Trump Calls Canada’s Dollar “Unacceptable” Two Days Before Its Retaliatory Tariffs Took Effect
President Trump posted on Truth Social on Sunday, September 6, 2026
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Judge Orders DOJ to Name Who Built Trump’s Now-Rescinded $1.8 Billion “Anti-Weaponization Fund”
On September 4, 2026, a federal magistrate judge ordered the Justice Department to disclose who designed the structure of the “Anti-Weaponization Fund” — the $1.776
US Strikes Iran’s IRGC Targets Again, and Iran Reports a Deadly Hit on a Wedding Gathering
US Central Command said its forces carried out a new wave of strikes on Iranian military targets on Monday, Sept.
UMass Amherst Poll: Trump’s Approval Falls to 32%, With Pollsters Citing the Iran War and Inflation as Drivers
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
Trump Says US Has Secured Majority Control of Venezuela’s Oil Reserves, but Key Details Remain Undisclosed
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
Trump Renames Lake Ontario ‘Lake America’ by Executive Order; Canada Refuses to Recognize It
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
Darline Graham Wins South Carolina Senate Runoff, Defeating Ralph Norman With Trump’s Backing
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
Justice Department Says Kennedy Center Could Be Demolished if Trump’s Renovation Plan Is Blocked in Court
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
Karoline Leavitt and Four Other Senior Trump Officials Are Leaving the White House in August and September
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
XRP Rallied After a White House Crypto Summit, Then Crashed 37% Days Later
XRP spent the past week swinging from a rally tied to a White House meeting on crypto regulation to a sudden crash that wiped out roughly $500 million in leveraged
Bitcoin Tops $75,000 in Its Best Week in Years, Driven by a Treasury Bond Move, a Short Squeeze and Fresh ETF Buying
Bitcoin pushed past $75,000 on Friday, August 21, its highest level in several months, capping what Bloomberg described as its biggest single-week gain in roughly
Maggie Haberman Says the Secret Service Was ‘Alarmed’ by a Trump Aide’s Letters to Him
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 Fires About 10 Missiles Hours After Trump Says He Expects to Meet Kim Jong Un This Year
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
Kyle Kirkwood Wins IndyCar’s Freedom 250, the First Race Ever Run on the National Mall
Kyle Kirkwood won IndyCar’s Freedom 250 Grand Prix, the first NTT INDYCAR SERIES race ever run on the streets of Washington, D.C., leading 128 of 147 laps
Supreme Court Temporarily Lets White House Ballroom Construction Resume While It Weighs the Case
The White House ballroom project, for which the East Wing was demolished, is before the Supreme Court while the justices decide whether above-ground construction
Trump Pushes Senate to Pass Bill That Would Make Daylight Saving Time Permanent
President Trump used a Truth Social post over the weekend of August 15-16, 2026 to press the Senate to act on a bill that would end the twice-yearly clock change
Trump Orders Pentagon to Scale Back South Korea War Games, But They Start on Schedule
President Donald Trump on Sunday, August 16, instructed Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to “substantially reduce” the joint U.S.-South Korea military exercises
NORAD Says F-16s Intercepted Two Planes That Entered Trump’s Bedminster No-Fly Zone
Two general aviation aircraft flew into the restricted airspace over President Trump’s golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, on Sunday, August 9, 2026, and NORAD
Trump’s Struck-Down Tariffs: $100 Billion in Refunds Is Headed Back to Importers — Not to Shoppers
The federal government has certified roughly $100 billion in refunds of the tariffs the Supreme Court struck down in February and moved the money to the U.S
Judge Who Sentenced Stewart Rhodes to 18 Years Dismisses the Last January 6 Prosecution — Under Protest
The last criminal case from the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol is closed — and the judge who closed it wanted everyone to know he disagreed