Axios
August 2026
Army Secretary Dan Driscoll resigns from post
Bessent met with Russian counterpart at G20
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent met with Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov on the sidelines of the G20 Monday, a striking sign of the Trump administration's willingness to reopen high-level engagement with Moscow
Supreme Court allows Trump's ballroom construction to proceed
"Let data reign": Trump and AI investors wage campaign to save data centers
The only reason that communities throughout the U.S.A. should not want Data Centers is if they want to end up being backwards and poor,
If they want to be successful and rich, with far lower taxes and jobs all over the place, let Data Reign,
Trump weighing limited strikes against Iran to curb Hormuz attacks
That limited Iran's ability to hit oil tankers, while allowing more traffic and oil exports through the strait
Trump keeps turning his fire on female reporters
This is a continuation in his attacks on the free press and intent to intimidate, punish them for coverage he doesn't like,
You have to have a willingness to engage with reporters who disagree with you, I would say in particular with outlets that may be skeptical of your policies to build public trust across the board,
Trump takes his "Lake America" push to Apple
Exclusive: Bessent calls for less regulation to help small banks
To expand opportunity for all Americans, the banks that serve Main Street must have the same chance to succeed as those that serve Wall Street,
AI giants lean into health care to stall public backlash
El-Sayed courts Jewish Democrats but won't dump Piker
It was attempted by a Lebanese-born man who lost relatives in an Israeli airstrike in Lebanon the week before
We’re in the state of Michigan. If you want to make this race about a streamer in California, I just think you’re missing the boat,
U.S. strikes Iran to prevent Hormuz mine threat
Google Maps switches to "Lake America" as Canada compares change to "SNL" skit
America's next grocery shock is brewing
America's grocery squeeze has thus far been most painfully felt in a few expensive categories, like beef, coffee and chocolate
CIA director Ratcliffe floated Trump-Putin-Zelensky summit during Moscow visit, sources say
Music publishers sue Anthropic, allege "blantant theft" of copyrighted music
Defendants Anthropic and its founders Dario Amodei and Benjamin Mann have conducted a brazen campaign of illegally torrenting, scraping, and downloading copyrighted works on a massive scale in order to develop, operate, and reap enormous profits from Anthropic's 'Claude' series of artificial intelligence ('AI') models,
The 5 craziest discoveries from OpenAI's HuggingFace investigation
Two new investigations into OpenAI's Hugging Face breach expose details so strange — and so unsettling — that the episode already ranks among the most consequential shocks in the history of AI
Why Nepal's rare, deadly flood struck without warning
Thousands of people are missing and hundreds are dead after a flash flood in Nepal that struck with little warning earlier this week
The central lesson is that the absence of rain does not mean the absence of flood risk,
Trump hails "biggest oil deal in world history" with Venezuela
Scoop: AOC shakes up team ahead of 2028 decision
I never believed I would get to do a job like this let alone walk away from one,
Trump loses longshot bid to erase hush money conviction
China is secretly fueling America's data center rage
"That sucker is open": U.S. gains the upper hand in the battle for Hormuz
The Strait of Hormuz has been Iran's most powerful card since the start of the war in late February
I don't want to meet, they do. In fact, they are begging to make a deal,
Nvidia almighty: Chip riches flood through AI universe
The EU AI Act gets real
Europe's landmark AI law has moved from an idea to enforcement