Day: August 24, 2026

California AG Cancels Meeting with Paramount as Entertainment Giant Eyes Relocation to Tennessee

Tom Pappert
Paramount

California Attorney General Rob Banta on Monday canceled a publicly announced meeting planned between his office and the Paramount Skydance Corporation, reportedly accusing the entertainment giant of “playing games.”

Banta leads California in a 12-state lawsuit seeking to block Paramount’s merger with Warner Bros. Discovery., but on Monday was planning to hold settlement talks with the company. The lawsuit was notably filed despite an investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice determining the merger could move forward. 

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Breitbart’s Matt Boyle Says He’s Ready to Serve Trump if Asked to Become Press Secretary

Kaitlin Housler
press briefing

Matt Boyle, the Washington bureau chief for Breitbart News Network, said he would accept the position of White House Press Secretary if President Donald Trump asked him to take the job, while emphasizing that he is not actively seeking the position.

Boyle made the remarks while speaking Monday on The Michael Patrick Leahy Show, after host Michael Patrick Leahy publicly recommended him to replace Karoline Leavitt, who is set to leave the position at the end of August.

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Supreme Court Pauses Lower Court Ruling on Trump’s Mail-In Voting Order

Just the News
Supreme Court justices

The Supreme Court ruled Monday to pause a lower court’s order that blocked key directives from President Donald Trump’s executive order to restrict mail-in voting for the midterm elections in November.

The executive order, issued in March of this year, directed the Department of Homeland Security to compile lists of eligible voters nationwide, on a state-by-state basis, and seeks to block the U.S. Postal Service from delivering absentee ballots to voters not on state-approved rolls.

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While Trump Sharply Cuts Foreign Aid, Past Abuses from the Obama-Biden Era Keep Piling Up

Just the News
Trump and oval office

A half billion dollar fraud and bribery scheme conducted by a USAID contract officer and three conspirators that went undetected for a decade. American-bought equipment stolen by a terror group. Millions of dollars in food that spoiled in warehouses. These are but a few of the wasteful — if not corrupt ways — millions of USAID dollars have been lost.

While President Donald Trump has sharply cut foreign aid from the auspices of USAID and shifted what remains to the State Department, the massive abuse of America’s generosity to foreign countries over a decade of Obama-Biden governance is coming into clearer focus.

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Report: State Department Planning Mass Revocation of 200,000 Visas

Just the News
Marco Rubio

The State Department is preparing to revoke as many as 200,000 business and tourism visas in what would mark the largest single revocation in U.S. history, the Associated Press reported.

The effort comes as State works with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to identify recipients who used the visas for short-term entry, but instead filed for asylum to try to secure a permanent stay.

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Bessent Announces Campaign to Create ‘Economic Onslaught’ Against Iran and Its Partners

Admin
BREAKING NEWS

CBS News   Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Monday announced Operation Economic Outcast, the Trump administration’s ramped-up push to use economic tools to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and end the war with Iran. “Today, at President Trump’s direction, the United States Treasury has begun Operation Economic Outcast, an unprecedented campaign against the Islamic Republic of Iran and its enablers,” Bessent said. “In the Second World War, D-Day marked the historic beginning of a campaign with our allies to target and drive the enemy from its positions, including those in third countries. Today, in that same spirit, we are launching an economic onslaught against Iran’s financial connections around the globe.” The operation expands the categories for secondary sanctions on entities and countries that transact with Tehran and also introduces new sanctions across a variety of vital sectors, including digital assets, gold, aviation, technology and shipping. READ THE FULL STORY   

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Nevada Sues Trump Administration over Colorado River Water Use Cuts

Admin
BREAKING NEWS

The Hill   The state of Nevada is suing the federal government over its plans for Colorado River water use reductions, saying its cuts are too steep. Nevada sued Monday after the federal government finalized its 10-year framework for planned cuts on Friday. The Colorado River provides water for agricultural, municipal and industrial uses for seven states in the Western U.S., including Nevada. READ THE FULL STORY     

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America Removes State Sponsor of Terrorism Designation for Syria

Admin
BREAKING NEWS

State Department   Today, I authorized the formal rescission of Syria’s designation as a State Sponsor of Terrorism (SST), following the conclusion of the mandatory 45-day Congressional notification period.   I have also delisted Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham’s (HTS) designation as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT). These actions represent another historic step by President Trump to give the Syrian people a path to prosperity. In the past year the Trump Administration has taken unprecedented steps to provide sanctions relief for the benefit of the Syrian people.  The historic June 2025 Executive Order ‘Providing for the Revocation of Syria Sanctions’ accelerated the process of sanctions relief for Syria, including by terminating the Syria Sanctions Program and the national emergency with respect to Syria, and directing reviews on various Syria-related sanctions and terrorist designations. These actions were all taken in recognition of the positive actions taken and further commitments by the Syrian government under President Ahmed al-Sharaa to fully distance Syria from acts of international terrorism.  In the past year, the Government of Syria has taken significant steps to counter terrorism, to include formally joining the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS in November and conducting operations to disrupt the terror networks of ISIS, al-Qa’ida, Hizballah, and Iran-aligned groups.  Rescinding Syria’s designation…

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Records Reveal Planned Parenthood’s 14-Point Post-Dobbs Strategy for State AGs to Target Pro-Lifers

The Daily Signal
abortion supporter

A month after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, Planned Parenthood issued marching orders for state attorneys general to target crisis pregnancy centers and issue abortion-friendly legal opinions.

State actions after the July 12, 2022, memo suggest Democrat attorneys general followed much of the 14-point plan pushed by the nation’s largest abortion provider.

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Farmers Accuse Gov’t of ‘Overstepping’ Their Property Rights in Rural Battle over Trump’s Nominations

Daily Caller News Foundation
farmer worker

Farmers in North Dakota said a federal rule put in place by former President Joe Biden’s administration violates their property rights and has caused them to suffer financially as Republican North Dakota Sen. Kevin Cramer threatened to hold President Donald Trump’s nominations over the rule.

Farmers impacted by the policy say the Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) policy prevents them from installing underground agricultural drainage tiles near protected federal easements, arguing it interferes with their property rights and causes them financial harm. The Trump administration backed out of its initial plans to rescind the policy on behalf of farmers, prompting Cramer’s plan to withhold “any and all” of Trump’s nominations until the administration agrees to change it.

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Data Center Backlash Brings Thousands of Projects to a Screeching Halt

Daily Caller News Foundation
utah data center

Americans’ growing opposition to the prevalence of data centers has led many politicians to limit or pause their increase altogether.

Lawmakers in New York and Texas, for example, have effected stoppages of data center projects, while other states, such as Pennsylvania, have issued more restrictions on data center construction. Americans’ support for data centers has generally plummeted, as critics have linked them to higher utility bills — reflecting extraordinary water and energy usage — being experienced by local communities.

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Top Education Official Kirsten Baesler Calls Direct Instruction the Future of K-12 Learning

Kaitlin Housler
Teacher and students

Kirsten Baesler, assistant secretary for elementary and secondary education at the U.S. Department of Education, expressed strong support for Direct Instruction during an exclusive interview Friday with The Tennessee Star’s CEO and Editor-in-Chief Michael Patrick Leahy.

Baesler, a North Dakota native and former classroom teacher, discussed her path from growing up in the small farming and ranching community of Flasher to serving as the state’s superintendent of public instruction for 13 years before joining the U.S. Department of Education.

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ICE Says New Call Center in Nashville Will Support Local, State Police Who Sign Agreements to Perform Immigration Enforcement

Tom Pappert

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) verified that it plans to open a Public Safety Coordination Center in Nashville after a federal database appeared to confirm the plan was underway.

In a Friday statement, ICE confirmed that the call center will field calls to support local and state law enforcement agencies that have entered into 287(g) agreements with the federal government.

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Top AI Chipmaker Looks to Make Its Own AI Models

Daily Caller News Foundation
nvidia

Nvidia reportedly plans to spend billions of dollars to compete against China’s most advanced open-source artificial intelligence models and its own American customers.

Nvidia, the world’s largest chipmaker for the AI hardware market, announced a licensing deal with AI startup Poolside that would have the company directly compete against OpenAI and Anthropic to build its own open-source models, according to the Wall Street Journal, citing people familiar with the matter. Open-weight models typically cost less and allow for more customization compared to closed-source models such as Anthropic’s Claude or OpenAI’s ChatGPT.

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Marsha Blackburn’s Life, Political Rise Featured in New Educational Coloring Book

Kaitlin Housler
Marsha Blackburn

U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) is the subject of a new 40-page educational coloring book highlighting her life, career, and path to becoming the first woman elected to represent the Volunteer State in the U.S. Senate.

Really Big Coloring Books, Inc. announced Sunday the release of Marsha Blackburn: An American Success Story, describing the publication as a “fact-based, nonpartisan account of Blackburn’s personal and professional milestones” designed for “school-age readers, teens, families, educators, libraries, and history enthusiasts.”

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