Trump News for Thursday, September 3, 2026

The Trump administration is taking the unprecedented step of creating lists of adult citizens who are eligible to vote in each state – but will not meet its own deadline 60 days before Election Day.

The stunt landed over the studio gates just as a group calling itself Neighbors for Strong Communities was gathering outside to warn about what happens if Paramount pulls out of California. Employe…

The Trump administration has hired yet another new company to help clean and maintain the Lincoln Reflecting Pool — adding to a months-long saga.

Will the Iran war end before the midterms? The vice president doesn't know

The Trump administration is ramping up attacks against the Smithsonian and is now threatening to cut off federal cooperation in the curation and funding of exhibits.

The Justice Department asked the Supreme Court to intervene in an ongoing legal battle over U.S. Postal Service rules for mail ballots just weeks before the...

The Trump official expressed scepticism at White House briefing about the conflict being a war despite recent flare-up.

Twenty-five years after September 11, victims and their families are hopeful that newly uncovered records will aid in their decade-long lawsuit against Saudi Arabia.

An unexplained Trump administration hold on construction of a state-federal project aimed at preventing invasive carp from reaching the Great Lakes was abrup...

The Trump administration filed an urgent appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court seeking permission to immediately implement new U.S. Postal Service rules for mail ballots.

Authorities say agent fired into home with people inside, lied about circumstances.

The Trump administration has asked the Supreme Court to lift a temporary block on the U.S. Postal Service plan for President Trump's attempt to restrict mail-in voting for the midterm election.

Asked about the trade war with Canada on Wednesday, President Donald Trump falsely claimed that U.S. banks are not allowed to do business with its neighbor t...

If you’re worried about the bad optics of working with ICE, the federal government is here to help subsidize your recovery from mass deportation conjunctivitis. If you’re worried about the personal negative side effects of buddying up to ICE’s masked kidnappi…

It comes as the White House is touting stopping fraud across the U.S.

New York and New Jersey were hit by an intense nor'easter with blizzard conditions, heavy snow, and strong winds in late February 2026. Governors of both states say the president is politicizing disaster relief. [ more › ]

The Fox News host, who cost the network millions in 2020 election defamation suit, is leaving after over a decade at the network

Rights groups say the measure infringes on the freedom of speech of Americans for the benefit of a foreign nation.

"We increased our prices even further" is an adventurous line of reasoning.

The previously unreported call marks the involvement of one of the world's top tech executives in a fraught White House policy debate.

Fox News suddently announced it had cut ties with anchor Maria Bartiromo after more than a dozen years.

The Constitution keeps getting in the Trump administration's way, so an unholy triumvirate of DHS, DOJ, and whatever RFK Jr is thinks it's found a route around it: keep pregnant foreigners out of the country in the first place, and their kids won't be born ci…

The new model comes with a staggered rollout and strict cybersecurity protections.

Fox News is parting ways with star anchor Maria Bartiromo and said it would "wish her all the best on her next chapter."

OpenAI's next big model is here: GPT-6 Astra. The company calls it a "generational leap in capability" for areas like cybersecurity, professional work, software engineering, science, and computer use. As OpenAI announced earlier this week, it's also the first…

Comments latest swipe by president against critical media coverage of what experts call troubling shortages.

Carney says Canada is ready for a deal that benefits both Canadian and US businesses and workers.

Confronted by an intransigent Iranian government that has refused to back down in the face of a massive military campaign, President Donald Trump appears to...

As midterm elections approach in November, a legal battle is ensuing over attempts to regulate mail-in voting.

An ICE agent has been charged by federal prosecutors with lying about the shooting of a Venezuelan man in Minnesota earlier this year.The Associated Press, citing an unnamed source, reports that officer Christian Castro, who allegedly shot Julio Cesar Sosa-Ce…

On Thursday, 33 Democrats joined Republicans to pass a law that would take federal funding away from academic institutions involved in any kind of boycott of or divestment from Israel. The legislation passed 237–169.The Protect Economic and Academic Freedom A…

Several battleground Republicans told ABC News they either weren't going to the convention or were still undecided.

A little more than a year ago, the Trump administration pushed a novel legal theory in order to juice its migrant arrest stats. It was a two-part process. First, the administration unilaterally declared expansive areas near US military bases to be “national d…

OTTAWA, Sept 3 (Reuters) - Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said on Thursday his government was ready to sign a trade deal with the U.S. that benefits bot...

The Republican Party is once again asking the Supreme Court to change the rules governing US elections in order to make it easier for GOP candidates to prevail in future elections. And this Court, with its 6-3 Republican majority, will likely give the GOP wha…

At least two Republicans in Congress are now calling for Pete Hegesth’s ouster as secretary of defense.Following Army Secretary Dan Driscoll’s resignation on Wednesday, Senator Thom Tillis called for President Trump to fire Hegseth, saying that he has “never …

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 WashingtonIs this district the key to the 2026 midterms?The closely watched rematch in Virgi…

The Trump administration has found a new way to target Black and brown students at American universities—by giving white kids all their money. The Department of Treasury proposed a new rule Thursday that would require the IRS to deny tax-exempt status to any …

Lawyer accuses House panel investigating sex offender of 'fishing expedition' as lawmaker calls for contempt charges.

Trump says the US is helping around 30 ships cross the waterway daily, but ship-tracking data suggests it's fewer.

But with that said, federal prosecutors are still letting ICE agent Christian Castro off easy, charging him only with making false statements.

The Trump administration is proposing a new rule that would strip private schools and colleges of their tax-exempt status if they provide targeted help to st...

Alejandro Betancourt has become the key go-between for the Trump administration, Venezuela’s new regime, and American oil companies.

Frank Seddio has been a central cog in the Brooklyn Democratic party machine for decades. One of the leaders of the Brooklyn Democratic Party, Frank Seddio, is facing scrutiny for the changes because he also happens to be an election commissioner tasked wi…

The government can make Big Tech pay. But it can't make it smaller, which was the point.

Sailors fresh off the USS Abraham Lincoln have some serious concerns about their record-setting deployment. MS NOW’s Priya Sridhar appeared on The Last Word Wednesday night after speaking with some of the 5,000 sailors deployed for nearly 300 days onboard the…

Republican House leadership has announced that the largest U.S. governing body will be taking a massive fall break, seriously cutting legislative calendar before November’s midterm elections. This comes after the House was already out of session for 5 weeks u…

Following the president’s example, Trump officials have taken to saying whatever comes to mind with little regard for the significance of their office, or the truth. Donald Trump defended one such slipup Thursday, shielding Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick a…

President Trump is planning to escalate military action against Iran after November, as his inner circle scrambles to keep him from escalating the Iran war before the midterms. Reuters reports that White House officials want any new offenses in the war to com…

The US vice-president recently mused with a Christian podcast host on whether the end of the world was nigh.

President Donald Trump just let everyone know how he really feels about Ken Paxton.Speaking at a dinner at the White House Rose Garden Wednesday, Trump promised to campaign for the Texas attorney general—but couldn’t resist telling everyone what he actually t…

First they were accused of eating cats. Now Haitian immigrants must face violence back home

The companies say there's no proof anyone was harmed

The Netherlands has $83.7bn worth of gold in domestic and foreign reserves.

When we look back at this time and history words like “courage,” “integrity,” and “ethics” aren’t words you’re going to be associating with U.S. tech industry leadership. Everywhere you look you have tech sector executives either openly embracing fascism and …

This summer’s earthquakes exposed the hollow core of the country’s new, Trump-instated government, leaving ordinary citizens all but alone in recovering from catastrophe.

Among its peers in the Ivy League, Dartmouth was perfectly positioned to resist Trump’s attack on higher education. It chose not to.

A nuanced new history by Mark Mazower reminds us that antisemitism, an age-old threat to Jewish life, can be warped into a political tool—as we see today, when any criticism of Israel can be deemed antisemitic.

A new edition of a manual that helps federal judges understand scientific subjects included a chapter on climate change that was withdrawn after attacks by denialists.

Patients with undiagnosed conditions suffer not only from their symptoms but also from the uncertainly of not knowing what afflicts them.

As AI erodes our attention spans and expressiveness, philosophers like Simone Weil and Arthur Schopenhauer offer profound insights on what it means to be an individual.

A population boom in New Zealand's endangered flightless kakapo parrot demonstrates how species can claw their way back from the brink.

A plan by the Environmental Protection Agency could make it harder for the public to learn about and comment on proposed AI data centers that have sparked a backlash in communities across the country and become a key election issue

America's food-safety system is being methodically dismantled by the Trump administration.

Six vessels transited the Strait of Hormuz Wednesday, down from 11 the day before, according to preliminary Kpler data.

By Mike Dolan Sept 3 (Reuters) - Some calm has returned to world markets over the past 24 hours as oil prices steadied and the angry bond market cooled down...

The anti-Muslim activist outlasts Marjorie Taylor Greene and Kristi Noem in Trump loyalty race.

Texas spent a decade telling data centre developers they were welcome. Now its Republicans are competing over who can regulate them most aggressively, a shift that Reuters reports has put Big Tech on notice in the state that hosts more data centres than any o…

A federal judge in Boston will hear arguments Thursday on whether to extend her prohibition against the U.S. Postal Service requiring states to use a new mai...

By Yasmeen Abutaleb and Dan Levine WASHINGTON, Sept 3 (Reuters) - U.S. Health Secretary Robert F.

Officials worried the rules they were drafting could delay or block ballots from reaching large swaths of voters

Marc Rowan, a Trump appointee overseeing Gaza’s redevelopment, has given $1.5 million to AIPAC’s super PAC this cycle. The post “Board of Peace” Billionaire Backs AIPAC Fund Targeting Pro-Palestine Candidates appeared first on The Intercept.

On Monday the Supreme Court told Donald Trump he can proceed full steam ahead to construct his monstrous ballroom. That’s not because the project is lawful: the per curiam 5-4 order on the shadow docket expressly offered no opinion on the merits. Indeed, ever…

President Donald Trump is building an illegal ballroom on the ruins of the White House’s East Wing, which he destroyed last fall. Congress forbade the construction of any building on federal property in Washington, D.C., “without express authority of Congress…

Accusing the UK government of ‘hypocrisy’, Yair Netanyahu backs Argentina’s claims to the British-held Falkland Islands.

The no-war, no-peace status quo with Iran increasingly benefits the US, its energy sector and its ally Israel.

President Donald Trump has a triumphant message on inflation. Some of his party’s television ads sound very different.

More Venezuelan heavy crude could also increase competition for Canada, a major supplier of heavy oil to US refineries.

Zelenskyy said this week that Russian airspace "will effectively be closing."

Exodus of experienced military leadership continues in the Pentagon, Trump touts Venezuela oil deal as critics question legality, the jury is deadlocked in the trial of Lindsay Clancy.

Beijing's support for Tehran is balanced against other relationships in the region, analysts say.

Former Trump campaign chair says that US President Trump is focused on protecting both the Republican Party and himself.

Top medical groups say current evidence shows these vaccines protect against severe illness and death.

Energy firms sign deals in Caracas, days after Venezuela agreed to grant the US control of a fifth of its oil reserves.

Trump says US can hit Iran 'anytime we want' as Tehran says deadly strikes, including on wedding party, a war crime.

Donald Trump told White House visiting GOP Congressional candidates tonight that “the media has gained respect for us, they cannot believe what we’ve done.” The New York Times might beg to differ, at least when it comes to Artificial Intelligence. Almost a da…

Former Venezuelan leader was abducted by US forces during a military attack on Caracas in January.

Republican Mike Johnson slams Democrats for voting against 'defending the integrity' of the court.

Ruling follows a 6-3 decision from the Supreme Court that found Trump's effort to limit birthright citizenship illegal.

The US president says that renewed fighting with Iran will not last “too long” while claiming control over Hormuz.