In the early morning hours on Saturday, Todd Blanche was confirmed — at long last — as Attorney General.

This was one of the Senate’s final moves before departing for their controversial 5-week August recess.

The White House announced:

CONFIRMED: Todd Blanche has been officially confirmed as the 88th Attorney General of the United States!

The American people voted for results. Todd Blanche continues to deliver. 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/L7iT2mWsQ9

— The White House (@WhiteHouse) August 8, 2026

The Senate ended up staying late to get Blanche’s confirmation done before skipping town.

AG Todd Blanche thanked them in a post on X:

I am deeply honored by the trust and confidence President Trump has placed in me to lead the Department of Justice as our great nation’s 88th Attorney General.

I am grateful to the Senate for staying late to complete this process.

To the dedicated public servants of the…

— Acting AG Todd Blanche (@DAGToddBlanche) August 8, 2026

I am deeply honored by the trust and confidence President Trump has placed in me to lead the Department of Justice as

This is quite concerning.

A new report by Bloomberg has revealed there have been multiple reported cases of suicide among personnel working with the US military's cyberwarfare unit.

According to the report in a month-long span five personal of US Cyber Command have committed suicide.

US Cyber Command is reviewing an unusually high number of deaths by suicide among its personnel, as many as five people who worked in or with the command between early June and early July, Bloomberg reports, citing government officials and internal records.

Officials link it to… pic.twitter.com/3zkhHdDIvj

— International Cyber Digest (@IntCyberDigest) August 7, 2026

Bloomberg was the first to break news of the unusual amount of suicides:

The US military's cyberwarfare unit is scrutinizing an unusually high number of deaths by suicide among personnel over a month-long period this summer, according to government officials and other people familiar with the matter.

The deaths have worried US lawmakers and military leaders within the secretive section of the armed forces, which defends American computer systems and hacks foreign adversaries, according to the people

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Thin “crepey” skin is one of the most visible and frustrating signs of aging.

But after years of research, scientists from Kyung Hee University in Seoul have discovered something remarkable:

Women who tried this daily "tea ritual" experienced an 82% improvement in crepey skin with results in as little as 2 weeks…

And a 48% reduction in wrinkles!

High definition 3D skin scans show dramatic before-and-after differences.

It works by nourishing your fibroblasts, critical cells that produce 100% of your skin's collagen, elastin, and hyaluronic

The U.S. Army has suddenly removed another high-ranking general from command.

Lt. Gen. Charles Costanza, who was the top general overseeing forces in Europe, was recently relieved of command.

This comes roughly two months before he was scheduled to depart.

Here are the details:

🚨 UPDATE: Top US general in Europe Charles Costanza has been REMOVED from command, months before his time on the job would've been up — ABC pic.twitter.com/sbAWDWOTjF

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) August 8, 2026

🇺🇸 Pentagon yanked a top general in Europe.

Lt. Gen. Charles Costanza got relieved of V Corps command nearly two months early with no public reason given.

This is the unit running U.S. Army ops across Europe and coordinating Ukraine support from Poland.

Sources say it’s not… pic.twitter.com/OQdIzBMESd

— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) August 8, 2026

Pentagon yanked a top general in Europe.

Lt. Gen. Charles Costanza got relieved of V Corps command nearly two months early with no public reason given.

This is the unit running U.S. Army ops across Europe and coordinating Ukraine support from Poland.

Sources say it's

President Trump is taking another run at removing Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook.

This time, the White House has put a deadline on it.

Cook has until August 26 to answer the mortgage allegations at the center of a fight that has already gone all the way to the Supreme Court.

The Associated Press reports that White House aide Dan Scavino sent Cook’s attorney a letter saying President Trump is considering removing her from the Fed’s Board of Governors. The notice gives Cook 21 days to challenge the allegations before the president makes another decision.

The 21-day window is the legal key to the White House’s second attempt. Without it, another removal decision would arrive with the same fatal flaw.

It is the White House’s answer to the procedural defect that stopped the first removal attempt.

The letter largely repeats the allegations raised last year, but the process is different. Cook now has a written explanation, a response deadline and an opportunity to put her evidence in front of the president before any final action is taken.

Her attorney says the renewed effort remains

Meta just got handed a $567 million bill in New Mexico.

But the money is not the part that should make Silicon Valley nervous.

A state judge also ordered changes aimed at the machinery behind Facebook and Instagram — the addictive design choices, weak protections and age-detection failures that New Mexico says helped turn childhood into a profit center.

The Associated Press reports that Judge Bryan Biedscheid directed Meta to pay $567 million over five years to address harms suffered by young people. Of that amount, $420 million is earmarked for treatment services.

The remaining money is assigned to prevention, public awareness, screening and related costs. The order also requires stronger responses to reports of child sexual abuse, limits on how chatbots interact with minors and caps on the hours young users can spend on Meta’s platforms.

The balance is slated for prevention, public awareness, screening and related costs. State lawmakers will determine how the money is ultimately distributed.

That comes on top of the $375 million civil verdict a New Mexico jury returned against Meta in March.

Add it together and the company

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito said he does not plan on retiring anytime soon, denying rumors that he is considering retirement this year.

"Obviously I'm here for another term," Alito said in an interview published on Friday.

Samuel Alito staying on Supreme Court bench for another term after NPR erroneously reported his retirement https://t.co/HoRH6cJCTq pic.twitter.com/QphYYufVzs

— New York Post (@nypost) August 7, 2026

POLITICO has more:

NPR accidentally published an article announcing the conservative justice's retirement in June, which it swiftly took down and apologized for. Journalist Nina Totenberg, a longtime legal affairs correspondent for NPR, later said the mistake happened because she incorrectly assumed that the court was announcing Alito's retirement during announcements of staff retirements.

And some conservatives, mindful of the possibility Republicans may lose the Senate in November, have also quietly rooted for Alito to step aside — which would give President Donald Trump an opportunity to appoint another Supreme Court justice.

Alito also brushed aside those calls, dismissing the notion that judges are interchangeable parts, even with ideological peers.

"It's not pleasant, in the sense that it's a

Six days after a horrific shooting at an Idaho In-N-Out restaurant, police have released surveillance footage capturing the entire attack.

The video is absolutely harrowing.

In addition to showing the gunman, 24-year-old Chad Williams, carrying out the shooting, it also shows three armed civilians firing back.

ABC 7 NY provided a summary of the video:

The video shows the moment the carnage began, when the gunman drove up to the drive-thru payment window and fatally shot the first victim, In-N-Out employee Ashley Garibay, according to police.

The gunman then parked his car and shot another victim who was in his car, police said.

Later, the video shows the gunman looking through the payment window and seeing employees rendering aid to Garibay, according to police narration of the video.

The gunman was then seen firing into the payment window, according to police, and when his handgun jammed, he went to his car to get a rifle.

The video showed the chaos inside the restaurant as an off-duty trooper searched for the gunman and helped usher people to the exit, police said.

The gunman is then seen on video running