Politics
10 stories, 75 sources cited
Trump says he will declare the strait of Hormuz US territory, but no legal instrument exists
At a police training centre in Garden City, New York on 14 August 2026 Donald Trump said he would soon declare the Hormuz strait a territory of the Un
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Israel's defence minister ordered law enforcement over West Bank settlers handed to the police
Israel Katz said on 14 August 2026 he had told the military to draft a plan moving civilian law enforcement over Israelis in the occupied West Bank to
Sources cited: 6 sources
NSW's biggest gun buyback in three decades starts on 2 November and the price list is published
A prime minister's office release on 16 August 2026 sets the New South Wales buyback start at 2 November, paying 1,000 dollars for revolvers and centr
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France's Constitutional Council voided the under-15 social media ban on breadth and on age checks
Decision 2026-911 DC, issued on 14 August 2026, censured Article 1 of the law adopted on 21 July 2026, calling the ban neither adapted, necessary nor
Sources cited: 7 sources
Two federal courts found the White House ballroom unauthorised by Congress; it is now at the Supreme Court
On 7 August 2026 the DC Circuit ruled 2 to 1 that above ground work must stop because Congress has not authorised the ballroom. Solicitor General D. J
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Filed 27 July, briefed since 3 August: the Supreme Court has not ruled on the mail ballot order
Solicitor General D. John Sauer filed a supplemental brief on 12 August 2026 urging the justices to act on an application lodged on 27 July and briefe
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A senator has put the USS Abraham Lincoln allegations in writing, and the Navy's denial is now specific
Senator Richard Blumenthal wrote to Pete Hegseth and acting Navy Secretary Hung Cao on 12 August 2026 demanding dates, authorisations and incident dat
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DNC's 2028 calendar opens in South Carolina and puts New Hampshire third, with $18.5 million of debt
The Democratic National Committee voted in Austin on 15 August 2026 for a 2028 early window running South Carolina, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico,
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Abdul El-Sayed won Michigan for the Democratic left, and in the same nine days it lost Wisconsin and St Louis
El-Sayed's narrow Senate primary win over Haley Stevens, reported on 5 August 2026, was billed as the left's breakthrough. Within a week David Crowley
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South Korea's president has offered to negotiate an end to the Korean War, and Pyongyang has said nothing back
In his Liberation Day address on 15 August 2026, President Lee Jae Myung proposed talks to end the war the 1953 armistice only paused and to discuss h
Sources cited: 8 sources