In Case You Missed It … This Week in News

A lot happened in the world this week – Make sure you didn’t miss it with Liberty Nation GenZ’s weekly news roundup!

Sunday, August 9, 2026

Iran Reveals Six Demands for US ‘Behavior Correction’

Negotiations regarding the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz hit yet another snag on Saturday, as Iran laid out six demands for what it calls US behavior correction. Mohammad Bagher Zolghadr, secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, said that “until America corrects its behavior, the Strait of Hormuz will not open.”

Hunter Biden: Joe Biden’s Cancer Has Spread

Former first son, Hunter Biden, revealed this weekend that his father’s prostate cancer has spread and is causing the former president significant pain. “It’s really sad to watch,” Hunter said. “The only thing I’d say about my dad, about his health right now, is I wish he would complain more, because it’s not good.”

Houthis Threaten Turkey Over Mecca Joint Defense Agreement

The Houthis, backed by Iran, issued a warning to Turkey over the new mutual defense pact between Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Pakistan, signed just a day earlier. Hizam Al-Asad is a senior official in the political bureau of Ansarullah, the ruling body of the Houthis in Yemen. He posted a message on X on Saturday, characterizing Saudi Arabia’s involvement in Yemen as “aggression and siege,” and suggestion Turkey should consider the history before getting involved.

ICE Announces Body Camera Rollout to be Completed This Month

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) will complete its rollout of body cameras to officers and agents in the field by the end of the month, according to Acting Director David Venturella. Saturday’s announcement follows Trump administration border czar Tom Homan’s order that all ICE officers be required to record any vehicle stops.

Monday, August 10, 2026

New Kentucky ‘Grooming Law’ Sees First Arrest

A Kentucky middle school teacher is now facing charges for grooming a minor, which has been a Class D felony since the new law took effect on July 15. According to the Graves County Sheriff’s Office, 25-year-old Sadie M. Flores is accused of having an improper relationship with a minor student in the school district.

NORAD Jets Scrambled as Planes Violate Restricted Airspace

President Donald Trump spent the weekend at Bedminster golf club in New York, which meant temporary airspace restrictions for the duration. Three different aircraft violated the restrictions, resulting in the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) sending in F-16s to intercept.

Teen Burglary Ring Busted in California

Police in Concord, California, a Bay Area town about 30 miles east of San Francisco, announced the end of a gang of teenage burglars. The four juveniles, now behind bars, have been linked to nearly 80 home and vehicle burglaries, led police on multiple high-speed chases, and allegedly ran a fencing operation including stolen firearms that brought in around a quarter of a million dollars.

Tuesday, August 11, 2026

Anthony Fauci (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)Fauci Under Fire for COVID Texts

Dr. Anthony Fauci is taking fresh heat after his government phone messages were released. According to Wisconsin GOP Senator Ron Johnson, the messages detail Fauci’s concerns over miscarriage with the COVID-19 vaccine. “We tell pregnant women don’t even have a glass of wine and yet we coerce them, convince them, sometimes mandated them, to get an experimental gene therapy as early as the first trimester,” Johnson said. “This is truly sick.”

Set Back for Mamdani’s Second-Home Tax Grab

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s Pied-a Terre tax on second homes in The Big Apple has been temporarily blocked by a Staten Island judge. Judge Wayne Ozzi ordered that the list f almost a million homes be taken down and has suspended the implementation of the socialist mayor’s plan.

Zuckerberg Warns of Centralized AI

In a 6,500-word essay, Mark Zuckerberg, Meta CEO and Facebook founder detailed how centralized artificial intelligence should be spread around to ensure the greatest economic opportunities for the world. “The notion that AI is so dangerous that the only safe path is an extreme concentration of power seems inherently problematic,” Zuckerberg wrote. “Historically, hoping that an absolute power will benevolently provide for humanity if sufficiently enlightened has not led to safe or positive outcomes.”

High Death Toll in Colombia Earthquake

More than 130 people have been killed in a devastating earthquake in Colombia with hundreds more injured. The 7.4 magnitude quake is the largest in decades for the South American nation.

Wednesday, August 12, 2026

Trump Secretly Switched Planes in Turkey Amid Iran Threat

Shortly before Air Force One took off from Turkey at the end of last month’s NATO summit, “President Trump secretly slipped away from the presidential jet and was whisked to another plane with the help of an airport catering truck, according to a US official with direct knowledge of the matter,” CBS News reports.

North Korea Fires Ballistic Missile Before US-South Korea Drills

North Korea on Wednesday “fired a ballistic missile toward the sea off the ‌Korean Peninsula’s east coast, South Korean and Japanese authorities said, days ahead of major joint military exercises by Seoul and Washington long denounced by Pyongyang,” Reuters reports.

Thursday, August 13, 2026

Trump Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt Stepping Down

President Donald Trump announced on Wednesday that White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt will leave her post at the end of the month. Leavitt has served in the position since the beginning of Trump’s second term in January 2025.

Former SPLC Official Arrested on Fraud Charges

Heidi Beirich, a former top official at the Southern Poverty Law Center, was arrested on Wednesday, accused of making secret payments to informants operating within white supremacist groups.

Ron Johnson Raises Questions Over Fauci’s Phone Records

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI), appearing on Fox Business Network’s Mornings with Maria, raised questions on Wednesday about the investigation into Dr. Anthony Fauci’s phone records. “We’ll see whether he’ll charge him on contempt [of] Congress. … But again, I don’t mind focusing on Fauci because now the news media is actually covering some of this stuff,” Johnson said, adding that the investigation is only beginning. “Here’s an example, the phone [Fauci used] has 34,000 text messages, right. Anybody who texts realizes as soon as you get a text message, you put that person in your contacts so you know who that person is texting you. We have three contacts in Fauci’s phone. Everything else, all these text messages are associated with a phone number, which indicates to me he deleted his contact numbers. So it’s going to take time to match these phone numbers with a person. It’s just going to be, you know, more difficult to, you know, uncover what is hidden in these texts.”

Trump Media Sued Over Selling Early Access to Truth Social Posts

A lawsuit was filed against “President Donald Trump’s media company on Wednesday over its new product that gives paying Wall Street firms faster access to the president’s Truth Social posts,” The Hill reports.