https://thedingodaily.com News with an edge. The facts, raw and unfiltered. en-us Sat, 05 Sep 2026 03:24:53 +0000 https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-09-04-mcconnell-return-senate-september-14-after-fall-rehab https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-09-04-mcconnell-return-senate-september-14-after-fall-rehab Sat, 05 Sep 2026 03:22:58 +0000 Politics Mitch McConnell fell in June, spent months in a rehabilitation facility, and his staff is now telling fellow Kentucky Republicans that getting the 84-year-old back to Washington by September 14th is, quote, 'the goal.' The goal. Not the plan. Not the certainty. The goal. That's where we are. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-09-04-lindsay-clancy-mistrial-jury-deadlocked-three-times https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-09-04-lindsay-clancy-mistrial-jury-deadlocked-three-times Fri, 04 Sep 2026 18:52:55 +0000 Crime After six weeks of trial, seven days of deliberation, and three separate deadlocks, a Massachusetts jury could not agree on what to do with Lindsay Clancy, the mother accused of strangling her three children in 2023. Judge William Sullivan declared a mistrial on Friday, meaning the case that gripped the country ends not with a verdict but with an exhausted jury and a note that said, with a heavy heart, they simply couldn't get there. Cora was five years old. Dawson was three. Callan was eight months. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-09-04-fetterman-cops-funeral-nonstarter-democratic-revolt https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-09-04-fetterman-cops-funeral-nonstarter-democratic-revolt Fri, 04 Sep 2026 17:46:57 +0000 Politics Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman looked at the schedule for a funeral honoring three police officers killed in his own state, noted the dress code and the three-hour runtime, and texted back that it might be a 'nonstarter.' That actually happened. That is a real thing a sitting United States senator put in writing about a memorial service for slain cops. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-09-04-un-report-world-overshoot-1-5-climate-target-2030 https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-09-04-un-report-world-overshoot-1-5-climate-target-2030 Fri, 04 Sep 2026 14:31:42 +0000 Science The United Nations has officially confirmed what a lot of scientists have been quietly dreading: the world will blow past the 1.5°C warming limit we promised to protect in the Paris Agreement, and we'll do it by 2030. The planet is already sitting at roughly 1.4°C above pre-industrial levels right now, today, as you read this. The good news, such as it is, would fill a very small glass. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-09-04-teen-ai-device-catches-elephant-poachers-anika-puri https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-09-04-teen-ai-device-catches-elephant-poachers-anika-puri Fri, 04 Sep 2026 14:30:05 +0000 Science A 17-year-old looked at drone footage of elephants, noticed that humans and elephants move differently, and built an AI system that catches poachers in real time for roughly the cost of a decent office chair. Anika Puri won $10,000 and a top prize at the world's largest pre-college STEM competition for it. She just graduated MIT with two degrees. The bar for the rest of us has been located, and it is very high. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-09-04-nigel-farage-reform-uk-foreign-donations-scandal https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-09-04-nigel-farage-reform-uk-foreign-donations-scandal Fri, 04 Sep 2026 13:27:18 +0000 World Nigel Farage's Reform UK had a plan for their annual conference: a triumphant reset after a rough summer, the populist faithful cheering, good vibes all around. What they got instead was undercover footage of their own senior staff arranging what may be illegal foreign political donations dropping on the opening day like a piano from a very great height. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-09-04-philippine-vp-sara-duterte-arrested-assassination-threat https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-09-04-philippine-vp-sara-duterte-arrested-assassination-threat Fri, 04 Sep 2026 13:26:35 +0000 World The Vice President of the Philippines has been ordered arrested for threatening, on camera, in a live online press conference, to hire someone to kill the president, his wife, and the Speaker of the House. Sara Duterte apparently said this out loud, then clarified it was not a joke, then later said she was actually just worried about her own safety. Philippine courts were not moved by this explanation. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-09-04-us-military-disables-ad-trackers-iran-location-data https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-09-04-us-military-disables-ad-trackers-iran-location-data Fri, 04 Sep 2026 12:53:38 +0000 Politics The United States military, operator of the most expensive war machine in human history, has only recently gotten around to disabling the same advertising trackers that every halfway-decent IT department has been warning about for years. According to letters released Friday by Senator Ron Wyden and statements given to Reuters, commercially available location data sold by the ad industry has been used to track and target American troops deployed to the Middle East. The Army's mobile devices only had ad tracking disabled by default starting in February 2026. The enemy, apparently, did not wait for that update. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-09-04-meta-18-billion-settlement-zuckerberg-resign https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-09-04-meta-18-billion-settlement-zuckerberg-resign Fri, 04 Sep 2026 11:47:18 +0000 Politics Meta just agreed to pay up to $18 billion to settle accusations from dozens of US states that it deliberately hooked children on addictive products. The man who built those products, who has been sued, fined, and hauled before Congress across two decades of documented harm, is still sitting in the CEO chair. At some point, the bit stops being funny. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-09-04-ice-california-city-detention-contact-visit-ban https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-09-04-ice-california-city-detention-contact-visit-ban Fri, 04 Sep 2026 11:16:24 +0000 Politics A man locked inside California's largest ICE detention center has not touched his pregnant wife in seven months. His five-year-old daughter prays alone every night asking God to bring her dad home. And the warden of the California City facility, run by private prison giant CoreCivic, has decided that none of that is enough to justify letting families hug each other. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-09-04-diesel-record-high-iran-war-venezuela-deal-trump https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-09-04-diesel-record-high-iran-war-venezuela-deal-trump Fri, 04 Sep 2026 10:43:10 +0000 Economy Americans are paying more for diesel than at any point in recorded history, and the guy responsible is now pitching a Venezuela oil deal as the fix. Diesel averaged $5.85 a gallon this week, according to the American Automobile Association, up from $3.71 a year ago and past the previous record set when Russia rolled tanks into Ukraine. That's not a blip. That's a war tax. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-09-04-putins-own-pollsters-telling-him-end-ukraine-war https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-09-04-putins-own-pollsters-telling-him-end-ukraine-war Fri, 04 Sep 2026 10:42:31 +0000 World Vladimir Putin controls the Russian government, the Russian media, and the Russian polling apparatus. And even those polls are now telling him he's losing the room. When your own rigged numbers turn against you, something has gone very, very wrong. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-09-04-private-equity-unsold-companies-jobs-crisis-2026 https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-09-04-private-equity-unsold-companies-jobs-crisis-2026 Fri, 04 Sep 2026 10:09:59 +0000 Economy Private equity firms are currently sitting on over 13,500 companies they cannot sell, loaded with debt, staffed by millions of workers, and propped up by a business model that is quietly running out of road. Saks, Eddie Bauer, Kmart, JoAnn Fabrics, Steward Health Care: these are not random casualties of a bad economy. They are the early receipts from a decades-long experiment in financial engineering, and the tab is not close to settled. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-09-04-afd-germany-saxony-anhalt-election-far-right-power https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-09-04-afd-germany-saxony-anhalt-election-far-right-power Fri, 04 Sep 2026 10:09:01 +0000 World Germany is about to potentially hand a far-right party control of a state government for the first time since World War II, and the candidate doing it looks like a guy who sells luxury watches on Instagram. Ulrich Siegmund, 35, former marketing professional, TikTok star, and Alternative for Germany candidate for governor of Saxony-Anhalt, is comfortably leading polls ahead of Sunday's state election. His party has already been classified as right-wing extremist by domestic intelligence authorities in several German states. He smiles a lot. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-09-04-nj-chatham-school-district-gender-transition-lawsuit https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-09-04-nj-chatham-school-district-gender-transition-lawsuit Fri, 04 Sep 2026 09:37:38 +0000 Politics A New Jersey school district quietly built a policy allowing students to change their names and gender identities in official school records, use opposite-sex bathrooms and locker rooms, and left the decision of whether to tell mom and dad entirely to a guidance counselor. That policy is now the subject of a federal lawsuit. And the school board president's response to the Supreme Court was, essentially, not our problem. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-09-04-trump-buried-school-civil-rights-data-no-first-look-report https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-09-04-trump-buried-school-civil-rights-data-no-first-look-report Fri, 04 Sep 2026 09:36:50 +0000 Politics The federal government has been collecting civil rights data on American schoolchildren for over fifty years. This week, the Trump administration finally released the latest batch, six months late, stripped of the plain-English summary that parents and advocates have relied on for more than a decade, and with zero explanation for either decision. Just dropped it on a website and walked away. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-09-04-august-jobs-report-2026-third-worst-hiring-month https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-09-04-august-jobs-report-2026-third-worst-hiring-month Fri, 04 Sep 2026 09:05:22 +0000 Economy The U.S. economy shed 23,000 jobs in July. Now August is expected to add a grand total of 53,000 — which, in a country of 330 million people, is approximately the population of a mid-sized suburban high school. Meanwhile, oil just blew past $97 a barrel and nobody in charge seems particularly bothered. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-09-04-record-401k-millionaires-workers-cant-retire-2026 https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-09-04-record-401k-millionaires-workers-cant-retire-2026 Fri, 04 Sep 2026 09:04:43 +0000 Economy Congratulations to America's 769,000 401(k) millionaires, a new all-time record. Now somebody go tell the 72% of workers who doubt they'll ever be able to retire comfortably. According to CBS News, both of these things are true at the exact same moment in history, and somehow we're supposed to read this as good news. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-09-04-andrew-tate-indicted-romania-trafficking-minors-2026 https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-09-04-andrew-tate-indicted-romania-trafficking-minors-2026 Fri, 04 Sep 2026 08:32:23 +0000 Crime After years of investigations, court appearances, arrests, extradition fights, and an absolute ocean of online defenders insisting it was all a setup, Romanian prosecutors have formally indicted Andrew Tate for trafficking minors, money laundering, sex with a minor, and witness tampering. His brother Tristan has been indicted for complicity. The guys who built an empire telling young men how to be alphas are now formally charged with some of the most serious crimes a human being can commit. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-09-03-trump-gilded-arch-excavation-begins-lawsuit https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-09-03-trump-gilded-arch-excavation-begins-lawsuit Thu, 03 Sep 2026 22:10:05 +0000 Politics The Trump administration announced Thursday that excavation will begin within two weeks on a 250-foot gilded arch to be planted between the Lincoln Memorial and Arlington National Cemetery, a project currently being challenged in active litigation. The arch — white, gold-detailed, stamped with 'ONE NATION UNDER GOD,' and topped with a winged Lady Liberty figure and spread-eagle gold eagles — is facing a lawsuit arguing it lacks the congressional authorization legally required to exist. None of that appears to be slowing anyone down. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-09-03-fox-dumps-maria-bartiromo-no-explanation https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-09-03-fox-dumps-maria-bartiromo-no-explanation Thu, 03 Sep 2026 18:11:28 +0000 Politics Fox News Media announced Thursday that it has parted ways with Maria Bartiromo, one of the network's most recognizable faces, effective immediately — and offered exactly zero explanation for why. The goodbye statement was eleven words long. Her biography page was already scrubbed from the Fox website before the announcement even landed. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-09-03-dolly-parton-walk-of-fame-star-vandalized-replaced https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-09-03-dolly-parton-walk-of-fame-star-vandalized-replaced Thu, 03 Sep 2026 17:07:46 +0000 Culture Dolly Parton died at 80, and within days, someone crawled out from whatever rock they live under and scratched up her Hollywood Walk of Fame star. The good news: the Hollywood Historic Trust fixed it in 48 hours flat, because apparently some things in this country still work. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-09-03-gloria-steinem-dies-at-92 https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-09-03-gloria-steinem-dies-at-92 Thu, 03 Sep 2026 16:53:26 +0000 Culture Gloria Steinem died Wednesday at her home in New York City. She was 92, she was surrounded by people who loved her, and she spent roughly seven decades making the most powerful men in America deeply, profoundly uncomfortable. That is not a bad way to go. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-09-03-indian-immigrants-179-year-green-card-wait https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-09-03-indian-immigrants-179-year-green-card-wait Thu, 03 Sep 2026 16:36:02 +0000 Politics One hundred and seventy-nine years. That is not the lifespan of a tortoise or the age of a civil war monument. That is, according to a new report by the National Foundation for American Policy, how long an Indian professional applying for an EB-2 green card can now expect to wait for permanent residency in the United States. To put that another way: a software engineer who files their application today would need to survive until the year 2205 to collect. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-09-03-collins-not-going-to-bring-up-jackson-second-cousin https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-09-03-collins-not-going-to-bring-up-jackson-second-cousin Thu, 03 Sep 2026 16:05:11 +0000 Politics Susan Collins walked into a Politico interview this week, announced she would absolutely not be bringing up the fact that her Democratic opponent fathered two children with his second cousin, and then walked out having just brought it up. The clip went viral approximately immediately. And honestly, fair enough. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-09-03-musk-america-pac-800k-midterms-spending-2026 https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-09-03-musk-america-pac-800k-midterms-spending-2026 Thu, 03 Sep 2026 15:33:19 +0000 Politics Elon Musk spent $800,000 in 12 days trying to save Republicans from losing Congress, which would be more impressive if Elon Musk weren't one of the least popular figures in American public life. America PAC, Musk's super PAC, dropped that cash between August 19 and August 31, according to campaign finance filings reviewed by Fox News, averaging roughly $70,000 per day on a midterm map that's already looking dicey for the GOP. The kicker: Democrats couldn't be happier he showed up. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-09-03-kj-biermann-bond-hearing-sexual-assault-football https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-09-03-kj-biermann-bond-hearing-sexual-assault-football Thu, 03 Sep 2026 15:32:39 +0000 Crime A 15-year-old boy is sitting in a Georgia juvenile detention facility on charges of aggravated sodomy and aggravated sexual battery, and his legal defense strategy is, essentially: but have you seen his scholarship offers? KJ Biermann, son of Real Housewives of Atlanta alum Kim Zolciak and former NFL player Kroy Biermann, has been locked up at Atlanta's Metro Regional Youth Detention Center since his August 17 arrest. This week, his attorney filed for a bond hearing, and the argument is something. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-09-03-nepal-flood-symbolic-cremations-1200-dead-4000-missing https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-09-03-nepal-flood-symbolic-cremations-1200-dead-4000-missing Thu, 03 Sep 2026 13:56:58 +0000 World A week after a wall of ice, water, and rock erased entire communities in Nepal, more than 1,200 people are confirmed dead and more than 4,000 are still missing. Morgues are overwhelmed. Bodies have been washed so far downstream they are no longer recognizable as people. So families are gathering at one of the holiest sites in Asia to burn small figures made of grass, because that is the only thing left to burn. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-09-03-disney-zombies-star-carla-jeffery-dies-at-33 https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-09-03-disney-zombies-star-carla-jeffery-dies-at-33 Thu, 03 Sep 2026 13:24:17 +0000 Culture Carla Jeffery, the actress who played cheerleader Bree in the Disney Channel's Zombies franchise and brought the character to life across three films, a sequel series, and an animated spinoff, died on September 1, 2026. She was 33 years old. No cause of death has been given. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-09-03-fox-news-anti-surveillance-protest-china-plot https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-09-03-fox-news-anti-surveillance-protest-china-plot Thu, 03 Sep 2026 12:53:23 +0000 Politics According to Fox News Digital, if you live in Troy, New York and you're annoyed that a license-plate reader is cataloguing every time you drive to the grocery store, congratulations — you are a footsoldier in Beijing's cognitive warfare against the United States. That is the argument, stated nearly that plainly, in a new investigation Fox published this week. Ron DeSantis ordered those same cameras pulled from Florida highways last year, so this is going to get complicated fast. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-09-03-trump-ranks-himself-greatest-president-historians-disagree https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-09-03-trump-ranks-himself-greatest-president-historians-disagree Thu, 03 Sep 2026 12:52:36 +0000 Politics Donald Trump posted a presidential tier list to Truth Social last week placing himself in a category called "greatest" — a category that, in the original 1948 document he apparently adapted it from, did not exist. Historians who actually study this for a living responded by ranking him dead last, below the guy who failed to prevent the Civil War. Ten point nine two out of a hundred. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-09-03-kayleighs-law-house-unanimous-vote-lifetime-no-contact https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-09-03-kayleighs-law-house-unanimous-vote-lifetime-no-contact Thu, 03 Sep 2026 12:21:07 +0000 Politics A woman was sexually abused at age 12 by her teacher and soccer coach. Thirteen years later, he hauled her back into court to argue he had "moved on" and deserved to be free of supervision. Then he tried again the following year. The House of Representatives just voted 435 to zero to make sure that never happens to anyone again. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-09-03-thomas-pauken-ii-china-spy-sentence-doj https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-09-03-thomas-pauken-ii-china-spy-sentence-doj Thu, 03 Sep 2026 11:49:32 +0000 Crime A Texas-born American journalist who spent years writing propaganda for Chinese state media just got handed a two-year federal prison sentence for doing something considerably worse: running recruitment operations for China's Ministry of State Security. Thomas Weir Pauken II, 51, pleaded guilty and won't appeal, according to his attorney. He got paid at least $100,000 for his trouble, and the government's read-by-Xi Jinping pipeline was apparently just the perk. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-09-03-trump-holding-1900-migrant-kids-six-months-families-wait https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-09-03-trump-holding-1900-migrant-kids-six-months-families-wait Thu, 03 Sep 2026 11:18:39 +0000 Politics The Trump administration is holding roughly 1,900 migrant children in shelters and foster care, without their parents, for an average of six months, while family members in the United States sit and wait to take them home. Now, more than 50 legal organizations have quietly mobilized to fight back, one child at a time. They are calling it the Children's Due Process Project, and they are filing habeas corpus petitions in federal courts to force the government to either justify keeping these kids locked up or let them go. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-09-03-openai-trump-voluntary-review-astra-model https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-09-03-openai-trump-voluntary-review-astra-model Thu, 03 Sep 2026 10:46:09 +0000 Politics OpenAI is about to release what it internally classifies as its most dangerous AI model to date, and the only thing standing between that and your eyeballs is a review process that companies can simply opt out of. Sam Altman, whose net worth could fund a small nation-state, is calling this arrangement 'productive.' The rest of us might call it something else. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-09-03-china-winning-brain-implant-race-neuralink-us https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-09-03-china-winning-brain-implant-race-neuralink-us Thu, 03 Sep 2026 09:42:05 +0000 Science The United States is currently losing a race to let computers talk to human brains, and the country that is beating us is not exactly known for its restraint around surveillance technology. According to a new national security analysis reported by Axios, China's government has launched what analysts are calling a full-court press around brain-computer interface technology, outpacing American efforts on manufacturing, data collection, and getting these devices to actual patients at scale. Elon Musk's Neuralink is the most famous player in the U.S. field. That should tell you something about where this is headed. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-09-03-uss-abraham-lincoln-pattaya-250-days-at-sea https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-09-03-uss-abraham-lincoln-pattaya-250-days-at-sea Thu, 03 Sep 2026 07:35:36 +0000 World After a record 250 days locked inside a steel warship in the Middle East, nearly 5,000 sailors from the USS Abraham Lincoln finally made landfall this week. Their destination: Pattaya, Thailand, a city whose main export is exactly what the Navy just told them they cannot have. Welcome ashore, gentlemen. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-09-03-doj-threatens-76-billion-welfare-funding-states-report-immig https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-09-03-doj-threatens-76-billion-welfare-funding-states-report-immig Thu, 03 Sep 2026 07:03:00 +0000 Politics The Justice Department just told every state in America to choose: either report undocumented immigrants to federal authorities, or lose access to over $76 billion in welfare funding. The programs in question, TANF and Supplemental Security Income, do not allow undocumented immigrants to collect a single dime from them. The Trump administration is threatening to defund programs for poor American citizens to punish states for not hunting people who weren't eligible for those programs in the first place. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-09-03-nba-30-million-fine-clippers-kawhi-leonard-salary-cap https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-09-03-nba-30-million-fine-clippers-kawhi-leonard-salary-cap Thu, 03 Sep 2026 06:31:38 +0000 Culture The NBA just handed the LA Clippers the largest fine in league history — $30 million, five first-round draft picks, and a one-year suspension for their billionaire owner — for running what investigators described as a scheme to secretly funnel extra millions to Kawhi Leonard. The vehicle was a $28 million endorsement deal with something called Aspiration Fund Adviser LLC, which sounds less like a legitimate sponsorship and more like a name you'd invent in fifteen seconds to launder bag money. Leonard, for his part, says he had no idea any of this was happening, which is a choice he is welcome to make. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-09-03-musk-america-pac-midterm-spending-100-million https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-09-03-musk-america-pac-midterm-spending-100-million Thu, 03 Sep 2026 04:24:33 +0000 Politics Last year, Elon Musk looked into a camera and said he thought he'd "done enough" political spending and planned to do "a lot less" in the future. Then he authorized more than $100 million for the 2026 midterms and his super PAC spent $800,000 in August alone. So. That happened. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-09-02-jd-vance-mom-threatens-punch-el-sayed-brown-kids https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-09-02-jd-vance-mom-threatens-punch-el-sayed-brown-kids Thu, 03 Sep 2026 01:47:03 +0000 Politics The vice president's mother wants to throw hands. Beverly Vance Aikins told Fox News and OutKick host Tomi Lahren on Wednesday that she'd 'probably punch' Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed if she ever ran into him, after months of his racially charged commentary about her son's marriage and her grandchildren's ethnic background. And honestly? The context makes it hard to fully blame her. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-09-02-pentagon-mandatory-testosterone-testing-hegseth-troops https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-09-02-pentagon-mandatory-testosterone-testing-hegseth-troops Thu, 03 Sep 2026 01:15:11 +0000 Politics Pete Hegseth announced mandatory testosterone screening for U.S. troops in a social media video he personally titled 'The High-T Department of War,' and now, two and a half months later, it is actual official Pentagon policy. The Defense Health Agency released clinical guidelines Wednesday requiring all male service members 30 and older to get screened for testosterone deficiency during their regular health assessments. This is real. This is happening. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-09-02-tim-curry-cause-of-death-coronary-artery-disease-80 https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-09-02-tim-curry-cause-of-death-coronary-artery-disease-80 Thu, 03 Sep 2026 01:14:24 +0000 Culture Tim Curry, the man who made fishnet stockings and a corset look like the most powerful outfit in cinema history, died on August 25 at his Los Angeles home. He was 80. His spokesman has now confirmed to the BBC that the cause was coronary artery disease, with a history of stroke and kidney cancer listed as significant contributing conditions on his Los Angeles County death certificate. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-09-02-california-father-hiding-teen-daughter-after-baby-found-dead https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-09-02-california-father-hiding-teen-daughter-after-baby-found-dead Thu, 03 Sep 2026 00:11:08 +0000 Crime A 14-year-old girl in California is wanted for murder. Her father is wanted for raping her. He is also, according to the Monterey County Sheriff's Office, the one currently hiding her from police. There is no version of this story where that man is not the villain at the center of every single part of it. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-09-02-trump-lake-america-rename-canada-tariffs-poll-2026 https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-09-02-trump-lake-america-rename-canada-tariffs-poll-2026 Wed, 02 Sep 2026 22:36:12 +0000 Politics Donald Trump renamed Lake Ontario "Lake America," and the country looked up from its phones long enough to say: absolutely not. A Reuters-Ipsos poll from late August found that 63 percent of Americans oppose both the rename and the steep new tariffs Trump has slapped on Canada after trade talks between the two countries collapsed last month. Apparently renaming a Great Lake doesn't poll as well as it sounds in a cabinet meeting. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-09-02-gop-supreme-court-nine-justices-amendment-fails-house https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-09-02-gop-supreme-court-nine-justices-amendment-fails-house Wed, 02 Sep 2026 21:01:24 +0000 Politics On Wednesday, House Republicans tried to permanently lock in the Supreme Court that Donald Trump built, by amending the Constitution to freeze it at nine seats forever. It failed, 212 to 206. And the way it failed tells you almost everything you need to know about where the Democratic Party is right now. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-09-02-texas-gop-tarrant-county-polling-site-cuts-2026 https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-09-02-texas-gop-tarrant-county-polling-site-cuts-2026 Wed, 02 Sep 2026 20:32:25 +0000 Politics Republican commissioners in Tarrant County, Texas just voted to eliminate 92 Election Day polling locations ahead of the 2026 midterms, stripping more than a third of available sites from a county of 1.3 million voters. They also cut early voting access at college campuses. The vote went exactly how you'd expect: straight down party lines, three Republicans for, two Democrats against. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-09-02-bessent-blames-ukraine-gas-prices-russia-energy https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-09-02-bessent-blames-ukraine-gas-prices-russia-energy Wed, 02 Sep 2026 19:57:39 +0000 Politics With gas averaging $4.12 a gallon and midterm elections ten weeks out, the Trump administration has landed on its villain: Ukraine, the country currently being invaded by Russia. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent went on Fox & Friends Wednesday morning to explain that Kyiv is the problem here, actually, because it keeps blowing up the energy infrastructure of the country that has been bombing its cities for five years. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-09-02-kalshi-supreme-court-new-jersey-prediction-markets https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-09-02-kalshi-supreme-court-new-jersey-prediction-markets Wed, 02 Sep 2026 19:26:03 +0000 Politics A tech startup that insists it is absolutely not a sportsbook — even as sports bets make up 80% of its weekly trading volume — has now landed its fight to avoid state gambling laws at the Supreme Court. New Jersey filed a petition Wednesday asking the justices to settle a question with billions of dollars riding on the answer: does Kalshi get a "get-out-of-50-state-laws-free pass," or does it have to play by the same rules as everyone else? https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-09-02-orlando-mma-nazi-salute-antisemitism-kia-center https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-09-02-orlando-mma-nazi-salute-antisemitism-kia-center Wed, 02 Sep 2026 18:22:37 +0000 Politics A professional MMA event in Orlando last Saturday ended with the winning fighter throwing what appeared to be Nazi salutes from the ring, calling his Jewish opponent 'a short little fucking Jew prick' over the arena's loudspeaker, and a spectator getting ejected for waving a giant swastika flag. The city of Orlando's official response was, essentially: don't look at us. First Amendment, what can you do.