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US Monthly Headline News August 2026 - Page 1
Story by Ed Kilgore

There has always been an element of fundamental duplicity in the second Trump administration’s mass-deportation program. In promoting it during the 2024 presidential campaign, and often since then, the president claimed he and his masked agents were focused on finding, arresting, and supporting the “worst of the worst,” or the “Hundreds of Thousands of Convicted Murderers, Rapists, Kidnappers, Drug Dealers, and Terrorists,” as he put it in one Truth Social post earlier this year.

That claim is important, because polls have consistently shown that a carefully targeted approach to deporting undocumented immigrants has strong majority support. A Fox News poll in July of 2025, for example, found that only 29 percent of Americans wanted to “deport all illegal immigrants.” Eleven percent wanted to “allow all immigrants to stay,” which is consistent, by the way, with a crackdown on new border crossings. But an overwhelming 59 percent wanted to “deport only those illegal immigrants who have been charged with crimes but allow others to remain in the U.S. and eventually qualify for citizenship.” Clearly, people involved in immigration policy are aware of this rather fundamental distinction. Border czar and de facto deportation overseer Tom Homan said so in February of this year:
Jen Psaki peels through the layers of a scheme described by a Florida grand jury in which millions of dollars were laundered through charities and ultimately ended up funding political activities. And while the grand jury was not able to identify who to indict in the matter, the people involved, with close ties to outgoing Governor Ron DeSantis, saw their careers advance.
Department of Education shared Darkest Hour clip linking Trump to Hitler; post removed amid banner controversy.
Story by Jensen Bird

Suge Knight claimed Duane “Keefe D” Davis' lawyers offered him $1 million to cover for the Crips leader in Tupac Shakur's murder case.

Shakur was shot and killed from the passenger seat of a car while Knight was driving in Las Vegas, Nev., on September 13, 1996. Almost 30 years later, his murder case is finally headed to trial.

Davis was arrested in 2023 in connection with the case after seemingly admitting on multiple occasions to giving the Crips the go-ahead to shoot at Shakur that night.

'My Love for Tupac Can't Be Compromised'
With his trial beginning on August 10, Davis has pleaded not guilty to one count of murder with a deadly weapon with the intent to promote, further or assist a criminal gang. Davis claimed he wasn't in Las Vegas when the shooting happened.

Despite being one of the only living witnesses, Knight has declared he will not testify. In new claims during TMZ Live on August 25, the music producer alleged that Davis' lawyer offered him money to say Davis "wasn't there" when Shakur was shot.

"I said I ain't saying s---", Knight stated from his prison cell, where he is serving 28 years for a 2015 hit-and-run. "But at the same time, my loyalty and my love for Tupac can't be compromised."
Opinion by Ja'han Jones

President Donald Trump and the Republican Party have spent the past year launching political — and often brazenly racist — attacks against liberals and institutions they’ve accused of “waste, fraud and abuse” of taxpayer money.

We’ve seen federal agencies effectively closed and bogus investigations dubiously opened over such baseless allegations. Meanwhile, the most glaring examples of these things seem to be coming from Republicans themselves — and the MAGA movement is hardly uttering a word.

The latest example comes out of Florida, where a state grand jury has concluded that Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration engaged in a “sophisticated scheme” to misappropriate taxpayer money for political purposes.

According to CBS News Miami:

A state grand jury found the DeSantis administration “misappropriated” taxpayer money when it diverted $10 million from a Medicaid settlement into the Hope Florida Foundation, arguing the transfer was “part of a sophisticated scheme to fund political activities,” according to a copy of the sealed grand jury report obtained by CBS News Miami.
Opinion by Hafiz Rashid

Six percent of Texas’s voters—over 1.2 million people—have had their voter registrations suspended, and many might not even know about it.

The designation, which means that the voter’s county doesn’t know their address or thinks they’ve moved, doesn’t stop people from voting in November’s midterm elections, but it does make the process more difficult. If a voter shows up on Election Day and their registration is suspended, they have to fill out a “statement of residence” form, and if they’ve moved to a new county, they’ll either be required to vote in their old one or be given a provisional ballot, The Dallas Morning News reported.
Former Fox News anchor Angelynn Mock has pleaded guilty to first-degree murder in the stabbing death of her 80-year-old mother, Anita Avers.
Story by Steve Benen

Throughout the 2024 presidential race, candidate Donald Trump didn’t just vow a mass deportation campaign — the Republican also assured voters that the effort was necessary to remove violent immigrants who’ve committed heinous crimes from American soil.

Voters who believed the pitch should now realize that what they were promised isn’t what they’re receiving. The New York Times reported:

A surge in immigration arrests this summer has swept up thousands of people who had not previously been the focus of President Trump’s mass deportation campaign. They included people married to U.S. citizens, people who had entered legally and were pursuing an asylum claim, and others with a temporary legal status that the administration pushed to revoke.

A majority of the immigrants arrested in July were people who were accused of violating civil immigration laws but who had not been charged with or convicted of a crime, an analysis of newly released federal data shows. The share with a past violent criminal conviction fell to less than 4 percent.
Story by Brian Clark Clark

The dispute goes well beyond ordinary partisan messaging. It touches one of the basic features of American elections, where state and local officials rather than presidents usually control how voting is administered.

A Republican governor is warning that Trump appears to be pushing for greater control over elections after Trump said Republicans should “take over the voting” and “nationalise” elections. Critics argue that Trump is seeking more influence over election administration, placing state officials and local voting systems at the center of a broader fight over federal power.

The warning matters because Trump’s remarks did not occur by themselves. They came as federal authorities renewed scrutiny of 2020 election records in Georgia and sought election materials in Michigan, raising fresh questions about the limits of presidential authority and the role of states in running elections.

Trump’s voting remarks raised alarms
During a podcast interview with Dan Bongino, his former deputy FBI director, Trump urged Republicans to “take over” voting in “at least 15 places,” according to the BBC. He also said Republicans should “nationalise the voting.”

Those comments are at the heart of the controversy. Elections in the United States are not generally administered by the federal government. State law governs much of the process, while thousands of local officials handle voting operations, including secretaries of state, county clerks, election boards and poll workers.
Story by Daniel Hampton

The hosts of the Legal AF podcast are sounding the alarm over what they call a corruption crisis at the Supreme Court, arguing the justices have been captured by the billionaires who bankrolled their rise.

On a recent episode, host Alex Aronson laid out the case as he introduced legal scholars Nikolas Bowie and Daphna Renan, authors of the forthcoming book Supremacy. Aronson said the court is deeply conservative and compromised.

"A number of the justices have been exposed as breaking the law, entangled with billionaires, delivering results for the interests that have put them in place on this court," Aronson charged.

The accusation comes after years of reporting on the justices' cozy ties to wealthy benefactors.
Story by Alexander Willis

A federal judge ruled against the Trump administration on Thursday after declaring its treatment of the artificial intelligence (AI) company Anthropic to be unlawful, The New York Times reported.

Earlier this year, the Trump administration was working with Anthropic to integrate its AI model into the U.S. military’s classified systems, though the arrangement soon hit a snag after the company insisted that its technology not be “used to spy on Americans en masse, or to develop weapons that fire with no human involvement.”

The Trump administration ultimately cut ties with the company in March over its objections, and furthermore, designated Anthropic as a supply chain risk, a designation that prohibited the Pentagon from doing business with any contractor that does business with Anthropic.

The decision to brand Anthropic with such a designation, however, was unlawful, federal Judge Rita Lin ruled Thursday.
Matthew Chapman

President Donald Trump's campaign trail promises on groceries have gone down in flames, MS NOW's Chris Hayes told "All In" viewers on Friday.

"You remember back in 2024 when Donald Trump was running for president, and he kept talking like he hadn't heard the term groceries before, like it was this new word," said Hayes. "Maybe he invented it. It's a strange time."

Regardless, he vowed to make groceries cheap for everyone — and Hayes played numerous clips of Trump saying as such.

"Starting on day one, we will end inflation and make America affordable again," said Trump in one clip.

"We're going to bring prices way down, and we're going to get it done fast," he said in another.

"A vote for Trump means your groceries will be cheaper," he said in yet another.
Story by Thomas Kika

President Donald Trump is feeling increasingly "powerless," and according to a new piece from MS NOW, his latest "petulant" policy outbursts reflect his desire "to lash out and attempt to exert control" in response to that feeling.

Writing for the outlet on Saturday morning, reporter Hayes Brown argued that Trump's staff is too overstaffed with "spineless sycophants" for anyone to have told him that his executive order to rename Lake Ontario as "Lake America" in response to stalled trade talks with Canada. Aside from his staff's willingness to praise and move fast to implement just about any bad idea that the president has, Brown also argued that the situation exposes other things about the state of affairs for Trump.

"Let’s start with Trump’s obsession with branding," Brown wrote. "He spent much of his career appending 'Trump' to buildings he didn’t build in lucrative licensing deals. In this second term as president, he’s fought to add his name to the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Much like the 'Gulf of America' executive order on his first day back in office, Thursday’s order feels like a desperate attempt at getting his followers to associate 'America' with 'Trump.'"

He added: "Trump also tends to lash out and attempt to exert control when he feels most powerless. Carney and Ontario Premier Doug Ford decided to stand 10 toes down against U.S. negotiators in the face of looming tariffs, rejecting an overwhelmingly unbalanced offer from the American representatives. In response, Trump ordered the government to provide a bandage for his wounded ego, even as he likely views this order as a power move reestablishing his dominance over Ottawa."
Civil Rights Groups are coming together to block a new rule from the U.S. Postal Service, which imposes stricter requirements on mail voting for 48 million Americans ahead of the midterm elections. I spoke with Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries about that new rule, Democratic investments in the Black community, and his recent meeting with Jared Kushner.
Story by Hollie Silverman

Milo Yiannopoulos, a far-right commentator and former Breitbart News editor with ties to President Donald Trump and rapper Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, was deported by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Friday after being taken into custody earlier this week, a spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) told Newsweek in an email Saturday.

The spokesperson said that Yiannopoulos was “an illegal alien from the United Kingdom” and was sent “back to his home country.”

He was arrested by ICE at the Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (MSY) in Kenner, Louisiana, according to the spokesperson, who noted that “Yiannopoulos legally entered the country on May 14, 2019, through New York City, New York.”

“He chose to overstay his welcome in violation of our nation’s laws,” the spokesperson continued.

For years, Yiannopoulos was a vocal supporter of stricter immigration enforcement, often criticizing illegal immigration and backing mass deportation policies championed by Trump and other immigration hardliners.
Story by Bob Cronin with Newser.AI

Discount gas hailed by President Trump as a patriotic bargain is now at the center of a $4 million theft allegation, Politico reports. In a federal lawsuit filed Aug. 19, Georgia-based Mansfield Oil says KRSM Inc. lifted more than 1 million gallons of fuel from a Sunoco terminal in Pennsylvania on Mansfield's account and never paid, then supplied some of it to stations in the Freedom Fuel Network—which Trump promoted over July Fourth for selling $3.47-a-gallon gas "because they love the USA." Mansfield's lawyer says, "That is not an accounting dispute." KRSM calls it exactly that, blaming "misplaced" invoices and declining further comment.
Story by Peter Suciu

Generals warned in classified assessments that the Iran War is not sustainable and will weaken US military efforts elsewhere. The Pentagon said publishing the warnings is treason.

Tensions are running high at the Pentagon on Monday, following a scathing report from The Washington Post on Saturday that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth was warned by multiple combatant commanders that the ongoing war with Iran is unsustainable, and that if it continues, it will weaken the US military’s ability to address other threats.

Military leaders warned in the August 14 edition of the classified Secretary of Defense Orders Book (SDOB) that extending deployments in the Middle East could compromise global readiness and even homeland defense, the paper of record reported.

The SDOB contained classified assessments from the commanders tasked with overseeing US areas of responsibility in Europe, Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Those generals expressed opposition to an extended deployment of US military forces in the Middle East. They warned that diverted warships—notably aircraft carriers—and aircraft have degraded abilities elsewhere. According to an assessment from the Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Daryl Caudle, only a quarter of the US Navy’s destroyer fleet is currently prepared to deploy. That is a sharp decline from the prewar levels.

The conflict, which is now in its sixth month, has cost $37.5 billion to date.
Story by Cameron Adams

Fans of an iconic Canadian rock band have humiliated U.S. President Donald Trump by refusing to comply with his geographical fantasy.

Canadian band Blue Rodeo performed at Toronto’s RBC Amphitheater on Saturday. The iconic venue is located directly on the Lake Ontario waterfront.

Trump wants the lake, which spans the U.S. Canada border, renamed “Lake America.”

Blue Rodeo’s performance at the venue, which holds 16,000 people, saw the band play their 1993 fan favorite, “Hasn’t Hit Me Yet,” which features the lyrics, “Watching the snow fall on this cold December night, and out in the middle of Lake Ontario, the same snow is falling on the deep silent water.”

On Saturday, before lead vocalist Greg Keelor played the tune, he told the audience, “At the end of this song, there’s a mention of a lake. It’s a lake right behind us right there.” Fans could also watch Keelor’s comments via a YouTube livestream.

Pointing to the lake and noting that its name has “become a little controversial,” Keelor added, “I would just like you to sing tonight with full authority and ownership. And we’ll sing this one for the shining waters that have been there long before any of us were ever here.”
Story by David Edwards

A long-delayed financial disclosure from Justice Samuel Alito shows he never sold the oil and gas holdings that watchdogs say disqualify him from a major climate case.

The report was posted on Monday by the Administrative Office of the United States Courts and covers Alito's finances for calendar year 2025. It is the last disclosure the public will see before the Supreme Court hears the case in October. Alito signed the filing on Aug. 11, three weeks before it reached the public.

NBC News Supreme Court reporter Lawrence Hurley wrote on Bluesky that the filing confirms the justice is "still holding on to oil & gas stocks ahead of the big climate change case being heard in October."

Two watchdog groups asked the Senate Judiciary Committee in May to investigate whether Alito violated the court's ethics code by staying on the case, as reported by E&E News.

"Alito's decision to reverse course and participate in granting the companies' most recent petition — when a finding in favor of the companies could directly and indirectly benefit both himself and his billionaire friend — is an indefensible breach of ethical boundaries," the groups wrote.

"As these parallel state climate deception cases are undeniably interlinked, and due to Justice Alito's vested interests in the oil and gas industry … the only ethical option for Justice Alito is a blanket recusal from participating in any one of them," the letter states.

The filing released Monday answers a question the May reporting left open. E&E News noted at the time that Alito might have sold the holdings, which would have resolved the conflict.

He did not, according to the new report.
Story by Maureen Groppe, USA TODAY

WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court on Aug. 31 cleared the way for President Donald Trump to continue construction on his $400 million White House ballroom, a major win for Trump's controversial effort to make over Washington landmarks.

Acting on an emergency appeal from the administration, the court ruled 5-4 that a federal judge wrongly paused the project until a legal fight could be resolved.

In an unsigned opinion, a majority of the justices said the administration is likely to win its argument that the group suing to stop construction cannot show its been sufficiently harmed. The court has a 6-3 conservative majority.

Chief Justice John Roberts joined the court's three liberal justices in dissent, calling the construction "likely unlawful" and the potential harms real.

“The White House is an iconic American building whose symbolism and history are wrapped up in its architecture,” Roberts wrote.

Group argued construction could be irreversible
The National Trust for Historic Preservation, which is challenging the ballroom, had told the justices that project would likely become irreversible unless it is stopped now.

The Justice Department said in its appeal that the construction, which includes an underground security complex, is 65% complete and has “passed the point where major changes” to the design are feasible.
Story by Alex Bollinger

True crime YouTuber and forensic psychologist Dr. John Paul Garrison is sounding the alarm about how the president may have suffered a focal aware seizure at a recent public event.

Garrison played a clip of Trump giving a speech to NASA at Houston’s Johnson Space Center this past Friday and said that he had a “distinct neurological event.”

“What you just observed was a distinct and concerning neurological event, and you got to watch it cross both hemispheres in his brain,” Garrison said. “You saw his right arm jerk, and then you saw him blink, you heard his voice hesitate, and then you saw his left arm jerk. You literally watched it travel across his brain.”

Garrison isn’t the only mental health expert who believes that Trump suffered a stroke last year. Washington State University Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine Professor Bruce Davidson discussed earlier this year that there is evidence that Trump had a stroke on the left side of his brain.
Story by Matthew Rozsa

A recent report reveals that less than half of Republican attorneys general are backing one of President Donald Trump's key voter suppression measures.

"President Donald Trump’s attack on mail voting is reaching a crucial stage in the courts, but he’s only received backup from less than half of the Republican state attorneys general," wrote Alexandra Hutzler on Monday. "Their silence is notable given that they’ve joined other Trump administration priorities. All 27 Republican attorneys general, for example, previously signed onto amicus briefs to keep transgender athletes out of girls’ sports and to defend the administration’s use of the Alien Enemies Act to deport alleged migrant gang members without due process."

Hutzler added, "Over the weekend, the attorneys general from Alabama, Florida, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota and Texas filed their opposition to a request from blue states and voting rights groups for a preliminary injunction against Trump’s order and the U.S. Postal Service rule to implement it before November’s midterm elections."

The states whose Republican attorneys general have refused to help Trump include "Alaska, Arkansas, Georgia, Idaho, Iowa, Kentucky, Mississippi, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Utah, West Virginia and Wyoming," Hutzler concluded.

Despite the Supreme Court allowing Trump to temporarily proceed with his mail-in voting restrictions, one legal journalist argued that a lower court has called out their own jurisprudential ideology to lay the groundwork for them to halt his actions.
Story by Richard Winton

A Las Vegas jury on Monday found a one-time Compton gang leader guilty in the slaying of rapper Tupac Shakur, marking a turning point in a murder mystery that the public’s attention captivated for decades.

Jurors deliberated for just a few hours in the murder trial of Duane “Keffe D” Davis, who is accused of orchestrating the fatal shooting of Shakur off the Las Vegas Strip nearly 30 years ago.

Prosecutors allege Davis, 63, arranged the rapper’s killing by getting a .40-caliber handgun and passing it to fellow members of the Southside Crips-Burris Street gang as they rode in a Cadillac on Sept. 7, 1996.

The motive, prosecutors told jurors, was revenge after Shakur, then-Death Row Records mogul Marion “Suge” Knight and members of the Mob Piru gang had beaten Davis’ nephew Orlando Anderson at the MGM Grand hours earlier.

“Duane Davis, in the culture of gangs, could not let that stand. He acquired a firearm, got his group together, and went hunting for Mr. Shakur or Mr. Knight,” Clark County Chief Deputy Dist. Atty. Binu Palal told jurors.

In closing their case, prosecutors told jurors they had not only heard Davis’ own incriminating words in interviews, but also had been presented with a deluge of circumstantial evidence linking him to one of the most famous murders in modern history.
Michigan households are bearing the heaviest burden of Trump's tariffs, facing an average cost of $5,619 each. A June report from the National Taxpayers Union Foundation says households in California, Georgia, South Carolina, and New Jersey are also feeling the impact. The report says Michigan households are paying over a thousand dollars more because of shared major border and dense supply chains with Canada. During 2025, tariffs reached their highest levels since the 1930s before the U.S. Supreme Court ruled them unconstitutional in February 2026.
Story by Dan Gooding

A Trump administration official in California criticized the state’s voter ID rules on Monday, alleging that nobody was checking whether voters were American citizens, as it was reported that the federal government plans a wider crackdown on alleged voter fraud in select states.

In an interview with Fox News, U.S. Attorney for Central California Bill Essayli said the state allows “anybody to register to vote on the honor system. There isn’t anybody in government checking to confirm you are a citizen,” when talking about a case of voter fraud.

Essayli’s comments came as the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is set to announce thorough investigations into voter fraud in states including New York, Pennsylvania and California, according to CNN. The department is set to announce more details on the crackdown Tuesday, the outlet reported.

“While ICE Homeland Security Investigations is not able to comment on any active investigations, HSI is actively rooting out and investigating election fraud wherever it can be found,” a DHS spokesperson told Newsweek on Monday afternoon. “We have repeatedly demonstrated that illegal aliens can and do vote in our elections. Under President Trump, HSI is committed to restoring integrity to our election systems and ensuring that American citizens and only American citizens are electing American leaders.”
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Story by Erik De La Garza

The Supreme Court’s decision allowing President Donald Trump to continue construction of his controversial White House ballroom triggered an immediate wave of outrage Monday.

The justices ruled 5-4 to reject a preservation group’s effort to indefinitely halt construction of the ballroom, according to media reports. Chief Justice John Roberts joined the court’s three liberal justices in dissent.

“The Court’s conservative majority can’t find the spine to tell Trump no about the ballroom,” former federal prosecutor Joyce Vance wrote on X. “Chief Justice Roberts is joined by the 3 liberal Justices in dissent, calling what Trump is doing 'likely unlawful.'"

Political scientist and longtime congressional scholar Norman Ornstein was even more blunt.
Story by Thomas Kika

President Donald Trump's list of failures continues to grow, and as a new analysis from MS NOW argued, he has now resorted to seeking punishments for those who tell the truth about his unpopularity.

In a piece published Monday morning, Steven Benen, a longtime contributor to the network and producer for host Rachel Maddow, discussed Trump's recent demand that his FCC Chair, Brendan Carr, investigate NBC and anchor Kristin Welker after comments she made about him having a "mixed" endorsement record in the midterms so far. Trump accused this of being "purposeful inaccuracy" that ought to be investigated.

“How can anyone be allowed to say this, working for freely given Public Airwaves?” Trump posted to Truth Social on Friday. “Because of this purposeful inaccuracy, she will be reported to the FCC for rebuke or punishment... The Press is a Disgrace to our Nation, and I hope that Chairman Brendan Carr, and the fine people of his Commission, will take this Threat to our Country very seriously.”
Story by Matthew Rozsa

A self-described "3-time Trump voter" complained on Twitter that she is upset with President Donald Trump's policies — but also refused to admit she voted wrong in the 2024 election.

"I say this as a 3-time Trump voter, a lifelong Republican who spent an embarrassing amount of money on merch and travel to Trump rallies and DC," Lucy Riles posted on X. "I was duped. The past 14 months have been betrayal after betrayal. It sucks admitting I got it wrong. No, I’m not saying Kamala [Harris] would have been better. But Trump is a politician, a glorified snake oil salesman. He is not God nor should he be worshiped as one. And we need to hold our politicians accountable. Especially the ones we voted for and sacrificed friendships, jobs and family over."

Riles added, "Trump is now attempting to bully his base into supporting another reckless foreign war, ignore the Epstein files and now, accept data centers or else you want to be 'backwards and poor.' I’ve never been in an emotionally abusive relationship[,] and I’m not about to start now."

She concluded, "Thank you for your attention to this matter."
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