August 14th, 2026

• ​Saudi-Turkish-Pakistani defense pact triggers concern in Israel, skepticism across the region - The pact already failed a first test just days after it was established
• Turkey Says Saudi, Pakistan Defense Deal Includes A.I and Autonomous System Tech
• Iraq: Conflict between Baghdad gov't and Iranian-backed terror militias comes to a head - Iraqi PM intent on disarming Iranian proxies while preventing armed clashes
• Iran looks to ramp up economic alliance with BRICS nations as war with U.S. drags on
• Bessent: US to Hit Iran With Unprecedented Economic Isolation
• Bessent says US 'to apply measures' on Iran that 'have never been seen in history'
• The Iran strike Trump halted: 'We were about to destroy what remained of the regime' - Senior government official claims last week, we were hours away from a massive operation that was stopped at the last minute
• Vance contradicts Trump as he names the top US priority in Iran war
• Vance says low oil prices are top US goal in Iran conflict, with preventing Tehran from acquiring a nuclear weapon ranking second
• Hegseth: US Can Block Iran's Ports 'Indefinitely'
• Israeli officials stunned by Iran's rapid military recovery after 2026 war - IDF seeing a stunningly speedy turnaround in ballistic missile threat
• Four crewmembers, two rescuers killed in Red Sea attack; U.S. strikes ship in Gulf of Oman - The deaths aboard the Egyptian-owned Tihamah, if confirmed, would be the first deaths in a Houthi strike on shipping since the Iran war began Feb. 28
• US Sending Fresh Carrier to Mideast Amid War Strain
• USS Abraham Lincoln: Senate Democrats press Hegseth for answers on reports of attempted suicides
• Hegseth says reports about conditions on USS Lincoln are misrepresented, but does not deny them
• US Rejects Israel's Long-Term Military Presence in Southern Lebanon
• Defense Minister draws sharp rebuke from US, Beirut for saying IDF won't honor commitment to withdraw from south Lebanon
• IDF says Hamas operative killed in first Gaza airstrike in over a week
• 'Just like before Oct. 7': Gaza border surveillance troops say they're seeing terror activity - Kushner and Mladenov to visit Israel next week to lean on Netanyahu to restore halt on strikes, adhere to humanitarian commitments, in bid to advance Hamas disarmament, source says
• Gazan sham charities' crowdfunding funneled cash to alleged terrorists, US probes show
• Board of Peace denies $400 million Hamas debt deal, says terror group will get 'no access to funds'
• Board of Peace confirms Kushner to visit Israel and Egypt next week to discuss Gaza plan
• Six Years After Trump-Brokered Abraham Accords Kushner Says Region Can 'Do It Again'
• Security officials warn: Rising settler-Palestinian friction could ignite Judea and Samaria
• Families move into rebuilt West Bank settlement of Ganim, 21 years after evacuation - Some two dozen prefabricated homes installed, with construction ongoing; IDF carries out demolitions of nearby Palestinian stores and blocks roads to adjacent villages
• IDF removes Palestinians from homes for op said aimed at clearing harassing settlers - Army backtracks from evacuation order, but some residents say they still haven't been allowed back into besieged Qusra home; Huckabee says IDF in Qusra at his request, slams the settlers as 'Israeli terrorists'
• Amb Huckabee blasts 'Israeli terrorists' who besieged Palestinian home; IDF clears radicals but also evacuates Palestinians - Settler activist claims situation caused by struggle over strategic piece of land
• Settler leaders condemn Kusra violence, warn of 'irreversible damage' to Israel - Yesha Council chairman Yisrael Ganz and Beit El council head Shai Alon condemn extremists, with Alon warning that the violence is causing "irreversible damage" to Israel and the settlement movement
• Palestinian journalist Mohammed Awad detained by IDF in West Bank, family says - Military doesn't comment; Palestinian groups say number of detained journalists now 40, pan 'systematic policy of targeting Palestinian journalists'
• US judge drops Trump case alleging Harvard failed to protect Jewish students
• Nazi salutes apparently directed at Israel soccer team fans during UEFA Conference League elimination match
• Bank of Jerusalem stock plummets, revives amid rumors over employee's disappearance in Vienna - Gag order placed on Israel Police investigation into whereabouts of Mali and Liel Yahalomi, as family claims terrorism has not been ruled out, despite reports that it's not suspected
• Russia's 'Amazon' in deep-strike Ukraine blitz, wiping billions from Putin-linked CEO
• Ukraine's farmers despair as Russia's Black Sea blockade traps their harvest
• Ukraine Offers Russia Truce in Black Sea as Food Supply Fears Mount
• Satellite images show key port attack as Russia-Ukraine strikes threaten global food supply - U.N. experts have warned that "continued disruptions to Black Sea export flows and damage to export infrastructure" are contributing to a rise in global wheat prices
• Ukraine Strike Shuts Russian Refinery for Months
• Russian Officer Killed in Suspected Assassination in Crimea
• Poland arrests Russian allegedly hired to kill Ukrainian-American who was 'inconvenient to the Putin regime'
• Russian plot to kill American citizen thwarted by Poland, prime minister says: "First situation of its kind"
• Putin Visits Islands Seized From Japan in World War II, Angering Tokyo
• 'Absolutely unacceptable': Japan condemns visit by Vladimir Putin to disputed Kuril Islands - Japanese PM says islands seized by Soviets late in second world war are part of her country under international law
• White House exposes 'Transshipment Scam' costing US up to $26B, points finger at China - Peter Navarro says importers caught falsifying a product's origin can face tariffs applied retroactively for roughly a year
• Clinton Nuclear Football Carrier Calls Trump's Air Force One Decoy "Brilliant" - Warns Leaker Was "Highly Placed" and Should be Prosecuted to the Fullest
• FBI had 14 informants on Biden corruption but ran secret op to dismiss evidence as disinformation - Bureau secretly flagged Cabinet officials like Bill Barr and Mike Pompeo, lawmakers and journalists as 'conduits' for Russia propaganda
• John Brennan Panics, Claims Trump Will "Pull Out All the Stops" to Interfere in Midterm Elections
• O'Keefe Exposes Minnesota voting 'vouching' loophole as poll workers tell undercover team 'you're the ID'
• Cam Higby and James O'Keefe Go Undercover as Fake Muslims in Minneapolis, Are Allowed to Vote in Other People's Names and Vouch for Eight Foreigners - Including 'Hamas Militants from Gaza'
• Pete King: Hasan Piker, Socialists Are 'National Threat'
• Chris Matthews: Dems Have to Denounce Socialist 'Crap'
• Abdul El-Sayed calls for socialist-style 'public ownership' of AI companies - The proposal puts El-Sayed in line with Sen. Bernie Sanders, who has pushed for a plan that would give the public an ownership stake in major AI companies
• Alarming study finds top chatbots more likely to repeat falsehoods from the left: 'Truly astonishing'
• Germany to boost intelligence services, citing constant cyberattacks from abroad - After years of concern about Russia and others, Berlin says it plans to turn its lagging agencies into 'real intelligence services' capable of 'active measures' against adversaries
• Surveillance company Flock moves to increase oversight after police misuse - The company is also changing how long it stores people's movement data by default
• Slop Detector: Spotify to Label AI-Generated Artists Starting Next Month
• A.I. Agents Are Taking Entire Online Courses for Cheating Students
• College Kids Are Using AI Agents to "Take" Entire Online Classes for Them by Logging Directly Into the Course Management Software - "Am I just interacting with bots here?"
• Colombia: Hospitals Overwhelmed in Earthquake Epicenter, 93 Percent of State 'Gravely Damaged' - City streets are in a state of "total chaos."
• Rescuers call for silence around earthquake rubble as window for survival narrows in Colombia
• 5.6 magnitude earthquake hits the Kermadec Islands region
• 5.3 magnitude earthquake hits near Sarangani, Philippines
• 5.1 magnitude earthquake hits west of Macquarie Island
• 5.1 magnitude earthquake hits near Lapuan, Philippines
• 5.0 magnitude earthquake hits near Angoram, Papua New Guinea
• Magnitude 3.8 earthquake rattles San Francisco Bay Area along Pacific Ring of Fire
• Sabancaya volcano in Peru erupts to 23,000ft
• Sheveluch volcano on Kamchatka, Russia erupts to 23,000ft
• Mt Etna volcano in Italy erupts to 20,000ft
• Etna eruption enters seventh day in phenomenon unseen since the 1970s
• Etna ash keeps Catania airport shut until Friday, disrupting summer travel
• Purace volcano in Colombia erupts to 17,000ft
• Reventador volcano in Ecuador erupts to 16,000ft
• Semeru volcano in Indonesia erupts to 16,000ft
• Fuego volcano in Guatemala erupts to 16,000ft
• Ambae volcano on Vanuatu erupts to 15,000ft
• Santa Maria volcano in Guatemala erupts to 14,000ft
• Tropical Storm Lala expected to pass Hawaii as a hurricane this weekend, alerts issued - Tropical Storm Lala is targeting Hawaii with winds, coastal flooding and heavy rain this weekend
• Lala could become the first hurricane to make landfall on Hawaii's Big Island
• '1-in-1,000-year' flood devastates Indiana; 1 dead in Ohio
• Record rain in Japan kills four, leaves thousands stranded at Narita airport
• Utah farmers face devastating loss after major hailstorm hits onion crop
• As temperatures soar, 'exceptionally serious' drought imperils UK farmers
• Romania shuts its last nuclear reactor as drought-hit Danube river drops to record low
• Hungary to sink barges and build a sill on Danube River to keep nuclear plant running - "The Danube has given us days, not months," Prime Minister Péter Magyar said, as plunging river levels threatened the plant that supplies around a third of Hungary's electricity
• Nolte: Polls Show No One Cares About Climate Change
• Salvage Teams Struggle to Contain Oil Spill from Tanker Grounded near Oman
• Iowa Democrat Sarah Trone Garriott: Church Is a 'Barrier' to Domestic Abuse Victims Getting Help
• Adam Hamilton, Christian Pastor & Democrat Senate Nominee, Says Muslims and Hindus Unknowingly Worship Jesus
• El-Sayed's Campaign Confirms He Still Follows Sharia Law in Personal Life
• Trump Housing Director Bill Pulte Launches Probe into Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac's Sharia Law Home Financing
• Former Catholic bishop accused of hosting alcohol-fuelled parties to sexually abuse Aboriginal men found guilty - Christopher Alan Saunders found guilty of 13 sex offences in West Australian district court
• Accused of calling stunt election to avoid scrutiny, UK's Farage faces joke candidate - Head of anti-immigration Reform party expected to beat Count Binface, a man wearing trash can on his head, as major parties snub special election in small seaside resort outside London
• Farage Faces 'Count Binface' in Today's Clacton By-Election - But His Real Adversary Is the British Establishment
• Report: Spanish Govt Estimates 5,000+ Potential 'Asylum Seekers' Remain in Ceuta
• New York Governor Kathy Hochul Brags About Spending Millions of Tax Dollars on Legal Bills for Illegal Immigrant Children
• Feds: Human Smuggling Profits Drop Significantly as Trump Drastically Cuts Illegal Immigration
• State Department Creates Task Force to Go After Birth Tourism
• Kentucky: Illegal Alien Accused of Raping, Sodomizing 15-Year-Old Girl
• Illegal Alien Released from Jail Accused of Fatally Stabbing Retiree One Day Later in Sanctuary California
• Hegseth: Colombia Joins US-Led Coalition, Requests Joint Military Ops Against Narco-Terrorists
• WNBA Has Yet to Determine What a Woman Is, Slams 'Bad Faith' Efforts to 'Marginalize Others'
• WNBA Announces They "Will Work Weeks and Months" to Decide Who Belongs in Their Women's National Basketball League
• Following Damning Report Vice President Vance Announces Criminal Refererals of Healthcare Providers Subjecting Children to 'Horrific, Experimental Treatments in Service of Radical Gender Ideologies'
• Comedian Margaret Cho: 'We're in the Middle of a Trans Genocide'
• Transgender Rep. Sarah McBride Didn't Fight to Use Women's Restroom Because 'Someone Could Shoot Me'
• Vance, Kennedy refer gender clinics for prosecution based on HHS billing fraud probe - If flagged providers were "intentionally" miscoding treatment to "secure insurance coverage for gender-transitioning interventions that insurance would not otherwise cover," Vance says "they should go to prison."
• Seattle city council allocates $300,000 in taxpayer funds for 'trans refugee crisis' - The taxpayer funds will come from the city's JumpStart Fund, which offers housing assistance and economic recovery initiatives
• Father of Ohio 7-year-old tortured, murdered by mom and trans lovers is also trans, goes by 'Tara Jane' - Ellis identifies as transgender, legally changing his name to Tara in December of 2023
• Argentina Joins US-Led Coalition Declaring No International Right to Abortion
• Legal Expert: Don Lemon's Legal Battle Could Have Devastating Unintended Consequences for Abortion Clinics
• Federal Court Rules Against Planned Parenthood in Devastating Blow That Could Cost the Abortion Giant Close to $2 Billion
• Catholic group demands Massachusetts governor be excommunicated over abortion law - CatholicVote argues Healey's signing of legislation removing late-term abortion restrictions is a grave sin under canon law
• Trump Vaccine Plan Requires Millions of Long-Unused Shots - Public health experts have been quick to condemn an executive order from President Donald Trump aimed at upending childhood vaccinations in the U.S., but the biggest obstacles may be the unprecedented financial and logistical challenges it would impose on parents, health providers, and drugmakers
• "It Sounds Like a Wild Conspiracy Theory": Jeffrey Tucker Reveals the Real Reason for the Lockdowns, School Closures, and Masking - The purpose, according to Tucker, was "to delay the onset of natural immunity... until after the shots were online."