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Thursday, September 3, 2026
Pete Hegseth’s Year of Blowing Up Boats – Mother Jones
“The United States is simply killing individuals unilaterally without any legal basis or process.”…
Tillis renews calls for Hegseth's ouster - Live Updates - POLITICO
“I have never witnessed more inept management of the brave men and women who serve our country,” the outgoing two-term North Carolina Republican wrote on X...
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/09/02/congress/tillis-hegseth-trump-01062001
Trump administration backs OpenAI in newspapers' copyright case - POLITICO
The New York Times said in a statement that the government’s position would let AI companies take content without permission or compensation and would "undermine the sustainability of the human-created content that a healthy society depends on.”
“The Administration is siding with a handful of trillion-dollar AI companies at the expense of the countless American creators whose work they stole,” said Graham James, a spokesperson for the New York Times…
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/09/02/open-AI-copyright-case-justice-department
Pete Hegseth criticized for body-shaming Canadian cadets: ‘Literally they’re kids’
The post, widely seen as part of a Trump administration “bullying campaign” over the trade war, was immediately condemned by officials in Canada and in the US. Mark Carney, the Canadian prime minister, called it “beneath the office” of the secretary of defense...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/02/pete-hegseth-body-shaming-post
US could ask parents to prove citizenship or immigration status to obtain passports for children
Proposal offers look at how state department could enforce Trump order targeting what it calls ‘birth tourism’…
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/01/parents-citizenship-passports-children
ICE holds man with stage 4 cancer in detention despite permanent US residency
ICE spokesperson says Loreto Javar failed to disclose criminal conviction in Philippines when he applied for visa…
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/01/ice-stage-4-cancer-filipino-national
Israel ‘seeking Trump’s support for plan to expel Palestinians from Gaza’
Israel’s defence minister has said his country is seeking Donald Trump’s support to approve plans to expel Palestinians from the Gaza Strip in what has widely been condemned as a potential war crime...
US medical groups urge people to get flu and Covid shots in counter to Trump guidance
Top medical groups band together to ease confusion from Trump administration’s changing immunization advice…
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/02/flu-covid-vaccines-guidance
White House pushes companies to ditch Macron’s space summit - POLITICO
The White House pressured U.S. space companies to skip French President Emmanuel Macron’s space summit in Paris next week — a surprise move that left company executives confused about what they should do...
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/09/02/space-summit-france-white-house-01062483
‘Pitiful’: experts condemn initial US aid contribution for Nepal flood victims
Aid experts have denounced the US’s “embarrassing” and “pitiful” initial response to the Nepal flood disaster after the US state department announced it was releasing $500,000 in emergency funds to help the relief effort.
The modest sum – which has since been increased – allocated in response to the devastation caused by mudslides in the mountainous Asian country was mocked on social media, where users contrasted it with the amount spent on other Trump administration priorities...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/02/nepal-flood-aid
More taxes have gone uncollected after IRS slashed its staff : NPR
"Defunding the IRS is not a money-saving proposition because you have fewer employees," says Natasha Sarin, who served as a counselor on tax policy to former Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen. "It is a money-losing one, because you do a less good job of collecting taxes."…
https://www.npr.org/2026/09/02/nx-s1-5954022/irs-tax-collection-job-reductions
Judge strikes down New York law that forced climate polluters to pay damages
“The fossil fuel industry would like nothing more than for one district court ruling in New York to scare lawmakers across the country into backing down, but this decision doesn’t bind other states or stop them from passing their own laws,” said DiPaola.
“If allowed to stand, some of the richest corporations in history get to walk away from $75bn they owe New Yorkers. The floods will still come, roads will still wash out and communities will still need billions to protect themselves.”
Deported Milo Yiannopoulos says he is ‘ashamed’ of support for Trump
“I didn’t really understand the physical reality of how institutionalized the brutality is in America,” he said. “It’s like everybody that’s arrested is an MS-13 gang member, and it hurts a lot more than it looks like on television.”…
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/01/milo-yiannopoulos-deported-trump-support
Critics Give JD Vance Holy Hell After Scary End Times Claim | HuffPost Latest News
Critics on social media didn’t find it very reassuring to hear a world leader say they were okay if their work leads to the end times – and they hit back on X:…
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jd-vance-end-times_n_6a979e1ee4b0f5af041149c2
JD Vance says he’s doing ‘God’s work – and if that leads to the end times, OK’
Vice-president says on evangelical podcast he would feel ‘not shocked if the antichrist was walking among us’…
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/02/jd-vance-god-podcast-end-times
Trump’s affordability crisis is about to hit a new level - POLITICO
The rise in debt yields threatens to stoke Americans‘ anger by pushing up rates even more on mortgages and consumer loans.
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/09/02/bessent-g20-trump-economy-bond-selloff-01060964
Iran accuses US of ‘war crime’ after missile blast kills four people at wedding
Blast also injures 68 guests at the wedding in southern Iran, prompting fears of escalation in hostilities…
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/02/iran-us-missile-blast-wedding
This data has helped fight workplace discrimination for 60 years. The Trump administration plans to delete it
The move marks a fundamental shift for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). Without this data, it will be much harder for the agency to identify widespread cases of discrimination in hiring and promotions, experts and former employees of the commission say. And, they warn, it will bring the Trump administration one step closer to reshaping the commission from an independent watchdog into an arm of the executive branch narrowly focused on advancing the political grievances of Donald Trump’s base…
The GOP’s major concession about expanding the Supreme Court
“The proposed amendment is simple: ‘The Supreme Court of the United States shall be composed of nine justices consisting of one chief justice and eight associate justices.’’ The GOP leadership is likely putting this proposed amendment forward to demonize Democrats as being in favor of “court packing.” Whether the bill’s sponsors realize it or not, though, its very existence concedes something vital: The choice of how many seats are on the Supreme Court is entirely up to Congress”
https://www.ms.now/opinion/house-amendment-supreme-court-nine-seats
DOJ says states must report all undocumented immigrants — or lose federal funds - POLITICO
Previous efforts to force states' hands have failed in court...
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/09/02/trump-justice-department-immigration-deportation
US and Iran exchange more airstrikes, fuelling fears of wider return to hostilities
Attacks on Iran’s Revolutionary Guard and reprisals against US bases in Middle East quash hopes that flare-up last weekend was limited in nature…
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/01/us-iran-airstrikes-launch
Hospitals say coming Trump administration rules are worse than GOP's Medicaid cuts - POLITICO
Hospitals expected to lose $340 billion through 2034 after Congress passed the One Big, Beautiful Bill Act last year. If the rules are finalized as proposed, they would generate $756 billion in savings to the federal government and $265 billion in savings to states through 2035.
Or as hospitals see it, they’re losing $681 billion more than they expected…
Florida Republicans worry they won’t capture big redistricting gains - POLITICO
Republican hopes for Florida were much higher at the start of a tit-for-tat cycle that saw Republican- and Democratic-led states across the country engage in mid-decade redistricting...
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/09/02/florida-house-gop-redistricting-midterms-01060473
Federal judge tosses Trump lawsuit over young trans athletes in California school sports
In a major LGBTQ+ rights victory, the justice department cannot force the state to ban trans girls from women’s sports…
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/01/trump-trans-athletes-california-lawsuit-dismissed
Almost half of world’s farmers poisoned by pesticides every year, experts find
Study reveals that pesticide poisoning kills 11,000 people each year, with India accounting for nearly 60% of fatalities
Right-Wingers Are Furious with the Girl Scouts Over a Fake "Muslim Badge” scandal
Right-wing influencers are threatening to boycott Girl Scout cookies after Natalie Winters, Steve Bannon’s podcast co-host, falsely accused Girl Scouts of the USA of promoting the “Islamization” of girls.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZx20H8kUyU
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