Category: US

Trump Renamed Lake Ontario “Lake America.” The Seneca Nation Says That’s Illegal. President Trump signed an executive order renaming Lake Ontario “Lake America,” the latest escalation in his trade dispute with Canada, directing the Interior Department to update the U.S. Board on Geographic Names within 30 days [1, 2]. Seneca Nation President J. Conrad Seneca…

Milo Yiannopoulos Wanted Mass Deportations. ICE Just Deported Him. Milo Yiannopoulos, the British far-right commentator and longtime Trump ally, was deported to the United Kingdom, a Department of Homeland Security spokesperson confirmed Saturday, one day after ICE agents arrested him at Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport [1, 2]. DHS said Yiannopoulos had overstayed his…

Trump Administration Weighs Handing Yosemite Land to a Private Developer The Trump administration is weighing a land exchange that would cede a roughly quarter-mile strip of Yosemite National Park to Nevada-based Kingsbarn Realty Capital, allowing the developer to build a less-than-one-mile access road connecting to an 83-acre parcel where it plans a village of homes…

Trump’s $65 Billion Venezuela Oil Deal Has Republicans Celebrating and Everyone Else Furious President Donald Trump announced Friday that the United States has entered into an agreement giving it majority control of 65 billion barrels of Venezuela’s proven oil reserves, calling it “the biggest oil deal in world history.” Secretary of State Marco Rubio and…

A Baby Died of Measles in Pennsylvania. RFK Jr. Called It Fake. Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro announced this week that two Lancaster County residents, including a newborn, had died from measles-related causes — the state’s first measles deaths in 35 years and the first in the U.S. in 2026, both involving unvaccinated individuals connected to…

Trump Threatens Progressive Think Tank With $5 Billion Lawsuit — It Says No President Trump’s legal team gave the left-leaning Center for American Progress until the end of business Friday to retract a July 13 report concluding his National Guard deployments had “no measurable effect on violent crime trends,” threatening a $5 billion defamation lawsuit…

DHS Orders States to Audit Paper Ballots or Lose Funding Weeks Before Midterms Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin notified the White House Transparency Task Force in an August 24 letter, released Thursday, that DHS will require states to conduct random, post-election manual audits of paper ballots before they can receive full Homeland Security Grant Program…

Pentagon Loses Its War on Anthropic — But the Fight Over Military AI Isn’t Over A federal judge in San Francisco ruled Thursday evening that the Pentagon’s designation of AI company Anthropic as a “supply chain risk to national security” was unconstitutional retaliation, handing the company a near-total win in a five-month legal fight with…

ICE Arrests More People With No Criminal Record Than Ever, New Data Shows Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested a record average of more than 800 people with no criminal record per day in July, according to new federal data reported Friday, making it the first month of Trump’s second term in which people facing only…

Judge Blocks Trump’s Mail Ballot Overhaul for the Second Time in a Week A federal judge in Massachusetts issued a new order Thursday night blocking the U.S. Postal Service from enforcing a finalized rule implementing President Trump’s executive order restricting mail-in ballots ahead of the November midterms. U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani, an appointee of…