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Senate confirms Trump's former defense lawyer Todd Blanche as attorney general 50-49, after he killed the $1.8 billion weaponization fund to win holdout Republicans.
Trump family audit immunity survives
Source: The Hill
August 7, 2026
U.S. economy sheds 23,000 jobs in July as 264,000 people stop working or looking, pushing labor force participation to its lowest since 1976 outside COVID.
Wage growth weakest since 2021
Source: CNBC
August 7, 2026
Pentagon releases 41 UFO documents, photos, and videos spanning 1950 to 2026, its fifth batch since Trump ordered the records public in February.
Sightings from Montana to Afghanistan
Source: USA Today
August 7, 2026
Federal judge blocks HUD from redirecting $4 billion in homelessness funding away from permanent housing, the agency's third loss on the same overhaul.
97,000 people would have been affected
Source: Politico
August 7, 2026
New Jersey subpoenas GEO Group in a civil rights investigation of Delaney Hall days after a third detainee death at the Newark immigration jail.
Diabetic man denied daily medication
Source: The New Jersey Monitor
August 7, 2026
Kennedy tells CDC scientists not to trust scientific authorities a day before the anniversary of the shooting that killed an officer at their campus.
Questions submitted in advance only
Source: The Washington Post
August 7, 2026
