Trump News for Friday, August 21, 2026

Editor-in-chief Erik Slavin has suggested his firing was retaliation for speaking out about editorial independence.

Sources tell ABC News the Pentagon may strip WWII hero Doris Miller's name from a U.S. aircraft carrier to rename the ship after Pres. Trump.

The vice president's speech hinged heavily on economic themes, as voter confidence slips for Republican policies.

No stranger to controversy over the past several years, the Miss USA and Miss Teen USA pageants have just landed in another. Less than a week before the competitions were set to air on The CW, the network has pulled both from the schedule. It’s not clear why,…

As Mayor Karen Bass shows her support for the Paramount-Warner Bros merger, Mark Ruffalo is continuing to fight the acquisition. On Friday, the 4x Oscar nominee called out the Ellisons ties to Oracle, sharing a video of the tech company’s executive vice chair…

Big Tech’s water guzzling to cool AI servers is serious, even if this viral ad isn’t.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent will hold a press conference ‌on Monday, according to a statement, after ‌the U. warned of more sanctions against Iran and t...

The deal stems from a 2024 lawsuit alleging TikTok and its parent company ByteDance collected "vast amounts of data" on millions of users under the age of 13.

The governor, who leads the state of Sinaloa, has been accused by the Trump administration of partnering with a cartel.

This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over your life. Subscribe here. Welcome to The Logoff: President Donald Trump’s ballroom is still happening. …

Some of her alleged letters to Trump are really, really something.

Trump said Martin is leaving his post as pardon attorney at the DOJ.

The temporary order will allow the $400m (£297m) to continue while the high court mulls a final decision on the case.

The Trump administration has argued the $400m White House ballroom is needed for national security purposes.

The president did not mention with whom he made the deal or where the imported ground beef is coming from.

Bitcoin’s rally to $78,200 coincided with a record run for Hyperliquid as active traders increasingly use the platform to place leveraged bets on crypto pric...

Fifteen years since Tripoli fell, Libyan parties are finally working towards unity.

Experts say even a last-minute breakthrough will not result in the US lifting all its tariffs on Canadian goods.

The Pentagon on Friday fired the editor-in-chief of Stars and Stripes, as well as its publisher and a reporter, the editor said. Erik Slavin, editor-in-chie...

The Supreme Court ruled that construction could continue on Donald Trump’s White House ballroom, sidelining lower court orders to halt the project. Chief Justice John Roberts signed an order on Friday that stays a preliminary injunction issued by a district c…

The Supreme Court is letting President Trump move forward with his expensive White House ballroom. On Friday, Chief Justice John Roberts ordered a stay in the preliminary injunction issued by the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia that would hav…

President Trump is trying to sue for defamation after yet another report found that the National Guard takeover of cities across America had no significant impact on reducing violent crime levels.In July, the Center for American Progress, or CAP, published a …

Chief Justice John Roberts on Friday allowed the White House to continue construction on President Donald Trump’s $400 million ballroom project for now, as t...

For the second time this summer, Ariana Grande is blasting U.S. President Donald Trump's administration for using her music in a TikTok post, which featured her hit track We Can't Be Friends (Wait For Your Love) and even tagged the Grammy-winning performer.

President Trump isn’t spending any campaign cash on close midterm election races, irking his fellow Republicans and putting contests like the Texas Senate seat in jeopardy. In July, Politico reports, Trump’s MAGA Inc. super PAC didn’t spend any of its $400 mi…

A divided federal appeals court ruled that the Trump-picked US Attorney in Albany is serving unlawfully and can no longer be involved in the investigation of...

Thursday marked the first deportation flight to Haiti from the US since the revocation of Temporary Protected Status.

Tehran has threatened Bulgaria, home to a US air base, but how credible is that threat?

The tariffs are set to take effect early Saturday morning, after Trump extended a previous deadline by three days.

Nearly 200 activists in Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s “Make America Healthy Again” movement are criticizing President Donald Trump's promotion of...

The close aide to the president lauded Trump as her "Guardian and Protector in this Life," in a pair of deeply emotional and bizarre letters published by The Daily Beast

President Donald J. Trump will award each of NASA’s Artemis II crew members the Congressional Space Medal of Honor at 11 a.m. EDT on Friday, Aug. 28, during a ceremony at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glove…

By Humeyra Pamuk and Emma Farge WASHINGTON/GENEVA, Aug 21 (Reuters) - The Trump administration has started the process to transfer $725 million to the United...

Rosie O’Donnell’s stint filling in for ABC late-night host Jimmy Kimmel has not gone unnoticed by the Trump White House. On Friday, they issues a statement about the president’s longtime nemesis. “Rosie O’Donnell is a nasty woman and a total slob whose brain …

The president says the 147-lap race will be an event 'like no other' as drivers zip through Washington, DC.

Natalie Harp sits a few feet from Trump all day, filtering much of what he reads and overhearing his most sensitive calls. She did that for more than a year without the security clearance every oth…

The Dutch data protection authority has decided to fine Uber €825mn, or about $966mn, for shutting down driver accounts by automated systems without telling the drivers properly. It is the second-largest penalty ever issued under the General Data Protection R…

Sources familiar said that these discussions have been going on most of the summer.

The puzzle of why the Trump administration is so concerned with a falling yen has historical parallels not to the 1930s or the 1980s, but to the 1960s, when US officials feared that a crisis elsewhere could spread to America. With US bond yields spiking, Trea…

The U.S. Navy has been quietly considering renaming an aircraft carrier that was set to honor Doris Miller, a heroic Black sailor at Pearl Harbor, after President Donald Trump instead.The effort to rename the planned USS Doris Miller began earlier this year, …

Just weeks after Taylor Farms issued a recall of its iceberg lettuce amid a massive cyclospora outbreak, the Food and Drug Administration recalled more than one million eggs that may be contaminated with salmonella. The eggs, which come from Midwest Poultry S…

A federal judge in Oregon ripped the Trump administration for placing political conditions on crucial, potentially lifesaving disaster relief.On Thursday, U.S. District Judge Michael McShane, an Obama appointee, issued a ruling regarding the city of Salem, Or…

In June, the Trump administration saw a more than $25 billion loss in net customs revenue as a result of tariff refunds outpacing revenue.

Health care costs are out of control. Medicare for All would help but is not a sufficient remedy.

The US and Israel's war on Iran has upended global financial and energy markets.

Republicans control DC and have totally wrecked the place. Now the paint is peeling off their delusions

ABC took the extraordinary step of suing the FCC on Tuesday, challenging its investigations and regulatory crackdowns as not merely bureaucratic overreach but part of a Trump administration retaliatory campaign in violation of the First Amendment. The case ha…

Haley Van Erem, a former career attorney in the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, has filed a complaint claiming the Trump administration task force charged with investigating antisemitism pushed universities into massive settlements despite turning…

Min Zin was arrested on June 3 after the Chinese government invited him to attend a conference.

Allies worry about the US ability to deter China, even if the bulk of US forces remain in the region.

Photographer Alex Brandon has been named the Associated Press chief White House photographer after Evan Vucci stepped away from the role earlier this year. [Read More]

I’ve spent the better part of a lifetime studying and writing about the way corrupted lawmakers and U.S. telecom giants work hand in hand to erode U.S. broadband standards and mapping so they can obscure the way corruption and monopoly result in limited broad…

The Iranian regime has dismissed President Trump's threats to crush the country economically, saying that years of U.S. sanctions have failed.

Most of each company's U.S.-licensed allowance, understood to be up to 100,000 units apiece, must stay outside the mainland.

The United States has deported nearly 2,300 Mexicans to Guatemala this year and sent at least dozens more to Honduras, according to official data, a shift from the beginning of U.S. President Donald Trump's second term, when such transfers were minimal.

Attorney General Todd Blanche won’t pledge to act “independently” from the White House.

The latest target of Trump’s ire is the low-profile Sultanate of Oman.

Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov suggests Moscow is eager for the US to revive its support for Russian agenda.

Our daily links, including Darth Vader backs Flock, Bessent flounders, US targets Brazil, Ukraine global food shock, and humanoid control failure.

The following is a lightly edited transcript of the August 21 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here.Greg Sargent: This is The Daily Blast from The New Republic, produced and presented by the DSR Network. I’m your host, Greg Sargent.Donald Trum…

For three years the Von der Leyen Commission has been secretly negotiating to hand over its citizens' data to a state committing a genocide.

The president's deportation agenda has failed in the courts. Now he's trying to cheat the system

Americans are pushing back against data centers, creating a growing challenge for tech companies betting on AI's expansion.

Logitech accused for allegedly keeping tariff refunds for itself despite raising the consumer cost of products to silently pay for tariffs.

The United States has demanded that Cuba open up to private investment, and Cuba has passed sweeping reforms to encourage just that. The U.S. State Departme...

The reduction of American military might in the region sacrifices decades of U.S. dominance

Trump said it shows he won the 2020 election, but the 24,000 voters in question wouldn’t change the outcome

The enforcement blitz puts the mayor in a tricky position after he supported delivery workers during his winning campaign. [ more › ]

Today's Iran war news: As Bessent and Trump flail about, a discussion of what the coming crisis might look like.

Researchers are exploring whether magic mushrooms could offer a new treatment for anorexia

A new documentary follows three physicians facing the odds: limited medical supplies, Israeli bombing, and upon returning home, media bias and indifference. The post What American Doctors Saw in Gaza appeared first on The Intercept.

Handling a U.S. president’s social-media voice is a magisterial job. The work involved ranges far and wide—from figuring out how to handle the president’s receipt of a Nobel Peace Prize to huddling with colleagues to pull just the right clip from a speech. Or…

The United States conducted 178 orbital launches and re-entries last year, but the White House now wants at least a thousand a year by 2030. President Donald Trump signed a memorandum on Thursday directing federal agencies to clear the path to that number, la…

Tehran’s grocery stores are well-stocked, but many families can barely afford the basics. “We have virtually given up on many things,” said Ahmad Karimi, 52...

The USS Abraham Lincoln is now on its way home after spending nine months at sea. Experts weigh in on the mental-health challenges of prolonged confinement and isolation aboard an aircraft carrier.

Donald Trump just issued a crazed, rambling tirade, vowing to hit Iran with the “MOST CRUSHING ECONOMIC OPERATION EVER TAKEN” while threatening “TREMENDOUS” economic consequences to any country that helps Iran. News organizations are struggling to divine what…

In text messages, the newly formed group boosted reported threats by CEO David Ellison to move Paramount out of California. The post This Mysterious “Astroturf” Group Popped Up to Defend the Paramount Merger appeared first on The Intercept.

Trump threatens economic pressure campaign against Iran, SCOTUS to weigh in on whether Trump's ballroom project, investors dump stocks and bonds despite government's efforts to calm market.

GOP lawmakers are bracing themselves for a possible rerun of the White House’s “pocket rescission” gambit.

Disney asked a federal judge to hold an emergency hearing by Tuesday over the Federal Communications Commission’s move to review the licences of its eight ABC-owned stations. The Justice Department told the court on Thursday that there is no hurry. The govern…

Last month, in a career-suicide-shaped attempt to be edgy and Trumpy, DHS lawyer James Percival tweeted a “Worst of the Worst, District Judge Edition” thread.

The urge came, and this time he had the drugs in hand. YoungBoy shared the moment on an Instagram Story from his verified account, framing the six-month mark as something he’s still testing rather than a milestone he’s reached.

By Kyu-seok Shim, Brenda Goh and Trevor Hunnicutt SEOUL/WASHINGTON, Aug 21 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump says he wants to meet North Korean leader...

An international socialist institute and Cuba's construction ministry are subject to the latest US sanctions, Marco Rubio announces.

The flight comes as TPS for Haiti, Ethiopia, Somalia, Syria, Myanmar and other countries ended following a U.S. Supreme Court order in June.

Marco Rubio accused Cuban mining companies of sustaining “the regime’s repressive apparatus"

The Trump administration has ramped up deportations to third countries in an apparent bid to deter immigration.