Voices, The Peoples News
August 13, 2026
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# Border / Immigration / ICE / Immigrants
Detained at His Own Front Door, Now Paralyzed in a Texas Hospital Bed: Inside the Gabriel Johnson Case: A Cary pastor’s stroke in federal detention has left him partially paralyzed and set off a bitter dispute between his family and DHS over medical care, his record, and his right to stay in the U.S.
https://www.latintimes.com/detained-his-own-front-door-now-paralyzed-texas-hospital-bed-inside-gabriel-johnson-case-598538
State Department launches new birth tourism prevention task force initiative. The U.S. State Department has launched a new Birth Tourism Prevention Task Force.
https://www.state.gov/releases/office-of-the-spokesperson/2026/08/state-department-establishes-task-force-to-end-birth-tourism/
ICE refuses to disclose records on Ilhan Omar fraud probe, cites ongoing ‘enforcement proceedings.’
It’s All in the Family: The agency claims that releasing documents related to an investigation into the lawmaker’s alleged immigration fraud would, under the law, interfere with “enforcement proceedings
https://justthenews.com/government/federal-agencies/ice-refuses-turn-over-records-ilhan-omar-fraud-probe-cites-ongoing
ICE Reveals Horrific Plan to Outfit Agents With Electrocution Torture Gloves: Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s plan to give officers gloves that deliver painful electric shocks faced criticism Wednesday from Democratic elected officials and civil rights advocates, who called it unnecessary and cruel. ICE plans to spend between $10 million and $20 million to outfit officers and agents with “conductive distraction and de-escalation devices,” according to a notice published Monday
https://www.kcra.com/article/ices-plan-electric-shock-gloves-outrage-fears-misuse/73417199
Asylum seeker says he choked on his own blood while being force-fed by ICE over the course of eight months while detained: ‘Shoved the tube so hard it tore my nose’: Kurdish film-maker recounts ‘inhumane’ ICE force-feeding
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/10/ice-force-feeding-detention-gabar-choli
# Bugs / Parasites
More cases of parasitic screwworm confirmed. Here’s who is at risk, where it’s spreading. The screwworm flies can lay eggs on any warm-blooded animal, including people. Those eggs develop into parasitic larvae, or maggots, that feed on the surrounding flesh as they burrow deeper.
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/6023520-more-cases-of-parasitic-screwworm-confirmed-heres-who-is-at-risk-where-its-spreading/
Coroner warns of ‘amputation and death’ from flesh-eating bacteria near Southeast Texas
https://fox4beaumont.com/news/local/coroner-warns-of-amputation-and-death-from-flesh-eating-bacteria-near-southeast-texas
# Employment / Labor / Unions
State Department expands push to reclassify employees as at-will worker. An expanded search for more Schedule Policy/Career conversions is still in its early stages, but a department employee says the effort is “moving relatively fast.”
https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2026/08/state-department-expands-push-reclassify-employees-will-workers/415385/?oref=ge-home-top-story
# Environment / Infrastructure / EPA / BLM / Public Lands / Water / FEMA / USAID
Iceland injects captured CO₂ into volcanic rock, and within about two years, the gas literally turns into stone. The carbon turns into solid stone rather than remaining a pressurized gas in underground pockets, the risk of leakage back into the atmosphere is essentially eliminated, removing the need for centuries of active monitoring
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_i4IQEFJd0
The EPA Doesn’t Typically Retest Homes in the Country’s Largest Residential Lead Superfund Site. So We Did. Decades after the last plume of lead-laced smoke rose from a smelting plant in Omaha, Nebraska, the Flatwater Free Press and ProPublica found lead in concentrations that pose a threat to people’s health in soil throughout east Omaha.
https://www.propublica.org/article/omaha-nebraska-lead-testing-superfund-methodology
# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Oil / Power Plants
Third Gulf oil lease auction in 8 months brings in $82.7M: The federal government’s auction of offshore oil leases in the Gulf of America on Wednesday brought in $82.7 million in high bids, as participating companies showed strong interest in waters just off the south Texas coast
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_e607e067-d6c1-493d-8047-ec17bda27b2d.html
# General News / Epstein / Maxwell
Frantic Trump is stoking a raging news cycle to bury this new Epstein scandal: Finally, Republicans are taking Trump’s Epstein crisis seriously — and literally. Trump’s existential Epstein crisis has its roots in Republican lawmakers daring to, for once, take the president at his word.
https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/5610836-trump-can-only-blame-himself-for-the-inevitable-fallout-over-epstein/
Ghislaine Maxwell Loses Bid to Block Release of Jeffrey Epstein Victim Files as Judge Orders Records Unsealed. The depositions ordered unsealed on Tuesday pursuant to the Epstein Files Transparency Act formed the basis for two since-dismissed perjury counts of a superseding indictment brought against Jeffrey Epstein’s former girlfriend and longtime sex trafficking partner, Ghislaine Maxwell.
https://courthousenews.com/new-york-judge-orders-unsealing-of-ghislaine-maxwell-related-grand-jury-subpoenas/
# Gov / Politics / US
‘God’s money’: White House enrages with vow that public cash belongs to evangelicals. A Trump administration faith official, Dave Donaldson, sparked outrage during a federal funding webinar when he argued that taxpayer money ultimately does not belong to citizens, stating, “Government’s money is God’s money”.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/01/evangelical-mega-donors/578563/
Kash Patel vows to carry out ‘Russia’s bidding in plain sight’ in new letter: legal expert
https://www.rawstory.com/kash-patel-russia-2677699760/
‘Unthinkable’ offer in Trump DOJ case floors ex-prosecutor: ‘Are you on crack?’ A former prosecutor was stunned that lawyers for an Indian billionaire offered the Justice Department a $10 billion investment in exchange for dropping criminal fraud charges. The corruption is in plain sight, but the republicans in Congress won’t do a damn thing about it.
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-doj-2677699559/
When a New York Times reporter asked President Trump about the lucrative business deals he is making while in office, he said: “I found out that nobody cared.” Donald Trump has earned billions of dollars through business ventures and investments since returning to the White House, according to financial disclosures and independent tracking. Ethics experts and political opponents argue this creates unprecedented conflicts of interest, while his administration maintains he has no conflicts
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/qKFUg0Qq5Po
The government should be working for you. Not working to make President Trump richer. It should be illegal for a president to use their position to expand their personal wealth, but right now it isn’t. Trump has amassed staggering wealth in ‘most openly corrupt’ presidency in Washington DC. Ethics experts and Democrats express alarm as Trump uses office to grow his personal fortune to ‘unprecedented’ level
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/13/trump-presidency-revenue-wealth
Docs: Intel operation labeled top GOP leaders Russian disinformation ‘conduits.’ Newly declassified documents from the White House transparency task force reveal several top Republican and conservative figures were labeled “conduits” for Russian disinformation
https://www.aol.com/articles/docs-intel-operation-labeled-top-175900000.html
Congressman Chides Trump: “You Are the Only President in American History to Start and Lose a War by Yourself”
https://www.newsbreak.com/2paragraphs-news-308815884/4823333852003-congressman-chides-trump-you-are-the-only-president-in-american-history-to-start-and-lose-a-war-by-yourself
Trump lawyers seek ‘immediate’ halt to judge’s ‘gag order’ that ‘wrongly silences the sitting President’ without any ‘proof of collusion’
https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2026/08/11/multiple-uss-abraham-lincoln-sailors-have-tried-to-go-overboard-amid-extended-deployment-families-say/
# Media / Press / Mail / Radio / TV
Foul-mouthed pundit tops list to replace fleeing White House press secretary: sources
https://www.rawstory.com/leavitt-leaving-white-house/
# Medicare / Medicaid / Disability Benefits / Health and Human Services [HHS]
At least four more insurers are pulling back from Medicare Advantage for 2027 as medical costs climb
https://www.beckerspayer.com/payer/medicare-advantage/5-insurers-stepping-back-from-medicare-advantage/
# Medical Alternatives / Medical Marijuana / Hemp / CBD
Texas hemp-derived THC ban hits businesses as Senate candidates clash over policy. Supporters of the law argue it is necessary to protect consumers from potentially dangerous products, while opponents say it limits access to products many Texans use for wellness purposes and could hurt small businesses.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/texas-hemp-derived-thc-ban-001217371.html
# Military / Department of Defense [DOD] / NATO / Boat Strikes
Pentagon Confirms US Military Killed 153 Civilians, Wounded 243 in 2025 — Says It Was “More Likely Than Not” That U.S. Forces Caused the Harm
https://apnews.com/article/yemen-civilians-killed-pentagon-houthis-c5e2190729a93aa54f6a4d5d1232fce3
US and allies ask for 24-hour advance warning after China’s ballistic missile test. The joint statement warns that such tests increase the risk of miscalculation and undermine global stability and security
The United States and 40 other countries have issued a statement urging advance notice of missile launches after China test-fired a nuclear-capable missile last month.
https://www.newsweek.com/us-demands-missile-launch-warning-after-china-test-12313217
Multiple Sailors Aboard USS Abraham Lincoln Attempt to Jump Overboard During Record 250+ Day Deployment With No End Date in Sight
https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2026/08/11/multiple-uss-abraham-lincoln-sailors-have-tried-to-go-overboard-amid-extended-deployment-families-say/
# Nuclear
Scientists Finally Inspect 200,000 Radioactive Waste Barrels Dumped in the Atlantic Decades Ago.
More than 200,000 barrels of low-level radioactive waste were dumped in the Northeast Atlantic between the mid-20th century and the early 1980s. Now, decades later, French scientists have gone nearly 4,700 meters (15,400 feet) below the surface to see what happened to them.
https://www.earth.com/environment/scientists-found-200000-barrels-of-leaking-radioactive-waste/
# Security / DHS / Communication / Surveillance / Data Centers / Secret Service
Every one of this town’s Flock cameras was cut down. Public backlash against license plate readers is escalating
https://www.newsnationnow.com/crime/flock-cameras-stolen-minnesota-town-controversy/
# Sports
This national youth sports organization is failing to protect kids from sexual abuse. Investigations pointed to instances where leadership historically failed to rigorously investigate or interview key witnesses during internal reviews of misconduct allegations
https://www.propublica.org/article/aau-youth-sports-sexual-abuse-failure-amateur-athletic-union
# Technology / Robotics / AI
AI isn’t making you dumber. But it may be changing how you think. Researchers are split on whether relying on AI is eroding our critical thinking — or just changing it. Here’s what they actually found.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/ai-making-us-dumber-learning-skills-risk
OpenAI’s “Head of Ethics” Suddenly Leaves Company Under Mysterious Circumstances
The timing couldn’t be worse. Or sketchier.
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/openais-head-of-ethics-leaves-company
# Transportation / Trucking
Transportation Secretary: The Air Traffic Controller Crisis Is History, Now That I’ve Hired Thousands of Epic Gamers
https://futurism.com/advanced-transport/air-traffic-controller-gamers
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