Trump News for Thursday, August 27, 2026

The arrests are part of a federal task force initiative targeting criminal gangs and transnational organisations.

Rockstar explains its approach to satire

Venue's board of directors, stacked with supporters of the president, voted to add his name again despite past ruling.

This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. In his White House Correspondents’ Association dinner speech on July 24, 2026, President Donald Trump made his usual diatribes against the news medi…

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: Donald Trump says he’s renaming Lake Ontario. Let’s ta…

A federal judge heard arguments on Thursday in the latest challenge to the Trump-controlled Kennedy Center’s effort to install the president’s name on the complex, this time twice on its facade and once to designate the grounds for him. U.S. District Judge Ch…

“I doubt he’ll make it to the midterm,” a netizen said about Trump.

US trade officials downplay French language dispute, calling claims fabricated.

The ruling is another step in a longer fight over election "integrity."

New data confirms a rise in immigration arrests many in targeted communities suspected was underway. [ more › ]

US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to rename Lake Ontario as Lake America.

NYU Langone Health in Manhattan. Advocates say an appeals court ruling offers relief as the legal fight with the Trump administration continues. [ more › ]

North Carolina Senate candidate Roy Cooper is getting a lot of national attention, but the lessons of his campaign may not be transferable.

The US Supreme Court ruled in favor of changes backed by President Donald Trump, but new challenges have been filed.

A judge on Thursday expressed skepticism about the Kennedy Center’s intention to return President Donald Trump’s name to the historic performing arts venue b...

Order declares a national emergency over an 'unusual and extraordinary foreign threat' to the grid.

The rebrand comes as the US and Canada engage in a cross-border trade war after Trump increased tariffs last week.

The unpopular Paramount Warner Brothers merger should have been a perfect opportunity for Democrats to demonstrate they are finally serious about stuff like media consolidation, right wing propaganda, media reform, and antitrust after decades of policy incohe…

The President is reportedly mulling over tariffs on semiconductors.

This is a lightly edited transcript of the August 26 edition of Right Now With Perry Bacon. You can watch the video here or by following this show on YouTube or Substack.Michael Podhorzer: We’re going to kick off, and folks will join. Hopefully you all know o…

A science professor says he was fired from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York, for refusing to ignore the human causes of climate change, and is now suing the institution in federal court.Dr. Adam Kalkstein, a professor of geography, told The N…

The Iran war has gravely exacerbated the U.S. military’s advanced missile interceptor shortage in Europe.The shortage is “beyond critical,” as supplies have been quickly and unexpectedly drained by the Iran war, according to a Europe-based U.S. defense offici…

Israeli defence minister renews threat to expel Palestinians from areas where kites or balloons are being flown in Gaza.

While Americans pay the price for President Trump’s war in Iran, he appears to be cashing in on it.Trump made more than 1,000 dubiously timed stock trades in June, including thousands of dollars in exchanges with companies directly impacted by the Iran war, a…

Turkey will sign the Artemis Accords during a ceremony at 2:30 p.m. EDT Monday, Aug. 31, at NASA Headquarters in Washington, becoming the 71st country signatory. NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman will host Turkish Minister of Industry and Technology Mehmet Fa…

Nvidia Corp. launched a political action committee Thursday to dole out donations to federal candidates, the company’s latest move in amassing its influence apparatus in Washington.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday, which he says officially renames the lake.

JACKSON HOLE, Wyoming, Aug 27 (Reuters) - The latest U. inflation report was "mixed," with the headline rate stronger than expected but driven higher by a pa...

Six years ago, when Trump first tried to force ByteDance to sell TikTok’s US operations to his billionaire buddy Larry Ellison at Oracle, we wondered if this would finally get Oracle to change its tune on Section 230. While not as widely known outside of Sili…

Scientists are getting a step closer to understanding exactly how autism develops in the brain – and what might work to treat it.

Panic is refunding Playdate customers the 19% tariff charges it passed along while the Trump administration's import duties were in effect, after the Supreme Court ruled the tariffs illegal and the company began receiving refunds from the government. Panic sa…

Anti-genocide organizers say the "terrorism" label is intended to crush direct action against Israeli weapons shipments. The post Trump Sanctions UK Pro-Palestine Group as “Terrorists.” An American Former Member Wonders if He Can Go Home. appeared first on Th…

Six percent of Texas’s voters—over 1.2 million people—have had their voter registrations suspended, and many might not even know about it. The designation, which means that the voter’s county doesn’t know their address or thinks they’ve moved, doesn’t stop pe…

Need any more proof that Donald Trump’s pettiness knows no bounds? The president signed an executive order Thursday to rename Lake Ontario as “Lake America.”After sparking a trade war with Canada last week, Trump turned his attention to the incredibly importa…

Officials review efforts being made to reduce war escalation and create 'appropriate conditions' for dialogue, Doha says

"While we can't prove who is responsible, we can plainly see that taxpayer money was misused for political purposes."

President Donald Trump said Thursday he is renaming Lake Ontario to be known as “Lake America” in the United States as he exacerbates his trade war with Cana...

President Donald Trump has never taken kindly to losing elections. He’s often tried to explain it away by citing bogus claims of mass voter fraud. But now he...

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said the US can't afford to miss out on AI advancements.

Trump has accused the state of 'cheating'. But election officials say they are using outreach to combat misinformation.

There is nothing routine about John Ratcliffe making a secret, 10,000-mile return dash to Moscow, writes Frank Gardner.

How much attention did you pay to what happened in the world over the past seven days?

Donald Trump Jr., the president’s son, wants Republican state leaders to stay away from any regulation of prediction markets. The New York Times reports that Trump told a gathering of GOP state attorneys general in New Orleans this spring that gambling busine…

Christian Castro, accused of carrying out nonfatal shooting in Minnesota, walks free after extradition lapse.

President Donald Trump wants you to pretend that he’s on the ballot in the midterm elections.Speaking in an interview aired on Fox News’s Hannity Wednesday night, Trump explained his latest strategy to get out the vote in November. “There’s a theory that I ge…

Donald Trump reported more than 1,000 purchases and sales of corporate securities in June, including those of Netflix, Warner Bros. Discovery, The Walt Disney Co. and Comcast. The White House has previously said that the president’s stock and bond portfolio i…

“Dolly Parton had no time for J.K. Rowling's bigotry,” one user said.

Console prices are already going up due to RAMageddon

The U.S. military is experiencing a "beyond critical" shortage of advanced missile interceptors in Europe largely driven by President Donald Trump's war with...

A Labour lawmaker tells Al Jazeera sanctions would uphold British morals and legal obligations.

The ferocity of the response to Jon Ossoff reveals something deeper about the world of Trump supporters.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott flat-out refused to extradite the ICE agent charged with assault to Minnesota, where he's facing charges.

You’re reading The TNR Blue Book. Get daily scoops, strategy, and developments inside the liberal ideas factory delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for free.Inside Washington Kamala Harris has been flexing her political power in the South this year, most r…

“You have to question whether the resources are being allocated in a way that provides maximum benefits,” Harvard’s Linda Bilmes told Fortune.

Trump talks to Al Jazeera, Qatar’s Prime Minister visits Tehran and a temporary route is agreed in the Strait of Hormuz.

A federal judge is holding a hearing on Thursday on another challenge to the Kennedy Center’s plans to add Donald Trump’s name to the complex. On Wednesday evening, attorneys for Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-OH) reacted to the most recent filing by the center, in whi…

Summer is supposed to be the best time for fresh produce. Corn on the cob at the cookout. Berries plucked right from the vine. Salads on the cafe patio while you take an extra long lunch break because the weather and the food is that good.  But this year, sum…

Even Georgia Republicans have grown worried about Representative Mike Collins’s staffing choices.A former staffer for the memeing Georgia lawmaker—24-year-old Preston Parra—shared Ku Klux Klan and Nazi images to his personal social media account over the summ…

Steve Bannon’s attempt to erase his criminal indictment for refusing to testify before the House’s January 6 committee was shot down by a federal judge appointed by Donald Trump himself. U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols on Wednesday ruled that Justice Departm…

In decision after decision, the conservative justices are ignoring the evidentiary record that lower courts have worked hard to establish.

President Donald Trump’s central intelligence chief traveled to Moscow this week with a warning to Russia not to stage an attack in NATO territory, among oth...

Donald Trump’s so-called renovations to the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts have done more harm than good—even his lawyers think so. In a court filing Wednesday, Ohio Representative Joyce Beatty, the Democratic lawmaker mounting the legal chall…

On Wednesday night, the Department of Education posted a video to X comparing President Trump to Adolf Hitler, and then deleted it following massive backlash. The video was a clip from the 2017 film Darkest Hour about Winston Churchill during World War II, an…

An Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer charged with shooting a man and lying about it during the immigration crackdown in Minneapolis was released fr...

As we’ve been noting, billionaire Larry Ellison’s effort to dominate what’s left of corporate media is facing some headwinds after 12 states filed an antitrust lawsuit against his planned $111 billion merger between Paramount and Warner Brothers. As we’ve als…

Proposed US tariffs on semiconductor-powered devices could soon drive up prices on smartphones, laptops, and everyday tech.

Tech companies will never unilaterally disarm. Neither, for that matter, will the countries where they’re based.

There are signs both sides could be ready to de-escalate, at least militarily, analysts say.

Dinesh D'Souza, James O'Keefe, Scott Presler and others face legal liability for election shenanigans

The Iran war has reshaped the rapidly approaching midterm elections

The following is a lightly edited transcript of the August 27 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…

How a war was announced, prosecuted, declared won, negotiated and then reopened, all in the president's own words.

BEIRUT, Aug 27 (Reuters) - The Iran war has reached its endgame: a costly stalemate. and Israeli forces attacked Iran, killing its supreme leader and maiming...

My late August morning reads: • What’s Cool in High School? Personal Finance: Thirty-nine states now require a personal-finance course to graduate — up four since 2024 — while economics requirements are shrinking. (Wall Street Journal) see also Could You Beat…

Inside the Trump administration's campaign to sell a vision of masculinity rooted in speed and strength

The Trump administration's latest deal to cancel offshore wind projects and boost fossil fuel energy development instead is generating a huge payday for one...

The Trump administration claimed Iris Dayana Monterroso Lemus received “FULL medical, prenatal care” in ICE custody. The post Trump Admin Said She Was Lying About Stillbirth in ICE Custody. New Evidence Points to Lack of Prenatal Care. appeared first on The I…

On the day we met in early June, Philip “P.J.” Haynie III’s gears had ground him awake just before 4:30 a.m. By the time I got into his truck, he had already spent the morning farming in his head. Rain was coming at 10 a.m.—half a day earlier than previously …

US President Donald Trump posted a video of him crossing out Lake Ontario on a map and writing ‘Lake America’ instead.

A single tree sit harnessed a cross-border movement to defend the Arizona borderland ecology. So far, the activists are blocking Trump’s wall. The post A Giant “Grandmother” Tree Sparked a New Struggle to Block Trump’s Border Wall appeared first on The Interc…

Donald Trump is reportedly instructing advisers to spend big on midterm ads...about himself. Sources leak to The Atlantic that Trump advisers are telling him the real reason the polls look so bad is that voters are unaware of his many stupendous successes. He…

"Clearly, people hate data centers—right now, at least," OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said.

Alcohol makers in the US and Canada say the industry has been used as leverage in the trade war and both sides are suffering.

President Donald Trump has touted his one-of-a-kind midterm convention as the spectacle his party needs to reenergize voters and alter its political fortunes...

WASHINGTON, Aug 27 () - Six months after the United States and Israel launched strikes on Iran, the war that President Donald Trump has called a "little excu...

Canadian leaders are looking for leverage over the US, from F-35 purchases and coal shipments to cutting off electricity exports.

CIA Director John Ratcliffe traveled to Moscow earlier this week in part to warn Russia not to attack NATO countries, sources familiar with the trip told ABC News.

Last year, as decades of work by RFK Jr. to undermine vaccines with false links to deaths and autism culminated in his appointment to lead HHS, America saw the largest resurgence of measles cases in something like three decades. Three people died, including t…

Sheikh Mohammed's visit comes as US-Israel war on Iran nears its sixth month with no diplomatic breakthrough in sight.

The Trump administration has doubled down on its accusations against Cook, despite a Supreme Court ruling in her favour.

The company reportedly scans 20 billion vehicles each month.

Qatar's PM will meet Iranian officials to discuss ways to de-escalate tensions in the region, foreign ministry says.