News Recap - August 26, 2024

Highlighted news events from August 26, 2024

Each day is packed with events happening all over the world. Cut through the noise so you can stay on top of what matters most.

Top Highlights

• Mark Zuckerberg has said in a letter to Congress that Facebook was pressured by the Biden administration to censor certain content amid the COVID-19 pandemic, and that he regrets not having been more outspoken about this. [More]

Domestic

• Special counsel Jack Smith has asked an appeals court to reinstate the Justice Department’s classified documents case against former President Donald Trump. [More]

• Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced that one million ineligible voters—among whom are 6,500 noncitizens—have been removed from the state’s voter rolls. [More]

• A Texas judge has ordered a temporary pause on an immigration program under the Biden administration that offers legal status to illegal immigrant spouses of US citizens. [More]

• A man has been charged with threatening to kill election officials and judges in Colorado and Arizona. [More]

• Colorado Republicans have voted out their state party chair, Dave Williams. But Williams has pushed back and said the move is illegitimate. [More]

• A woman in Arizona was arrested after she criticized a city official at a council meeting. [More]

International

• The World Health Organization has launched a 6-month plan to stop outbreaks of human-to-human transmission of mpox. [More]

• A Chinese military plane has encroached on Japanese airspace for the first (known) time. [More]

• French President Emmanuel Macron said the arrest of Telegram CEO Pavel Durov is “not political." The Paris prosecutor’s office issued a statement saying Durov faces 12 criminal charges, and that he was arrested as part of a judicial inquiry that opened in July. [More]

• Canada is imposing 100% tariff on imports of Chinese-made electric vehicles. [More]

• German police arrested a Syrian man over a stabbing last Friday that killed 3 people. ISIS claimed responsibility for the attack. [More]

Daily Inspiration

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four.

— George Orwell

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