August 14, 2026 - Gov Brief Today

What Happened Today – August 13, 2026

August 14, 2026 by George Bounacos

Analysts at computer workstations inside the Las Vegas fusion center, surrounded by a wall of surveillance video monitors

Analysts monitored surveillance feeds inside the Las Vegas fusion center, the kind of government data hub CBP employees exploited for more than a decade to stalk exes and tip smugglers. (FBI photo)

For the first time since Roe v. Wade fell, a federal judge ruled the Constitution protects abortion in Idaho. Legislators there barred doctors from ending a pregnancy to save a woman who might take her own life. Mental health was the leading killer of Idaho’s pregnant women, according to the state’s own maternal mortality committee. … Read more