Voices, The Peoples News
August 26, 2026
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# Indigenous
Thousands of Native Americans go missing each year. The FBI hopes increased rewards will help solve cases. As of the end of 2025, there were just under 1,500 active cases involving missing indigenous people, according to the FBI. The Federal Bureau of Investigation set a baseline reward of $25,000 for publicly advertised cases involving kidnappings, homicides, and missing persons in Indian Country.
https://apnews.com/article/missing-murdered-indigenous-native-american-fbi-reward-9d4011000c3d812497322431d0256e69
# Border / Immigration / ICE / Immigrants
Trump’s ICE Has Detained More People Than the Population of Atlanta. Unlike prior administrations, in Trump’s second term, ICE is aggressively arresting people far from the border and detaining them longer.
https://www.themarshallproject.org/2026/08/25/immigrant-detention-trump-ice-thousands-length
Military’s arrest power at southern border grows. What’s behind the change? The military, pushing the bounds of its legally limited domestic role, detains suspected trespassers in these patrolled military zones created by the Trump administration. Now, the administration is arguing that the armed forces can stop such people “just outside” those zones as well.
https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2026/0822/national-defense-areas-military-arrests
Trump Targets U.S Soldier’s Wife With Heartbreaking Deportation. The wife of an active-duty US soldier was deported on Monday to her native Honduras, according to her family and the federal Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/25/soldier-wife-deported-honduras
AP exclusive shows Trump’s immigration crackdown has detained more than 50 military spouses and parents. One way the U.S. military recruits service members is by promoting enlistment as a means of protecting family members from immigration enforcement.
https://www.ap.org/news-highlights/best-of-the-week/second-winner/2026/ap-exclusive-shows-trumps-immigration-crackdown-has-detained-more-than-50-military-spouses-and-parents/
A young immigrant’s deportation nightmare. ICE is going to war against kids who have a special legal status. The plane was stuck on the tarmac of a Louisiana airport, but Yurin Quiroa Ralda, 21, was not particularly eager to take off. He was being deported, based in part on misinterpreted records. And not to his birthplace, Guatemala, but to Ecuador, where he’d never even been.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/08/trump-deferred-action-special-immigrant-juvenile-status-deportations-ice-detention/
# Chemicals / Minerals
Agency’s $140B uranium plan not fully reported to Congress. A federal agency estimated it will cost about $140 billion to enrich uranium for national security through 2105, but hasn’t reported that figure to Congress as required, a watchdog found.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_48477599-aecf-4f97-8746-323343753491.html
# Drugs / Trafficking / DEA / Gangs / Cartels / ATF
Cartels Use New Tactics to Get Drugs Into US: A 1,254-mile line, the length of the Texas-Mexico border, has been drawn and along it, illicit fentanyl is seeping into Texas and claiming lives on an unprecedented scale.
https://comptroller.texas.gov/economy/fiscal-notes/archive/2023/jan/fentanyl.php
# Economy / Finance / Trade / Tariffs / Banking / Taxes / IRS / Cryptocurrencies / Imports
Canada said it’s countering Washington’s levies by imposing dollar-for-dollar counter-tariffs on hundreds of American goods amounting to nearly $20 billion.
https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2026/8/25/canada-hits-us-with-counter-tariffs-targeting-hundreds-of-products
# Employment / Labor / Unions
Agencies backfilled 20,600 employees who left government under the deferred resignation programs, analysis finds. The Office of Personnel Management disputed the findings and countered that the analysis also shows around 85% of the DRP separations were not replaced.
https://www.meritalk.com/articles/agencies-rehired-for-over-20k-roles-after-deferred-resignations-analysis-finds/
# Environment / Infrastructure / EPA / BLM / Public Lands / Water / FEMA / USAID
They’re dousing national forests in Roundup, and the government helped Monsanto rig the science that says it’s safe. A major investigation has confirmed that the U.S. Forest Service and timber companies are spraying record amounts of glyphosate (Roundup) in national forests, while using safety science that was secretly manipulated by Monsanto
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/04/roundup-glyphosate-spraying-forests-monsanto-science-retraction-cancer-health-concerns-maha-trump-executive-order-supreme-court-bayer-lawsuits/
# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Oil / Power Plants
Big Oil Is Seeing Windfall Profits as Trump’s War on Iran Drives Up Prices. Amid the destabilization and devastation caused by the US-Israeli war on Iran, oil executives are raking in billions.
https://truthout.org/articles/big-oil-is-seeing-windfall-profits-as-trumps-war-on-iran-drives-up-prices/
Canada could turn off the lights. Ontario powers 1.5 million American homes and businesses.
https://247wallst.com/investing/2026/08/25/ontario-threatens-to-cut-off-power-to-1-5-million-american-homes-and-businesses-as-trumps-trade-war-intensifies/
‘Moving the Goalposts Again’: Texas Gov. Greg Abbott Sparks Backlash After Deflecting on $2 Gas Promise
https://thenerdstash.com/moving-the-goalposts-again-texas-gov-greg-abbott-sparks-backlash-after-deflecting-on-2-gas-promise/
# Food / Farming / FDA / Agriculture / Ranching / SNAP [Food Stamps] / USDA
Outrage as Trump official refuses to name source of U.S. beef: ‘Why not?’ “About the beef imports, what specific countries have been in talks with the U.S. about stepping up those beef imports, aside from Mexico?” a reporter asked Rollins on Tuesday.
https://newrepublic.com/post/214735/trump-team-imported-beef-origin-backlash
Trump’s beef import plan fuels online theories about horse meat: Two recent reports — one regarding President Donald Trump’s plan to import beef to reduce skyrocketing prices and another exposing the federal government’s role in allowing wild horses to be sold for slaughter — are fueling internet theories that horse meat is being sold to the United States for consumption. [Is this why they’re rounding up the wild mustangs?]
https://www.newsnationnow.com/politics/trump-beef-imports-horse-meat-food-inspection/
Trump’s gray-market beef imports threaten Nevada’s ranches — and your health. If someone tried to sell you discounted meat but refused to tell you where they got it from, would you buy it? Me neither. Anonymously selling a product below market price is rarely a recipe for quality or safety, especially where food is concerned — and food safety has been in the news alarmingly frequently as of late.
https://thenevadaindependent.com/article/opinion-trumps-gray-market-beef-imports-threaten-nevadas-ranches-and-your-health
# General News / Epstein / Maxwell
Missing Epstein Files Found On Popular File-Sharing Site. Reports indicate that dozens of missing FBI witness interviews and records related to the Jeffrey Epstein investigation, including files concerning uncorroborated allegations against Donald Trump, were circulated or discussed online following gaps in the Department of Justice’s public releases
https://hiphopwired.com/3063591/missing-epstein-files-found-on-popular-file-sharing-site/
Bad news for Epstein confederate Ghislaine Maxwell. A federal judge in New York on Tuesday cited “overwhelming” evidence of Maxwell’s guilt in rejecting her pro se request to overturn her sex trafficking conviction and free her from federal prison. The U.S. Senate has unanimously passed a bipartisan resolution strictly opposing any presidential pardon, commutation, or executive clemency for convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsosCQ9D7kY
Trump DOJ Takes Epstein Files Fight to Appeals Court — as Lawyers Discuss Nearly 100 Examples of Handwritten FBI Interview Notes
https://www.aol.com/articles/exclusive-trump-doj-takes-epstein-235500000.html
# Gov / Politics / US
‘The writing on the wall’: Trump’s staff departs ahead of possible turmoil. Press secretary Karoline Leavitt and his top liaison to Congress James Braid are both leaving. But the forces that made their jobs tough aren’t changing.
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/08/23/the-writing-on-the-wall-trumps-staff-departs-ahead-of-possible-turmoil-01046424
Coming soon to a desert near you: Election denial festival. Election denialism remains a potent force in American politics, frequently concentrated in rural and desert battlegrounds like parts of Arizona
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/the-election-deniers-influencing-trumps-anti-voting-policy-from-outside-the-white-house/
The election deniers influencing Trump’s anti-voting policy from the outside
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/the-election-deniers-influencing-trumps-anti-voting-policy-from-outside-the-white-house/
Trump Officials Attended a Summit of Election Deniers Who Want the President to Take Over the Midterms
https://www.propublica.org/article/election-denier-summit-trump-midterms
Trump’s all-out assault on free and fair elections undermines trust in democracy | Editorial
The president is working feverishly to tilt the playing field to ensure Republicans win.
https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/editorials/elections-interference-trump-voting-rights-save-act-20260710.html
Election Denialism Becoming Institutionalized in US Politics
The article, titled “The Election Deniers Are Winning,” examines how individuals who promoted false claims about the 2020 presidential election have gained influence in local governments, election oversight efforts and federal politics.
https://davisvanguard.org/2026/05/election-denial-movement-gaining-influence/
SAVE America Act supporters clamoring for U.S. Senate to pass bill. When Congress returns in September, it faces a backlog of legislative priorities including major bills funding U.S. farms, road and water infrastructure, and the entire federal government. SAVE America Act supporters, are reiterating demands that Senate Republican leadership take extraordinary measures to force the House-passed bill through the upper chamber.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_07067d54-8552-4c4d-8a77-830c3dfd4c01.html
Trump’s schedule raises major question about who’s running the country: “Today, we can’t even identify five hours of work, three closed-door events, a prerecorded interview, and signing time,” Pakman said. He argued that it leaves a glaring gap at the center of the presidency.
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-schedule/
Justice Department Releases Opinion on Military Arrests Near Borders. The Office of Legal Counsel asserted that arrests by military personnel near national defense areas do not violate the Posse Comitatus Act.
https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/justice-department-releases-opinion-on-military-arrests-near-borders
The Trump administration offers a dangerous and wrong new opinion of the Posse Comitatus Act. The Office of Legal Counsel’s Aug. 14 memo “purports to be a straightforward application of statute and long-standing executive and judicial practices to authorize an incremental increase in military authority. It is not.
https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/olc-s-dangerous–and-wrong–opinion-about-the-posse-comitatus-act
Court Finds Trump’s Use of Soldiers in Los Angeles Is Illegal. The historic ruling shows how states can push back against the president’s use of the military as a domestic police force.
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/court-finds-trumps-use-soldiers-los-angeles-illegal
Sen. Padilla Calls for No Federal Troops, Federal Law Enforcement, No ICE at Polling Sites as Trump Says He’d Do “Anything Necessary” for “Honest Elections”
https://www.newsbreak.com/combat-rated-361333999/4849117700094-sen-padilla-calls-for-no-federal-troops-federal-law-enforcement-no-ice-at-polling-sites-as-trump-says-he-d-do-anything-necessary-for-honest-elections
First-Ever Republican Midterm Convention Turning Into “Shit Show”: The National Republican Campaign Committee is having a tough time organizing its convention, which is just days away. The Republican Party’s first-ever midterm convention is quickly becoming a Trump-style grift.
https://newrepublic.com/post/214712/first-ever-republican-midterm-convention-turning-shit-show
‘It’s Coming’: Trump’s supporters brace for possible ‘national emergency’ to oversee US midterm elections
https://www.newsbreak.com/knewz-1594593/4848947980819-it-s-coming-trump-s-supporters-brace-for-possible-national-emergency-to-oversee-us-midterm-elections
# Global News
Putin ‘clears schedule’ as CIA chief makes secret trip to Moscow on US military jet as Ukraine ‘warned to halt strikes.’ The spy boss was reportedly on board the US military jet that mysteriously landed in Russia today.
https://www.the-sun.com/news/16893413/us-military-plane-lands-moscow-kremlin-no-info/
# Law / Law Enforcement / Prisons / FBI / CIA / ATF / DEA
A Texas Constable Unplugged the Surveillance State From His County – One Camera at a Time. In mid-August 2026, Hood County Constable John D. Shirley posted photos to Facebook that looked like crime scene evidence—except the cameras were the suspects. Bagged, unplugged, neutralized.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/texas-constable-unplugged-surveillance-state-163903265.html
# Legal / DOJ / ICJ / International Criminal Court [ICC] / Supreme Court / United Nations (UN)
Judge notices Trump admin ‘creating’ a mail-in ballot ’emergency’ after ‘courts were closed,’ demands immediate answers
https://ladd.law.wisc.edu/2026/08/24/judge-notices-trump-admin-creating-a-mail-in-ballot-emergency-after-courts-were-closed-demands-immediate-answers/
Judge demands answers from Trump admin over its apparent violation of court order while surveilling church. The case boils down to religious freedoms protected by the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) and the First Amendment that groups have argued DHS and its subagency, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), have broken in their apparent attempts at immigration enforcement in the U.S.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/judge-demands-answers-dhs-over-160847663.html
Judge busts Trump admin violating her order — as it told Supreme Court the opposite. A federal judge ruled Monday that President Donald Trump’s administration violated her court order blocking new mail-in ballot restrictions, catching officials making contradictory claims to different courts within weeks of each other.
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-court-2677777856/
DOJ warns Kennedy Center will be torn down and replaced with amphitheater if renovation canceled: Without Trump’s name, Kennedy Center may need to be demolished, DOJ says. Justice Department attorneys argued that if President Donald Trump’s name does not appear somewhere on the Kennedy Center, then the money from donors for renovations would shrivel up and the “decrepit, dilapidated” cultural center may be “required to be taken down.”
https://spectrumlocalnews.com/me/maine/politics/2026/08/26/kennedy-center-faces-being-demolished-without-trump-name-department-of-justice
Lawsuit claims disgraced Houston cop’s lies landed another man in prison for 7 years. Byron Prophet has filed a federal civil rights lawsuits against the Houston Police Department and convicted murderer Gerald Goines
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/crime/article/byron-prophet-goines-harding-civil-right-lawsuit-22400127.php
# Medical / Biologicals / Research / CDC / Recalls / Nursing / Medications / Hospitals / Pharma
‘This shouldn’t be happening’: Kids dying of treatable illness as red state does nothing: Republicans’ $1 trillion in cuts to Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act, alongside ripping away health care tax credits, mean 3 million children are expected to lose Medicaid coverage, with another 500,000 expected to go uninsured after losing tax credits, all to fund tax breaks for billionaires and big corporations.
https://www.protectourcare.org/sick-of-it-spotlight-republicans-health-care-cuts-are-making-kids-sicker/
California Parents Of Baby Delivered By Surrogate McKenna West Says He’s In Critical Condition After Heart Surgery Upon Delivery In Texas. Baby Gabriel was diagnosed before birth with hypoplastic left heart syndrome, a serious congenital heart defect.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/state/texas/2026/08/25/mckenna-west-surrogacy-baby-gabriel-rumi-texas-abortion/91458846007/
# Military / Department of Defense [DOD] / NATO / Boat Strikes
Six Months On, 1,300 U.S. Navy Family Members Are Paying the Price for the Pentagon’s Refusal To Admit the Bahrain Base Is Permanently Compromised
https://www.themarysue.com/six-months-on-1300-u-s-navy-family-members-are-paying-the-price-for-the-pentagons-refusal-to-admit-the-bahrain-base-is-permanently-compromised/
‘Bombs away!’ Hegseth axed program that kept troops from killing civilians: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gutted a key Pentagon program he viewed as “woke” after every top military commander rebuffed his push to dismantle it, according to a new ProPublica investigation.
https://www.rawstory.com/pete-hegseth-2677775271/
Hegseth’s Purge of Top Generals Leaves the Army Rudderless. The leadership vacuum comes as the Army is trying to adapt to a new kind of war dominated by deadly drones.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/25/us/hegseth-purge-army-generals.html
Navy Issues Unusual Warning to Personnel. Acting Navy Secretary Hung Cao has advised Navy sailors, Marines, and civilian employees to remove any content on social media linking them with the Navy and to report suspicious activity.
https://www.military.com/navy-notice-officially-warns-sailors-faimilies-to-scrub-social-media-of-military-ties
Fleet of ‘doomsday planes’ spotted over US hours after CIA boss visits Moscow: Flight trackers spotted five Boeing E-6 Mercury aircraft, also known as the doomsday plane because they can survive a nuclear attack, hours after an American plane landed in Moscow. This triggered speculation about the purpose of the mystery landing.
https://www.wionews.com/world/5-doomsday-planes-spotted-in-us-skies-hours-after-cia-director-s-secret-trip-to-russia-1787717232847
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategic Readiness Ron Moeller announced his resignationn, stating that he had always planned to serve a one-year term under Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth
https://www.wonderwall.com/politics/ron-moeller-resigns-under-pete-hegseth/#google_vignette
# Military / Global
Germany investigates arms cache found in woods near Berlin. Handguns and ammunition were found in a forest near Berlin last year. Reports say German authorities suspect they were to be used for assassinations on behalf of Russian intelligence.
https://www.dw.com/en/germany-weapons-berlin-russia-arms/a-78371750
# NASA / Space
NASA’s Roman Space Telescope will reveal the universe in a way the JWST and Hubble cannot
News. “The images it captures will be so large there is not a screen in existence large enough to show them.”
https://www.space.com/astronomy/the-roman-space-telescope-will-reveal-the-universe-in-a-way-the-jwst-and-hubble-cannot
# NOAA
Heat dome triggers extreme warnings as more than 50 million Americans face dangerous temperatures. A powerful heat dome is trapping a massive ridge of high pressure over the South and Southwest, placing tens of millions of Americans under extreme heat warnings with temperatures soaring near or above 115°F to 118°F
https://voz.us/en/society/260826/38599/dangerous-heat-dome-threatens-to-bring-record-breaking-temperatures-to-the-southwestern-part-of-the-country.html
# Science / Research
3 teens win global prize for tamarind seed powder that pulls microplastics from water. They wanted something that could work in places without access to advanced water-treatment technology.
https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/3-teens-win-global-earth-prize-for-inventing-tamarind-powder-that-easily-removes-microplastics/
This High School Student Invented a Filter That Eliminates 96 Percent of Microplastics From Drinking Water. Virginia teenager Mia Heller’s filtration system harnesses the power of ferrofluid, a magnetic oil that binds to microplastics in flowing water
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/this-high-school-student-invented-a-filter-that-eliminates-96-percent-of-microplastics-from-drinking-water-180988363/
2 teens won $50,000 for inventing a device that can filter toxic microplastics from water
https://www.businessinsider.com/teens-win-fifty-thousand-for-ultrasound-microplastic-filtration-device-2024-5
# Security / DHS / Communication / Surveillance / Data Centers / Secret Service
Flock cameras let New York police collude with ICE, report shows. A new investigative report reveals that local police departments across New York have been using Flock Safety automated license plate reader (ALPR) cameras to search and share vehicle data with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
https://statescoop.com/new-york-police-flock-data-search-ice/
# Veterans / VA
VA just changed the rules for veterans whose records burned in a fire
https://www.yahoo.com/news/videos/va-just-changed-rules-veterans-162224473.html
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