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August 8, 2026, PM
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# Border / Immigration / ICE / Immigrants
ICE Shot Two More Men With No Cameras: Senate Says February Pledges Were Never Kept
https://www.techtimes.com/articles/323310/20260806/ice-shot-two-more-men-no-cameras-senate-says-february-pledges-were-never-kept.htm
Airlines Block ICE From Boarding Planes for Arrests: Airline workers reportedly decline to help US agents as Trump migrant crackdown accelerates
Expansion of immigration enforcement at US airports puts employees at odds with agents seeking 2,000 daily arrests
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/06/airline-workers-agents-immigration-crackdown
‘Not to make a scene’: The Trump administration “coerced” a 20-year-old legal resident of the U.S. to sign a document that would enable the government to deport him, a judge ruled this week.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/ice-coerced-legal-resident-signing-151623303.html
An ICE detainee from New Jersey dies a day after calling his mother from the detention center to say he was unwell
https://wegotthiscovered.com/politics/an-ice-detainee-from-new-jersey-dies-a-day-after-calling-his-mother-from-the-detention-center-to-say-he-was-unwell/
Judge clears way for Trump to deport 350,000 Haitians to a country deemed unsafe. The order complies with a Supreme Court ruling but leaves a racial discrimination claim against the administration alive
https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/080626_haitian_deportations/judge-clears-way-trump-deport-350000-haitians-country-deemed-unsafe/
# Economy / Finance / Trade / Tariffs \ Banking / Taxes / IRS / Cryptocurrencies
South Korean Company Facing Federal Trade Investigation Paid Trump’s Holding Company $2 Million Last Year
https://newrepublic.com/post/213058/foreign-company-trade-dispute-paid-trump-millions
[Video] Former Donald Trump Aide Sarah Matthews Claims The President Is ‘gaslighting’ Americans On The Economy: ‘it’s A Slap In The Face’
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/6005802-matthews-accuses-trump-economy-gaslighting/
# Education / Schools / Libraries and Museums
RFK Jr says Head Start is his family legacy. Critics say he’s gutting the program that lifts kids out of poverty. Donald Trump’s top health official is planning to overhaul the program by throwing out regulations and policies that have built it up in the years after it was founded more than 60 years ago during Johnson’s war on poverty.
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/rfk-head-start-program-trump-administration-b3028867.html
# Employment / Labor / Unions
Mass layoffs slam Texas as unemployment rates rise. Texas unemployment rate surpasses the national average, approaching 5%.
https://www.mysanantonio.com/business/article/mass-layoffs-texas-22375609.php
# Environment / Infrastructure / EPA / BLM / Public Lands / Water / FEMA / USAID
A federal officer fired a Taser at a man pumping gas and the horrifying footage shows what happened next. Clarence “Chuck” Coyl recorded his interaction with a U.S. Fish and Wildlife officer at a gas station on the Fort Mojave Indian Reservation in Arizona on July 18, according to AZ Family and 12 News. Civil rights lawyer Ben Crump has also shared a video, seemingly from a bystander, of the same incident.
https://people.com/video-shows-man-catching-fire-screaming-taser-officer-12035205
Officials will not release cool water from a Colorado River reservoir to protect threatened fish. Federal officials said Thursday they will not release cool water this year from one of the Colorado River’s major reservoirs, which would have protected a threatened native fish downstream but put more strain on already struggling hydropower production
https://www.chron.com/news/article/officials-will-not-release-cool-water-from-a-22378445.php
Juliana Leon Died in a Climate-Linked Heat Wave. Her Daughter Is Suing Big Oil. This case is reportedly the first to hold Big Oil accountable for an individual’s death in a climate-related disaster.
https://truthout.org/articles/juliana-leon-died-in-a-climate-linked-heat-wave-her-daughter-is-suing-big-oil/
FBI investigates cyberattacks on water systems in several states. Michigan has joined Minnesota and other states across the country reporting cyberattacks targeting municipal water systems.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_39fb31bc-35bf-431f-880f-dfb2c774200b.html
# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Oil / Power Plants
Chevron seeks to nullify $744M verdict over coastal damage. Chevron asked a federal appeals court Wednesday to move a Plaquemines Parish coastal damage case into federal court, a step the company says would erase a $744.6 million state jury verdict against it.
https://www.aol.com/articles/chevron-seeks-nullify-744m-verdict-192900000.html
Regulators approve $5.2B Mississippi-to-Georgia gas pipeline. Federal regulators on Friday approved a combined multi-billion-dollar natural gas pipeline expansion crossing Mississippi and Alabama primarily intended to feed growing energy markets in Georgia.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/alabama/article_b202f09f-5b05-4183-b6dd-a9f36c1f8633.html
# Gov / Politics / US
The Senate has adjourned and will return in September. The U.S. Senate adjourned early Saturday morning for a five-week August recess after passing a stopgap government funding bill, confirming Todd Blanche as attorney general, and deferring major votes on election and college sports legislation until they return in the fall.
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/6018324-senate-adjourns-funding-blanche-budget-save-america/
Todd Blanche confirmed: Trump’s former criminal lawyer becomes attorney general. Major win for president as former personal lawyer wins approval despite outcry over $1.8bn slush fund
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/08/todd-blanche-attorney-general-confirmed
Democratic senators did not force erroneous votes to protect Dr. Anthony Fauci. Instead, they offered procedural motions to table or delay the contempt resolution so the panel could consult legal experts and hear from Fauci’s legal counsel regarding his invocation of the Fifth Amendment.
https://abcnews.com/Politics/senate-committee-votes-hold-fauci-contempt-congress/story?id=135422327
‘We have a sick country’: Conservative analyst unloads on MAGA
https://www.alternet.org/trump-maga-gop-midterms-economy/
Texas ‘Trump Train’ Case Puts 150-Year-Old KKK Act Before Federal Appeals Court
https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/trump-train-organizer-asks-appeals-110001846.html
Schumer says Trump’s $275 billion battleship fleet with the president’s name on them is a “waste of time and money” driven by “egomania and narcissism” — “not a single penny to lower costs for the American people”
https://tribune.com.pk/story/2622459/senate-minority-leader-criticizes-trumps-proposed-golden-fleet-battleships-as-costly-vanity-project
The Trump Administration Has Lost 75 of 93 First Amendment Cases, Report Finds. The cases involved challenges to the administration’s violations of religious freedom, the free press, and free speech.
https://truthout.org/articles/the-trump-administration-has-lost-75-of-93-first-amendment-cases-report-finds/
Trump Threatens Severe “Treason” Charges Against “Leakers” in Truth Social Rant: “Long term jail sentences will be sought!” Trump promised in an online post.
https://truthout.org/articles/trump-threatens-severe-treason-charges-against-leakers-in-truth-social-rant/
Rep. Max Miller’s scandals keep getting worse: Rep. Max Miller (R-Ohio) is facing mounting calls to resign and drop out of his reelection campaign following severe domestic abuse allegations from multiple women
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/6015595-gop-misconduct-allegations-midterms/
# Medicare / Medicaid / Disability Benefits / Health and Human Services [HHS]
UF Health patients with United Healthcare could lose coverage if two sides can’t come to terms before Sept. 1 deadline. United says it’s planning to present another proposal Aug. 30
https://www.news4jax.com/news/local/2024/08/30/uf-health-patients-with-united-healthcare-could-lose-coverage-if-two-sides-cant-come-to-terms-before-sept-1-deadline/
Clear Spring Health has pulled out of Medicare Advantage entirely, ending its plans in Illinois, Georgia and Colorado
https://www.beckerspayer.com/payer/medicare-advantage/illinois-payer-to-shutter-medicare-advantage-plans-in-24-days/
# Medical / Biologicals / Research / CDC / Recalls / Nursing / Medications / Hospitals / Pharma
Trump Administration Ends Medicare Drug Subsidies, Will Lead To Spike In Drug Premiums For Seniors
https://apnews.com/article/medicare-drug-subsidy-trump-biden-insurance-3d3fdb43b1bf374a1a168506fded86c0
AI Model Invents Completely New Viruses Unknown to Nature: “Although [it’s] promising for life sciences applications, it also raises urgent biosafety and biosecurity questions. The ability to compose viral genomes using generative AI now exists; the governance to safely steer it does not.”
— Tom Inglesby and Moritz Hanke, Center for Health Security, Johns Hopkins University
https://futurism.com/health-medicine/ai-creates-new-virus
A better flu vaccine is possible, if Team RFK Jr. stays out of the way. Flu season is inevitable. This year’s could be better.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2026/08/flu-shot-rfk-jr-maha-mflusiva-vaccine.html
# Military / Department of Defense [DOD] / NATO / Boat Strikes
Pentagon revokes former Air Force secretary’s access to classified intel, citing Air Force One leak
https://www.newsnationnow.com/politics/pentagon-leak-air-force-secretary/
Families outraged after US Navy refuses to salvage sunken fishing vessel and retrieve the six people who died aboard
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/navy-sunken-fishing-vessel-crew-member-recovery-b3028749.html
# Military / Global
AN EXPLOSIVE-laden drone found at a German airport shows Vladimir Putin is prepared to take down a European passenger jet, an expert has warned. Panic broke out at Leipzig Airport on Wednesday after a rigged drone was discovered near a fleet of Ukrainian cargo planes.
https://www.the-sun.com/news/16801824/putin-jet-europe-russian-drone-airport/
# Social Services Programs / Social Security / Disability / AFDC (Aid for dependant children)
New Fiscal Commission Proposal Raises Fresh Concerns for Social Security: The Senate Finance Committee debated whether to use a commission to help resolve Social Security’s pending insolvency. The Social Security Old-Age and Survivors Insurance (OASI) Trust Fund is currently projected to pay only 78% of benefits around the end of 2032.
https://www.napa-net.org/news/2026/8/lawmakers-debate-social-security-commission-proposal/
# UFO / UAP Disclosure
Video shows US military tracking what appears to be mysterious object flying over Middle East in 2025
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/video-shows-us-military-tracking-what-appears-mysterious-object-flying-over-middle-east-2025
# Veterans / VA
Their military careers were cut short in combat. Now they’re fighting Congress for their full benefits.
https://www.militarytimes.com/veterans/2026/08/06/their-military-careers-were-cut-short-in-combat-now-theyre-fighting-congress-for-their-full-benefits/
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