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🥊 Washington's economic collision course Photo illustration: Sarah Grillo/Axios. Photos via Getty Images Two of the most powerful economic officials in President Trump's orbit — Fed chairman Kevin Warsh and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent — are pursuing strategies that work against each other, Axios' Courtenay Brown writes. Why it matters: They're Washington's most consequential economic policymakers. But investors are getting conflicting signals about the government's role in financial markets. 🔬 Zoom in: Warsh wants to step back and give markets more room to respond to the economy. He has staked out a new position as Fed chair by giving less explicit guidance about what the central bank will do — a sharp departure from years of Fed practice. Speaking to reporters last month, Warsh seemed pleased with the results of that effort, even as long-term borrowing costs jumped. "Market participants are learning to play the ball, not the referee," he said. The other side: Treasury's intervention in bond markets this week signals there are limits to how much market-driven movement Washington is willing to tolerate. Bessent told CNBC yesterday that Treasury has room to do more. "We have a big toolkit, so we'll see." He framed the move as "signaling" that Treasury believes the bond market chaos doesn't reflect the economy's underlying fundamentals. Keep reading ...

🛢️ Oil markets tune out Trump Data: Roll Call, Financial Modeling Prep. Chart: Erin Davis/Axios Visuals President Trump's social media posts about the Iran war are losing their power to move oil markets, according to an analysis by Axios' Erin Davis and Ben Geman. Why it matters: Oil price changes ripple throughout the U.S. and global economies — and the conflict has brought unprecedented supply disruption. ⏱️ By the numbers: Axios tracked 269 posts on Truth Social between Feb. 28 and Aug. 19 that mentioned Iran or the Strait of Hormuz. In the five minutes after these Truth Social posts appeared, or in the five minutes after the next market open, the average change (0.73%) was almost four times higher than normal. That effect is now diminishing (charted above). Zoom out: In the early weeks, there was an "information vacuum" and high uncertainty about U.S. policy and objectives, said oil analyst Ben Cahill. Markets often "overreacted" in response, he said. 👀 What we're watching: Trump's waning power to "jawbone" oil markets has political consequences, as Democrats use energy prices as a cudgel against Republicans in the midterm elections.

America's debt explosion Illustration: Brendan Lynch/Axios America is caught in a historic capital squeeze, Axios' Zachary Basu writes. On one side: Trillions Washington must borrow to pay for the past. On the other: Trillions the economy needs to build the future. Why it matters: The next president will inherit a fiscal reckoning decades in the making. The price it exacts — on taxes, benefits, borrowing and investment — could shape America's prosperity and power for generations. 🔎 Zoom in: President Trump said in 2016 that he could eliminate what was then roughly $19 trillion in national debt within eight years. On Tuesday, the debt crossed $40 trillion, after growing by $3 trillion in the past year alone. About $32 trillion is owed to investors and other outside holders. The rest is debt the government owes to its own accounts, including Social Security and other federal trust funds. Treasury must refinance $9.7 trillion in debt coming due this fiscal year while covering a deficit the Congressional Budget Office now projects at roughly $2.1 trillion. That creates a punishing cycle: Old debt comes due, Washington replaces it with more expensive debt, and the resulting interest bill feeds future deficits. CBO projects annual deficits will average $2.4 trillion through 2036, pushing debt held by the public to 120% of GDP — above the record set after World War II. The U.S. has already spent $963 billion on interest in the first 10 months of this fiscal year, $200 billion more than it spent on the military over the same period. Data: CBO. Chart: Sara Wise/Axios 🔭 Zoom out: For years, Silicon Valley's AI buildout was financed almost entirely with cash. Now Big Tech is becoming one of the biggest new forces in global debt markets. Bond sales by the "hyperscalers" building AI infrastructure are on pace to roughly double in 2026. Goldman Sachs projects debt will fund more than a third of the AI buildout by next year. Nvidia is working with BlackRock, Goldman Sachs, KKR and other Wall Street giants on plans to marshal more than $500 billion for AI infrastructure. 💰 Stunning stat: Nine major tech companies have already spent roughly $600 billion on capital projects over the past year. A Wall Street Journal analysis found they have another $3 trillion in future commitments, mostly tied to AI, that aren't yet reflected on their balance sheets. 👀 What to watch: America's fiscal options are narrowing as its political ambitions expand. On the left, democratic socialism and economic populism are surging, pairing promises of cheaper housing, health care and child care with calls for higher taxes on the wealthy. On the right, the Trump-era GOP has protected Social Security and Medicare politically while pursuing tax cuts and higher defense spending, including Trump's push for a $1.5 trillion Pentagon budget.

THIS DAY IN HISTORY August 21 1959 Hawaii becomes 50th state Eisenhower signs a proclamation admitting Hawaii into the Union. read more Sponsored Content by REVCONTENT 1980s 1980 People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is founded African History 1961 Jomo Kenyatta, Kenyan independence leader, is freed American Revolution 1754 Bloody Ban Tarleton born in Britain Arts & Entertainment 1920 Christopher Robin’s birthday Civil War 1863 Guerrillas massacre residents of abolitionist settlement of Lawrence, Kansas Cold War 1991 Attempted coup against Gorbachev collapses Early U.S. 1793 Yellow fever breaks out in Philadelphia Inventions & Science 1897 Olds Motor Vehicle Company founded Natural Disasters & Environment 1986 Gas cloud kills Cameroon villagers Slavery 1831 Nat Turner launches massive insurrection in Virginia Sports 2004 Michael Phelps wins eighth Olympic medal in Athens 1950 Althea Gibson becomes first African American on U.S. tennis tour U.S. Government and Politics 1858 Lincoln-Douglas debates begin 1974 The Equal Educational Opportunities Act is enacted Vietnam War 1971 Antiwar protesters raid draft offices World War II 1944 The seeds of the United Nations are planted

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Fall Weather Predictions Nearly all US states are likely to see warmer-than-average temperatures in the coming three months, a new federal forecast reveals. See more here (w/maps). Summerlike weather is most likely to persist in the Pacific Northwest, where below-average rainfall is also expected—potentially fueling the spread of wildfires. Wetter-than-average conditions are forecast for the Southwest and Southeast. On the East Coast, an El Niño fall is expected to suppress hurricane activity, though high-tide flooding is predicted on the West Coast (El Niño 101). Forecasters could not say whether temperatures would be above or below average in the Ohio Valley, encompassing Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri, Ohio, Tennessee, and West Virginia. Separately, the Old Farmer’s Almanac and the Farmers’ Almanac both released their outlooks yesterday. Research shows only about half of the latter's predictions have historically been borne out. Read how the forecasts differ from federal predictions.

North Korean Missiles North Korea fired about 10 short-range ballistic missiles toward its eastern waters yesterday, according to South Korea’s military, hours after Pyongyang dismissed President Donald Trump’s latest attempt to ease tensions. The missiles traveled roughly 185 miles before landing in the sea (explore the North’s missile arsenal). The test came during the annual US-South Korea Ulchi Freedom Shield exercises, which Trump shortened from 11 days to five in a bid to reduce tensions. Washington and Seoul call the drills defensive, while North Korea considers them preparations for an invasion and often responds with weapons tests. Kim Jong Un’s sister said the reduction changed nothing, though she described Trump and Kim’s relationship as “excellent.” Trump, who met Kim three times from 2018 to 2019, said Wednesday he hopes to meet him again this year; Pyongyang has rejected giving up its nuclear arsenal as a condition for renewed talks (who has nuclear weapons?). Explore 25 years of US-North Korea negotiations and provocations with this interactive.

Charter plane crash kills 8 near remote radar site in western Alaska, military says JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — A charter aircraft carrying eight people crashed at a remote radar site in western Alaska on Thursday, killing all on board, the U.S. military said. https://apnews.com/article/alaska-charter-plane-crash-bda232d16205502288149db380610d05?

2 organizers of Hong Kong’s Tiananmen vigils convicted in national security case HONG KONG (AP) — Two former organizers of Hong Kong’s annual vigils in remembrance of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown were convicted Friday for what the government-approved judges ruled was inciting others to overthrow China’s communist leadership. https://apnews.com/article/hong-kong-tiananmen-verdict-alliance-9e1f5c915931eecfa083053dd262548b?

People are opting out of the two main political parties ☐ Republican ☐ Democratic ☑ Other An increasing percentage of voters are registering with a minor party or no party at all. In states that require party affiliation on voter registration (because not all do), three out of four counties had voters shifting away from the Republican and Democratic parties over the past decade. In some states, both Republican and unaffiliated voter growth drew away from Democratic registration. In North Carolina, unaffiliated registrations grew in every single county, while the Republican share grew alongside it in 78 of the state’s 100 counties. The Democratic share fell in all 100. In other states, both parties lost ground in roughly equal measure. A prime example of this is Colorado, where unaffiliated and minor party registration climbed 16 percentage points over the decade, while both major parties lost ground. In 2016, 38% of Colorado voters were registered as unaffiliated or with a minor party. In 2026, that share had grown to 54%. The Democratic share of registrations was 31% in 2016 and declined to 24% in 2026. The Republican share of registrations was 31% in 2016 and dropped to 22% in 2026. (You might assume that some government agency has a number of registered Democrats, Republicans, and unaffiliated voters at the ready for public use. But you would be wrong. Check out the Analyst Notes on how we collected and analyzed this voter registration data.)

Mortgage rates ease again, but remain higher than this time last year The average long-term U.S. mortgage rate eased for the second week in a row, but remains elevated compared with this time last year. Read More.

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Croatia orders detention of Ukrainian man wanted in Germany for Nord Stream blasts in 2022 A Croatian judge on Thursday ordered the detention of a Ukrainian man who is wanted in Germany in connection with the 2022 undersea explosions that damaged the Nord Stream gas pipelines, his lawyer said. Read More.

Michael Cohen, Trump's former fixer-turned-enemy, is hosting the president on his radio show President Donald Trump is expected to appear Thursday on the radio show of his former fixer-turned-foe Michael Cohen, making a public reunion with the man who once called him a “Cheeto-dusted cartoon villain” and testified against him both in court and before Congress. Read More. Canadian premier says Trump is a ‘bad person’ as Canada weighs concessions for trade deal The premier of a Canadian province launched a blistering attack on U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday, calling him a “bad person” and “not to be trusted” and urging Canada to keep fighting rather than rush to make concessions in trade talks with Washington. Read More. More than 2,300 Mexicans sent to Guatemala and Honduras as Trump ramps up third-country deportations The United States has deported nearly 2,300 Mexicans to Guatemala this year and sent at least dozens more to Honduras, according to official data, a shift from the beginning of U.S. President Donald Trump’s second term when such transfers were minimal. Read More. Trump keeps embracing data centers even as they become toxic in midterm races President Donald Trump, speaking alongside cryptocurrency leaders at the White House this week, made a statement that Republican and Democratic candidates alike wouldn't touch with a 10-foot pole. Read More.

🍸 1 for the road: Union Station's glam new bar Photo: Albert Ting/Continental Club A fancy new cocktail bar just pulled into Washington's Union Station, Axios D.C.'s Anna Spiegel reports. Continental Club, a lofty cocktail lounge at the station's soaring Beaux-Arts Main Hall, opens today through the end of the year. 🚂 Founder Rochelle Julich tells Axios that the narrow rooms overlooking the station reminded her of train cars, inspiring a look modeled after vintage parlor cars and refreshments that nod to the "Golden Age of Rail." Think mahogany, brass and blue velvet, with Union Station's gilded architecture and historic Legionnaire statues as the backdrop. Photo: Albert Ting/Continental Club 🥃 The drink menu riffs on Prohibition-era classics like Bee's Knees and Manhattans, alongside modern spins like a cucumber-basil Capitol Gimlet. Bar bites include fried chicken biscuit bites, truffle popcorn and "railway style" hot dogs with mustard, relish and onions. Go deeper ..

🇸🇾 Syrian foreign minister: Israeli bombing unjustified Photo illustration: Sarah Grillo/Axios. Photos: Tom Nicholson, Antonio Masiello, and Ula Muhammed/Anadolu via Getty Images Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad Hassan al-Shaibani made it clear to Israel that his government wasn't working with Turkey to amass a military presence at a Syrian airbase — but Israel attacked the site anyway, he tells Axios' Barak Ravid. The Tuesday morning strike on the Abu al-Duhur airbase has heightened tensions among three close U.S. partners in the region, just as the Trump administration is trying to prevent further escalation. 🇹🇷 Al-Shaibani tells Axios: "[T]here was no intention to establish a Turkish base there, nor to establish a permanent Turkish military presence or deploy Turkish forces at the site." President Trump told Axios in a phone call yesterday that he'd been briefed on the Israeli strike, but declined to comment on it. "I can't talk about it," he said. 💥 Israel dropped at least eight bombs at the base in northern Syria, about 45 miles from the Turkish border. The strike damaged the runways, which had recently been rebuilt. There were no casualties. Keep reading.

Cancer vaccine trial shows promise Illustration: Sarah Grillo/Axios A new personalized mRNA treatment from Moderna and Merck prevented skin cancer from recurring or spreading in a late-stage trial, Axios' Tina Reed reports. The results could help lift the cloud hanging over mRNA technology, after Trump administration health officials cut federal funding and asserted that it poses more risks than rewards. 🔬 The experimental therapy, called intismeran, was tested in combination with Merck's cancer drug Keytruda in more than 1,100 patients with high-risk melanoma that had been surgically removed. The combination demonstrated a "clinically meaningful improvement" over treatment with Keytruda alone. 🧬 The mRNA-based drugs train the immune system to find mutations that cause tumors. That's in contrast to chemotherapy, which damages or destroys cancer cells. Moderna President Stephen Hoge tells Axios: "I do hope that this will move people away from pigeonholing mRNA as a vaccine platform, or maybe even more incorrectly, tying it to the things they didn't like about the pandemic era that had nothing to do with the technology." "I hope this starts to move us past that because it is, we think, a transformational moment in cancer." 📊 What's next: The full results of the trial will be released at an upcoming medical meeting. Go deeper.

ICE Worked With Iranian Regime to Set Up Deportation Flights as Trump Laid Plans for War Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agents appear to have worked directly with government officials in Iran to deport over 100 Iranian nationals as the United States prepared to bomb their home country, according to a newly released trove of internal emails from ICE. https://theintercept.com/2026/08/18/iran-trump-deportation-flights-ice/? The Short Life of a Newborn During the Iran War Mohammad Ali Kialha’s first hours were all he knew of peace. He was born on February 26 in Iran’s capital, Tehran. Two days later, President Donald Trump began his war on that country. “Bombs will be dropping everywhere,” Trump wrote on social media on February 28. https://theintercept.com/2026/08/18/iran-war-civilian-deaths-families-infant/? Immigrant Wants to Pay $368,000 in Fines, but Broken Payment System Won’t Let Him When Daniel arrived in the U.S. about two decades ago, he came on a legal tourist visa. Once here, having fled his home country in South America, he filed an asylum application. A judge, however, eventually denied his claim. https://theintercept.com/2026/08/20/trump-immigration-civil-fines-deport/? A Democratic Socialist Aims to Oust a Top AIPAC Beneficiary in Florida The conventional thinking for Democrats hoping to win in Florida is to be tough on Cuba, friendly to Israel, and careful to avoid appearing too liberal. It’s a tactic aimed at courting powerful voting blocs, and one that helped Rep. Jared Moskowitz take office in the land of sunny skies and low taxes. https://theintercept.com/2026/08/17/florida-congress-oliver-larkin-jared-moskowitz-aipac/?

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No Guarantees (Chip Somodevilla / Getty)   View in browser Cory Mills’s reelection campaign was in trouble before it even began. Washington, D.C., police investigated the Florida representative early last year after a woman alleged that he’d assaulted her; later in 2025, a different woman was granted a restraining order against him. Neither woman was his wife. Mills, who has denied any wrongdoing, was never charged with anything, and the woman who alleged that he’d assaulted her walked back her claim after it became public. Still, questions lingered. Then, in February, Donald Trump endorsed him anyway, calling him an “America First Patriot and Tremendous Champion” of his district. Not everyone in Florida’s Republican establishment felt the same. Governor Ron DeSantis declined to back him, and Representatives Anna Paulina Luna and Mike Haridopolos threw their support behind his opponent. A House ethics probe is ongoing. On Tuesday, Mills lost his primary election—and despite never having rescinded his endorsement, Trump is now trying to back away from the congressman retroactively. “I told Congressman Cory Mills of Florida, a friend of mine, to get out of the Race, but he wouldn’t listen,” he posted on Truth Social yesterday morning. Mills’s opponent, Ryan Elijah—who already won the primary—now has Trump’s “Complete and Total Endorsement!” What does a presidential endorsement mean for a Republican facing a primary election in 2026? If not enduring loyalty from the White House, then at least a reliable boost in the polls. The candidates that Trump supports still tend to win big; about 96 percent of the politicians he tapped this year (more than 300 of them) won their primary, according to Ballotpedia—an impressive ratio. Trump clearly enjoys the perception that his endorsement makes or breaks a candidate. “If they don’t get the endorsement, they don’t win,” he said in 2021. For many voters, particularly in the MAGA camp, perceived loyalty to Trump remains a deciding factor. (Just ask Bill Cassidy.) But not every bet Trump makes pays off. An endorsement has never been an outright guarantee of victory, and the rare exceptions illuminate some truths about Trump and the GOP. Two of the president’s other picks lost their primary race on Tuesday: Megan Degenfelder, the head of Wyoming’s Department of Education, who was running for the state’s governorship, and the former Commerce Department adviser Catalina Lauf, who was up for an open House seat in southwest Florida. By CNN’s count, that makes 10 Trump-endorsed candidates who have so far lost their primary this year. No single, unifying theory can explain these races. Sometimes, the timing makes a difference. When Trump endorsed Degenfelder as Wyoming’s best choice for the governorship, back in January, the state’s education chief hadn’t even entered the race. Once she did, the nod gave her campaign an early lead—an advantage she held on prediction markets for about seven months, despite being outraised and outspent by her main opponent in the GOP primary. In the end, she couldn’t sustain it. Lauf got her endorsement from Trump last week, almost a full year into her campaign, and well after mail-in voting had already begun. Her primary was always more of a toss-up than Degenfelder’s, but Trump’s endorsement may have arrived too late to make a difference. The president also cares more about some races than he does about others. In Indiana, he was able to use his endorsement power to punish those who had opposed his agenda. Trump vowed that Republican state senators who were up for reelection would lose their race if they rejected a gerrymandering plan he backed—and in May, after a concerted effort and successful fundraising from the MAGA base, most of those politicians did indeed lose their primary. Compare that with what he gave Lauf: not much more than a one-off Truth Social post. Not every race is a blanket referendum on Trump’s endorsement power; the particulars always matter. The Republican strategist Doug Heye told me that “when the voters go in the voting booth, the word Trump doesn’t appear. It’s those candidates.” Mike Lindell, the Trump-endorsed MyPillow founder and MAGA stalwart, lost his bid for the Minnesota governorship earlier this month. He’d been leading in the polls, despite the fact that he was obviously unqualified—and that the state’s GOP leadership had declined to endorse him, suggesting that he’d be an “easy target” for Democrats. On Election Day, though, he lost to the experienced state House speaker Lisa Demuth. His adjacency to Trump couldn’t get him over the line. As much as Trump likes the idea that he alone can propel a candidate to victory, he also seems to try to skew the odds in his favor. As NPR points out, the president has lately been backing more incumbents than he did during the 2018 midterms (75 percent of his choices this year have been sitting politicians), which suggests a greater aversion to risk. He also tends to make endorsements much earlier than he used to, getting involved from the outset and attempting to deter competition. Recent history is full of examples of races where Trump’s endorsement did make a big difference: The Ohio Senate seat that ultimately went to J. D. Vance in 2022 was fiercely contested until the president made his pick. Often, though, the president is simply playing the odds, betting on the candidate he thinks has the best chance. That’s exactly what happened in Texas earlier this year. Ahead of the GOP primary for John Cornyn’s Senate seat, Trump was widely expected to endorse the incumbent. As my colleague Elaine Godfrey noted at the time, the senator tried to rename a highway after Trump in an effort to secure his support. But the president went with a competitor, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who’d been ahead in the polls despite being impeached a few years prior. Back in 2022, in the lead-up to Missouri’s Senate primary, Trump went with a more unusual strategy. He wrote on social media that he’d decided to endorse “ERIC”—but didn’t specify which of the three candidates named Eric he actually supported. Was it a gaffe, or a sly acknowledgment that he didn’t want to pick among them? Trump has been more involved in primaries than his predecessors were, setting a new expectation for how active presidents should be in those races. Many of his endorsements have been a boon for his favored candidates. But not every election is about Donald Trump. Related: Trump might already be a lame duck. David A. Graham on the price of Trump’s primary wins

Trump’s Attempt to Suck Up to Brutal Dictator Gets Humiliating Response The president’s brags were met with a flat denial and a missile launch. Donald Trump’s attempt to curry favor with Kim Jong Un received an embarrassing response from Pyongyang. Trump, who radically cut joint military drills between the U.S. and South Korea while bragging about his “very good relationship” with Kim, suggested this week that he is secretly negotiating with the dictator and planned to meet with him this year. In response, Kim Yo Jong—the North Korean leader’s sister and a top adviser—dismissed outright any talk of correspondence. “As for reports coming out of Washington that there has recently been communication between the leaders of North Korea and the United States, I know absolutely nothing about it, and it would probably be the only matter related to our supreme leadership’s foreign policy of which I am unaware,” she said Wednesday. She added that Trump’s move is “not even worth commenting on” and that cutting the drills does not cut their “provocative and aggressive” nature, the FT reports. The situation escalated hours later when Pyongyang launched around 10 short-range ballistic missiles into the sea, South Korea’s military said Thursday. Trump is gunning to revisit talks with North Korea after meeting with Kim Jong Un three times during his first term in a bid to denuclearize the Hermit Kingdom. His need for a diplomatic win has only become more urgent as the president now barrels toward midterm elections overshadowed by his ongoing war with Iran over its nuclear program. The U.S. president pledged that conflict would last a “few weeks” when he started it in February. Almost six months later, there’s no end in sight, and the president has privately admitted he might have to abandon his demands about Tehran’s nuclear capabilities altogether. His latest overtures to the Kim regime have included canceling two major annual joint military exercises with South Korea. He said on Monday that continuing with those drills, which North Korea has always decried as practice runs for an invasion, would have been “inappropriate and hostile.” The exercises remain ongoing but will now end by Friday, six days ahead of schedule. “If the U.S. side calculates that it can portray the measures it has recently taken as some kind of ‘goodwill gesture,’ it will not get the response it wants,” Kim Yo Jong said in her Wednesday statement. She did, however, throw a consolation prize the president’s way, reassuring him that her brother, totalitarian leader of the country with one of the absolute worst human rights records on the planet, holds “fond personal memories and feelings” from their earlier meetings. The Daily Beast has contacted the White House for comment on this story. https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-attempt-to-suck-up-to-brutal-north-korean-dictator-kim-jong-un-gets-humiliating-response/? ps:What a pathetic suckup!!

US carries out its first deportations under pact for Liberia to accept 1,200 non-Liberians HARBEL, Liberia (AP) — The United States on Thursday carried out its first deportation under an agreement for Liberia to accept up to 1,200 people who are not from the African country, one of the Trump administration’s largest efforts yet to deport people to countries other than their own. https://apnews.com/article/liberia-us-deportees-318ab0f9ad74ada4fcd2dff8653c342e? Federal agents seize devices from ex-Rep. Eric Swalwell in sexual misconduct probe, AP source says WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal agents seized electronic devices from former Rep. Eric Swalwell and searched his Washington home as part of an investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct by the ex-Democratic congressman from California, according to a person familiar with the matter. https://apnews.com/article/eric-swalwell-sexual-misconduct-investigation-congress-4615d9309781afd72fc2cd3fb7d7c121?