Send to KindleYour Saturday Newscast — August 29, 2026
Good morning. Midterms are seven weeks out, oil and Iran still dominate Washington, and streaming bills keep climbing. Here is what the outlets you asked for are carrying today.
Top Stories
Trump touts a massive Venezuela oil deal
President Trump is calling a new arrangement with Venezuela the biggest oil deal in world history, saying the United States would control tens of billions of barrels and that the pact should pull down gasoline prices. Just the News frames it as a realignment that puts OPEC and Canada on notice. Newsmax reports Trump saying the U.S. would control 65 billion barrels; energy analyst Art Berman told the network it is not a quick fix. Fox Business carried the same price-cut claim.
Sources: Just The News; Newsmax; Fox News / Fox Business
U.S. pressure campaign on Iran intensifies
Fox News is running live updates as Iran’s supreme leader makes a rare public admission while Washington tightens sanctions and watches the Strait of Hormuz. Newsmax reports Iran’s navy claiming “full control” of Hormuz even as U.S. officials say they have gained the upper hand, plus a Treasury move against an Egyptian bank over Iran ties. A Newsmax item also says Putin views the United States as weakened by the Iran conflict. The White House, per Just the News, blasted Sen. Dick Durbin over his comments on the war.
Sources: Fox News; Newsmax; Just The News
Mail-in voting order heads back to court
The administration appealed a federal judge’s latest block on Trump’s executive order restricting mail-in ballots, with states already preparing midterm mail. Just the News notes the ruling is likely to draw a fast appeal. Newsmax says the fight is heating up just as ballots start moving and that Wyoming’s GOP governor has asked his attorney general to investigate DOJ election monitors.
Sources: Newsmax; Just The News
Inflation still leads the midterm worry list
A Center Square poll carried by Just the News finds inflation remains voters’ top concern, with jobs second. Fed Chair Kevin Warsh told Jackson Hole he wants a “quieter” Fed focused on 65 months of elevated inflation and signaled that rate hikes may still be needed. That pairing—voter anxiety plus a hawkish Fed chair—is the economic backdrop both outlets are emphasizing this weekend.
Sources: Just The News; Newsmax
Politics / National
Birthright citizenship and the courts
Trump signed new executive orders targeting birthright citizenship and birth tourism after the Supreme Court earlier struck down a broader order. Fox reports conservative lawyers arguing the narrower, targeted versions have a better chance of sticking. Newsmax says a judge declined to block the newest birthright order, at least for now.
Sources: Just The News; Fox News; Newsmax
Democratic left and the Michigan Senate race
Abdul El-Sayed won Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary this week. Fox covers a Dearborn pastor warning about the bid and El-Sayed’s attacks involving Melania Trump. Newsmax quotes Sen. John Fetterman calling figures like El-Sayed “garbage” that drag Democrats down, and notes a House GOP plan to force a floor vote denouncing socialism. Just the News and Fox both track AOC formally reconnecting with the Democratic Socialists of America amid 2028 talk.
Sources: Fox News; Newsmax; Just The News
FBI memo on traditional Catholics, plus other enforcement news
A DOJ weaponization working group report, per Just the News, says the FBI targeted two priests during a 2023 extremism probe into traditional Catholics. Separately, DHS confirmed ICE detained commentator Milo Yiannopoulos for an alleged visa overstay; Fox says he is being held at a Louisiana deportation hub. Fox also flags an expert warning that Minnesota’s massive public-fraud scandal has “not slowed down.”
Sources: Just The News; Fox News
Space Academy, Lake Ontario, and a Dolly airport
Trump announced a U.S. Space Academy and awarded Congressional Space Medals of Honor to NASA’s Artemis II crew. He also signed an order renaming Lake Ontario—mocked by Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker and opposed by the Seneca Nation, which asked that “Lake America” be reversed. In Tennessee, Gov. Bill Lee is moving to rename Nashville International Airport after Dolly Parton.
Sources: Just The News; Newsmax
Streaming & Tech
Cord-cutting week: more live TV, higher Disney prices, and a “fiber” fight
Cord Cutters News’ weekend roundup: YouTube TV is adding channels, MeTV Toons is adding shows, and the Disney+ bundle is getting a price hike. MeTV itself is overhauling its fall schedule—four weekday episodes of M*A*S*H plus the return of Gilligan’s Island and other sitcoms—and will run a Dolly Parton tribute Sunday. Disney+ also signed a Pokémon distribution deal covering the classic series and a new stop-motion show.
Source: Cord Cutters News
Cheap multiview boxes, NFL streaming costs, AT&T vs. Spectrum
A $45 HDMI quad-multiviewer is being pitched so households can put YouTube TV, Netflix, and Disney+ on screen at once. A new study says streaming now makes up most of the cost of following the NFL. And AT&T sued Charter/Spectrum, arguing “fiber-powered” internet is still cable for the last mile and that the marketing misleads customers.
Source: Cord Cutters News
California social-media bill and data-center fights
A California Assembly social-media bill advanced amid a Meta settlement, with steep penalties possible for platforms. In Pennsylvania, residents won a transparency case over data-center projects; Trump, separately, has defended data centers and said communities that fight them are “making a mistake.”
Sources: Just The News; Just The News (Trump remarks)
Other Notable
Nepal-Tibet floods: hundreds dead, about 90 Americans unaccounted for
Flash floods have killed more than 500 in the Nepal-Tibet region. U.S. officials say roughly 90 American citizens remain unaccounted for; Fox reports hundreds rescued from a hydropower tunnel with about 100 still missing at one site. State Department officials have been briefing on the search.
Sources: Fox News; Newsmax
9/11 case: judge bars KSM confession
A military judge ruled Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s 2007 confession to FBI agents involuntary and inadmissible, a major blow as the trial is now slated for 2028—near the attacks’ 25th anniversary. Canada’s CBC, after backlash, reversed internal guidance and will again describe 9/11 as terrorism.
Sources: Newsmax; Fox News; Just The News
Teleprompter operator settles prediction-market case
A former White House teleprompter operator will surrender more than $100,000 in trading profits and pay a $65,000 CFTC penalty after regulators said he used advance knowledge of presidential remarks to bet on prediction markets. He also received a three-year trading ban. Fox Business put the combined payout near $173,000.
Sources: Just The News; Fox News / Fox Business
That’s your Saturday brief from Just The News, Cord Cutters News, Newsmax, Fox News, and One America News. OANN’s public homepage was thin this morning, so the rundown leans on the four outlets with full slates. Have a good weekend.