The Latest News from Across the Web

0 0 0

She Pushed to Overturn Trump's Loss in the 2020 Election. Now She'll Help Oversee U.S. Election Security. (Doug Bock Clark/ProPublica)

Doug Bock Clark / ProPublica:
She Pushed to Overturn Trump's Loss in the 2020 Election.  Now She'll Help Oversee U.S. Election Security.  —  Heather Honey has been appointed to a senior position in the Department of Homeland Security.  State election officials and voting experts are concerned.

2025-08-26 18:50:03 UTC

ProPublica

0 0 0

Trump's red state army threatens America's cities (Lisa Needham/Public Notice)

Lisa Needham / Public Notice:
Trump's red state army threatens America's cities  —  PN is supported by paid subscribers.  Become one 👇  —  Thus far, President Donald Trump has deployed National Guard members in two major American cities.  He's not going to stop there.  —  In recent days, Trump made clear …

2025-08-26 18:45:00 UTC

Public Notice

0 0 0

Furious Trump's Firing of Fed's Lisa Cook May Be about to Backfire (Greg Sargent/New Republic)

Greg Sargent / New Republic:
Furious Trump's Firing of Fed's Lisa Cook May Be about to Backfire  —  To execute his authoritarian takeover, President Donald Trump requires the devoted service of willing accomplices.  He needs loyalists in strategic positions who will bend or break the law to carry out his designs …

2025-08-26 18:30:00 UTC

New Republic

0 0 0

Where We Are — After seven months of Trump. — I'll try to keep this simple: (Jonathan Bernstein/Good Politics/Bad ...)

Jonathan Bernstein / Good Politics/Bad Politics:
Where We Are  —  After seven months of Trump.  —  I'll try to keep this simple:  —  (1) Donald Trump is acting as a dictator.  —  (2) He is fairly easily defeated time after time when people fight back.  —  (3) Far too few people are fighting back.  —  I think that's pretty much what I have.

2025-08-26 17:40:00 UTC

Bad ...

0 0 0

Donald Trump's Big Gay Government (Shawn McCreesh/New York Times)

Shawn McCreesh / New York Times:
Donald Trump's Big Gay Government … The Washington Monument as seen from the Ned, a private club where many Trump officials socialize.Caroline Gutman for The New York Times  —  It was the last Wednesday in July, and many of Washington's top players were hanging out at the Ned, a private club around the corner from the White House.

2025-08-26 17:20:01 UTC

New York Times

0 0 0

Donald Trump's Big Gay Government (Shawn McCreesh/New York Times)

Shawn McCreesh / New York Times:
Donald Trump's Big Gay Government … The Washington Monument as seen from the Ned, a private club where many Trump officials socialize.Caroline Gutman for The New York Times  —  It was the last Wednesday in July, and many of Washington's top players were hanging out at the Ned, a private club around the corner from the White House.

2025-08-26 17:20:01 UTC

New York Times

0 0 0

Our guardrails are failing us (Norman Ornstein/The Contrarian)

Norman Ornstein / The Contrarian:
Our guardrails are failing us  —  But with discipline, Democrats can get the message out.  —  The military invasion of Washington, D.C.—with masked troops from several red states occupying the city, grabbing residents off the street and out of vehicles while hiding their identities …

2025-08-26 17:00:29 UTC

The Contrarian

0 0 0

Dems' Messaging Nerds Urged Party Not to Talk About Trump's Military Takeover (Rolling Stone)

Rolling Stone:
Dems' Messaging Nerds Urged Party Not to Talk About Trump's Military Takeover  —  Are Trump's military campaigns in blue cities a “distraction,” or what matters?  —  Donald Trump is waging a fascist takeover of the United States, siccing the Justice Department on his political enemies …

2025-08-26 16:35:00 UTC

Rolling Stone

0 0 0

Young Voters Who Swung Right Are Already Regretting It (Nia-Malika Henderson/Bloomberg)

Nia-Malika Henderson / Bloomberg:
Young Voters Who Swung Right Are Already Regretting It  —  Trump convinced voters under 35 — especially men — to give him a chance.  They are souring on what they see.  —  One of the most surprising datapoints from President Donald Trump's 2024 victory was his strength among young voters …

2025-08-26 16:30:01 UTC

Bloomberg

0 0 0

Trump to put Dan Scavino in charge of hiring at White House (Politico)

Politico:
Trump to put Dan Scavino in charge of hiring at White House … Gor endeared himself to the president and his family for adopting a zero tolerance policy toward job-seekers who had been critical of Trump in the past, often scouring their social media posts and occasionally intervening to block hirings.

2025-08-26 16:30:01 UTC

Politico

0 0 0

Judge orders Kari Lake to answer questions about Voice of America under oath (David Folkenflik/NPR)

David Folkenflik / NPR:
Judge orders Kari Lake to answer questions about Voice of America under oath  —  A senior federal judge ordered Trump administration official Kari Lake to submit to questioning under oath in ongoing litigation over her efforts to effectively dismantle Voice of America despite Congressional mandates that it be maintained.

2025-08-26 16:00:04 UTC

NPR

0 0 0

US long-term debt sells off after Trump's attempted firing of Fed governor (Financial Times)

Financial Times:
US long-term debt sells off after Trump's attempted firing of Fed governor  —  Gap between long-term and short-term borrowing costs is close to its widest for three years  —  Long-dated US government debt sold off on Tuesday as investors worried that Donald Trump's attempted firing …

2025-08-26 15:40:01 UTC

Financial Times

0 0 0

Jack Smith's Legal Team Fires Back Against Ethics Complaint (Devlin Barrett/New York Times)

Devlin Barrett / New York Times:
Jack Smith's Legal Team Fires Back Against Ethics Complaint  —  For months, the former special counsel has remained silent as the president and his advisers have publicly attacked him.  —  Lawyers for Jack Smith, the former special counsel who investigated Donald J. Trump …

2025-08-26 15:25:00 UTC

New York Times

0 0 0

Judge dismisses Trump lawsuit against Maryland-based judges over handling of immigration cases (Lawrence Hurley/NBC News)

Lawrence Hurley / NBC News:
Judge dismisses Trump lawsuit against Maryland-based judges over handling of immigration cases  —  The Trump administration alleged that the court had no authority to issue a standing order that imposes an automatic, two-day pause in deportation cases.  —  WASHINGTON — A federal judge …

2025-08-26 15:10:01 UTC

NBC News

0 0 0

In Big Win for Voters, Pennsylvania Must Count Undated Mail-In Ballots, Court Rules (Jim Saksa/Democracy Docket)

Jim Saksa / Democracy Docket:
In Big Win for Voters, Pennsylvania Must Count Undated Mail-In Ballots, Court Rules  —  A federal circuit court upheld a lower court ruling Tuesday that requires Pennsylvania to count undated or wrongly dated mail-in ballots, finding that a previous law rejecting such ballots violated the First and 14th Amendments.

2025-08-26 14:40:00 UTC

Democracy Docket

0 0 0

Lisa Cook Says She Will Not Step Down From the Fed Board (Yan Zhuang/New York Times)

Yan Zhuang / New York Times:
Lisa Cook Says She Will Not Step Down From the Fed Board  —  Ms. Cook said that she would not resign from the board of governors, hours after President Trump announced he was firing her.  —  Lisa Cook said that she would not step down from the Federal Reserve, hours after President Trump …

2025-08-26 14:40:00 UTC

New York Times

0 0 0

'The most illegal search': Judges push back against D.C. criminal charges (Carrie Johnson/NPR)

Carrie Johnson / NPR:
‘The most illegal search’: Judges push back against D.C. criminal charges  —  Veteran defense lawyers and law enforcement experts have been warning about the potential for overreach since the federal government muscled its way into policing decisions in the nation's capital nearly three weeks ago.

2025-08-26 14:10:02 UTC

NPR

0 0 0

The case against Kilmar Ábrego García is a study in sadistic absurdity (Moira Donegan/The Guardian)

Moira Donegan / The Guardian:
The case against Kilmar Ábrego García is a study in sadistic absurdity  —  In its allegations against the Maryland man, the Trump administration is claiming authority over reality itself  —  In a way, you could think of the brief stint that Kilmar Ábrego García spent …

2025-08-26 14:10:02 UTC

The Guardian

0 0 0

Lutnick says administration considering taking stakes in defense companies (Nicole Markus/Politico)

Nicole Markus / Politico:
Lutnick says administration considering taking stakes in defense companies … The investment came partially from grants awarded from the CHIPS Act, but not yet paid out.  President Donald Trump has previously railed against the Biden-championed law, calling on Congress to “get rid” of it.

2025-08-26 14:05:01 UTC

Politico

0 0 0

DOGE Put Critical Social Security Data at Risk, Whistle-Blower Says (Nicholas Nehamas/New York Times)

Nicholas Nehamas / New York Times:
DOGE Put Critical Social Security Data at Risk, Whistle-Blower Says  —  DOGE team members uploaded a database with the personal information of hundreds of millions of Americans to a vulnerable cloud server, according to the agency's chief data officer.  —  Members of the Department …

2025-08-26 13:55:00 UTC

New York Times

0 0 0

Rabbis Emerge as Growing Voice of Criticism of Israel's Tactics in Gaza (New York Times)

New York Times:
Rabbis Emerge as Growing Voice of Criticism of Israel's Tactics in Gaza  —  Among the recent public letters was one from dozens of Orthodox rabbis demanding “moral clarity” to what they called a humanitarian crisis.  —  As Israel's tactics in Gaza have increasingly provoked international condemnation …

2025-08-26 13:40:01 UTC

New York Times

0 0 0

Trump, chairman of corporate America (Ben Berkowitz/Axios)

Ben Berkowitz / Axios:
Trump, chairman of corporate America … - No one's stopping him, so he continues to confidently plow ahead.  — Those with insight into his strategy say it's anything but arbitrary — there's a mold-breaking calculus at play, they say, centered on national security and American competitiveness.

2025-08-26 13:40:01 UTC

Axios

0 0 0

Trump Says He Wants to Meet North Korea's Kim Jong Un This Year (Soo-Hyang Choi/Bloomberg)

Soo-Hyang Choi / Bloomberg:
Trump Says He Wants to Meet North Korea's Kim Jong Un This Year  —  President Donald Trump said he would like to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un this year as South Korea floated the idea of constructing a Trump Tower in the reclusive country if diplomatic relations improve.

2025-08-26 13:40:01 UTC

Bloomberg

0 0 0

Republican Told to Take His 'Head Out of Trump's A**' in Town Hall Trainwreck (Janna Brancolini/The Daily Beast)

Janna Brancolini / The Daily Beast:
Republican Told to Take His 'Head Out of Trump's A**' in Town Hall Trainwreck  —  MIC DROP  —  Other constituents complained about the president's support for Russia and booed his mass-deportation policy.  —  Voters at a town hall meeting in Missouri demanded that their Republican congressman …

2025-08-26 13:35:00 UTC

The Daily Beast

0 0 0

Blue States That Sued Kept Most CDC Grants, While Red States Feel Brunt of Trump Clawbacks (KFF Health News)

KFF Health News:
Blue States That Sued Kept Most CDC Grants, While Red States Feel Brunt of Trump Clawbacks  —  The Trump administration's cuts to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention funding for state and local health departments had vastly uneven effects depending on the political leanings of a state, according to a KFF Health News analysis.

2025-08-26 13:30:00 UTC

KFF Health News