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CNN data guru Harry Enten was astounded on Sunday after new data revealed just how little Americans think of President Donald Trump's latest stunt. Last week, Trump signed an executive order renaming Lake Ontario Lake America as part of his ongoing trade spat with America's northern neighbor. Enten did a little digging into Google's search data and said during Sunday's broadcast of "CNN Newsroom" that the data painted a revealing picture of how Americans are thinking about the move. "Do Americans agree with him? Are they actually now calling it Lake America?" Enten asked. "Well, the early signs are no, Americans do not, in fact, agree with President Trump.""Since Thursday, I looked at the Google searches in all 50 states," he continued. "And guess what? In every single one of them, all 50 [states], a 50-state sweeperoo (sic), more Americans are searching for Lake Ontario." Enten also noted that Americans have largely sided with Canada in the wake of Trump's move, as Canada's favorability rating remains well ahead of the president's. "It's a completely different ballgame," Enten said about Trump's favorability rating compared to Canada's. "My goodness gracious! Americans far more like Canada, dare I say love Canada, than ... [they] despise the way that President Trump is dealing with Canada."

There's an "interesting sign" emerging after the U.S. conducted a new round of strikes against Iran on Sunday that risks spurring America's enemies to act, according to one analyst. The U.S. launched a series of strikes against two sites on Larak Island in the Strait of Hormuz where Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps members were staging rocket launchers to attack merchant ships, according to reports. The strikes came just days after President Donald Trump called Iran a "failing nation" in a post on Truth Social. David Sanger, a national security correspondent for The New York Times, shared his assessment of the strikes on Sunday's broadcast of "CNN Newsroom.""I think they take it as an interesting sign, Sanger said about how America's enemies such as China and Russia reacted to the new strikes. "I think they both also see that the U.S. is now going to have to tie up considerable forces in the Persian Gulf for the foreseeable future."Sanger also warned that the new strikes could have bitter geopolitical consequences. "That could tempt Vladimir Putin to try to go take a small NATO country, or at least some territory in it," Sanger said. "It could tempt Xi Jinping to go after Taiwan."

U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee was condemned Saturday for ignoring a brutal attack on an American news crew that occurred earlier that same day.A crew of three NBC News correspondents was reporting from the occupied West Bank on Saturday near the Palestinian village of Jalud when a vehicle accelerated toward them with Israeli license plates, the outlet reported.“They jumped out, beat us, then jumped back in the car,” said NBC News correspondent Matt Bradley, who the outlet notes was “hit twice in the arm and later treated at a nearby clinic.” Aida Ahmed Abdullah, a Palestinian woman being interviewed by the NBC News crew, was also injured in the attack.Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a vague statement Saturday condemning the attacks, calling them “acts of violence” that harm “Israel’s standing in the world,” though did not mention that Americans were attacked in the incident.Responding to Netanyahu and other Israeli officials’ remarks, Huckabee called them “strong statements,” but similarly made no mention of the attack on Americans. He also called on the Palestinian Authority to “join in condemning violence against Israel by Palestinians.”Huckabee's ignoring of an attack on Americans left several critics outraged.“There is literally nothing in this statement to indicate that it’s the U.S. ambassador to Israel talking about Israeli violence against Americans,” wrote Jasper Nathaniel, a journalist known for his coverage of the West Bank and Israeli settler violence, in a social media post on X. “Reads entirely like a statement by an Israeli official.”Journalist and NBC News contributor Hooman Majd further suggested Huckabee’s allegiance was stronger to Israel rather than the United States, and urged the Trump administration official to “protect American citizens.”“You're the American ambassador, not the spokesman for the Israeli government,” Majd wrote in a social media post on X. “Rather than congratulating the IDF and the Israeli FM, take a moment to protect American citizens trying to do their job.”Foreign policy analyst Trita Parsi went as far as to suggest that Israeli officials knew in advance that Huckabee “wouldn’t lift a finger” in defense of the victimized Americans.“When you read about [the] members of an NBC News Team being beaten by Israeli settlers today in the West Bank, it's important to note two things: The [settlers] wouldn't do this to Americans had they not received a green light from the Israeli gov,” Parsi wrote. “[And], Israel's gov would not have given such a green light unless it felt confident that the US gov — and Amb. Huckabee — wouldn't lift a finger to defend the Americans.”Huckabee has appeared to endorse the idea of “Greater Israel” in the past, with “Greater Israel” referring to the territorial aspirations of some Israelis to significantly expand the nation’s borders. Netanyahu — who was indicted by the International Criminal Court for war crimes — said as recently as last August that he “absolutely” subscribed to a “vision” for “Greater Israel.”So when you read about eight members of an NBC News Team being beaten by Israeli settlers today in the West Bank, it's important to note two things:1. The settler wouldn't do this to Americans had they not received a green light from the Israeli gov.2. Israel's gov would not… pic.twitter.com/UY5jX0CqgV— Trita Parsi (@tparsi) August 29, 2026

CIA Director John Ratcliffe raised eyebrows this week after secretly jetting off to Moscow, Russia, and while the Kremlin denied that any meetings between Russian officials and Ratcliffe took place, two insiders on Saturday revealed at least one apparent reason for the mysterious trip.Two sources briefed on the matter told Axios Saturday that while in Moscow, Ratcliffe proposed a “trilateral meeting” between President Donald Trump, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in just the latest effort to end the Russo-Ukraine war. Since the beginning of his second term, Trump has struggled to bring about an end to the conflict despite his repeated efforts.“Ratcliffe's visit was partly aimed at determining whether Russia's heads of intelligence services could help convince Putin to move toward resuming U.S.-mediated negotiations with Ukraine, the sources said,” Axios’ Barak Ravid wrote in the outlet’s report.“On Friday, U.S. officials briefed Zelensky on Ratcliffe's talks in Moscow and the proposal for a trilateral summit.”Ratcliffe’s trip was so secretive that even top White House aides were “in the dark” about the expedition. The trip reportedly sent European officials “scrambling for information,” according to the Wall Street Journal.According to reports, Ratcliffe took a secretive route to Moscow aboard an unmarked U.S. C-17 military cargo plane flying out of Latvia. Trump, when asked about the trip by reporters, downplayed the mission as being “semi-routine.”“This was the first time Ratcliffe got personally involved in the diplomatic push to broker a breakthrough between Russia and Ukraine,” Axios’ report reads.“Ratcliffe met with his Russian counterparts: SVR foreign intelligence chief Sergey Naryshkin and FSB director Alexander Bortnikov. Trump told Axios that Ratcliffe's visit was ‘standard business’ and not intended to warn Russia against attacking NATO territory.”

The devastating flash floods in Nepal this week that killed at least 670 people and left around 3,000 missing — including 90 Americans — might have claimed fewer lives if not for the actions of the Trump administration, former USAID disaster-response chief Jeremy Konyndyk suggested on Saturday.A series of catastrophic flash floods hit Nepal near its border with China on Wednesday causing unprecedented destruction. The event is believed to have been caused by a glacier collapse in the Himalayas.Konyndyk, who led USAID’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic under the Biden administration, raised an unsettling question as to whether the Trump administration and its Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, may have crippled locals’ ability to adequately prepare for such a disaster.“DOGE famously used keyword searches for terms like ‘climate’ to terminate federal grants,” Konyndyk wrote, referring to the DOGE-led blitz to gut funding for USAID, the U.S. Agency for International Development.“Among the victims: a collab between USAID and NASA for flood prediction, early warning, disaster readiness, glacier inventories, and mapping dangerous glacial lakes… in Nepal.”Spearheaded by Tesla CEO Elon Musk, DOGE oversaw around $60 billion in cuts to U.S. foreign aid under the Trump administration, leaving “few surviving” USAID projects in its wake. Among the USAID programs Konyndyk said was affected was SERVIR, a program that produced detailed and advanced flood forecasting with “days lead time” that “allows people to plan and prepare for [floods].” The program also specifically monitored the “potentially dangerous glacial lakes of Nepal.”A notice from NASA supports Konyndyk’s assertion that SERVIR was impacted by DOGE cuts.“Earlier this month USAID notified SERVIR partners that they have terminated all agreements and contracts with NASA and the SERVIR network,” the notice, published in late March of 2025, reads. “Without the partnership with USAID, NASA cannot continue the SERVIR program.”DOGE famously used keyword searches for terms like "climate" to terminate federal grants.Among the victims: a collab between USAID and NASA for flood prediction, early warning, disaster readiness, glacier inventories, and mapping dangerous glacial lakes......in Nepal. pic.twitter.com/AYkA8kZqnf— Jeremy Konyndyk (@JeremyKonyndyk) August 28, 2026

Milo Yiannopoulos, the once-prominent British MAGA figure and provocateur who last year urged the Trump administration to “deport millions and millions of people,” was deported Friday to Britain, The New York Times reported Saturday.Yiannopoulos was detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) earlier this week in Louisiana, with the agency claiming that he had “overstayed” his visa after failing to appear for an immigration hearing.Once a rising star during President Donald Trump’s first presidential campaign, Yiannopoulos’ political career collapsed in 2017 after video surfaced of him defending “perfectly consensual” sexual relationships between adults and minors.A former Breitbart editor, Yiannopoulos spent years on the fringes of conservative politics after his 2017 fall, including a stint as an unpaid intern for former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) in 2022 and work on Ye’s short-lived 2024 presidential campaign.Yiannopoulos was also a fierce defender of the Trump administration’s mass deportations, having called for “total legal immunity” for ICE agents and for ICE checkpoints to be established at supermarket entrances, gas stations and strip malls.“Mr. Yiannopoulos did not respond to messages seeking comment. He had lived in the United States for more than a decade, joining the staff of Breitbart News on a nonimmigrant visa reserved for people with ‘extraordinary ability,’” the Times’ report reads.“He has frequently tested the limits of his provocations with incendiary remarks about Islam, feminism and immigrants. Mr. Yiannopoulos has also reveled in Mr. Trump’s mass deportation campaign. Last year on social media he called for ‘on the spot deportation’ for those who couldn’t prove they were in the country legally.”