Trump News for Tuesday, August 25, 2026

CAIRO, Aug 26 (Reuters) - Iran said it had restarted talks with neighbor Oman to manage the Strait of Hormuz as it faces heightened economic pressure from U....

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Officers under investigation can no longer return quickly to the streets.

A proposed change to the 1970 Clean Air Act would eliminate a 30-day public comment period before construction of so-called “minor sources” of industrial pollution.

President Donald Trump threatened 50% tariffs on Canadian vehicles and auto parts. Three of America's four best-selling vehicles are assembled there.

Major Jason Watson faces charges under rarely-used military law prohibiting criticism of the US president.

Congress members call on Marco Rubio to 'use every tool' at his disposal to secure release of 20-year-old Sama Safi.

The primary runoff in South Carolina between Sen. Darline Graham and Rep. Ralph Norman is another test of President Trump's influence. He's backing Darline, sister of the late Sen. Lindsey Graham.

President Donald Trump announced his desire to change the name amid an escalating trade dispute with Canada.

Economic escalation is unlikely to force the Iranian government to capitulate to US demands, according to experts.

Justice Department lawyers argued that without President Donald Trump’s support for renovating the Kennedy Center the “decrepit” venue “cannot be saved.”

The country music icon supported childhood literacy, medical research and more.

The new spaceport is aimed to support thousands of launches each year, according to SpaceX.

Department of Justice lawyers told a federal judge the venue 'cannot survive' without the US president's help.

The first attempted revenge prosecution of former FBI director James Comey has gone nowhere. Whatever the DOJ didn’t botch directly was undone by Trump’s persistent refusal to adhere to the rules of political appointments. The second attempted prosecution of …

President Donald Trump has ordered flags flown at half-staff for the next week in honor of Dolly Parton.

Omani FM hopes the two countries will 'soon announce' a joint temporary transit corridor through the Strait of Hormuz.

Experts warn that declining vaccination rates have opened the door for resurgence of disease once largely eradicated.

The U.S. one-cent coin was first introduced in 1793 and became the longest-running denomination in American coinage history.

Remembering a time when the US Forest Service fought price gouging on our publicly owned ski slopes

A shareholder lawsuit against a Trump-linked crypto company has also been uncovered.

With his trade war with Canada intensifying, U.S. President Donald Trump floated the idea of renaming Lake Ontario to become “Lake America.” America's north...

Many Trump supporters keep insisting that his immigration purges are justified because the people swept up in them came here “illegally,” so who cares if they get kicked out (or shipped off to some random war-torn country). When asked what people seeking asyl…

The Trump administration claimed to have found 250,000 noncitizens on the voter rolls in four states. But the agency's communications with states since then indicate that data was preliminary.

The Justice Department suggested in a court filing Tuesday that the Kennedy Center could face demolition.

Washington reportedly alerted Ukraine to refrain from strikes until delegation leaves Moscow, US media reports.

Despite President Donald Trump's Truth Social post that "WE DON'T NEED CANADA, THEY NEED US!," Las Vegas is doing its best to court Canadian visitors.

The State Department is preparing to revoke tourist and business visas issued between 2016 and 2026 to foreign nationals who have sought or are actively seeking asylum.

Recent moves by the Trump administration have been boosting bitcoin and other crypto.

Canada imposes tariffs on $19.9bn of US goods which will take effect on September 8 as trade talks with Washington collapse.

When President Donald Trump took the political world by storm in 2016, his rise was often described as a “populist” one. He seems to have abandoned that bran...

A request for information from the Department of Health and Human Services seeks public input as to how vaccines are categorized

Both of the deceased were unvaccinated against measles. The deaths are the first fatalities caused by the preventable disease in the state of Pennsylvania in 35 years

A legal watchdog says it filed bar complaints on Tuesday accusing U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro and two lieutenants of violating their ethical duties in seekin...

Canada has pledged to roll out “dollar-for-dollar” countertariffs on scores of U.S. goods next month in response to President Donald Trump’s latest import ta...

A first-of-its-kind study found that carbon-major emissions have drained trillions of gallons of water from the West.

The Trump administration is moving to revoke visas from potentially hundreds of thousands of foreigners who have applied for or are seeking asylum in the Uni...

The Trump administration gave its own explanation for why sanctions against Tehran won’t work.

Amid waning support and growing criticism, the FIFA chief looks to hold onto his powerful position in world football.

Flight tracking data confirms an American military aircraft travelled to Russia from the US via Latvia on Tuesday.

It's the collab no one asked for, and no one wants: Chris Cuomo + Bari Weiss + CBS News.

Cases in the US have hit the highest point since the virus was eliminated, as vaccination rates decline.

Lake Ontario borders both the Canadian province of Ontario and the US state of New York.

The TSA said it would scrap TSA Gold+ but still plans to accelerate the use of private contractors for airport security.

Who needs affordable cars when you can have endless arguments.

The policy could affect up to 200,000 people and deter many more from filing an asylum claim once in the US.

The measles vaccine has protected people for 60 years, but the President says it might be "lethal," so I guess we'll just catch it and die.

Just like the Gulf of Mexico, Lake Ontario is a shared international waterway and multiple international, federal, and regional agencies oversee it.

In a 2023 podcast interview, Heidi Overton called for the creation of “alternate systems” for publishing research that would back conservative policy

These special and run-off elections will continue setting the stage for November's midterm elections.

The video reportedly depicts various locations where the president's son might be.

A wider arms embargo would require a UN Security Council vote - and Russia and China oppose the move.

The US says new sanctions ar an "economic D-Day", but Tehran's leaders have survived restrictions before.

In a high-profile suburban swing district, millions of dollars have already been spent in a race that could help shape control of Congress.

Last March it was revealed that the Trump DOJ stabbed its antitrust lawsuit state partners in the back and struck a terrible settlement with Ticketmaster, scuttling a generational opportunity to break up one of the more glaring examples of modern monopoly pow…

"The United States is giving serious consideration to changing the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America," Trump said on Truth Social on Tuesday.

Graham has said outsider status is a plus, while pointing to Trump’s backing.

The U.S. Secret Service has confirmed it is aware that Iranian state media has aired a video that appears to threaten the life of Barron Trump, President Don...

After SCOTUS ruled 6-3 to side with Trump’s efforts to crack down on mail-in voting, Justice Jackson said it would “needlessly injects chaos and uncertainty” into the midterms.

The Supreme Court handed President Donald Trump a political win after lifting a block on his efforts to limit who can receive a mail-in ballot. It comes just...

US sanctions Chinese firms over Iran links but spare big banks as Trump and Xi eye key talks.

The tiny Gulf state is learning that the U.S. president doesn’t always keep his end of the deal.

Trump can't even wrap up our literal shooting wars, much less extricate us from economic anguish with Canada, our one-time ally.

President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he is considering changing the name of Lake Ontario to “Lake America” as the trade war between the United States and...

With Trump threatening further tariffs against Canadian-made products, his decision could have an impact on voters at the midterm elections.

"If you tell the debt markets: 'Hey, we think we're gonna be able to grow our way out of this,' and then a year later they're not seeing any improvements fro...

Florida chef Elijah Button was chopping onions in June when his knife slipped and sliced his middle finger to the bone. After Republicans in Congress let en...

My Tuesday morning reads: • The Debt-Equity Distinction: A Century of Policy by Accident: Daniel Peris asks what if much of what we treat as normal is a historical fluke. Modern finance could not exist without widespread debt financing — and the rules that pr…

Pakistan says progress was made in Tehran, but Iran’s security establishment remains wary of Washington.

By Alexandra Alper WASHINGTON, Aug 25 (Reuters) - Republican and Democratic lawmakers on Tuesday called on the Trump administration to bar American citizens...

Dhruv Khullar makes the case for cautious optimism about the Trump Administration’s war on vaccines.

Young people are already disillusioned about the job market. It’s not going to get better anytime soon, Jay Caspian Kang writes.

Thrown into office and an unexpected campaign, Darline Graham is running on her brother’s legacy—but making clear that she’s different.

Texas governor Greg Abbott says data centre companies brought the backlash on themselves. “They basically dug their own grave for the problem that’s been caused for them,” he told ABC’s Jonathan Karl on Sunday. “And that’s why they got the backlash they deser…

Donald Trump bought up to $50,000 of SpaceX stock on 23 June, roughly a fortnight after the company completed the largest initial public offering in history, according to a financial disclosure reported this week. The purchase places the sitting president on …

Alex Pretti, an American citizen and ICU nurse for the Department of Veterans Affairs, was shot and killed on Jan. 24 in Minneapolis.

What a new round of U.S. sanctions could mean after nearly six months of war with Iran — and years of economic pressure on the country.

A federal judge in Minnesota will probe this week whether grounds exist to toss the Justice Department’s case against journalist Don Lemon. It’s the latest e...

President Trump's Education Department is telling schools to stop considering race when it comes to school discipline.

A Pennsylvania summer camp helps children who have survived brain injuries. But the future of federal funding for brain injury research, as well as grants to states to help such patients, is in limbo.

As the senior climate editor at NPR, when extreme weather impacts us, I often send out guidance to the newsroom to help everyone understand the role of climate change. Here's what I tell them.

The US is racing to expand its small polar icebreaker fleet as it works with Canada and Finland to strengthen its capabilities in the Arctic.

The Trump administration is preparing to revoke the business and tourism visas of up to 200,000 foreigners who have applied for or are currently seeking asylum status in the United States.

The trip would be his first to the US since becoming prime minister in July.

Ford suggested that Canada needed to "throw everything and the kitchen sink" at Trump.

An advocacy group says some military families are now "living in the shadows."

If the action happens, it will be the largest single mass revocation of visas in US history, AP reports.

The Trump administration has embraced Syria's new president, former al-Qaeda militant Ahmed al-Sharaa.

As the world debates how to regulate artificial intelligence, Europe’s lawmakers are doing a lot of the heavy lifting.