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Despite getting slapped down by three courts over this summer, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) still plans to continue its efforts to hobble fair housing investigations and enforcement. In late August, a federal judge warned that Congress – not federal agencies – authorizes and appropriates funding for programs and operations.

Trump has asked the Supreme Court to reinstate the SAVE citizenship verification program used for reviewing state voter rolls, currently blocked after a court found privacy law violations. Critics warn it wrongly flags eligible voters as non-citizens, risking disenfranchisement, while the administration argues the ruling threatens election integrity ahead of the midterms.

An Amazon Air Boeing 767 overshot a runway at Miami International Airport Sunday, crashing through fencing onto a roadway and striking two vehicles. At least five people died and five were injured; both pilots survived. The NTSB is investigating the crash, which has disrupted flights and raised questions about missing runway safety systems.

The US-Canada trade war escalates as Canada imposes 15% to 50% tariffs on $20 billion of American goods, matching Trump's earlier duties. Trump threatens to ban Bombardier jet sales unless production moves stateside, while talks remain stalled over French-language content rules and auto tariffs, with both economies bracing for deepening economic fallout.

An Amazon cargo Boeing 767 overran the runway while landing at Miami International Airport Sunday, striking vehicles and catching fire, killing at least five and injuring five others. The plane, operated by 21 Air, was traveling from San Juan. No Mayday was declared before landing. The FAA and NTSB are investigating the cause.

Trump has revived calls for Iranians to overthrow their government after diplomacy with Tehran collapsed and fresh US-Iran strikes erupted this week. Despite once denying interest in regime change, Trump is now pairing economic pressure and sanctions with public appeals for uprising, even as intelligence suggests unrest remains unlikely and midterm politics loom large.

The USS Abraham Lincoln arrived in Thailand covered in rust after 286 days at sea, including combat operations against Iran. Naval experts say the corrosion, while alarming to onlookers, is normal after extended deployments and will require roughly 30 days of preservation work to fully remove, with crews prioritizing high-impact areas during the port visit.

The Trump administration is sending migrants, including Cubans and Venezuelans, to unfamiliar countries like Liberia and Equatorial Guinea rather than their homelands, raising questions about whether "deportation" adequately describes these third-country removals. Experts argue the term understates the cruelty, indefinite detention, and human rights risks involved, suggesting words like "rendition" or "kidnapping" may better capture the reality.

The EPA is weighing a proposal to let data centers skip public notice and comment periods when applying for air pollution permits, a move critics say would enable secret deals harming Black communities already fighting projects like Musk's Memphis facility and Alabama's Project Marvel amid a Southern data center construction boom.

A whistleblower report released by Sen. Richard Blumenthal reveals USPS insiders describing a rushed, chaotic effort to build a mail ballot verification system as a "sh*t show." The system, mandated under a Trump executive order, faces minimal testing before September 1 and could cause mass ballot rejections due to unforgiving discrepancy rules, raising disenfranchisement concerns.