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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, 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
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
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
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
President Donald Trump on Sunday, August 16, instructed Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to “substantially reduce” the joint U.S.-South Korea military exercises
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
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
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
Twenty-five states asked a federal trade court on Monday, August 3, 2026, to throw out the Trump administration’s newest tariffs — duties of 10 or 12.5 percent
Todd Blanche, the man President Trump picked to run the Justice Department, spent Sunday night undoing one of Trump’s own initiatives — an apparent effort to clear