Progressive state Rep. Angie Nixon scored a major upset over former National Security Council aide Alex Vindman in the Florida Democratic Senate primary, NBC News projects, setting up a general election race against Republican Sen. Ashley Moody. Vindman, a retired lieutenant colonel and Iraq War veteran who rose to prominence as a witness during President Donald Trump's 2019 impeachment hearings, was viewed as a heavy favorite against Nixon, a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, heading into Tuesday's contest. Vindman raised $16 million for his campaign, a significant number for a Democrat in red-leaning Florida, while Nixon brought in just over $900,000. Read more
Tributes paid to great friend and collaborator' who played with band for 56 years and died in hospice care in Texas Read more
President Donald Trump told a story about South Korea on Monday. Every single part of it is false. Trump has delivered versions of his fictional story before; CNN debunked one telling last year. The president delivered Monday's version the day after he announced the US would reduce military exercises with South Korea " citing his "very good relationship" with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and also mentioning that South Korea declined to participate in the US war with Iran. Read more
It was the Democratic Party's "Summer of Socialism," as an email from the Republican National Committee cheerfully called it that morning, and Ashik Siddique, a co-chair of the Democratic Socialists of America, was standing on a chair outside a bar, rallying the comrades. Read more
Aug 18, 2026
This morning, NATO has deployed large aircraft forces around Putin's Kaliningrad region next to the Polish border in what appears to be a sudden and urgent show-of-force. We are currently monitoring ongoing developments.
In the meantime, NATO has also deployed several aircraft toward Northern Norway as it's believed that Russian submarines are on the move out of Murmansk for some unknown reason.
Meanwhile, Moscow came under the largest drone attack that it's experienced in the last two years over the past 24 hours, with more than 600 UAVs targeted the capital as explosions rang out across the area.
Meanwhile, Dubai has come under a missile attack from Iran as warnings were sent out to civilians to seek shelter, which marks the first Iranian attack on Dubai in Months.
Health data appears to be most affected by administration's attempt to wipe findings that don't align with its priorities, tracker shows.
"Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison (D) filed a lawsuit on 18 August 2026 against Texas Governor Greg Abbott (R) to force the extradition of ICE agent Christian Castro who faces charges in Minnesota for second-degree assault and filing a false police report following a January 2026 shooting during Operation Metro Surge."
Feckless, tin-eared Democratic Party leaders still dithering about "reforming" ICE when it should be completely abolished. What a great strategy to win future elections.
SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- California energy regulators have approved new rules that will phase out some replacement tires sold in the state that do not meet energy-efficiency requirements. The standards target replacement tires that fail to meet the new efficiency requirements. State regulators say the changes will help drivers save money on fuel over time. Tire manufacturers, however, argue the rules could increase upfront costs for consumers by hundreds of dollars. Read more
The number of people worth more than $100 million whom President Donald Trump has appointed to his administration is more than four times the combined total of the three previous presidents
The move to repeal the 'roadless rule' would pave the way for road construction and logging in nearly 45 million acres of untouched back country.
About 30 parents, students and community members voiced concerns about the use of electric shock gloves at the Omaha Public Schools board meeting Monday night while a full room listened.
Does liberty mean a right to kill other people's children, slowly and painfully? It would, if the Trump administration had its way. It's pressing states to allow broad vaccine exemptions as part of its larger campaign against settled medical practice. The danger is clearest with measles. Children usually recover from it, albeit often with some permanent damage. But a 2016 California study found that when infants under a year old are infected, subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE) " in which the virus lingers in the brain and slowly destroys it " develops in about 1 in 600 cases, far higher than the 1-in-100,000 figure doctors had long cited. Long after the initial infection, the child becomes clumsy and forgetful, then experiences headaches, fevers and seizures, loses motor control and finally becomes bedridden and dies.
"Promises made, promises kept." Other presidents have employed variations of that phrase, although few with the gusto of President Trump; he even proclaims it on the White House website. When it comes to the economy, though, "promises not kept" would be a more apt description of the first 19 months of Trump 2.0. And many of the promises he has kept are causing as much damage as critics predicted. All in all, while Mr. Trump continues to boast about the "greatest economy we've ever had, by far," the record to date falls far short of that lofty pronouncement.
A US guided-missile destroyer reportedly spent four days adrift and without power in the South China Sea in July, furthering concerns about strain being placed on deployed military members. The USS Benfold, an Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer which had been sailing with the George Washington carrier strike group, was reported to have been towed to Subic Bay in the Philippines, according to the US Naval Institute News, an independent military publication. The 10,000-ton destroyer lost power after what a spokesperson with the US seventh fleet called "an engineering casualty involving its generators", resulting in a loss of power.
By lunchtime at a northern Virginia high school, the hallway outside the cafeteria buzzed with students finishing homework, joking with friends and playing video games. Off to the side, Tech Sgt. Omar Herrera, an Air Force recruiter, had arranged his table with the standard fare of glossy brochures, foam model fighter jets and Air and Space Force-branded water bottles students could earn with a round of pushups. The scene was strikingly low-key, almost at odds with the life-altering decision many of the teenagers wandering past his table were weighing.
