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What Happened Today – August 29, 2026

Woman holding groceries and boy plugging a charging cable into an electric car in a home garage

A family charged an electric car at home as Maryland awarded $28.5 million for electric buses and 35 apartment-complex charging ports while gas prices climbed. (Colorado Energy Office photo)

Donald Trump’s Department of Homeland Security used a tariff audit form to subpoena a Minneapolis reporter’s phone records. In February a federal judge twice refused agents a warrant for Georgia Fort’s YouTube account because they could not show she had committed a crime. He also ordered them to tell her if they tried again. Weeks … Read more

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