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A new national poll from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, released Aug. 31, 2026, finds President Trump’s job approval at 32%, with 64% of respondents
Milo Yiannopoulos, the British far-right commentator and former Breitbart senior editor, was deported to the United Kingdom on Friday, Aug.
President Trump announced on Aug. 28, 2026, what he described as an oil deal giving the United States a 55% effective-output share of a new private joint venture
Sixty-three years to the day after Martin Luther King Jr. stood on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech, thousands of people
President Trump signed an executive order on August 27, 2026, directing the federal government to rename Lake Ontario “Lake America.” Canada said it will keep
The U.S. Secret Service has placed three of its own employees on administrative leave while it investigates what it calls “potential misconduct,” the agency
Mike Mazzei narrowly defeated Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond in Tuesday’s Republican runoff for governor and will face Democratic state Rep. Cyndi
Darline Graham, the South Carolina senator who took her late brother’s seat after his sudden death last month, won the Republican nomination for a full Senate term
The fight over the Kennedy Center just took a sharper turn. In a court filing reported August 25, 2026, Justice Department lawyers told a federal judge that if
As of Aug. 25, 2026, the U.S. Army has gone four months without a confirmed chief of staff — the service’s top uniformed post.
The State Department, working with the Department of Homeland Security, is preparing a plan to revoke B1/B2 visitor visas issued between 2016 and 2026 to people who
The Supreme Court voted 6-3 on Monday, Aug. 24, 2026, to lift a lower-court injunction that had been blocking parts of President Trump’s executive order restricting
House Speaker Mike Johnson headlined a fundraiser for Rep. Thomas Kean Jr. at Hawk Pointe Golf Club in Washington Township, New Jersey, where New York Times
Five senior officials in the Trump administration have announced or been reported as leaving their posts in a roughly two-week span in August 2026: press secretary
A federal judge in New York has thrown out a Trump administration policy that had suspended immigrant visa processing for people from 75 countries, ruling
James Talarico, the Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate seat in Texas, is answering a string of attacks from Republican officials and conservative outlets — some
Maggie Haberman, the veteran New York Times White House correspondent and CNN political analyst, told CNN’s “The Source” on Thursday, August 20, 2026
North Korea fired roughly 10 short-range ballistic missiles from the Pyongyang area toward its eastern waters on August 20, 2026, South Korea’s Joint Chiefs
Michigan Sen. Elissa Slotkin sent letters on Aug. 18, 2026, to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Gen. Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, asking them
Alaska held its statewide primary on August 18, 2026, and the early numbers show Democrat Mary Peltola ahead of Republican incumbent Sen. Dan Sullivan, a crowded