Across The Spectrum

Trump envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner travel to Ukraine for peace talks after meeting with Putin "There's no such thing in the world as forever enemies or forever allies,” Kushner said. https://humanevents.com/2026/09/06/trump-envoys-steve-witkoff-and-jared-kushner-travel-to-ukraine-for-peace-talks-after-meeting-with-putin

German far-right AfD wins by a landslide in Saxony-Anhalt: exit polls https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2026/09/06/german-far-right-afd-wins-by-a-landslide-in-saxony-anhalt-exit-polls

Woman arrested for intimidating jurors in Lindsay Clancy case is retired nurse Police found her with video and photographs of jurors on her phone and made her delete them. She was arrested and charged with juror intimidation. Light's attorneys said in court on Wednesday that she was just trying to get a photo of Clancy, who has seen an outpouring of support from women show believe her defense of postpartum psychosis should render her not guilty of her actions in January 2023, when she admits to having taken the lives of her three children. https://thepostmillennial.com/judge-addresses-arrest-of-woman-for-juror-intimidation-outside-plymouth-courthouse-where-lindsay-clancy-faces-trial

Judge declares Rubio’s speech-based student deportations violate the Constitution Northern District of California Judge Noël Wise, an appointee of former President Joe Biden, sided with the Stanford Daily, which sued Secretary of State Marco Rubio, arguing that his use of the Immigration and Nationality Act to deport noncitizen students had foreign students refraining from writing opinion pieces critical of the administration. https://www.politico.com/news/2026/08/29/rubio-immigration-first-fifth-amendments-01056086

JUST IN - Duane "Keffe D" Davis guilty of first-degree murder in the 1996 killing of Tupac Shakur. @disclosetv

Army Secretary Dan Driscoll resigns after long simmering tension with Pete Hegseth Dan Driscoll has submitted his resignation to President Trump and will leave his post at the Pentagon in the coming days. Driscoll’s resignation comes after months of tension between him and War Secretary Pete Hegseth. The Post previously reported that Hegseth feared being fired by Trump and replaced by Driscoll. “Secretary Driscoll has been highly effective in advancing President Trump’s agenda to Make America Strong Again at the Department of the Army by providing outstanding leadership during historic military operations, restoring an emphasis on readiness and lethality, assisting with negotiations between Russia and Ukraine, and more,” White House spokeswoman Anna Kelly said in a statement. https://nypost.com/2026/08/31/us-news/army-secretary-dan-driscoll-resigns-after-long-simmering-tension-with-pete-hegseth/

Supreme Court allows Trump to continue building White House ballroom The Supreme Court cleared the way Monday for President Donald Trump to continue construction of a massive new ballroom at the White House, rejecting a challenge from a preservation group that was seeking to indefinitely halt the controversial project. The ruling was 5-4, with Chief Justice John Roberts and the court’s three liberals dissenting. https://edition.cnn.com/2026/08/31/politics/supreme-court-white-house-ballroom-trump

Judge Tosses Musk’s Suit Over NY Hate-Speech Law U.S. District Judge John Cronan in Manhattan rejected X’s argument that the Stop Hiding Hate Act violated the U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment by exposing it to lawsuits and big fines unless it disclosed “highly sensitive and controversial speech” that the state found objectionable. The law does not just say “publish your existing terms of service.” It requires platforms to state whether and how they define “hate speech or racism,” “extremism or radicalization,” “disinformation or misinformation,” “harassment,” and “foreign political interference,” then report enforcement data sliced by those buckets. However, those labels are not commercial product specs, they are contested political and legal concepts. https://modernity.news/2026/08/28/judge-tosses-musks-suit-over-ny-hate-speech-law/

Anthropic gets its first court win over the Pentagon’s supply-chain risk label A federal judge in California ruled on Thursday evening that the Trump administration’s designation of Anthropic as a supply-chain risk was illegal. U.S. District Judge Rita Lin said in her ruling that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s labeling of Anthropic as a risk to national security signified “unlawful retaliation” in violation of the First Amendment, and said the decision was “arbitrary and capricious.” Lin also said Anthropic was denied due process, as required under the Fifth Amendment. https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/28/anthropic-gets-its-first-court-win-over-the-pentagons-supply-chain-risk-label/

China is secretly fueling America's data center rage Roughly 200 accounts from a suspected Chinese bot farm have quietly tried to influence Americans to oppose AI data centers on social media, X said Thursday night. The X Safety team probed suspected Chinese accounts involved in influence operations and identified 200,000 accounts, including 200 accounts "posting in a manner that could manipulate a legitimate debate about American AI and energy policy," the team said in a tweet. https://www.axios.com/2026/08/28/china-ai-data-center-backlash-bots

Iran Launches Missiles After U.S. Conducts Defensive Strikes on Larak Island Iran launched missiles Sunday after U.S. forces struck two IRGC launchers on Larak Island, sharply escalating tensions around the strategically vital Strait of Hormuz waterway. https://faytuksnetwork.com/middle-east/iran-launches-missiles-after-u-s-conducts-defensive-strikes-on-larak-island/

US Patriot missile stocks in Europe are 'beyond critical' due to Iran war, officials say https://apnews.com/article/patriot-missiles-iran-war-russia-ukraine-trump-09c7d8030a2e11fbd8ee3f7176b3f2d4

JUST IN - Trump says U.S. and Venezuela have agreed to "THE BIGGEST OIL DEAL IN WORLD HISTORY!," securing "majority U.S. control of more than 65 BILLION BARRELS of proven Oil Reserves in Venezuela, at no cost to the American Taxpayer." Source: https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/117175567133618952 @disclosetv

President Trump has signed an executive order establishing The United States Space Academy https://x.com/WhiteHouse/status/2093383065548492982

BREAKING: The jury in the Lindsay Clancy trial has been dismissed for the day without a verdict. The jurors have not been sequestered but cannot discuss or read about the case. They have deliberated for roughly 10 hours over two days so far. Deliberations resume Monday morning @police_frequency

Milo Yiannopoulos detained by ICE pending removal for overstaying his visa and failing to show up for his immigration hearing https://x.com/DHSgov/status/2093428821835796688

Right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos detained by ICE Yiannopoulos was arrested on Thursday at a Louisiana airport, DHS said. He was still in custody as of Friday afternoon, according to the agency’s online detainee locator. https://edition.cnn.com/2026/08/28/us/milo-yiannopoulos-detained-by-ice

Scoop: U.S. close to striking "massive" deal for Venezuelan oil fields The Trump administration is in talks with Venezuela's interim government about taking an ownership stake in the South American country's enormous oil resources, two U.S. officials tell Axios. The historic deal would more than double U.S. oil reserves by drawing from a country that has the world's largest proven reserves. https://www.axios.com/2026/08/27/trump-venezuela-oil-deal-talks

3 Secret Service officials placed on leave amid misconduct investigation Three Secret Service officials, including the agency’s director of communications, have been placed on leave as an investigation into potential misconduct unfolds, a source familiar with the decision told CNN. The nature of the alleged misconduct was not immediately clear. All three officials, including comms chief Anthony Guglielmi, have lost their security clearances and access to their work devices, the source told CNN, adding that such practice is common during internal investigations. They each work in the agency’s communications office. https://edition.cnn.com/2026/08/25/politics/secret-service-officials-on-leave-misconduct-investigation