Today’s facts 08-16-2025
Today’s facts …
Trump and Putin reached no agreement.
Ukrainian Zelenskyy will meet with Trump on Monday.
Putin spoke Russian during the press conference yesterday, breaking protocol.
Trump let Putin speak first, another break in protocol since it took place on US soil.
US State Dept. papers were left on a printer in an Alaskan hotel, revealing undisclosed details about the Trump–Putin meeting.
Trump says Putin agrees mail ballots risk election integrity.
Trump says Putin claimed the war on Ukraine would have never happened if he had been elected president in 2020.
The DOJ has agreed to retract its appointed emergency police chief and rewrite a directive overruling DC’s limits on police cooperation with federal immigration authorities.
There’s no evidence Tom Cruise turned down a Kennedy Center Honor.
40% of workers don’t earn enough to pay taxes and won’t directly benefit from “no tax on tips.”
There is a full stop of Air Canada flights today.
The IRS confirmed no new stimulus checks will be issued this summer.
ICE agents inadvertently added a random person to a group chat named “Mass Text,” exposing sensitive discussions.
A new report blames chronic US diseases on poor diet, chemicals, inactivity, and overmedication.
A judge ordered HHS to stop giving ICE access to Medicaid enrollee addresses.
A judge has denied the Trump request to end a long-standing immigrant child protection policy.
Health officials are notifying hundreds of people potentially exposed to rabies in bat-infested cabins in Grand Teton.
NASA’s Sean Duffy says NASA will focus only on space, not climate science.
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