Trump News for Wednesday, August 26, 2026

Bruin Theatre team members exit amid renewed racism and antisemitism allegations against Canadian theater operator and lease signer Rui Pereira.

CIA Director John Ratcliffe’s mysterious trip was “semi-routine,” the president says

Some cattle ranchers in Montana are sounding off on President Trump's decision to import 300K metric tons of foreign beef.

ICE agent Christian Castro faces criminal charges for shooting a Minnesota man in the leg during an immigration raid.

The Tohono O'odham people have sued the US government to stop construction of a border wall through their reservation.

What really concerns them isn’t just the $40 trillion.

The award comes as the Ukrainian military has been trying to convince Musk to expand Starlink access into Russia.

Toronto entrepreneur Valerie Crisp built a Buy Canadian marketplace amid US trade tensions. When things heated up, daily traffic nearly tripled.

Strategists in both parties have long thought that everything would need to go right for Democrats to take over Congress this fall. Their map, though, is becoming more forgiving.

The thing about raiding law offices is that they tend to be filled with people who actually know the law. A bunch of opportunistic ICE officers thought they might be able to talk their way into an illegal search, but that initiative (is that the word for this…

Trader on prediction platforms have turned bearish on the odds of a key piece of crypto legislation becoming law in 2026.

A debt ceiling would trigger automatic spending cuts, which conservatives could use to pare back social programmes.

Rep. LaMonica McIver speaks with supporters outside federal court in Newark Wednesday. McIver pleaded not guilty to charges stemming from a May 9 incident outside a private immigration detention center in the city. Rep. LaMonica McIver faces up to 17 years…

Five companies will build nuclear microreactors at five bases, with plans to expand the program to additional installations in the future.

Over 100 New York hotels and attractions are offering discounts to Canadian tourists as Trump's proposed tariffs have stoked tensions.

Bruce Blakeman said he believes in the rule of law, even if it's a law he disagrees with. The GOP gubernatorial candidate says Gov. Hochul will have blood on her hands. [ more › ]

This trade war signifies, more than any other single event, Trump’s mindless exertion of American power.

Hamas has pledged to hand over its weapons as part of the US plan for Gaza, which Israeli PM Netanyahu has rejected.

Darline Graham is almost guaranteed to be South Carolina's senator for the next six years—thanks to Trump's endorsement.

President Trump’s renovation of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool is continuing to fail. Freelance photographer Joe Flood posted a video Wednesday of workers dealing with large chunks of sealant peeling off the dry concrete at the bottom of the pool, which…

Nearly half of the states in the U.S. have filed a lawsuit to stop the United States Postal Service from imposing new restrictions on mail-in voting ahead of the midterms in November.The 55-page complaint, filed by Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro, Washingt…

Palestine Action's Huda Ammori says Trump's penalties should be a 'wake-up call' for UK to lift ban on the group.

Since taking over in March, DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin has pivoted from the confrontational style of immigration enforcement of his predecessor, Kristi Noem. The latest data is reflective of a strategy that is working

Trump says Iran war will continue for as long as necessary

The decision removes legal holds on implementing the president's executive order.

U.S. President Donald Trump says his country does not need Canada. Canada also supplies aluminum, potash to U.S. farms and parts for an auto industry built...

Analysts say mine clearance alone is unlikely to make shipping 'safe' in the Strait of Hormuz.

The Trump administration has declared a British pro-Palestine organization a terrorist group. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced Wednesday that the U.S. is sanctioning Palestine Action, accusing the organization of “having materially assisted, sponsor…

The Trump administration is withholding $289 million appropriated by Congress for loans to small businesses. The elimination came through an executive order...

The US decision leaves three nations - Cuba, Iran and North Korea - on its 'State Sponsors of Terrorism' blacklist.

President Donald Trump wants to turn the midterm elections into a Trumpfest in what could be a massive gift to Democratic lawmakers. The Atlantic reported Tuesday that Trump met with his top political advisers early this month to create a strategy for spendin…

The Canadian prime minister has shown what it looks like to negotiate with a more powerful counterpart.

President Donald Trump is claiming that the recently deceased country music legend Dolly Parton was a big fan of his, even though she made a point to support the LGBTQ community, proclaimed that Black lives mattered, and remained politically neutral throughou…

The justice department has also asked for Trump's name to be put back on the building after it was removed in June following a court order.

Skyrocketing toilet paper prices and pissed-off beef ranchers have GOP members of Congress turning on Trump's damaging tariffs.

Democratic-controlled states on Wednesday filed another lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump’s executive order seeking to limit mail voting in this yea...

Huawei has bid to build AI data centres for the Egyptian government. The US State Department is now trying to assemble a rival consortium from Nvidia, AMD and Microsoft. The tender offer proposes exporting 1,408 of Huawei’s top-end Ascend 950-series chips for…

EXCLUSIVE: Award-winning filmmaker Ramona S. Diaz has launched her next project – a feature documentary based on an extraordinary 2017 article in The Atlantic magazine titled “My Family’s Slave.” The magazine piece, a personal essay by Pulitzer Prize-winning …

The proposal comes weeks before the midterm elections, when food prices and the cost of living are expected to be major issues on voters' minds.

Jelly Roll is guest-hosting Kimmel this week and he told the audience he’s lost 300 pounds, “That means I’ve lost an entire Donald Trump.” The 41-year-old country star didn’t stop there.

Raid on UNRWA centre exposes Israel's strategic push to erase refugee rights, seal West Bank annexation, analysts say.

Does President Donald Trump even know how trade talks with Canada fell apart?After negotiations with Canada imploded last week, both sides started pointing fingers. U.S. officials, like JD Vance, blamed Canada for introducing new asks late in the talks, while…

A federal judge struck down a Texas ban on drag shows on Tuesday, ruling it was unconstitutional—and that anyone who really has that much of a problem with it just shouldn’t go. The law known as Texas Senate Bill 12, which is supported and enforced by Attorne…

Starting Sept. 8, she takes over the seat Jeanine Pirro left behind on “The Five.” She’ll sit alongside Greg Gutfeld, Dana Perino and Jesse Watters on the show that’s topped cable news for 19 straight quarters.

Donald Trump just lost a lot of support in South Carolina.Supporters of defeated Republican candidate Ralph Norman booed and jeered at mentions of the president’s name during his concession speech Tuesday night, expressing their palpable aggravation over Trum…

"I have no time schedule," Trump says when asked when he expects Iran to return to the negotiating table.

Meta has agreed to pay up to $17.1 billion in a settlement with 48 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, American Samoa, and Northern Mariana Islands, for the harm that its social media platforms have done to kids and teenagers. Under the terms of th…

President Trump hasn't settled on a replacement for White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, whose last day is Friday, according to administration offic...

By Bo Erickson and David Shepardson WASHINGTON, Aug 26 (Reuters) - U.S.

Canadians cut travel to the US by 25.4% in 2025, Statistics Canada says, as many shifted trips home, to Europe, and to Asia.

The Kremlin said Wednesday that CIA Director John Ratcliffe held talks in Moscow with his intelligence counterparts, a rare and secretive visit at a time whe...

Jeff Bezos’ Washington Post simply isn’t what it used to be. During the Trump era Bezos and his lackeys have fired all of the paper’s black columnists, turned the op-ed section into pro-corporatist agitprop, censored cartoonists that criticized Jeff, and gene…

Iran’s deputy foreign minister announced a temporary shipping corridor in the Strait of Hormuz.

Former NBC and BBC news chief Deborah Turness is joining Independent Talent Group to launch a creative studio. She will become President of Independent Talent Studio, focusing on building media brands, franchises and IP around creative talent.  This comes aft…

Amazon expects package volume in Canada to rise by more than 40% between 2026 and 2029, outpacing its US growth every year, according to internal documents reviewed by Business Insider. One of the more striking details is a March planning document recording t…

Canada has announced it plans to hit the U.S. with countertariffs that mirror its actions "dollar for dollar." And, remembering the legacy of country star and icon Dolly Parton, who died at 80.

You get detained by ICE. If your case goes viral? A quick release. If you're the other 99% of people? You sit in ICE detention forever.

My mid-week morning train WFH reads: • Are Inflation-Fighting Bonds on Sale?: I just bought more Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities. Plus, more questions for your adviser about private funds (and happy 96th birthday, Warren Buffett)  Jason Zweig on why h…

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The Trump administration in recent weeks has warned states that it would withhold federal funding and even arrest and prosecute election officials if nonciti...

Humans need to act, as AI agents scheme in the digital shadows. The post It’s Time to Rein in Lethal AI Drones appeared first on The Intercept.

It might sound cliché, but it was true: Emily Stillman had a smile that lit up the room and arms that were open to the world. She was interested in everyone she met, and she was deeply funny, with dead-on accents and impressions of other people. Her dream was…

You can watch this episode of Right Now With Perry Bacon above or by following this show on YouTube or Substack. You can read a transcript here.Minneapolis was a major hub of racial justice activism in 2020 after the killing of George Floyd and then again ear…

The Supreme Court lifted a lower court’s stay of President Donald Trump’s executive order seeking to commandeer state vote-by-mail systems in a 6-3 vote on Monday night. Its explanation for the decision began with a lie. “About five months ago, President Trum…

The president's actions are set to reverberate especially hard in a handful of states crucial to the party’s hopes of keeping their Senate majority.

Donald Trump’s rage at Canada is growing more unhinged. He just posted a deranged threat to rename Lake Ontario with the phrase “Lake America.” But it gets worse: He also intimated that the U.S. won’t be “doing much business with Ontario any longer.” That wou…

The number of arrests last month showed a rise of roughly 15 percent over June's count.

Lindsey Graham's sister up for election to his US Senate seat

Growing doubts about the US security umbrella are forcing new strategic calculations across the region.

OpenAI banned Russia-origin accounts using AI to promote a fake Israel-based think tank and a “sovereignty” index praising Russia and criticizing the West.

The US has used threats of secondary sanctions, whereby countries trading with a sanctioned country also face sanctions.

Newly revealed court records have revealed some bizarre details of Operation Puppet Master, like the details of a “peanutbutterjelly” that sneaked into an encrypted Signal chat.

British Columbia Premier David Eby wants Canada to target US fighter jets and coal as it looks beyond tariffs in its trade war with Trump.

Deputy foreign minster says the route's entry as well as part of the exit would run through Iranian territorial waters.

Retailer Target pulled a children's Halloween costume from its shelves after widespread social media backlash, apologizing for selling a garment critics said evoked racist minstrel caricatures.

Iran is betting global economic fallout and Republicans worried about the midterms will force Trump's retreat.

Canada's leaders heard Trump's threat to rename Lake Ontario to Lake America, and they don't really care.

As Penina Zawadi was wheeled to the operating room for a cesarean section, she gave her mother her jewelry for safekeeping, along with a reassuring word: She...

A federal judge on Wednesday refused to order Texas to extradite an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer charged with shooting a man and lying about i...

The president plans to raze the Kennedy Center and rename Lake Ontario if he’ s frustrated in one of his top legacy projects and his Canada trade war.

The FCC chairman is punishing the network for news coverage and programming decisions that offend the president.

DUBAI, Aug 25 (Reuters) - Iraq could serve as an example of how the United States could carry out its threat to force countries that continue trading with Ir...

The landmark U.S.-Saudi nuclear agreement was finalized last month.

To say that Donald Trump has been waging an ideological war against the American free press would be an understatement in the extreme. Even attempting to list out the many, many ways in which he has attempted to threaten, sue, undermine, stifle, chill, attack…

Deloitte agreed to a $21.5 million settlement to end the Justice Department's investigation into its DEI practices.

Some Republicans welcome his involvement, but whether voters will is another question.

By Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON, Aug 25 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump has sent Congress a proposed agreement with Saudi Arabia on civil nuclear energy whi...

The “ economic onslaught ” that Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has declared on Iran's financial connections around the world may have one major caveat: Chi...

Tehran says the agreement with Oman on routes through Hormuz does not indicate that the strait is open.