Trump News for Saturday, August 15, 2026

The price tag on Trump Media’s “Truth API” ran up to $100,000 a month, or roughly $1.2 million a year, for faster access to posts from Donald Trump and other big accounts on Truth Social.

Indiana's state governor says that US government has promised assistance after a week of heavy rainfall.

Post-earthquake reconstruction is expected to cost about $6.4bn, but Colombia has been hit by renewed US tariffs.

The BBC spoke to working mothers about the challenges of a high-pressure career and making time for family.

On August 5, Corpay Inc. (NYSE:CPAY) announced in its second-quarter 2026 earnings call that the company’s revenue hit $1.34 billion. This number was up 21%...

Documents from ICE’s investigation into the Sunrise Movement show an agent volunteered to build tools for “direct-action” protests. The post Secret ICE Agent Tried to ‘Entice’ Minneapolis Activists Into Confrontational Tactics appeared first on The Intercept.

from Politico today, Douglas Holtz-Eakin: “If the bright-line definition of socialism is owning the means of production, then yeah, [the president is] there,” Truer words were never spoken. Holtz-Eakin is head of American Action Forum, formerly director of th…

"Now traders are watching the 'yen carry trade,' where cheap yen borrowing funds bets on higher-yielding assets worldwide, and wondering if it’s about to blo...

I am generally pro-Israel. But these actions amount to ethnic cleansing and gross violations of property rights.

The storms brought lashing rains that prompted flood threats.

A national bank regulator granted a wing of the Trump family's crypto business conditional approval to establish a bank charter, opening the door for larger clients.

Iran says Qatar is holding three pilots who were shot down in March. Doha decries 'misleading statements'.

The federal wildland firefighting workforce, faced with low pay and cost of living issues, copes with Trump-era cuts.

The petition is set to be discussed by House of Commons in a sign of discontent with policies of US President Trump.

Leavitt said Wednesday she is stepping down at the end of the month to spend more time with her family.

This week, Newsmax — a far-right news organization with a strong allegiance to President Trump and a history of pushing wild conspiracy theories — announced it had struck a deal with Meta.

The liars on Fox not "news" resorted to tired attacks on Sen. Richard Blumenthal to pretend the horrid conditions the service members on the USS Lincoln are experiencing aren't really happening. As we've already discussed here, things are going so badly with …

In August 2026, the critical waterway was still effectively closed after months of war between the U.S. and Iran.

Trump urged Americans on Friday to accept higher gasoline prices as a result of the war.

The wife of a US service member responded to Trump's callous statement this weekend, where he basically told everyone trapped on that ship to pound sand. After playing a clip of Trump, when asked if the deployment was too long, saying, “No, no, no. Not nearly…

The USS Washington's movement comes amid reports of dire conditions on the USS Lincoln amid the ongoing Iran war.

State of the Union: The Speaker of the Lebanese Parliament said Israel was waging an “ongoing war of extermination” in his country’s south. The post Iran War Day 169: Trump Claims Hormuz Will Become U.S. Territory ‘Pretty Soon’ appeared first on The American …

After the Supreme Court affirmed birthright citizenship, Trump has taken to proclamations to try to limit the impact of the decision. What is fair and what isn't?

The head of the Iran-China Joint Chamber of Commerce said "the consequences of the blockade far outweigh those of a direct war."

Secretary of state dishes on RFK Jr.'s sauerkraut, Hegseth's 'arrogant' cat and his own disastrous keto experiment

With a wave of socialist candidates winning recent Democratic primaries across the country, the radical group is certain to expand after the November elections.

Turkish president tells Al Jazeera that the recently signed agreement is open to new members as he pledges continued support.

As Donald Trump’s unnecessary, botched Iran war and higher prices make him more and more unpopular, he seems to care less and less about his promise to lower prices “on Day One” if he were to retake the White House. On Friday, President Golden Ballroom double…

The Antwerp World Diamond Center gifted the president a gaudy, Super Bowl-style ring. Weeks later, the country was granted an exemption from his latest trade tantrum

Tennessee Teacher of the Year points out that school behavior incidents are down because teachers were told to stop reporting them. That's a resigning

Trump also posted a bizarre AI rendering of him touring the renovated ballroom with George Washington.

Donald Trump posted an AI image of himself seizing an Iranian oil tanker after claiming he would declare the Strait of Hormuz a US territory.

A new shock poll has Republican businessman Anthony Constantino trailing his Democratic opponent in his bid to succeed retiring Rep. Elise Stefanik in a heavily Republican district.

Iran says the Strait of Hormuz can’t be seized by tweet or aircraft carrier after Donald Trump vowed to claim the waterway as US territory Read Full Article at RT.com

So much for these clowns pretending they're the ones who respect the members of our military. As we already discussed here, things are going badly for our troops deployed in Trump's illegal Iran war: One can only imagine how utterly Donald Trump and Whiskey P…

The president lashes out at “treasonists” after lower courts blocked construction on his $400 million project

Panelists joined to discuss the political consequences of the continued conflict.

President Harry Truman famously kept a “The Buck Stops Here” sign on his White House desk. But the current president, Donald Trump, often veers from that motto of taking responsibility. The Republican has blamed his predecessors for continued inflation. As th…

President Trump signed a memorandum on August 12 establishing the first U.S. program that lets vetted private companies conduct offensive cyber operations.

The commerce secretary made the comments to The Wall Street Journal on 14 August, in a piece by Rolfe Winkler, Raffaele Huang and Amrith Ramkumar. “The Trump administration is not in favor of that,” Lutnick said. There have to be “other solutions to the memor…

Wary of immigration enforcement, states are looking to shield commercial drivers' data from the feds. [ more › ]

The problem-plagued revamp of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool? The increasingly unpopular war in Iran that has kept oil prices high, Trump’s approval r...

Donald Trump's Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's only response to the discomfort, fear, and outrage the country is feeling over Trump's brutal economic policies was to go back years and blame Pres. Biden for today's problems. Republicans are faced with a ver…

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt announced on Wednesday that she will be leaving her job as President Donald Trump’s chief propagandist at the end of the month. For her taxpayer-funded salary of $195,200 per year, Leavitt has repeatedly lied, atta…

While the network talks about Caitlin Clark and the trans panic, the league's popularity is soaring

Eli Lilly and Company (NYSE:LLY) cleared a notable regulatory hurdle on August 10, when Britain’s drug regulator authorized the company’s oral GLP-1 drug orf...

Homero Calderón's detention by ICE spotlights the massive backlog in the U.S. immigration system. <strong>  </strong>

The Aug. 18 contests will also be the first since the Sunshine State implemented new congressional maps that experts believe will give Republicans an edge in four House districts come the November midterm elections.

The FDA currently lists 12 different ongoing foodborne illness outbreaks. Four are Salmonella ones with two triggering recalls of jalapeños and eggs so far.

The Trump admin has launched a series of unprecedented initiatives to find and prosecute voting by noncitizens

After failing to eliminate funding for unaccompanied minors’ lawyers altogether, the Administration is pushing cases toward entities that lack both immigration expertise and the capacity to take them on.

Lee Jae Myung offers chance to end the conflict, which has been frozen since an armistice in 1953.

Maria Adelmann Universities now have more adjuncts than tenured and tenure-track professors combined. The conditions are unsustainable—for professors and students alike. The post Adjuncting Until the End of Time appeared first on The Nation.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is proposing yet another significant change in its grant review process, moving away from numerical scores for applications.

When Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez began documenting her fertility treatments on Instagram, the backlash from the right was swift. To certain culture warriors, voluntary motherhood is an affront to biology — and an inexcusable expression of choice.

When the U.S. withdrew from Afghanistan five years ago, thousands of Afghans who helped U.S. troops were brought here to rebuild their lives. But now, some fear the U.S. may want to send them back.

If the nation tops $6 trillion in trade this year, computer imports, hich includes the servers so vital to AI data centers, will be the true standout among all imports.

Food banks are having an even harder time as SNAP cuts means even more have difficulty in paying for an adequate diet.

Despite pressure from the US to intervene against Hezbollah, the Syrian government is unlikely to do so.

The Trump administration is axing a bipartisan anti-corruption law that would require shell companies to disclose their beneficiaries.

FM Abbas Araghchi says Iran is working with Oman on routes, but Hormuz shipping depends on US meeting conditions.

Despite an embarrassing scandal, Troy Jackson may be a stronger Democratic nominee. The post Platner is Gone—The Threat to Collins Isn’t appeared first on The American Conservative.

Sanctions alone rarely force capitulation or even major concessions. The post Trump’s ‘Low-Key’ Economic Strategy Won’t Work appeared first on The American Conservative.

Photo Credit: RawPixel.comBy Matt KanePresident Trump delivered the greatest victory imaginable for the pro-life movement, one it had been fighting for for nearly five decades.

The US claims it destroyed Iran’s missile capability, but a former White House adviser calls that a “pipe dream".

A new report documents how federal agencies have reduced the number of civil rights cases they pursue as staffing falls.

“Mary isn’t seeking endorsements from anyone from the Lower 48 — her focus is and always will be Alaska,” a Mary Peltola campaign spokeswoman said.

US President Donald Trump said he will “soon” declare the Strait of Hormuz a US territory.

The Wall Street Journal reports that US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has urged Apple not to turn to Chinese memory chips as the company looks for alternatives to alleviate the ongoing global supply shortage. Here are the details.

In today’s edition, “Meet the Press” moderator Kristen Welker looks at Democrats’ recent primary results and digs into what they might mean for governing next year.

A new poll shows Lula leading Bolsonaro, but the gap has closed ahead of Brazil's high-stakes presidential election.

A couple of weeks ago, Desi did her thing. LYDEC: President Trump was down in Georgia yesterday, where he campaigned for Republican Mike Collins, and the GOP desperately needs Trump to give Collins a boost if they have any chance of keeping the Senate. So o…

Kalshi is clearly violating Washington state laws against ‘illegal gambling, sports wagering, and bookmaking,’ a judge wrote.

The BBC's lawyers argue Trump's family members "have personal knowledge" of his intentions in the speech he gave outside the US Capitol on 6 January 2021.

On Spitsbergen there are so many polar bears that it's against the law to leave town without carrying a gun. The only inhabited island in the Svalbard archipelago, Spitsbergen is Norwegian territory.

US President Trump says that 'pretty soon' he will declare the Strait of Hormuz a US territory once Iran is defeated.