https://thedingodaily.com News with an edge. The facts, raw and unfiltered. en-us Fri, 14 Aug 2026 16:38:43 +0000 https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-08-14-luigi-mangione-guilty-plea-federal-stalking-ceo-shooting https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-08-14-luigi-mangione-guilty-plea-federal-stalking-ceo-shooting Fri, 14 Aug 2026 16:31:11 +0000 Crime Luigi Mangione walked into a Manhattan federal courtroom on Friday and told a judge, out loud, in public, that he emailed UnitedHealthcare pretending to be a potential investor specifically to locate CEO Brian Thompson so he could shoot him. He then described, in the past tense, doing exactly that. Thompson's family sat in the front row and listened to every word. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-08-14-wages-inflation-gas-prices-federal-debt-2026 https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-08-14-wages-inflation-gas-prices-federal-debt-2026 Fri, 14 Aug 2026 15:03:48 +0000 Economy The federal government is barreling toward a $40 trillion debt load, gasoline costs 25% more than it did a year ago, and American workers just lost the wage-growth battle to inflation again. Other than that, things are going great. Here is what the numbers actually say about where this economy is headed. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-08-14-count-binface-27-percent-nigel-farage-clacton https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-08-14-count-binface-27-percent-nigel-farage-clacton Fri, 14 Aug 2026 14:31:55 +0000 World A man who wears a garbage can on his head and whose campaign platform includes nationalizing Adele just received 9,455 votes in a British parliamentary election, good for roughly 27% of the total. His opponent, who got 63%, is Nigel Farage, one of the most consequential far-right politicians on the planet. Sit with that for a second. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-08-14-wwii-memorial-dc-vandalism-bubbles-graffiti-2026 https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-08-14-wwii-memorial-dc-vandalism-bubbles-graffiti-2026 Fri, 14 Aug 2026 13:59:00 +0000 Politics Someone filled the National World War II Memorial fountain with soapy bubbles and spray-painted 'Clean hands dirty $' in pink across the stone, and yes, that actually happened in Washington DC this week. US Park Police are investigating. The Interior Department is furious. And the rest of us are just trying to figure out what, exactly, anyone thought this was going to accomplish. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-08-14-justin-pearson-tennessee-primary-win-xai-memphis https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-08-14-justin-pearson-tennessee-primary-win-xai-memphis Fri, 14 Aug 2026 13:27:08 +0000 Politics Justin Pearson got expelled from the Tennessee state legislature for protesting gun violence. Three years later, he just won a Democratic congressional primary in a district the Trump administration literally carved up to dilute Black voting power. If the establishment wanted to bury this guy, they are going to need a bigger shovel. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-08-14-ai-scrambles-political-map-midterms-2026 https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-08-14-ai-scrambles-political-map-midterms-2026 Fri, 14 Aug 2026 12:55:46 +0000 Politics New York just became the first state to slap a moratorium on data centers, and the coalition that made it happen — a centrist governor and a progressive state senator — is so politically improbable it sounds like the setup to a bad joke. Except the punchline is that this is now happening everywhere, across both parties, and absolutely nobody has a unified message. According to Axios, AI is redrawing the political map ahead of the midterms in ways that are making traditional left-right framing look almost quaint. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-08-14-dhs-undercover-agents-spied-anti-ice-protesters-church-gym https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-08-14-dhs-undercover-agents-spied-anti-ice-protesters-church-gym Fri, 14 Aug 2026 11:51:05 +0000 Politics The Department of Homeland Security sent undercover agents to infiltrate private Signal chats, community meetings, and a sparring session at a church gym to spy on anti-ICE protesters — and one of those agents was so covert, so professional, so deeply embedded, that he dropped his recording device on the gym floor. Newly disclosed court documents have laid out the full scope of a sweeping DHS surveillance operation targeting peaceful activists, labor unions, and left-leaning advocacy groups, and it is exactly as authoritarian as it sounds. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-08-14-uss-lincoln-250-days-sea-kalshi-mention-markets-probe https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-08-14-uss-lincoln-250-days-sea-kalshi-mention-markets-probe Fri, 14 Aug 2026 11:50:19 +0000 Politics More than 5,000 American sailors have been floating in the Middle East for 250 days, running low on fresh food, rarely seeing sunlight, and losing their minds quietly below deck. Back home, federal regulators are busy investigating whether people are making too much money betting on which exact words the President reads off a teleprompter. This is where we are. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-08-14-trump-new-york-crime-stats-midterms-iran-war https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-08-14-trump-new-york-crime-stats-midterms-iran-war Fri, 14 Aug 2026 11:19:14 +0000 Politics With an unpopular war in Iran grinding forward and his approval ratings circling the drain, Donald Trump has chosen this particular moment to fly to Long Island and throw himself a little party about crime statistics. The White House released new FBI numbers Friday showing violent crime dropped in 2025, and Trump wants you to know he did that. He definitely did that. Please look at the crime numbers and not at the aircraft carriers. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-08-14-florida-287g-ice-program-all-67-counties https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-08-14-florida-287g-ice-program-all-67-counties Fri, 14 Aug 2026 10:47:42 +0000 Politics Every single county in Florida has signed a cooperation agreement with ICE. All 67 of them. The state didn't just embrace the Trump administration's mass deportation apparatus — it became the template for it, quietly, efficiently, and in ways that the ACLU says are ensnaring American citizens along the way. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-08-14-vance-cheap-gas-goal-one-iran-war-prices-up-40-percent https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-08-14-vance-cheap-gas-goal-one-iran-war-prices-up-40-percent Fri, 14 Aug 2026 10:15:08 +0000 Politics JD Vance went on Fox News Thursday to explain that keeping oil and gas cheap for Americans is now "goal number one" in the Iran war. The average gallon of gas in the United States currently costs more than four dollars, up from under three dollars before the United States started the war. That is the war. The one he is currently running. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-08-14-netanyahu-aide-lied-trump-polls-endorsement https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-08-14-netanyahu-aide-lied-trump-polls-endorsement Fri, 14 Aug 2026 09:44:05 +0000 World Two weeks ago, in the Oval Office of the United States of America, an aide to Benjamin Netanyahu looked Donald Trump in the eye and said his boss was winning in the polls ahead of Israel's October 27 election. He is not winning. According to Axios, which obtained details of the exchange from a U.S. official familiar with the meeting, Netanyahu himself paused when Trump asked the question — long enough that his own guy had to jump in and just make something up. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-08-14-julianne-hough-sardinia-vacation-hustle-culture-reckoning https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-08-14-julianne-hough-sardinia-vacation-hustle-culture-reckoning Fri, 14 Aug 2026 09:12:07 +0000 Culture Julianne Hough went to Sardinia for a girls trip, posted the requisite bikini photos, and then had a surprisingly candid public breakdown about whether she has wasted her life working. Which is relatable, honestly, even if most of us are not doing yoga on a wooden deck overlooking the Mediterranean when it hits us. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-08-13-historic-midwest-flooding-36-million-flood-alerts https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-08-13-historic-midwest-flooding-36-million-flood-alerts Fri, 14 Aug 2026 06:31:41 +0000 Science A 70-year-old Indiana man finished renovating his home two months ago. This week it filled with floodwater, and he told CBS News, simply, "I'm cooked." He is one of millions of people across the Midwest who woke up Thursday to a region that looks less like the American heartland and more like a slow-motion disaster film nobody greenlit. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-08-14-ryanair-passenger-sucked-out-window-bird-strike-ntsb https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-08-14-ryanair-passenger-sucked-out-window-bird-strike-ntsb Fri, 14 Aug 2026 06:31:03 +0000 World A 61-year-old man was partially sucked through a shattered airplane window at 16,000 feet while other passengers grabbed his body and physically held him inside the plane. This happened on July 10. We are only now getting the NTSB's preliminary report on how, exactly, a bird may have almost killed everyone aboard Ryanair Flight 1879. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-08-14-nevada-fake-electors-case-dismissed-2026 https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-08-14-nevada-fake-electors-case-dismissed-2026 Fri, 14 Aug 2026 05:59:46 +0000 Politics Six Nevada Republicans signed a fraudulent certificate handing Donald Trump electoral votes he did not win, broadcast the whole thing on video, and a judge just ruled there is not enough evidence they meant to deceive anyone. The yearslong fake electors case in Nevada is dead, dismissed Thursday by Judge Mary Kay Holthus, and the men who tried to steal a presidential election have walked away clean. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-08-13-first-circuit-ice-mandatory-detention-ruling-460-54 https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-08-13-first-circuit-ice-mandatory-detention-ruling-460-54 Fri, 14 Aug 2026 04:55:52 +0000 Politics At this point it is less a legal debate and more a sustained judicial beatdown. A seventh federal appeals court has now ruled against the Trump administration's policy of locking up millions of long-term U.S. residents without a bond hearing, bringing the running tally of federal judges who have rejected the policy to 460, against just 54 who have sided with the government. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-08-13-trump-pollster-senate-republicans-health-care-save-act https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-08-13-trump-pollster-senate-republicans-health-care-save-act Fri, 14 Aug 2026 04:23:56 +0000 Politics Donald Trump's own campaign pollster just told Senate Republicans, in a private briefing, to stop talking about the thing Donald Trump won't shut up about. Tony Fabrizio, the man Trump pays to tell him what voters think, presented data suggesting Republicans are better off running on health care than on the SAVE Act voter ID push that the president and his base treat like a holy relic. This is not a small internal disagreement. This is the machine quietly telling the passengers the driver is lost. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-08-13-kushner-tony-blair-middle-east-gaza-deal-israel https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-08-13-kushner-tony-blair-middle-east-gaza-deal-israel Fri, 14 Aug 2026 03:20:16 +0000 World Jared Kushner, the man who once promised to solve the Middle East in his spare time between real estate deals, is boarding a plane to the region again. This time he's bringing Tony Blair, the former British Prime Minister best remembered for helping start the last catastrophic Middle Eastern war, and someone named Nickolay Mladenov. The mission: salvage a Gaza peace deal that Israel publicly rejected about ten minutes after Trump announced it. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-08-13-hurricane-lala-hawaii-big-island-flooding-threat https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-08-13-hurricane-lala-hawaii-big-island-flooding-threat Fri, 14 Aug 2026 03:19:36 +0000 World A tropical storm that didn't even exist 48 hours ago is about to become a hurricane and park itself directly over one of the most geographically vulnerable places on Earth. Tropical Storm Lala formed Thursday in the Pacific, and forecasters are warning it could dump up to 25 inches of rain on Hawaii's Big Island by the weekend. Life-threatening flooding and mudslides are on the table. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-08-13-flock-safety-ceo-apology-cops-stalking-cameras https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-08-13-flock-safety-ceo-apology-cops-stalking-cameras Fri, 14 Aug 2026 01:43:21 +0000 Crime A company that built a network of 120,000 license plate cameras across America and sold access to police departments is very sorry that some of those police officers used it to stalk women. Flock Safety CEO Garrett Langley went on CBS News Thursday to apologize and announce some new rules, because apparently "don't use a mass surveillance network to follow women around" was not already a rule. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-08-13-ice-electric-shock-gloves-dhs-20-million https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-08-13-ice-electric-shock-gloves-dhs-20-million Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:39:20 +0000 Politics The Department of Homeland Security is planning to spend up to $20 million equipping ICE officers with gloves that electrocute people on contact. This is a real sentence about a real thing happening in the real United States of America in 2026. The device is called the G.L.O.V.E., which stands for Generated Low Output Voltage Emitter, because of course someone sat in a meeting and worked very hard on that acronym. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-08-13-white-house-gave-rubio-framed-collage-68-memes-mocking-him https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-08-13-white-house-gave-rubio-framed-collage-68-memes-mocking-him Thu, 13 Aug 2026 23:03:55 +0000 Politics Marco Rubio has three official jobs in the Trump administration and is apparently the punchline of a fourth. For his 55th birthday, White House staffers and President Trump presented Rubio with a gold-framed collage of 68 'Rubio Realizing' memes — images doctored to show his increasingly dead-eyed reaction to being handed yet another impossible job. Axios reporter Marc Caputo posted a photo of the gift on X Wednesday, and it went viral, because of course it did. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-08-13-dhs-operation-puppet-master-anti-ice-protesters-spied https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-08-13-dhs-operation-puppet-master-anti-ice-protesters-spied Thu, 13 Aug 2026 22:31:53 +0000 Politics The Department of Homeland Security sent undercover agents to infiltrate anti-ICE community meetings, join Signal chats, and obtain the financial records of some of America's largest labor unions — all under an operation they internally named 'Operation Puppet Master.' One of those agents, while surveilling a peaceful protest training at a public library, told an attendee he 'works in construction' and could 'build items' to assist groups with 'direct-action' protests. The agent also mentioned that 'going to jail did not bother him' and handed out his phone number. That agent was working for your government. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-08-13-congress-68-constitutional-amendments-zero-will-pass https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-08-13-congress-68-constitutional-amendments-zero-will-pass Thu, 13 Aug 2026 21:29:02 +0000 Politics Sixty-eight. That is the number of constitutional amendments members of Congress have proposed this term. One got a floor vote. It failed. The Constitution remains unchanged, as it has been since 1971, and as it will almost certainly remain until everyone currently serving in Congress is dead or retired. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-08-13-openai-executive-exodus-ipo-dresser-lightcap https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-08-13-openai-executive-exodus-ipo-dresser-lightcap Thu, 13 Aug 2026 20:56:19 +0000 Economy OpenAI's Chief Revenue Officer Denise Dresser is leaving the company she joined less than a year ago, the New York Post reports, making her the second senior executive to announce a departure in the span of four days. This is happening, by the way, while OpenAI is trying to convince Wall Street it is worth $852 billion. The exits are mounting fast enough that you almost have to admire the audacity of the timing. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-08-13-july-hottest-month-ever-economic-cost-heat-waves https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-08-13-july-hottest-month-ever-economic-cost-heat-waves Thu, 13 Aug 2026 20:06:40 +0000 Economy A brewery in Duluth, Minnesota lost multiple days of peak summer revenue in July because the heat dome sitting on top of the Midwest killed its air conditioning. That's a small, local story. The larger one is that July 2026 just set the record for the hottest month ever recorded in the contiguous United States, and the economic wreckage is only beginning to stack up. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-08-13-uss-lincoln-sailors-overboard-navy-morale-fine https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-08-13-uss-lincoln-sailors-overboard-navy-morale-fine Thu, 13 Aug 2026 19:33:50 +0000 Politics The USS Abraham Lincoln has been at sea for over 200 consecutive days, breaking records nobody wanted to break. Sailors are allegedly attempting to jump overboard. Food and water have been in short supply. And the United States Navy would like you to know that clean meals and functional air conditioning are currently available aboard the ship. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-08-13-clinton-nuclear-football-carrier-air-force-one-leak https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-08-13-clinton-nuclear-football-carrier-air-force-one-leak Thu, 13 Aug 2026 19:22:13 +0000 Politics The man who literally carried the nuclear football for Bill Clinton is praising Trump's Ankara decoy operation as "brilliant" — and then immediately warning that whoever blew its cover to the press had to be one of the handful of people running it. Retired Lt. Col. Robert "Buzz" Patterson sat down with Fox News Digital this week, and the message underneath all the praise was pretty simple: we have a serious mole problem, and it scares the hell out of him. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-08-13-kennedy-center-board-defies-court-order-trump-name https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-08-13-kennedy-center-board-defies-court-order-trump-name Thu, 13 Aug 2026 18:49:21 +0000 Politics A federal judge said no. Congress never said yes. So the Kennedy Center board just went ahead and did it anyway. On Thursday, the board voted to slap Donald Trump's name back onto the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, according to multiple reports cited by Axios, in what is either a brazen act of institutional defiance or the most expensive vanity plate in Washington history. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-08-13-third-death-delaney-hall-ice-stopped-counting https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-08-13-third-death-delaney-hall-ice-stopped-counting Thu, 13 Aug 2026 18:18:27 +0000 Politics A Guatemalan immigrant named José Chajón-Raxón had a seizure at a Newark ICE detention facility, got hospitalized, got released from custody, and then died. ICE's response? That's not our problem anymore. Conveniently, they changed the policy earlier this year to make sure it legally isn't. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-08-13-judge-dismisses-trump-harvard-antisemitism-lawsuit https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-08-13-judge-dismisses-trump-harvard-antisemitism-lawsuit Thu, 13 Aug 2026 18:17:39 +0000 Politics The Trump administration marched into federal court to sue Harvard University for billions of dollars over alleged antisemitism on campus, and a federal judge just marched it right back out. U.S. District Judge Richard Stearns dismissed the lawsuit Thursday, ruling that the government hadn't actually shown any ongoing civil rights violations worth suing over. For an administration that has spent eighteen months treating Harvard like a personal piñata, this is a significant thwack in the other direction. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-08-13-max-miller-nude-baby-photo-lawsuit-dropbox https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-08-13-max-miller-nude-baby-photo-lawsuit-dropbox Thu, 13 Aug 2026 17:15:09 +0000 Politics Ohio Republican congressman Max Miller, already facing allegations that he held a gun to his ex-wife's head, poured boiling water on her, and broke their two-year-old daughter's collarbone, has now been sued for posting a nude image of that same toddler to a publicly accessible Dropbox folder that over 400,000 people viewed or interacted with. His ex-wife Emily Moreno filed the lawsuit in federal court in Ohio this week. The reason the photo was online at all? Miller was trying to save his congressional seat. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-08-13-russia-plot-kill-american-warsaw-poland-thwarted https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-08-13-russia-plot-kill-american-warsaw-poland-thwarted Thu, 13 Aug 2026 17:14:03 +0000 World Russia tried to have a U.S. citizen killed on the soil of a NATO ally, and the only reason we're reading about it instead of mourning it is that Polish intelligence got there first. Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk confirmed Thursday that a suspect recruited by Russian intelligence services was arrested on August 7th in Warsaw, days away from carrying out the killing. Tusk called it unprecedented — the first time Russia had ordered a hit on an American citizen on NATO territory. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-08-13-luigi-mangione-guilty-plea-federal-charges-brian-thompson https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-08-13-luigi-mangione-guilty-plea-federal-charges-brian-thompson Thu, 13 Aug 2026 16:43:08 +0000 Crime Luigi Mangione, the 28-year-old accused of shooting UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson dead on a Manhattan sidewalk in December 2024, is expected to plead guilty Friday to federal charges, according to sources familiar with the matter who spoke to NBC News. The expected plea comes less than a month before jury selection was set to begin in his separate state murder case. If the deal holds, it could effectively blow up the state prosecution entirely. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-08-13-trump-health-22-specialists-bruises-leg-swelling https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-08-13-trump-health-22-specialists-bruises-leg-swelling Thu, 13 Aug 2026 14:36:31 +0000 Politics The White House says Donald Trump, who turned 80 in June, is in "excellent health." His doctor used 22 medical specialists to reach that conclusion and won't explain why. Dick Cheney's cardiologist of 27 years just published a piece in the New York Times asking the four questions that nobody in the administration seems willing to answer. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-08-13-flock-safety-data-retention-surveillance-aclu https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-08-13-flock-safety-data-retention-surveillance-aclu Thu, 13 Aug 2026 14:03:06 +0000 Politics Flock Safety, the company quietly logging the movements of virtually every car in America, announced this week that it will hold your location data for one week instead of one month. The American Civil Liberties Union would like you to understand that this is not the win it sounds like. Flock is scanning billions of license plates every single month, and trimming three weeks off a retention period is a little like a casino offering to drive you home after you've already lost the house. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-08-13-flock-safety-cuts-data-retention-police-accountability https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-08-13-flock-safety-cuts-data-retention-police-accountability Thu, 13 Aug 2026 13:31:02 +0000 Politics A company that built one of the largest vehicle surveillance networks in American history just admitted the people operating it cannot be trusted to use it responsibly. Flock Safety, whose 120,000 license plate cameras are threaded through communities across the country, is slashing data retention from 30 days to seven and making it mandatory for cops to log a justification before every single search. The CEO's explanation for why this is suddenly necessary is either reassuring or terrifying, depending on how you feel about the previous nine years. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-08-13-trump-22-billion-presidency-revenue-crypto-losses-2025 https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-08-13-trump-22-billion-presidency-revenue-crypto-losses-2025 Thu, 13 Aug 2026 12:28:07 +0000 Politics Donald Trump made $2.2 billion in personal revenue during his second presidential term's first year, according to financial disclosures reviewed by the Guardian. While he was doing that, roughly one million people who invested in his crypto scheme lost $3.8 billion. This is not a coincidence. This is the business model. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-08-12-surrogate-texas-birth-abortion-baby-gabriel-paxton https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-08-12-surrogate-texas-birth-abortion-baby-gabriel-paxton Thu, 13 Aug 2026 04:29:15 +0000 Politics A surrogate mother who refused to abort a baby with a heart defect, fled her home state of Alaska, and triggered a multi-state legal war gave birth Wednesday in Dallas. The baby is alive. He needs surgery. And the woman who carried him for nine months is not allowed to touch him. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-08-12-army-gynecologist-pleads-not-guilty-recording-patients https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-08-12-army-gynecologist-pleads-not-guilty-recording-patients Thu, 13 Aug 2026 03:57:30 +0000 Crime An Army gynecologist accused of secretly recording women during pelvic and breast exams stood before a military judge at Fort Hood on Wednesday and pleaded not guilty. Dr. Blaine McGraw now faces 273 separate specifications across nine charges, involving 93 alleged victims, after an investigation that began with a single patient complaint in October 2024. The Army says it acted immediately. A lawsuit says that is a lie. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-08-12-maine-senate-poll-collins-jackson-trump-fox-news-2026 https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-08-12-maine-senate-poll-collins-jackson-trump-fox-news-2026 Wed, 12 Aug 2026 23:11:05 +0000 Politics Susan Collins has survived everything Maine politics could throw at her for nearly three decades, but a new Fox News poll out Wednesday suggests her biggest liability in 2026 might be the guy she keeps trying to distance herself from: Donald Trump. Democratic challenger Troy Jackson leads Collins 48-46% in the statewide survey, well within the margin of error but a 5-point swing from June when Collins held a 3-point advantage over the previous Democratic nominee. This race is moving in the wrong direction for the incumbent, and Collins knows it. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-08-12-dc-bomb-squad-sex-toy-wisconsin-avenue-2026 https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-08-12-dc-bomb-squad-sex-toy-wisconsin-avenue-2026 Wed, 12 Aug 2026 22:38:28 +0000 Politics Washington DC's finest bomb disposal experts spent the better part of Wednesday morning's rush hour locked in a tense standoff with a $300 automated sex toy. Wisconsin Avenue was closed for two hours. The Zolo Blowbot was unharmed. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-08-12-ucsd-jewish-fraternity-swastika-graffiti-hate-crime https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-08-12-ucsd-jewish-fraternity-swastika-graffiti-hate-crime Wed, 12 Aug 2026 22:07:25 +0000 Crime Someone broke into a Jewish fraternity house at UC San Diego and spray-painted swastikas, 'KKK,' and racial slurs across both the interior and exterior walls. The graffiti was discovered between August 7 and 8. No arrests have been made. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-08-12-warner-robins-high-school-shooting-georgia-2026 https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-08-12-warner-robins-high-school-shooting-georgia-2026 Wed, 12 Aug 2026 21:35:34 +0000 Crime A student was shot on the campus of Warner Robins High School in central Georgia on Wednesday afternoon, the Houston County Sheriff's Office confirmed. One student was taken to a local hospital. One suspect is in custody. And somewhere in the United States, this sentence is being written for roughly the thousandth time. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-08-12-army-apache-helicopter-crash-fort-hood-salado-texas https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-08-12-army-apache-helicopter-crash-fort-hood-salado-texas Wed, 12 Aug 2026 21:35:06 +0000 Politics A U.S. Army AH-64 Apache attack helicopter went down in a field south of Salado, Texas on Wednesday afternoon, killing both crew members on board and igniting a wildfire that was still burning out of control more than an hour after the crash. The aircraft was based out of Fort Hood, one of the largest military installations in the country. Two people are dead, a fire is spreading, and nobody is saying why. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-08-12-three-dead-minneapolis-daycare-stabbing-hopkins-minnesota https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-08-12-three-dead-minneapolis-daycare-stabbing-hopkins-minnesota Wed, 12 Aug 2026 19:57:08 +0000 Crime A parent drove up to drop their kid off at daycare Wednesday morning and found three people dead inside. Two adults and a young child were killed at Brown Bear Daycare in Hopkins, Minnesota, in what police are calling a domestic-related homicide. The child was under five years old. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-08-12-karoline-leavitt-leaves-white-house-spend-time-family https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-08-12-karoline-leavitt-leaves-white-house-spend-time-family Wed, 12 Aug 2026 19:56:55 +0000 Politics Karoline Leavitt returned to the White House in July after taking maternity leave for the birth of her second child. She will leave again at the end of August, this time for good. The official reason, per Donald Trump himself: she wants to spend more time with her family. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-08-12-nick-reiner-indicted-murder-rob-michele-reiner-brentwood https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-08-12-nick-reiner-indicted-murder-rob-michele-reiner-brentwood Wed, 12 Aug 2026 19:25:22 +0000 Crime Nick Reiner, 32, stood in a Los Angeles courtroom Wednesday and pleaded not guilty to stabbing his father, director Rob Reiner, and his mother, Michele Reiner, to death inside their Brentwood home last December. A grand jury has now added a chilling wrinkle to the case: a special circumstance allegation that he killed them by lying in wait, meaning prosecutors believe this wasn't a breakdown or a blowup — they believe it was planned. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-08-12-luigi-mangione-plea-deal-federal-hearing-murder-trial https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-08-12-luigi-mangione-plea-deal-federal-hearing-murder-trial Wed, 12 Aug 2026 17:50:33 +0000 Crime With his New York murder trial three weeks away, Luigi Mangione's legal team and federal prosecutors just filed a surprise joint request for a hearing in Manhattan federal court, and basically nobody believes this is routine. The rumors of a plea deal have been simmering since June. Now they're boiling.