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August 7th, 2026 - Happy feast of Ss. Cajetan and Pope Sixtus II!

President Donald Trump signed two executive orders yesterday that attempt to restrict birthright citizenship and end the practice of “birth tourism," in hopes of circumventing a recent Supreme Court decision. Anthony Fauci was held in contempt of Congress yesterday, in a vote of 8-7. Senator Rand Paul then announced that the recommendation of charges had been sent to the DOJ. A Thai teenager killed at least five people and himself at a school outside Bangkok on Friday after fatally shooting his grandparents, police ‌said, in the Southeast Asian nation's worst mass killing since 2022. U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn won Tennessee's Republican nomination for governor yesterday. The White House has launched Fraud.gov, a searchable ledger cataloging nearly $230 billion in estimated fraud uncovered since January 2025, plus $56.4 billion in annual fraudulent payments stopped and $55.5 billion tied to enforcement actions. A federal judge has formally confirmed that her order blocking the Trump administration from ending Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for roughly 350,000 Haitians is no longer in effect. OpenAI has agreed to a $3.2M settlement over its alleged anti-American hiring practices. A Johns Hopkins researcher says roughly 3 million U.S. students — about 6% of the K–12 population — are now homeschooled, with enrollment still growing at more than twice its pre-COVID pace. The 37-year-old Spokane man arrested for arson this week has allegedly confessed to starting dozens of wildfires across Spokane County over a year-long period.

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