August 12th, 2026

• ​CENTCOM: US forces strike Panamanian vessel in Gulf of Oman over alleged breach of blockade on Iran
• How Iran Adapted Its Attacks as U.S. War Munitions Dwindled - The Iranian strikes that killed three U.S. soldiers in Jordan show how quickly Iran's war-fighting skills have evolved, as the Pentagon runs low on interceptors
• Iran digs in on demands over Hormuz as mediators assert progress made toward deal - Iranian official says strait won't reopen unless US ends Gaza and Lebanon wars and releases frozen Iranian assets; Pakistan says sides 'close to some sort of an arrangement'
• Trump Doubles Down on U.S. 'Total Control' of Hormuz: Iran Can Crumble Economically or Get 'Blown Away'
• Trump says US Navy has '100%' control of Strait of Hormuz - The president noted American forces had cleared Iranian mines, while U.N. envoy Mike Waltz argued economic sanctions outweigh military strikes
• Iran wants a mafia-style 'protection' toll on the Strait of Hormuz, but the eye-popping $20 billion per year haul is a pipe dream
• Gulf States Accept a New Normal in Hormuz: Iran Is in Control - Oil-and-gas exporters dislike the emerging deal to reopen the waterway but see it as the least-bad option
• Iran Shuffles Military Leaders, Prepares for 'Prolonged Confrontation'
• Israeli intel on Iranian plot said to have spurred decision to sneak Trump off Air Force One
• Trump's Air Force One Escape While Leaving Journalists on 'Decoy' Flight Sparks Online Media Fury
• WaPo Hacks Put Trump's Life in Danger - Tip Off Iran to His Secret Travel Changes for the Next Time They Want to Kill Him
• Ex-Mossad chief says 'we toured' Iran's Fordo nuclear site 'many times' - In remarks at forum in Safed, Yossi Cohen says US bombing of site in 2025 was 'the fulfillment of all my dreams,' suggests that 60% uranium enrichment 'is still far from a bomb'
• At least six killed in suspected Houthi attack on Egyptian ship in the Red Sea
• U.S. military operations killed 153 civilians last year, Pentagon says
• All roads lead to Tehran: Israel's 4 fronts await the next turning point - Nearly three years into the war, Israel remains locked in open conflict on four fronts: Iran, Gaza, Lebanon and Syria. All are interconnected and, to varying degrees, directed from Tehran
• Israel plans $133B military buildup - With the war continuing, threats evolving and seeking to reduce its reliance on US military aid, Israel faces a costly military overhaul, raising one central question: Where will the money come from?
• Israel unveils plans for next generation of attack drones
• Lebanon claims IDF drone attack wounded two, hit ambulance; Israel denies striking - Authorities claim 'double-tap' strike in Nabatieh targeted rescuers from Hezbollah-linked Scouts group; Israeli military says it's unaware of any strike
• US insists Israel-Lebanon talks moving in 'positive direction' despite setback last week - State Department says next round of talks to take place in September in Rome, will focus on roadmaps for future pilot zones for IDF withdrawal
• Lebanon abolishes death penalty in landmark vote, becoming first Arab nation to do so - Majority of 128-member parliament votes in favor of formalizing a 2004 moratorium on executions, with the exception of the Hezbollah bloc, which opposes the motion
• IDF tightens siege on Hezbollah terrorists trapped in underground Lebanon complex
• Former Oct 7 hostage turns his experience in captivity into a musical album - "This event is not a celebration, not a party, not closure, not a victory"
• Report: Gaza 'day after' plan delayed until after elections - Entry of multinational force, Green Rafah initiative, and technocratic government face delays leaving postwar plan far from implementation
• Israel said to tell US it will keep targeting Oct. 7 terrorists as Gaza disarmament stalls
• Greece Sees Nationwide Pro-Palestinian Protests, Raising Fears for Israeli and Jewish Tourists
• Court orders release of settler accused of attacking Palestinian after 38 days in custody - Dardik, alleged to have paraded a naked, bound Palestinian around his village, will remain barred from entering the West Bank except to report twice daily to a local police station
• IDF slams 'reprehensible' settler outposts in Palestinian villages, but doesn't demolish them
• Rights groups sue Trump over sanctions he placed on ICC due to Israel warrants - Human Rights Watch and 3 other groups ask New York to strike down Trump's measures against court, calling them an 'unlawful abuse of power' that prevent justice being served
• Report: AG expected to charge Netanyahu aides with security offenses in Qatargate affair - Senior Mossad official also expected to face charges, pending hearing; intel agency chief Gofman may be barred from signing off on decision due to conflict of interest
• Report: Barkat co-led Likud effort to oust and replace Netanyahu after Oct. 7
• Pro-Israel organizations condemn DSA co-chair for saying October 7 attacks were 'inevitable' - DSA co-chair said she would have likely attended rally sympathizing with Hamas
• Sister of pro-Israel stalwart Lindsey Graham advances to runoff in GOP Senate primary - Darline Graham, who was appointed to her late brother's seat, will face off against US Rep. Ralph Norman to represent South Carolina Republicans in the November general election
• Pro-Palestinian progressive poised to win Democratic primary for Wisconsin governor - Polling shows democratic socialist Francesca Hong with commanding lead ahead of Tuesday vote; Jewish groups voice concern over her record on Israel and antisemitism
• Michigan AG Dana Nessel Refuses to Attend Dem Convention Due to Threats from Radical Anti-Semitic Left - Rips Party for Double Standard as Indicted Members Are Welcomed
• Revealed: El-Sayed Proclaimed 'Obligation' To Follow Sharia Law Until the Day He Dies
• 'Scream' Star Melissa Barrera Trashes Hollywood for Blacklisting Her for Supporting Palestinians
• Israel and Venezuela renew consular relations for first time since 2009 - After 17-year diplomatic break, countries say they will reestablish ties, continue 'cooperation stemming from' Israel's humanitarian mission after deadly June double earthquake
• Three settlement activists illegally enter Syria overnight, are detained by IDF
• Syrian court sentences ex-president Bashar al-Assad to death in absentia for war crimes - Assad's cousin Atef Najib, present in Damascus court, also given death penalty for overseeing 2011 crackdown that helped trigger uprising against regime
• Drone strikes hit Libya's key western oil town and a car bomb kills an officer in the east
• North Korea launches another ballistic missile as US, South Korea prepare for military drills - The launch follows a test from the country's eastern Wonsan area just last week
• North Korea missile launch hints at upgraded weapons exports to Russia for Ukraine war - North Korea usually reports launches but its silence in the recent launches raises the possibility they involved a top-secret new missile
• Taiwan is training its Abrams tank crews to hide and refuel inside its bustling urban sprawl
• Taiwan condemns 'dangerous' planned Chinese navy drill with Indonesia to its east
• China missile test deepens Pacific divide over growing militarisation
• China, India and Pakistan's dangerous nuclear triangle just became more complicated
• Russia is firing North Korean missiles at Ukraine, Zelenskyy claims, as more overnight attacks kill 9
• Ukraine faces race against time as Russia chokes Black Sea ports
• Russia's lockdown of Odessa ports could be a grim turning point in war
• Over 16,000 civilians detained by Russia during the war in Ukraine are still held, UN estimates
• Russia frees former US marine jailed for more than 4 years - Robert Gilman heads to US military hospital in Texas after release on humanitarian grounds; family says he is gravely ill due to abuse in Russian prison
• 'Russian Starlink' Is Fast Becoming A Reality, There's Just One Problem For The Kremlin
• Ukraine is attacking 'Russia's Amazon', and it could lead to a bigger prize
• Food Disruption in Ukraine Sparks Concerns About Fuel and Food for Coming Winter
• Ambrose Evans-Pritchard: The ingredients are coming together for a US financial crisis - Trump could trigger a disaster as markets lose faith in Washington's economic management
• Former DSA Member Says the Organization Does Not Tolerate Internal Dissent, is More Radical Than People Realize
• Jasmine Crockett on 'Kimmel': Mitch McConnell Is 'Dead,' 'Vote for a Democrat' if You Want to 'See Some Arrests'
• Federal judge blocks Trump administration from restricting mail-in ballots ahead of midterms
• Ron Johnson asks Justice Department to investigate allegations of ballot fraud in California
• Trump teases national security emergency for elections: 'Stranger things have happened' - The host commented that if the president does declare a national security emergency and federalize the elections, then he would get everything he wanted without the Senate's assistance
• Brennan: We 'Should Be Very Worried' About Trump Interfering in Midterms
• Hunter Biden calls Trump 'the one existential threat' to the US in interview with Tucker Carlson - Biden claimed the president's relationships with wealthy tech leaders are to blame for the country's current divide, stating that his relationship with Elon Musk and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is helping to push and promote Trump's political agenda
• UK Radio Station Mistakenly Aired King Charles Death Report 'Out of Curiosity' - A Radio Caroline staffer ignored "strict instructions" and accidentally played pre-recorded announcements declaring the monarch dead on the air
• Multistate Water System Attacks Widen, Iran Suspected - Attacks targeting water systems just keep flowing across a dozen states, against ill-secured, Internet-exposed PLCs
• New surveillance tech links your phone to your license plate - Phone and Bluetooth signals could turn roadside cameras into far richer tracking tools
• Babylon Bee sues New Mexico officials over law requiring AI disclaimers on political satire
• Protesters Arrested After Storming OpenAI Lobbying Office - "My friends chose to risk arrest to bring the fight to OpenAI."
• Meta launches new AI model as Zuckerberg champions open-weight push
• 'We have no time to waste': Netanyahu unveils Israel's national AI program
• AI dispatchers replace humans for New Orleans 911 calls - The city recently confirmed that its emergency services are deploying an AI-powered triage system designed to screen and sort incoming 911 calls before they reach human operators
• The Next 'Lab Leak' Could Be AI - Recent sandbox breaches demonstrate the need for federal guardrails
• Up In Flames: Dramatic moment Chinese rocket explodes seconds after takeoff as desperate Xi tries to keep up with Musk's SpaceX tech
• Long March 7A Rocket Carrying Communications Satellite Explodes Right After Launch, in Setback for the Chinese Space Program
• South Korea unveils future technology drivers, targets moon landing by 2030
• Eclipse craze grips Spain, Iceland as millions get set for 'event of the century'
• Spain prepares for eclipse under shadow of wildfire risk
• The stunning fireball Perseid meteor shower twinning with the solar eclipse
• Colombia searches for over 3,000 missing after a powerful quake kills more than 170 - Families seek information about loved ones on citizen-run sites as soldiers, rescue personnel dig through rubble of buildings destroyed by 7.4-magnitude earthquake
• As search for thousands of missing pushes on, Colombia earthquake tests new president
• Colombia rescuers find woman alive as quake death toll passes 200
• A whisper from the rubble led to baby's rescue after Colombia earthquake
• Colombia: Shocking Images of Cathedral Tower Collapse During Earthquake
• Magnitude 5.2 quake hits off Hawaii island; no tsunami generated
• 5.1 magnitude earthquake hits the Pacific-Antarctic Ridge
• 5.1 magnitude earthquake hits near Tobelo, Indonesia
• 5.0 magnitude earthquake hits near Kerema, Papua New Guinea
• 5.0 magnitude earthquake hits near Kokopo, Papua New Guinea
• 5.0 magnitude earthquake hits near Chayek, Kyrgyzstan
• Sabancaya volcano in Peru erupts to 18,000ft
• Purace volcano in Colombia erupts to 18,000ft
• Fuego volcano in Guatemala erupts to 16,000ft
• Mt Etna volcano in Italy erupts to 16,000ft
• Reventador volcano in Ecuador erupts to 15,000ft
• Semeru volcano in Indonesia erupts to 15,000ft
• Santa Maria volcano in Guatemala erupts to 14,000ft
• Ambae volcano on Vanuatu erupts to 11,000ft
• Typhoon Chan-hom makes landfall in eastern Japan's Kanto region
• At least 15 dead as Philippines hit by twice London's annual rainfall in just nine days
• A possible tornado flipped a car near Columbus as severe storms unleashed damaging winds, flash flooding and widespread power outages across the Midwest
• 16 people hospitalized after lightning strikes Ohio prison
• Commentary: Europe Is Suffering The Worst Drought It's Had In Years, And These Photos Of How Dry It Is Are Actually Blowing My Mind - If I hear the words "data center" again, I'm seriously going to lose it
• Drought declared in 'almost three-quarters' of England, UK government says
• Low Rhine levels begin to disrupt German industry
• British Columbia Wildfire Grows as 20,000 Evacuate
• Heat, Fire, Smoke and Storms Are Wreaking Havoc on the Economy - Businesses are reckoning with the financial toll of this year's brutal climate shocks
• Environmental disaster looms as Russian shadow ship leaks 800,000 barrels of oil into Arabian Sea
• Swarming jellyfish overrun French nuclear plant on same date two years in a row - The jellyfish invasion is the latest in a series of climate change-driven incidents that have affected a record number of French nuclear reactors over the summer
• Jellyfish-hit French nuclear plant shuts down three reactors
• A ferry capsizes on Zimbabwe's Lake Kariba, leaving at least 15 people dead and 27 missing
• Christians, Kurds, Yazidis, Alawites, and Druze: Just How Many Have Been Killed by the Religion of Peace?
• Toulouse Cops Stabbed by Islamic Maniac With Two Knives, Shouting 'Allahu Akbar'
• Michigan's Far-Left Democrat Senate Nominee Abdul El-Sayed Deletes More Than 100 YouTube Videos Demanding Ban on Guns and 4th of July Fireworks
• Hillary Clinton Melts Down Over Trump Beautifying America - Vows to Tear Down His Arch and "Make a List" of Monuments to Destroy, Then Compares Oval Office to Saddam Hussein's Palaces
• Ohio Troopers Investigate Bomb Threat as Law Enforcement Make Contact with Suspicious Individual Near President Trump's Scheduled Visit
• Canada Charges Suspect with 'Public Mischief' for Bomb Threat Against U.S. Consulate
• Should Letting Children Play Alone Outside Be a Crime? Some parents have been surprised to find themselves in the legal system's cross hairs
• Morocco Demands Return of All Unaccompanied Migrant Children in Spain
• How Social Media Spurred a Refugee Crisis Between Spain and Morocco - A wave of disinformation online contributed to a surge of migrants in the Spanish enclave of Ceuta who were trying to reach Europe, resulting in about 90 deaths.
• 'We've never seen anything like this': ICE's detention crackdown swamps the courts - Families, lawyers and judges describe a year of frantic emergency cases after ICE began detaining people who have lived in the U.S. for years
• Iranian Regime Hangs 24-Year-Old Woman Who Fought Back Against Sexual Assault - Forced into Child Marriage at 17, Executed for Defending Herself
• Gavin Newsom tells Detroit church Trump wants 'to bring us back to a pre-1960s world' - 'Anti-woke is nothing more than anti-Black. We know that'
• Michigan's Radical Democrat Senate Nominee Abdul El-Sayed: Football Is "Toxically Masculine" Culture Full of Racism, Misogyny and Homophobia
• Rosie O'Donnell: Being Gay 'No Different than Being Left-Handed or Having Blue Eyes'
• Trump Ends Medicaid Funds for Youth Trans Care
• Medicaid to stop funding child sex-change hormones and surgeries, Trump admin vows to protect kids from 'experimental' procedures
• San Francisco gay bars halt use of facial recognition software designed to detect fake IDs after LGBTQ community backlash
• Let the 'Transition' Begin: Enes Kanter Freedom Posts Workout Vid After Declaring for WNBA Draft
• Trans Cyclist Veronica Ivy Now Stealing Women's Titles in a Second Sport
• Korean Christians appeal to Supreme Court after ruling forcing them to allow men into women's nude spa
• Far-left 'trans kids' enthusiast Peggy Flanagan wins Minnesota US Senate Democrat primary
• Pro-Life Groups Urge Attorney General Todd Blanche to End Biden's Mail-Order Abortion Scheme
• Pro-Life Groups Slam Mass. Late-Term Abortion Law
• Ken Paxton Intervenes in Surrogacy Fight to Protect Baby Gabriel After Biological Parents Demanded Abortion Over Treatable Heart Defect
• Family Recounts Chilling Meetings with Doctors, Nurses Before Beloved Grandmother Was Euthanized, Allegedly Against Her Will and Theirs
• Dangerous drug-resistant fungus spreads across US, reaching 27 states
• Death toll from flesh-eating bacteria rises
• Health officials suspect Ebola in man who returned from DR Congo
• Former NFL MVP Cam Newton Vindicates Aaron Rodgers - Confirms Players, Coaches, and Execs Bought Fake Vax Cards to Dodge Draconian NFL COVID Mandates
• Sen. Rand Paul: Fauci Should Be Charged with Lying to Congress and Destroying Records