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Story by Harry Thompson

Donald Trump’s new name for Lake Ontario is not at all popular with Americans, a new poll reveals.

The 80-year-old president threw a tantrum after trade negotiations with Canada broke down and decided the best way to teach his northern neighbors a lesson was to unilaterally rename “Lake Ontario” “Lake America.”

Canadians have been unimpressed and defiant, thumbing their noses at his executive order, which holds no legal basis in their country. But even south of the border, Trump’s play has not gained much traction.

Only 14 percent of respondents in a new Reuters/Ipsos poll said that renaming the lake was a good idea, while 63 percent said they did not support it.

The same poll gathered opinions on the tariffs Trump has introduced on America’s closest ally, which he said would be imposed after the collapse of trade negotiations between Ottawa and Washington, D.C., last month.
David Edwards

Voters erupted at a Texas commissioners' meeting as Republican officials cut nearly a third of the polling places in a battleground county that Democrats have started to win.

On Tuesday, the Tarrant County Commissioners Court voted 3-2 along party lines to approve 224 Election Day polling sites for November, down from 316 in the 2022 midterms, reported the Texas Tribune.

More than 100 speakers testified during a meeting that ran more than eight hours, and most of them opposed the cuts, the Tribune reported.

One Tarrant County resident spent his allotted minute at the microphone demanding that County Judge Tim O'Hare, a Republican, look up from the dais and meet his eyes.

"What could possibly be so important? Mr. O'Hare, can you listen to me, please? Hello?" the resident said.

"Yeah," O'Hare answered.
Story by Lesley Abravanel

An explosive amicus brief filed on Tuesday, September 1, in a Massachusetts federal court accuses President Donald Trump of using "dictator tactics" to restrict mail-in voting ahead of the midterms.

The brief was submitted by the legal advocacy group Lawyers for the Rule of Law.

It supports a lawsuit brought by the League of Women Voters of Massachusetts against the Trump administration.

The legal team states that the administration's aggressive mail-in ballot crackdown is a "bald-faced grab for power." They compare it to historical authoritarian efforts to suppress voters.

Details of the Filing
The filing argues the administration is weaponizing federal infrastructure through measures like restricting USPS processing to pre-approved voter lists (with a whistleblower report warning of computer system errors affecting a large portion of the electorate), forcing officials to submit voter lists to the federal government, and restricting eligibility via Department of Homeland Security database checks.

These directives face significant legal resistance.

Judge Denise Casper previously blocked parts of the order over ballot-access concerns, and a separate injunction against the USPS system is under appeal, potentially heading to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Story by Charlie Jones

A bleak poll for Donald Trump suggest hiss MAGA base may be turning against him as concerns over foreign policy and cost of living persist.

A new poll has found that around 15 per cent of people who voted for Trump in 2024 would not vote for him again or even just not vote at all. The University of Massachusetts-Amherst survey is evidence there are “clear, consistent signs” that Trump's base is eroding, the poll’s co-director said.

“There are no takebacks in electoral politics,” said Alexander Theodoridis, co-director of the UMass-Amherst poll. “But around 15 percent of Trump voters now tell us they might or would vote differently or not vote at all if they had it to do over again.”
Story by Tierney Sneed, CNN

The US Postal Service effort to develop a sweeping new system for verifying mail ballots has invited a host of IT concerns among agency officials, with some describing the process internally as a “sh*t show,” according to a new whistleblower report released Tuesday by a Democratic senator.

The unnamed whistleblower is alleging that some of the procedures USPS is planning – under mandates put forward by President Donald Trump – have been hidden from the public. Those procedures will make an already complicated and risky plan even more vulnerable to potential mass disenfranchisement, the whistleblower says.

The new report – which was assembled by the whistleblowers’ lawyers and released by Connecticut Sen. Richard Blumenthal – comes as multiple courts are considering the legality of the proposal, which would require that states submit to USPS lists of their mail-in voters. The agency will not deliver ballots for states if there are any discrepancies between the voter information in the USPS system and what’s picked up by agency scanners on the envelopes of the ballots.

“USPS leadership, it appears, has discarded all best practices as they speed the project to be ready for a September 1 implementation - raising questions about whether catastrophic failure would be a feature rather than a bug,” said the report.
Story by Harry Fletcher

Milo Yiannopoulos has said he feels 'ashamed' of supporting Donald Trump after being deported by ICE to the UK.

The far-right troll said he was “swarmed” by Homeland Security agents and repeatedly mistreated ahead of his deportation to the UK last week.

Speaking on Piers Morgan Uncensored on Tuesday (1 September), Yiannopoulos said: “The first I heard of it was when 15 agents swarmed me at the Louisiana airport, and it didn’t get any less theatrical from there on.”

“This was not a normal, lawful process,” Yiannopoulos said, complaining of experiencing “brutality” and “physically degrading” treatment so severe that agents allegedly “walked off the job.”

“On August 28, ICE deported Milo Yiannopoulos, an illegal alien from the United Kingdom, back to his home country,” the department previously told The Independent.
Story by Billal Rahman

A 51-year-old Chinese national died in immigration detention in the U.S. territory of the Northern Mariana Islands less than a day after being taken into Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody, authorities said.

Lianyong Wei was found unresponsive during routine morning checks on August 23 at the Northern Mariana Islands Department of Corrections facility in Saipan, where he was being held on behalf of ICE. He was transported to a local hospital, where medical personnel attempted lifesaving measures before he was pronounced dead at about 7:30 a.m. Chamorro Standard Time, ICE said.

Wei had been arrested by local authorities on August 21 on allegations including assault with a dangerous weapon, aggravated assault and battery, disturbing the peace, and assault and battery. ICE said he was transferred into the agency’s custody on August 22 while awaiting immigration proceedings.

His official cause of death remains under investigation.
Story by Analysis by Zachary B. Wolf, CNN

It is not news, or surprising, that Americans are worried about government corruption.

They twice elected Donald Trump, who twice promised to drain the “swamp” of Washington, DC.

“We are transferring power from Washington, DC, and giving it back to you, the American People,” he said in his first inaugural address.

In his second inaugural address, Trump promised to liberate the country from “a radical and corrupt establishment” that “extracted power and wealth from our citizens.”

On that promise, there’s striking new evidence that Americans believe he has failed to deliver.

It should be of some concern to the White House — and to every American, really — that 89% of Americans said “yes” in a Gallup poll when asked, “Is corruption widespread throughout the government in this country, or not?”

Gallup isn’t alone on this. The University of Massachusetts at Amherst is also out with a poll Tuesday in which 97% of Americans — nearly everybody — says there is some corruption in government. A smaller portion, 75%, said there is “a great deal” of corruption in the UMass poll.
Story by JOEY CAPPELLETTI

WASHINGTON (AP) — Billionaire investor Leon Black refused to appear for a sworn deposition before Congress on Thursday and instead sued the House Oversight Committee, asking a federal court to block subpoenas issued as part of its investigation into disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.

The House Oversight Committee served Black with two subpoenas during a closed-door voluntary interview in June after lawmakers said he refused to answer questions about nondisclosure agreements. One subpoena demanded Black produce NDAs and other documents, while the other compelled him to return for a deposition before the committee.
According to a new Gallup survey, Americans think corruption is widespread in the U.S. government. MS NOW Congressional Reporter Mychael Schnell has the latest from Capitol Hill. Staff Writer for The Atlantic Ashley Parker, political strategist Amanda Litman, Policy Editor for The Bulwark Mona Charen join Katy Tur with their analysis.
By Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff and Jonathan Allen

WASHINGTON, Sept 3 (Reuters) - An immigration officer has been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of making false statements about the shooting of a Venezuelan man in Minnesota during a deportation surge last winter, according to a source familiar with the matter on Thursday.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent Christian Castro was indicted on six counts of lying to investigators, the person said, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly about the investigation. The charges will be unsealed once Castro is in custody, the person said.
Story by Alix Martichoux and Addy Bink

(NEXSTAR) – The FBI’s New Orleans field office says it is investigating after a report surfaced that millions of driver's licenses belonging to U.S. and Canadian residents may have appeared on the dark web.

Earlier this week, Brian Krebs, an independent journalist, reported that he had found a dark web site selling the digital scans of more than 153 million driver's licenses. He described finding the records of multiple friends and family members, noting that several of those he spoke with reported renting a car around the same time as the timestamps included with the digital scans.

Krebs alleged that some of the businesses these individuals reported sharing their driver’s license with work with IDScan.net, a company that verifies IDs. A representative for the company reportedly told Krebs the matter was under investigation. Nexstar contacted IDScan.net for comment but did not receive a response.

In his report, Krebs explained that the FBI confirmed it was investigating an apparent breach involving IDScan.net.
Story by Janna Brancolini

Donald Trump’s administration has turned to yet another contractor with a checkered legal past as it tries to fix the botched renovations at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.

The monument has been closed for months after Trump’s $16 million “repairs” to the century-old pool resulted in peeling blue sealant and a record-breaking algal bloom that turned the water slime green.

Originally, the task of installing a water-purification system to prevent algal blooms fell to a long-time Trump supporter and two-time felon who pleaded guilty to bribing a congressman and violating campaign finance laws.

Now, the Department of the Interior has awarded a $2.7 million contract to clean the pool to a Massachusetts-based company whose chief executive is being prosecuted for election fraud, according to CNN.
Story by Adam Lynch

With the shape of a 6-foot-2 potato, President Donald Trump looks nothing like an athlete, says conservative columnist Maureen Dowd.

“But in legal terms, the president is an Olympic-class sprinter. He breaks the law so fast that the law is left in his orange dust,” she added.

Trump is an outlaw, she said, and the U.S. system was not built for an open outlaw and a felon in the Oval Office.

“He zeros in on loopholes in the law and the system that are based on trust and the assumption that our leaders — and their families — will be not be voracious scam artists,” said Dowd, who then quotes Trump biographer Tim O’Brian saying “The Constitution was built on this idea that the president would have enough decency and morality that they just wouldn’t run around exploiting the gaps. And for Trump, it’s like red meat. … His whole worldview is built around the idea that you exploit systems for personal gain, and there’s nothing wrong with doing that because the world’s populated by sharks and you just have to be the biggest shark.”

But amid the rampage, of Trump’s defiling institutions and “razing our hallowed spaces,” Dowd complained that Chief Justice John Roberts seems “belatedly alarmed” after proclaiming in a Monday dissent that the president’s $300 million taxpayer-funded ballroom can be completed.
Story by David Edwards

A new rule from President Donald Trump's administration declaring that U.S.-born children of foreign government employees are not citizens drew immediate ridicule from an immigration expert.

Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin signed the interim final rule, which U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services filed with the Federal Register late Friday afternoon.

The rule took effect on filing and applies to children born on or after that date, the document says. Publication is scheduled for Sept. 9.

"A person born in the United States to a foreign government employee is not subject to the jurisdiction of the United States for purposes of birthright citizenship, unless at least one parent of the person is a United States citizen," the rule states. "That person is not a United States citizen under the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution."

David J. Bier, director of immigration studies at the Cato Institute, posted his reaction within minutes of the filing.

"HA! Sorry. That's not a thing," Bier wrote. "Either you're subject to US jurisdiction or you're not."
Opinion by Paul Waldman

Donald Trump loves nothing more than superlatives, so here’s another he can use: the most corrupt government in decades, according to Americans. A new poll from Gallup finds that “Americans’ perceptions of government corruption in the U.S. are at their highest level in 20 years, with 89% of U.S. adults saying it is widespread.” An estimated 91% of Democrats, 90% of independents and even 83% of Republicans agreed with that assessment.

How could anyone think otherwise? The past two years have been full of self-dealing and exploitation of the Oval Office for Trump’s personal gain.

For instance, four days before Trump was inaugurated, the United Arab Emirates’ national security adviser, known as the “Spy Sheik,” secretly made a $500 million investment in World Liberty Financial, the Trump family’s cryptocurrency company. The administration later lifted controls on the export of artificial intelligence chips to the UAE, a key objective of its government.

When the Emirati royal family took a $2 billion stake in Binance, a cryptocurrency exchange, Binance arranged for the investment to be made with World Liberty Financial’s stablecoin. That, in effect, provided World Liberty a $2 billion bank deposit. (The Trump family, World Liberty and Binance all deny wrongdoing.) Not long after, Trump pardoned Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, who had pled guilty in a sweeping money-laundering investigation.
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