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Aug 30, 2026 - World

Deal that will reportedly see US take control of 65bn barrels of Venezuelan oil has provoked outrage in her countryVenezuela’s interim president, Delcy Rodríguez, has defended her government’s highly controversial energy deal with Donald Trump, insisting the South American country will maintain ownership and sovereignty over its massive oil reserves.Rodríguez, who assumed power in January after Trump ordered the abduction of the president, Nicolás Maduro, took to the airwaves on Saturday to push back against criticism of what the US president has called “the biggest oil deal in world history”. Continue reading...

Aug 30, 2026 - World

A Michigan lawmaker enraged her MS NOW interviewer Sunday morning as her commentary on President Donald Trump's trade war with Canada left him declaring, "a pox on the federal government!"Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-MI) delved into the many reasons Trump's 50 percent tariffs on America's northern neighbor has hurt and outraged voters in her state — and left Eugene Daniels fuming. "There are real economic consequences, but they're national security consequences, too," Dingell said. "And we need to be worried about those."Dingell proceeded to dive into the data.She noted 500,000 U.S. jobs rely on building parts that go into Canadian vehicles and the number of Canadian visitors in the U.S. and sunk 25 percent under Trump, from 39 million in 2024 to 29 million in 2025.Michigan households pay roughly $5600 a month in Trump tariffs, according to an Axios report this week, the highest number of any state in the nation, Dingell told Daniels. He was stunned. "If it was just tariffs that Michiganders had to worry about, it'd be one thing," he said. "But it's tariffs, it's gas, it's beef, it's fertilizer, it's diesel. Like, it's all of the things that people use to live their lives."Daniels argued these problems had put Republicans in "dangerous territory" ahead of the upcoming presidential election in 2028 — and Dingell agreed. She cited a recent appearance at a local parade where outraged Michigan residents called on her to "protect Canada.""People were screaming," Dingell said. "It really struck me...People are mad."Then Dingell shared the experience of a union worker who has three jobs and can't afford gas."Three jobs?" Daniels replied. "That is insane... it is a pox on the federal government!"

Aug 30, 2026 - World

Members of the Polish special forces are taking part in an exercise that simulates moving through enemy lines and launching a drone strike on a key enemy location

Aug 30, 2026 - World

President Donald Trump’s revenge-fueled order to rename Lake Ontario to Lake America was validated by Google on Sunday after the technology company changed the name of the lake on its service Google Maps, sparking outrage among countless critics.Trump imposed a 50% tariff on $20 billion of Canadian goods earlier this month after trade negotiations between Washington and Ottawa broke down. In response, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney vowed to match those tariffs “dollar for dollar.” Days later, Trump signed an executive order directing the federal government to rename the smallest of the Great Lakes after the United States.As verified by Raw Story, Google has updated its map service in the United States to reflect Trump’s order, a move that was met with a chorus of disappointment from critics.“When a company as rich and powerful as Google capitulates to one man’s whims on a dime, then why on earth should it be trusted with [artificial intelligence],” wrote Dina Sayegh Doll, an attorney and podcaster associated with the progressive media company MeidasTouch, in a social media post on X Sunday.A number of onlookers vowed to ditch Google’s map service in response to the name change, including British comedian and actor Eric Idle and Canadian political strategist and writer Warren Kinsella, whereas others reflected on what Google’s capitulation to Trump suggested for the future.“Behavior like this is genuinely disturbing,” wrote June Sternbach, a left-wing podcaster and online personality, in a social media post on X. “Like this will obviously just be changed back day 1 after trumps regime is over but its just deeply sad, not even demoralizing, just pathetic.”Lake Ontario has been referred to as such since at least 1641, with the name being reflected in United States maps since at least 1656, according to Snopes. Trump’s renaming of the lake was similar to his executive order issued in early 2025 to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, a move that similarly received scrutiny at the time.Bye bye, Google Maps. https://t.co/NzQVXlpQ8W— Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) August 30, 2026

Aug 30, 2026 - World

Authorities have detained a man suspected of fatally stabbing a 31-year-old British woman in Rosenheim, Germany