Trump News for Friday, August 28, 2026

By Jarrett Renshaw Aug 28 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump on Friday announced an unprecedented U.S. push to take control of a fifth of Venezuela's vast oi...

A Trump administration official says the controversial commentator overstayed his visit in the US and will be removed.

Protest draws crowds to Washington, DC amid Trump's threats of interference, voting restrictions in midterm elections.

"Zero immigration for the next 20 years. No ifs, no buts," wrote political commentator Milo Yiannopoulos on social media last year. Today the Briton was taken into custody by ICE, having allegedly overstayed in the U.S. He last legally entered the county in 2…

A new plan to lower prices is causing a rift in his own party.

The former Breitbart columnist is being held as an 'illegal alien' by Trump's immigration goons

Analysts say Canada may lose 100,000 jobs under the current tariffs and could go into recession if the USMCA pact ends.

"I mean bad immigrants," Yiannopoulos said in a 2016 interview with Joe Rogan. "I don't mean handsome, charming, successful, blonde-haired British immigrants...

This story appeared in Today, Explained, a daily newsletter that helps you understand the most compelling news and stories of the day. Subscribe here. After ending legal protections for 350,000 Haitians living in the United States, the Trump administration is…

Trump's latest Truth Social post labels two Pacific island nations as U.S. territories, fueling fresh questions about his expansion ambitions.

In parts of New York’s 21st Congressional District, Canadian trade and tourism make up key aspects of the local economy. Could newly announced tariffs change that?

By Sarah Morland Aug 28 (Reuters) - Nearly 200,000 people were forcibly returned to Haiti in the first eight months of this year, a U.N. official told an eme...

The longtime far-right operator and troll, a UK citizen, is being held in a detention center about 200 miles from New Orleans.

Link to: https://www.notus.org/trump-white-house/lake-america-ontario-canada-trade-war-trump-executive-order-rename

The Trump administration is appealing a judge’s ruling that blocked limitations on mail voting before the midterm elections, the latest twist in a court figh...

Don't worry, Ben Affleck and Paris Hilton made the cut.

The president said graduates of the new academy would serve the US Space Force, NASA and the civilian flight industry.

Stephen Coates' startup, Operation Bluebird, launched Twitter.now and will allow users to decide individually how their feed will be moderated.

But they say Moscow will likely continue its "hybrid activity" against Nato members, short of direct military action.

Under President Donald Trump, the TSA is seeking to replace federal security screeners with private contractors in more airport security lines.

Trump was convicted of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records related to a $130,000 hush payment to Stormy Daniels.

Some Democrats running in the reddest areas are sending a clear message to former President Joe Biden and former Vice President Kamala Harris: stay out of their races.

Dementia Donnie visited NASA today and explained that his interest in space is apparently hereditary because his uncle was smart and liked space. His uncle also liked "nuclear," so we might be in trouble. The Orange Menace was at Johnson Space Center honoring…

When Pete Hegseth declared Anthropic a national security risk because it wouldn’t agree to his dangerously unethical demands for what Claude should be able to do, Anthropic sued to challenge the directives. One of the challenges was brought in the Northern Di…

What will Elon Musk get in return for his political donations?

Two reports investigating the forcible contraception of thousands of Indigenous women and girls in Greenland by Danish health authorities for decades were sp...

The rejection is a temporary setback for immigrant rights advocates, who have been instructed to revise their petition.

For a time, after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, a civil war between the states on reproductive rights seemed inevitable.

SpaceX has pulled off its biggest salvage operation yet, recovering its most recently launched Starship from the Indian Ocean. Elon Musk’s company is now in...

By Anna Peverieri Aug 28 (Reuters) - Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Friday that the United States had given Kyiv information about a number...

The data center industry is built around companies simply ignoring law and regulations, and daring anyone to stop them.

The Great Lake’s name could change on your map app depending on what side of the US-Canada border you’re on.

President Donald Trump appears preoccupied with slapping his name on things these days. And on Thursday, that involved slapping it atop a ranking of presiden...

Warsh had strong words about his commitment to fighting inflation.

More fuel for the "anti-AI is a psyop" crowd. Will that help them change minds?

The Trump administration is taking steps to limit an Egyptian bank's operations in the United Arab Emirates, accusing the financial institution of serving as...

And, did CIA chief travel to Moscow to warn Putin against attacking Nato?

President Donald Trump renamed Lake Ontario to "Lake America" on Thursday amid a trade war with Canada.

Amid tariff war with Canada, Trump has signed an executive order renaming the shared lake.

After President Donald Trump renamed Lake Ontario by executive order, globemakers were left with the decision of whether to update their maps.

Wyoming’s Republican Gov. Mark Gordon voiced concerns about the Justice Department election monitors who observed the primary election in his state last week...

The judge ruled that the Trump administration violated Anthropic’s First Amendment rights.

“We have a Gulf, and we have a lake. Now, all we need is an ocean,” he said, floating another name change for the Atlantic or Pacific ocean.

The ensuing insults launched between Shapiro and Kennedy happened both on social media and during separate press conferences this week.

"You can call him 'unstable' all you like, you leftie."

Many of the US president's goals remain unfulfilled, despite claims of victory.

Trump predicted four to five weeks of war. It's been six months.

Tennessee National Guard members assigned to a federal anti-crime task force in Memphis fatally shot an armed 20-year-old man in the back in July, an autopsy...

Measles is showing up in places where people who can’t be protected have to live, work or go to school.

In the latest escalation in the ongoing trade war with Canada, President Donald Trump signed an executive order to change the official name of Lake Ontario t...

Protesters targeted Trump’s Ayrshire resort with red paint and slogans saying 'Gaza is not 4 sale'.

Attorney General Todd Blanche’s fidelity to President Donald Trump nearly cost him his confirmation. Now comes Blanche’s real test. Trump’s former personal...

As the death toll rises from flash floods that hit the Nepal-Tibet border, experts are warning more flooding could be on the way. And, Fed Chairman Kevin Warsh is expected to give a key address today.

U.S. tariffs hurt Americans. Retaliatory tariffs will hurt Canadians.

Claudia Rankine’s new book overflows with grief for the backlash to racial progress, but history isn’t finished.

MapQuest shared a tool for users to generate joke screenshots with their own names for Lake Ontario, writing: "Lake Are We Doing This Again?"

Order comes days before ballots go out for the midterms.

My end-of-week morning reads: • Current Issues in Forward Guidance: “Broader communication about reaction function remains essential as long as it is conditional, disciplined, and uncertainty aware. Risks should be clearly spelled out. Central banks may still…

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After trade talks between the US and Canada collapsed, President Donald Trump issued an executive order to rename Lake Ontario as Lake America.

Tim and Moby's creators responded with a video explaining copyright infringement. Copyright lawyers say they have a case against the White House.

A second deportation flight since the termination of TPS for Haitian migrants landed on Thursday in Haiti.

Rockstar has discussed the need to "be careful" with its satirical take on American culture in GTA 6, when asked about including references to recent events such as the Covid pandemic and Donald Trump's presidency.

It's become a go-to photo for the official White House account on X when it comes to US-Canada relations -- which have become decidedly frosty. But who took that stirring photo of a bald eagle with its talons on a Canada goose and where did it come from? [Rea…

It increasingly feels as though President Donald Trump is trying to do unpopular things ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.

As Election Day draws nearer, Democrats are preparing for a range of scenarios, intent on avoiding what they see as the failure of imagination that kept lawmakers from anticipating the Jan. 6 attack.

Trump is deploying Cabinet members across the country to sell his record ahead of the midterms. In some cases, they’re ending up on the back foot.

Canadians are reacting to US President Donald Trump’s executive order to rename Lake Ontario as ‘Lake America’.

A federal judge has voided the Pentagon’s designation of Anthropic as a national security supply-chain risk, finding that the label was punishment for the company’s public criticism of the Trump administration rather than a security assessment. US District Ju…

Canada is recruiting 64 researchers to universities across the country (source paywalled; alternative source), including 48 from U.S. institutions such as Harvard, Yale, and MIT. The hires are backed by more than $364 million in government funding and are par…

The death toll continues to climb two days after flash flooding obliterated parts of the Nepal-Tibet border region on Wednesday, with at least 469 bodies recovered.

The US has not won the war, but sustained pressure is weakening Tehran and giving Washington a stronger hand.

A judge issued a written order Thursday night that the Pentagon acted illegally by punishing the AI company for its criticism of the Department of Defense's views on AI use. The government is expected to fight the ruling.

It's been six months since the United States and Israel attacked Iran with the perennial goal of transforming the Middle East through military force. The Is...

A federal judge on Thursday night blocked the Trump administration from implementing key provisions of a new rule restricting mail-in voting.

When news of the $100,000 H-1B visa fee hit in September 2025, Shreya Mishra Reddy decided the visa was no longer a realistic option for her.

President Donald Trump arrives at an awkward moment for his presidency on Friday as the U.S.-Israel war against Iran reaches the six-month mark, a notable mi...

In a filing late Thursday, the DOJ said the effort to add President Donald Trump's name to the facade and plaza will "not be effectuated before October 8, 2026."

By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON, Aug 27 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's administration has issued a memo for universities that seeks to restrict issuance o...

South Korea, the U.S. and Japan will go ahead with a trilateral military drill next month to better deal with North Korean nuclear threats, officials in Seou...

On Thursday, a judge ruled that the Pentagon's blacklisting of Anthropic earlier this year was unconstitutional, delivering the AI lab a win in a monthslong rollercoaster of a battle with the Trump administration. The lawsuit, filed in March in a California d…

A federal judge has called the Department of Defense’s designation of Anthropic as a national security supply-chain risk “illegal and baseless.”

Staff at the military newspaper allege US government sought to violate First Amendment rights to free speech.

It was not immediately clear which retailers sold the beef.

Farmers, ranchers and GOP lawmakers have expressed public outrage over the plan.

DUBAI/CAIRO, Aug 28 (Reuters) - Iran war mediators have placed renewed emphasis on reopening the Strait of Hormuz, with Tehran agreeing to draw up a list of...

A federal judge on Thursday halted — at least for now — attempts to implement President Donald Trump’s executive order limiting mail voting. The move stalle...

A Canadian city council is considering renaming a street named after US President Donald Trump – and among the contenders for a replacement are “Obama Avenue...

Iran to issue terms for reopening Strait of Hormuz as mediating countries send delegations to Tehran to revive talks.