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Trump administration appeals the June order barring it from freezing NY-NJ rail tunnel funds it withheld to punish Democrats, after 4 court losses.
$16 billion project, 200,000 daily riders
Source: The New Jersey Monitor
August 29, 2026
Maryland awards $28.5 million to electrify school and transit buses and add EV chargers, including 35 ports at 5 apartment complexes, as gas prices climb.
63 grants, 1,903 rebates, 5 programs
Source: WUSX Salisbury MD
August 29, 2026
Homeland Security uses a customs-import law to obtain a Minneapolis journalist's phone records without court approval, weeks after a judge twice rejected its warrant request.
Unions, Sunrise Movement records also obtained
Source: The Guardian
August 29, 2026
Justice Department settles its 2020 lawsuit against Walmart for $50 million over pharmacies that filled pill-mill opioid prescriptions their own pharmacists had flagged.
204 of 37.5 million orders reported
Source: The Hill
August 29, 2026
ICE deports far-right commentator Milo Yiannopoulos to Britain 2 days after his airport arrest, as conservative activist Laura Loomer claims she exposed the Trump critic's overstay.
Skipped hearing, removal ordered July 22
Source: NPR
August 29, 2026
Trump's accounts keep trading oil and gas stocks 6 months into the Iran war, with energy holdings up as much as $15 million this year, congressional Democrats find.
Exxon profits doubled, Chevron quadrupled
Source: CBS News
August 29, 2026
