Prosecutors say Maduro’s regime hired the street gang Tren de Aragua to kill a political dissident in Chile. The Venezuelan leader suspected of ordering the hit continues to be a key player in the country’s Trump-backed government.

He’s Suspected of Hiring a Venezuelan Gang for a Political Killing. Trump Officials Still Work With Him.

Authorities say former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro’s regime hired Tren de Aragua to kidnap a dissident who had taken refuge in Chile. The suspected mastermind, Diosdado Cabello, remains powerf...

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Havana Says the Reforms Are Homegrown. Washington's Fingerprints Are Everywhere Anyway Díaz-Canel calls Cuba's biggest economic shake-up in decades a sovereign choice — but the timeline, the sanctions, and the language of siege tell a messier story. www.latintimes.com/havana-says-...

Cuba swears its reforms aren't a U.S. win. The sanctions tell a different story.

Díaz-Canel closed Cuba's parliamentary session by rejecting claims that the island's 176-measure economic overhaul was forced by U.S. sanctions

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Russia fired 28 ballistic and anti-ship missiles at Kyiv overnight. Ukraine intercepted zero. The barrage destroyed Rozetka's main warehouse—over 100,000 orders a day—and killed 17, including eight people waiting for a train. euromaidanpress.com/2026/08/05/r...

The American people deserve affordable, high-quality healthcare. Democrats are fighting for just that. Republicans won’t get away with their cruel attacks on healthcare.

An association of thousands of FBI agents and other groups are backing a lawsuit filed by three bureau employees who were fired last year for their roles in an investigation into President Donald Trump's efforts to undo the results of the 2020 presidential election. www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

3 FBI agents fired over Trump investigation get broad backing in lawsuit against administration

The agents were terminated as part of a broader personnel purge by FBI Director Kash Patel that has targeted employees who investigated Trump or are perceived as being against the administration's int...

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The war Russia unleashed on Ukraine comes back to Russia itself Vladimir Tkachuk, director of the Russian FPV drone manufacturer “Upyr”, was reportedly seriously injured in an explosion and taken to intensive care 🎥 E1 News

#OpEd Kazakhstan tries to balance relations with Russia and other major powers. But the economic impact from the war in Ukraine and meant that President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev had to speak out, albeit diplomatically, writes Zarina Akhmatova.

Tokayev’s Warning to Putin Was About More Than Ukraine - The Moscow Times

Opinion | Why would one of Russia's closest allies publicly call on President Vladimir Putin to freeze the war in Ukraine, knowing the message would not be welcome?

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The Charity Commission for England and Wales has launched an official inquiry into UK charities funding illegal Israeli settlements in occupied Palestine. The news comes after a Guardian report that revealed millions in UK donations to settlement projects

⚡️North Korea deploying ballistic missile unit to Russia to wage attacks on Ukraine, intelligence says. The unit, deployed in the region bordering Ukraine's Luhansk Oblast, is believed to have six launchers and 120 ballistic missiles, according to the report.

North Korea deploying ballistic missile unit to Russia to wage attacks on Ukraine, intelligence says

The unit, deployed in the region bordering Ukraine's Luhansk Oblast, is believed to have six launchers and 120 ballistic missiles, according to the report.

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Notice DOJ doesn't talk about its efforts to obtain state voter files anymore. They are 0-20 in those cases and today is the beginning of the quiet period -- states can no longer do systematic removals of names from the voter rolls. TLDR: We won!🥳

The Confederacy lasted five years. So do countless trends and fads. Heritage is one thing. Glorifying a government created to defend slavery is another.

A Ukrainian drone strike set fire to a Wildberries logistics hub in Russia's Tula Oblast overnight — the 16th site hit in this campaign in under three weeks. The governor says one person was injured overnight euromaidanpress.com/2026/08/05/u...

Ukraine hits 16th Wildberries warehouse in under three weeks, one injured overnight

Governor confirms drone downed itself onto sorting hub, one worker injured

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So, if this hits the moon hard enough to knock it out of orbit, it might drag us out into space with it. That would never happen of course, but it sounds like a pretty decent movie plot.

Sky News@news.sky.com · 12h ago

SpaceX latest: Abandoned rocket about to slam into moon at high speed

Ummm... no.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 13h ago

Trump: "I think we should be given an A+ on the economy"

“ It’s not apples to apples. A weak politician is not equivalent to a national movement systematically re-organizing the government around cruelty, concentrated executive power, religious nationalism, and loyalty to a single person.” VOTE. VOTE. VOTE.

Russia launched a massed missile and drone attack on Kyiv and Kyiv Oblast overnight, killing 14 people and injuring 27 Fires burned across three raions. A residential building collapsed in Holosiivskyi district. Rescuers are searching for people under the rubble euromaidanpress.com/2026/08/05/r...

Russia hits Kyiv and its region overnight, 14 dead as ammonia leaks and building collapses

Second massed Kyiv barrage in five days kills 14, floods four districts with fires

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The fuss so many Republicans in D.C. make about the LGBTQ community is resentment. They resent people brave enough to live openly…while they keep their own desires hidden, terrified of what colleagues and constituents would do if they knew. Republicans…you KNOW who you are. We do, too.

original song 🎶 by Robin Kirby ©RobinKirbyRecords ℗RobinKirby www.reverbnation.com/robinkirby/s...

Hard Working Woman by Robin Kirby | ReverbNation

Folk music, lyrics, and videos from Houston, TX on ReverbNation

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Trump repeatedly campaigned for his second term as a champion of free expression. Reuters identified 75 federal-judge rulings finding Trump's government infringed on First-Amendment rights including freedoms of speech, religion, and the press. currently.att.yahoo.com/att/trump-vo...

Trump vowed to 'bring free speech back.' Judges in 75 cases ruled that he has stifled it

By Nate Raymond and Jan Wolfe Aug 4 - U.S.

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Just one disputed area of Trump's reported business losses could be worth more than $100 million in back taxes, interest & penalties, according to legal analysts reviewing the deal. That's before counting the more than $2B Trump reported earning last year, largely from crypto ventures… | Forbes

Todd Blanche’s Latest Trump IRS Immunity Deal Is No Concession At All

This latest agreement would continue to assure that Trump and his sons would benefit from special tax treatment no other taxpayer has received.

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Ukraine's air defense network remains one of the country's greatest military successes. But the air war is changing. As Patriot interceptor stocks remain limited, Russia is increasingly relying on ballistic missiles to inflict greater damage on Ukrainian cities. euromaidanpress.com/2026/08/04/u...

BREAKING: Trump’s Education Department deleted the federal category recording anti-trans bullying in schools. The abuse remains, but federal data will no longer name gender identity as the motive. Read the full report ↓

Trump’s Education Department Is Deleting Nonbinary Students and Anti-Trans Bullying From Federal School Data

The 2025–26 civil-rights survey removes nonbinary reporting, eliminates separate gender-identity harassment records, and strips gender identity from rape and sexual-assault definitions.

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lol… wounded idealist here 🙋‍♀️ Talarico speaks truth to power in #Texas.

Team Talarico@teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 2d ago

James Talarico: Since taking office, Ken Paxton has become a multi-millionaire — all while most Texans’ pay has remained stagnant for decades. He now owns 15 homes, while most Texans can't afford one. We can't afford Ken Paxton's corruption.

So now the next step is to find out what Capital One's months-long anti-money laundering review by professionals with decades of law enforcement experience discovered about Trump's 300+ accounts...

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 20h ago

Phang: "Capital One said, 'We don't want the business anymore of the 45th president of the United States, his businesses, his failed sons, and his revocable trust.' So you can imagine -- I am just hypothesizing... but it suggests whatever Capital One uncovered was pretty bad. Makes you wonder..."

Trump thinks he’s smart because he surrounds himself with stupid people.

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Missouri's top election official has rejected a citizens' petition seeking a statewide referendum on new congressional districts backed by Trump. currently.att.yahoo.com/att/missouri...

Missouri election chief rejects bid to hold public vote on Trump-backed congressional districts

Missouri's top election official has rejected a citizens' petition seeking a statewide referendum on new congressional districts backed by President Donald Trump. Supporters of the referendum had sub...

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I've never had more respect for Cory Booker than I do at this exact moment in time. He just gave the entirety of the Judiciary Committee both barrels. One can only imagine the outcome of a closed door meeting between himself and Blanche.

Professors sue Texas A&M System over limits on teaching race, gender This is the second Texas university system sued over teaching restrictions in recent weeks. www.texastribune.org/2026/08/04/t...

Texas A&M sued over teaching limits on race, gender

This is the second Texas university system sued over teaching restrictions in recent weeks.

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Stop the false equivalence. No other President sued his own government to secure immunity for himself and his family, created a fund to reward cop beaters, and demanded prosecution of his political enemies. Trump’s weaponization of DOJ is unprecedented and you just endorsed it.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

Tillis admits Trump is weaponizing the DOJ during his speech announcing he'll vote for Todd Blanche: "Maybe it's a little bit more intense in this administration than the last one ... I'm going to support Mr Blanche's nomination"