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Washington Post PoliticsAug 21, 2026
Trump, his clout on the line, stumps for Graham in South Carolina
The president sought to recast opposition to Graham as opposition to him. "They're only fighting Darline because they want me to lose," he told the crowd.

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President Trump to stump for Sen. Darline Graham days ahead of South Carolina's GOP Senate runoff (Yahoo Politics)

Yahoo PoliticsAug 21, 2026
Seeking to flip Senate, Democrats are running ads to criticize their own


Washington Post PoliticsAug 21, 2026
Swing-state Democrats criticize an unpopular institution: Their own party
Multiple candidates seeking Senate seats are running ads critical of their own party, supportive of Republican policies, or both.

Yahoo PoliticsAug 21, 2026
Trump threatens lawsuit against nonprofit that questioned whether National Guard plan lessened crime


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Trump Threatens Defamation Suit Over National Guard Report, Aiming to Intimidate a Critic (New York Times Politics)

NYT Homeland Press ReleasesAug 21, 2026
U.S. Agreed to Pay Liberia $5 Million in Connection with Deportees, Documents Say
The Trump administration approved the payment after Liberia said it would consider taking migrants from other countries.

Drudge ReportAug 21, 2026
CHIEF JUSTICE DANCES WITH THE DON






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$400 MILLION NOT APPROVED BY CONGRESS



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Trump loyalist Ed Martin is leaving the Justice Department to focus on election 'legal battles' (Yahoo Politics)
Ed Martin leaving Justice Dept. after tumultuous tenure that alienated colleagues (Washington Post Politics)

Drudge ReportAug 21, 2026
Growing global pressure on Israel...




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Drudge ReportAug 21, 2026
Her taxpayer-funded salary THREE TIMES of a USS Lincoln sailor!




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Drudge ReportAug 21, 2026
UPDATE: Pentagon fires editor-in-chief of STARS AND STRIPES...




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Army Secretary to Step Down Amid 'Tension' With Hegseth...
From Watchdogs to 'Lapdogs': Inside Trumpification of Inspector Generals...



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Pentagon Fires Editor and Publisher of Independent Military Publication (New York Times Politics)
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Yahoo PoliticsAug 21, 2026
Republicans bristle at Trump's latest tactics to undermine Congress' funding power


Democracy NowAug 21, 2026
As Pressure Grows, Israel Finally Opens Probe into 2024 Killing of 5-Year-Old Hind Rajab in Gaza
Israel's military on Wednesday admitted that its soldiers opened fire in January 2024 on a car trying to flee Gaza City following Israel's evacuation orders. The car was carrying 5-year-old Palestinian Hind Rajab and six of her relatives. They were all killed, as were Palestine Red Crescent Society medics dispatched to rescue them. The Israeli military said it would also investigate the killing of 15 Palestinian paramedics whose bodies and crushed emergency vehicles were recovered from a mass grave in Rafah in March 2025. It made no mention of thousands of other incidents where Palestinian civilians were killed by Israeli forces.

"This seems to be nothing more than political theater," says Sharif Abdel Kouddous, the Middle East and North Africa editor at Drop Site News. He was a correspondent on the Al Jazeera Fault Lines documentary The Night Won't End that investigated the killings of civilians in Gaza by the Israeli military, including Hind Rajab.

"Israel's internal investigations into the criminal conduct of its own soldiers … can't be regarded as credible mechanisms for accountability," says Abdel Kouddous. "They instead function primarily to shield Israel from international tribunals or prosecution abroad."


Drudge ReportAug 21, 2026
President Threatens Another Lawsuit Over Report He Doesn't Like...




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New York Times PoliticsAug 21, 2026
Drawing on His Rust Belt Roots, Vance Campaigns for Republicans
Vice President JD Vance traveled to his hometown, Middletown, Ohio, and spoke at a steel factory where his grandfather once worked.

New York Times PoliticsAug 21, 2026
America Ends a Summer of Lightning-Fast Primaries and Political Speed Dating
Plot twists in several states have led to rapid-fire races that have felt more reminiscent of European-style snap campaigns than traditional American marathons.

Yahoo PoliticsAug 21, 2026
FACT FOCUS: Census Bureau report does not prove Trump's claim about noncitizen voting in 2020


NYT Homeland Press ReleasesAug 21, 2026
Prison Firm Donated to Trump's PAC After ICE Gave It $165 Million a Year in Contracts
The GEO Group has profited from the administration's mass deportation campaign. A subsidiary donated more than $1.4 million to the president's super PAC last month.

Drudge ReportAug 21, 2026
President lashing out at allies as victory elusive...




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Politics - U.S. HouseAug 20, 2026
Darline Graham's Debate Misstep Tests South Carolina's Appetite for a Political Newcomer
Senator Darline Graham has argued that her lack of political experience is a strength as she runs to succeed her brother, Lindsey Graham. But a debate misstep has rattled some of her supporters.

BBC PoliticsAug 20, 2026
Harry and Meghan's return to UK reignites questions over security
Their surprise announcement means a fresh decision will need to be made on the level of publicly funded protection they are entitled to.

Politics - U.S. HouseAug 20, 2026
Senator Andy Kim Visits Migrant Detention Center After String of Detainee Deaths
Senator Andy Kim of New Jersey spoke with detainees at the Newark detention center who said they had trouble accessing medical care. Staff members there disputed that account.

Washington Post PoliticsAug 20, 2026
Cook Political Report shifts Senate races in Texas, Iowa leftward to ‘Toss Up'
The nonpartisan publication moved its ratings in four contests to the left.

Politics - U.S. HouseAug 20, 2026
Ken Paxton's $1,000 Pen Incident Resurfaces in Texas Senate Race
The pen Mr. Paxton pocketed more than a decade ago has resurfaced as a campaign issue.

New York Times PoliticsAug 20, 2026
Homeland Security Made a Big Claim About Noncitizen Voting. Now It Can't Prove It.
The Department of Homeland Security told Nevada election officials that it identified 185 "potential" noncitizens on the state's voter rolls, not the nearly 16,000 it claimed last month.

NYT Homeland Press ReleasesAug 20, 2026
ICE Arrests Captain in New York Boat Accident That Killed 2
A Coast Guard investigation led to the arrest of Manuel Hernandez, who had been charged with misconduct and neglect after the deaths of a mother and her child.

Democracy NowAug 20, 2026
"Love Machines": James Muldoon on How AI Is Changing Relationships & the Global Workers Fueling AI
James Muldoon is a sociologist who writes about the changing nature of human-technology relationships. Love Machines: How Artificial Intelligence Is Transforming Our Relationships investigates how people form emotional attachments with large language models, including OpenAI's ChatGPT and Anthropic's Claude. Feeding the Machine: The Hidden Human Labor Powering A.I., co-written by fellow researchers Mark Graham and Callum Cant and based on more than a decade of fieldwork, follows Global South workers whose knowledge and labor are the basis of AI tools and assistants.

"A lot of people see artificial intelligence as something that is largely automated, frictionless, and just appears as a useful tool for us. But most of the human hours that go into making artificial intelligence possible are not done in labs in Google or OpenAI. The majority of the work is actually very piecemeal 'data annotation' work, which is outsourced to various locations in the Global South, everywhere from India to East Africa to the Philippines," explains Muldoon.

Meanwhile, on the other side of the production process, consumers are increasingly turning to artificial chatbots to fulfill social needs, incentivizing tech companies to amplify the "addictive and manipulative, controlling behaviors" embedded into their systems to keep users increasingly dependent on their products. "We need much stricter regulation to stop these companies … that can get people hooked and give people harmful and dangerous advice," says Muldoon.


Democracy NowAug 20, 2026
5 Years After Taliban Takeover, Women & Girls in Afghanistan Have Disappeared from Public Life
Restrictions on women's rights have expanded in Afghanistan since U.S. forces withdrew from the country five years ago, ceding control to the Taliban in the process. Afghan women are banned from attending schools and gyms, books written by women are removed from libraries, doctors and nurses are unable to practice, and child marriage rates have increased. Wives have been rendered legally subordinate to their husbands, and women are required to stay silent in public. "Women and girls of Afghanistan are suffering the most darkest situation in the world," says Negina Yari, an Afghan women's rights activist living in exile in Germany, who discusses the impacts of what some advocacy groups are characterizing as "gender apartheid," as well as the effects of regional diplomatic normalization on the Taliban's political influence.

BBC PoliticsAug 20, 2026
Burnham announces plans to clean up worst three illegal waste dumps
The government says the sites in Kent, Surrey and West Yorkshire contain 22,000 tonnes of waste.

BBC PoliticsAug 20, 2026
Councils turn to AI in attempt to fill £4bn black hole
Councils across the UK are making cuts of £3bn this financial year, despite recent funding reforms.

Democracy NowAug 19, 2026
Trump's "Authoritarian Takeover" of the Media, ABC Suing FCC & the Meta Trial: Free Press's Jessica González
We look at major media news with Jessica González, co-CEO of the advocacy organization Free Press. She discusses the landmark lawsuit against Meta for making its social media platforms addictive for young people, efforts to halt the Paramount-Warner Bros. megamerger, and Disney's lawsuit against the Federal Communications Commission over what it calls the Trump administration's "retaliatory campaign" against the ABC television network.

González says President Donald Trump's "authoritarian takeover attempt of our media system" must be opposed.


Washington Post PoliticsAug 19, 2026
How Trump's dismissive comment could damage GOP chances in a key House race
The president has minimized poor conditions about the USS Abraham Lincoln. That could complicate a key House race.

Washington Post PoliticsAug 18, 2026
Trump revives unverified claims of noncitizen voting in 2020
President Donald Trump on Tuesday repeated his long-standing falsehoods about a rigged 2020 election.

Democracy NowAug 18, 2026
Who Is Natalie Harp? NYT Reporter Maggie Haberman on Trump's Aide & His Attacks on Women Reporters
Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Maggie Haberman is the co-author of the new book Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump. In the book, Haberman and her fellow New York Times journalist Jonathan Swan provide an inside look at how the administration has handled many of the biggest crises of Trump's second term.

Haberman, who has been reporting on Trump since the 1990s, details his frequent attacks on the press over critical reporting, particularly against female reporters. She also discusses the renewed controversy over his close aide Natalie Harp, whom Haberman describes as "something like a human binky" for Trump.


Washington Post PoliticsAug 16, 2026
Senate hopeful Talarico touts his faith. Texas Republicans call it blasphemy.
The Democratic nominee is seeking to win over faith-based voters in Texas, the Bible Belt's largest state, but evangelical Republicans aren't sold.

The Daily BeastOct 16, 2024
Trump Names His Enemies as Harris Finds New GOP Friends
Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast/Reuters/GettyWelcome to October Surprise, the Daily Beast's daily countdown to the biggest election of our lifetime. It's only 20 days until Election Day and here's what's happening in the race to the White House between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris.

THE DOWNLOADMore than 100 Republican officials who support Kamala Harris for president planned to join the vice president in Pennsylvania on Wednesday for a stunning public rebuke of Donald Trump, their own party's presidential candidate.

Read more at The Daily Beast.


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