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Supreme Court Lets Trump’s $400 Million White House Ballroom Keep Rising
Supreme Court Lets Trump’s $400 Million White House Ballroom Keep Rising Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts issued an administrative stay allowing above-ground construction of President Trump’s planned White House ballroom to continue while the full Court considers the administration’s emergency appeal [1, 2]. The order pauses a preliminary injunction issued by a federal district…
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Feds Order Steep Colorado River Water Cuts as Reservoirs Hit Record Lows
Feds Order Steep Colorado River Water Cuts as Reservoirs Hit Record Lows The U.S. Department of the Interior finalized a two-year operating framework this weekend cutting Colorado River water deliveries to Arizona, California and Nevada by a combined 1.25 million acre-feet annually starting in 2027, after the seven states that draw from the river failed…
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Trump to Wave Green Flag as $35 Million IndyCar Race Shuts Down the Capital
Trump to Wave Green Flag as $35 Million IndyCar Race Shuts Down the Capital Washington, D.C. hosts its first-ever IndyCar street race this weekend, with Sunday’s marquee Freedom 250 Grand Prix running 147 laps around the National Mall past the Capitol and national monuments. President Trump is scheduled to take a ceremonial lap in the…
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FBI Raids Ex-Congressman Eric Swalwell’s Home in Sexual Misconduct Probe
FBI Raids Ex-Congressman Eric Swalwell’s Home in Sexual Misconduct Probe Federal agents stopped former Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell of California at San Francisco International Airport on Saturday and seized his electronic devices, including an iPhone and a MacBook Pro, while executing a search warrant. Agents followed up Sunday by searching Swalwell’s Washington, D.C., home as…
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Trade War Erupts: Trump Slaps 50% Tariffs on Canada as Deal Collapses at Midnight
Trade War Erupts: Trump Slaps 50% Tariffs on Canada as Deal Collapses at Midnight Trade negotiations between the United States and Canada collapsed Friday night just before a midnight deadline, triggering 50% U.S. tariffs on roughly $20 billion worth of Canadian goods — including dairy products, alcoholic beverages, cement and hockey equipment — that took…
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A Summer Heatwave Flips Into a Flood Disaster Across Northern Italy
A Summer Heatwave Flips Into a Flood Disaster Across Northern Italy A severe weather front brought torrential rain, gale-force winds and intense lightning to Italy’s Liguria, Lombardy and Tuscany regions beginning August 21 and continuing into August 22, 2026, killing at least nine people according to authorities. In Lombardy, the hardest-hit provinces were Bergamo, Sondrio…
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A Masked Teenager With a Sword Turns a Swedish Classroom Into a Crime Scene
A Masked Teenager With a Sword Turns a Swedish Classroom Into a Crime Scene On Friday, August 21, 2026, an 18-year-old former student armed with a sword and wearing a mask and helmet attacked Brinellskolan, a high school in Fagersta, Sweden, at around 2:06 p.m. while classes were in session. Police arrived within minutes and…
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Putin Vows “Far More Destructive” Strikes as Kyiv Buries Its Dead and Washington Keeps Arguing Over the Bill
Putin Vows “Far More Destructive” Strikes as Kyiv Buries Its Dead and Washington Keeps Arguing Over the Bill Russian and Ukrainian forces traded heavy attacks across Ukraine on Saturday, August 22, 2026, killing at least 17 people combined, according to Ukrainian officials. Russian ballistic missiles struck railway infrastructure in Kyiv overnight, killing one person and…
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Meghan Markle’s Netflix Comeback Reportedly Dies Before It’s Announced
Meghan Markle’s Netflix Comeback Reportedly Dies Before It’s Announced Meghan Markle’s casting in a role Guy Ritchie was reportedly writing for her in the third season of Netflix’s “The Gentlemen” has been withdrawn, according to veteran journalist Tina Brown, who broke the news Saturday on her Substack. Deadline had reported earlier in the week that…
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Paramount and the States Suing to Kill Its $111 Billion Warner Bros. Deal Are Finally Talking
Paramount and the States Suing to Kill Its $111 Billion Warner Bros. Deal Are Finally Talking Paramount Skydance and the twelve state attorneys general suing to block its $111 billion merger with Warner Bros. Discovery are set to meet Monday for settlement talks, a court-ordered mediation session that California Attorney General Rob Bonta’s office confirmed…