
The Hill - 1 hour 11 min ago
House returns to face shutdown clock {beacon} It's Monday and the last day of August, as the end of summer rapidly approaches. Soak it up, 12:30 Report readers. In today's issue: U.S., Iran resume strikes Pentagon on defense over leak House returns from monthlong break Bessent to invoke China at G20...

The Independent - 1 hour 19 min ago
Interior Secretary says President Donald Trump personally pressured tech giant to comply with his latest executive order amid trade war with Canada...

Forbes - 1 hour 44 min ago
The Trimbos Institute in The Netherlands has issued a warning about ecstasy pills shaped as the head of U.S. President Donald Trump that could be even more dangerous.

The Independent - 2 hours 5 min ago
President Donald Trump commuted the disgraced ex-Congressman's prison sentence last year...

TMZ - 3 hours 19 min ago
Donald Trump and his ever-present executive assistant Natalie Harp are once again practically joined at the hip ... this time linking up after his day on the links. Harp and the prez were photographed Sunday sitting side by side in the back of an…...

UPI - 3 hours 22 min ago
President Donald Trump said he will report NBC anchor Kristen Welker to the FCC over her characterization of his endorsements in the midterms.

The Raw Story - 3 hours 34 min ago
Concerns were raised on Monday morning that 80-year-old President Donald Trump is having problems understanding what is going on in his war on Iran. Sunday evening, the Pentagon confirmed an attack on Larak Island in the Gulf of Hormuz, reportedly taking out Iranian rocket launchers designed to disperse sea mines into the waterway. According to the Washington Post, "The exchange of fire was the first in a month between the two sides as the Trump administration seeks to navigate a ceasefire."...

The Guardian - 3 hours 34 min ago
After Lindsey Graham's death, Democrat Annie Andrews finds herself in a closely watched race as she seeks to flip his Republican seat Annie Andrews was a dark horse Democrat challenging a five-term Republican in the US Senate when 314 Action, a political action fund devoted to electing scientists and doctors, first backed her. Now, after the unexpected death of Senator Lindsey Graham, Andrews finds herself in a closely watched race. Donald Trump persuaded South Carolina voters last week to select...

The Raw Story - 3 hours 49 min ago
President Donald Trump's executive assistant Natalie Harp faced criticism over a Truth Social post claiming a critical Iranian oil island was being destroyed, which a U.S. official said was not targeted. A U.S. official said the overnight strikes did not target Kharg Island, Reuters correspondent Idrees Ali reported Monday morning. A post claiming the Island had been blown to "smithereens" went up on Trump's Truth Social account at 10:08 p.m. Eastern on Sunday, hours after American...

TMZ - 3 hours 49 min ago
Donald Trump is turning up the heat on Iran -- at least online -- posting a wild A.I.-generated video appearing to show one of the country's most important oil hubs getting absolutely obliterated. Trump posted the clip Monday .... showing massive…...

The Independent - 4 hours 10 min ago
President Donald Trump says Venezuela has agreed to give the U.S. access to vast amounts of the South American country's untapped oil reserves, at cost...

The Hill - 4 hours 18 min ago
President Trump on Sunday knocked U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper, who has overseen the case over the Kennedy Center and the president's attempts to refurbish and rename the living memorial, as "highly conflicted." "Kennedy Center is an old and decrepit building that is badly in need of a major construction and public relations fix before...

The Raw Story - 4 hours 33 min ago
Outside of an exchange of fire early Sunday morning, the U.S. war against Iran has been in a weeks-long lull since July as part of an apparent effort by President Donald Trump to "push the conflict out of the minds of voters," but that strategy may very well invite attacks on U.S. forces just ahead of the midterms, one expert warned. "Trump appears to be pursuing a very different gamble: maintaining a low-level conflict until the midterms neither securing a diplomatic deal nor allowing...

The Raw Story - 5 hours 20 min ago
President Donald Trump called for war crime tribunals to be held against Iranian officials Monday in a curse-laden statement published on social media, while also touting unverified claims to support his claims of war crimes. "Iran is officially a Failed Nation. IT IS DEAD! They have no Navy, they have no Air Force, they have no currency, they are not paying their soldiers or police, Inflation is at 300%, and their leadership is in total disarray and incapable of properly representing the country...

NBC News - 6 hours 9 min ago
Days after President Donald Trump boasted of what he called the "biggest oil deal" in history, details of a new U.S.-Venezuela oil producing partnerships remain few. Experts say an influx of Venezuelan crude won't make an impact on U.S. gas prices any time soon. NBC's Garrett Haake reports for TODAY.

Huffington Post - 6 hours 11 min ago
"It was all just incredibly embarrassing for all of these guys, but that was how too much of corporate America reacted to Trump's second term."...

TechRadar - 7 hours 18 min ago
Lake Ontario is now Lake America in the US via an executive order Google Maps has updated its maps to reflect the change Viewing the map from outside the US still shows the original name Some 18 months on from the controversial renaming of the Gulf of Mexico, another edit has been made to Google Maps at the behest of US President Donald Trump: Lake Ontario, spread across the US-Canadian border, is now Lake America. Or rather, it is if you're viewing Google Maps from inside the US (via Gizmodo...

NY Post - 7 hours 19 min ago
Donald Trump posted an AI video showing Iran's Kharg Island destroyed, hours after real US airstrikes hit rocket launchers on Larak Island.

The Guardian - 7 hours 42 min ago
US trade representative Jamieson Greer has a level-headed reputation but commerce secretary Howard Lutnick and White House adviser Peter Navarro also have key roles Having reportedly read Victor Hugo's Les Mis rables, in French, during a military tour of duty in Iraq, Jamieson Greer considered himself an unlikely target for accusations of francophobia. But Donald Trump's US trade representative, hitherto one of the president's less high-profile cabinet members, found himself in that...

The New Yorker - 7 hours 42 min ago
The biographer's new book, "American Scoundrel," details Cohn's infamous tactics during the McCarthy purges, a sex-trafficking allegation, and his profound influence on Trump.

The Guardian - 7 hours 51 min ago
Debbie Dingell plans to introduce her Hands Off Our Great Lakes Act' today following president's latest escalation in US-Canada trade war Canada erects giant Lake Ontario' sign as spat with Trump over name escalates Sign up for US Breaking News emails Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog. As House representatives return from the summer recess, one Democrat has already set in motion a plan to nullify Donald Trump's latest conceited executive order. For many years, the USA...

Huffington Post - 8 hours 33 min ago
Well, that might explain a few things.

The Guardian - 8 hours 52 min ago
Concern among staff that fragile artwork's scarce light hours' given to someone with no known interest in museum The British Museum privately hosted the Donald Trump-supporting tech billionaire Peter Thiel in the exhibition space of the Bayeux tapestry earlier this month, the Guardian understands. The museum's director of development, Charlotte Appleyard, hosted the PayPal founder at a VIP viewing of the tapestry, which is yet to open to the public, on 18 August. Continue reading...

The Independent - 8 hours 59 min ago
President Donald Trump argues northern ally should not expect favorable treatment after tariff hikes...