takes advantage of the America First split between Laura Loomer and Tucker Carlson

The bigger risk is underinvestment, claims consulting biz McKinsey

The law named after a murdered student boosted the admin’s immigration powers. Some Democrats are answering for it

Republicans have no incentive to let them forget past excesses.

Republican voters in South Carolina return to the polls Tuesday for the second time in two months to decide who will take the place of the late Sen. Lindsey Graham.

She lasted less than a year.

Another Midwestern moderate versus progressive showdown will play out Tuesday in Minnesota, where Rep. Angie Craig and Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan are competing.

Candidates are vying to win the first open gubernatorial seat since 2010.

The deployment is expected to cost $1.4 billion through the end of Trump's term.

A week after the Michigan primary, tests of progressive power will play out in the Midwest, raising questions of whether far left candidates can win come November or if the GOP can pick up moderates.

The deployment is expected to cost in the billions after it was quietly extended until Inauguration Day of 2029.

Four redrawn Alabama districts will hold special elections for US House nominees on Tuesday.

Voters in six states head to the polls Tuesday for high-profile primaries, Trump signals his strategy with Iran is shifting, 7.4 magnitude earthquake kills at least 111 people in Colombia.

Trump sends conflicting signals on Iran strategy

Trump reportedly used catering cart to switch planes, unbeknownst to the press pool and some White House staff.

Kyiv is facing a brutal Russian response as its air defence missile stocks dwindle.

The meeting in the Oval Office between U.S. President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was a diplomatic car crash. The blowup in Feb...

Trump has long pushed vaccine misinformation.

Trump's comments are the first time he has spoken in FIFA president's defence since FFE plans were leaked on July 28.

US President Donald Trump backs Gianni Infantino; FIFA chief has come under pressure over his botched plan to sell off stakes in the men's World Cup; Trump said: "FIFA would be making a terrible mistake if, for any reason, they even considered replacing presi…

Trump Media & Technology Group earns less than $2m in Q2.

The president ducked into a catering truck and took a military plane home to avoid Iran's wrath

Democrats in two Alabama congressional districts that were redrawn by Republicans after a Supreme Court ruling that weakened the Voting Rights Act won their...

President Donald Trump likes to say that he started his war with Iran after 50 years of economic pressure had failed to stop its nuclear weapons ambitions —...

Trump signed an executive order aimed at reducing the number of childhood vaccines.

Trump reportedly underwent an elaborate plan to hide his flight from Turkey to the United Kingdom last month using a catering food truck and a military aircraft

This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. Dr. Anthony Fauci invoked the Fifth Amendment and declined to answer questions from a Senate committee more than 100 times on July 29, 2026. The Rep…

Prosecutors want social media influencers Andrew and Tristan Tate to remain in federal custody, arguing Monday that the brothers are a flight risk and a dang...

US president seeks payment for ’50 years’ of alleged damages after Iran conditions opening of Hormuz on war reparations.

US President Donald Trump signed an executive order calling for fewer childhood vaccinations and splitting up MMR.

Former Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall on Monday said he'll sue to force the Trump administration to restore his security clearance, which it revoked Frida...

Washington residents and officials see President Donald Trump’s extended National Guard deployment as an attempt to restrict the heavily Democratic city’s autonomy. The Republican president announced a crime emergency in the nation’s capital a year ago, sayin…

LexisNexis sells a massive amount of data to law enforcement, including ICE. New records indicate ICE wants to feed that data into a Palantir system.

Can Netanyahu risk continuing to defy Trump?

Both superstars muted their songs from videos posted by the administration without drawing more attention to the White House.

US President Donald Trump said he will seek compensation from Iran for casualties in the war.