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Trump Stumps for Darline Graham as Norman Seeks South Carolina Senate Upset
During the first round of voting on Aug. 11, Graham and Rep. Ralph Norman won the largest share of the vote.
President Donald Trump listens to Sen. Darline Graham (R-S.C.) speak during a campaign rally at Myrtle Beach Convention Center in Myrtle Beach, S.C., on Aug. 21, 2026. Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images
Joseph Lord
8/21/2026|Updated: 8/21/2026 MYRTLE
BEACH, S.C.—President Donald Trump joined Sen. Darline Graham (R-S.C.) on the campaign trail on Aug. 21, as Rep. Ralph Norman (R-S.C.), an erstwhile ally of the president, seeks to win an upset from the right.
Graham, sister of the late Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), has served as the junior senator from South Carolina since being appointed to the post in mid-July following her brother’s death.
The late senator had already won his June 9 primary when he died suddenly from a cardiac illness, prompting the state to set up a special primary election that’s scheduled for Aug. 25.
During the first round of voting on Aug. 11, Darline Graham and Norman won the largest share of the vote, but neither won more than 50 percent so they must head into a runoff election.
Graham, endorsed by Trump, came in first place with 32.8 percent of the vote.
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RedState
Climate News Worth Celebrating: The Earth Is Getting Greener.
By The Heartland Institute | 6:00 AM on August 21, 2026
The opinions expressed by contributors are their own and do not necessarily represent the views of RedState.com
AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File
Global greening is not a new discovery. NASA satellite observations reported 10 years ago that up to half of Earth’s vegetated lands had experienced significant greening over the preceding 35 years, with rising atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO₂) identified as a major contributor.
In 2016, NASA reported that the increase in leaf area amounted to the equivalent of adding roughly two continental United States’ worth of greenery to the planet.
A decade later, the evidence continues. A 2026 paper in Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, “Vegetation greenness in 2025,” reports record global vegetation greenness, including particularly strong results in croplands. The study reports that 77.6 percent of cropland area experienced a positive greenness anomaly in 2025.
For a world continually told that it is teetering on the edge of ecological catastrophe, a record-green planet seems like something worth mentioning. Plants, apparently, missed the memo that carbon dioxide is supposed to be an environmental villain.
The biology here is elementary. CO₂ is an essential raw material of photosynthesis. Plants combine carbon dioxide, water, and energy from sunlight to manufacture the compounds they need to grow. Increase atmospheric CO₂ and, when other requirements such as water and nutrients are available, many plants respond with increased growth and improved water-use efficiency.
More importantly, this isn't merely a greenhouse experiment. Satellites have measured the effect on a planetary scale.
Other recent research attributed about 70 percent of observed global greening to CO₂ fertilization. Nitrogen deposition was attributed to another 9 percent.
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WASHINGTON EXAMINER
Tokyo just changed Kim Jong Un’s nuclear calculus
By Park Joonhye
Published August 21, 2026 7:00am ET
VIDEO
North Korea’s perspective on Japan is shifting. On August 4, Kim Yo Jong, Vice Department Director of the Workers’ Party of Korea and sister to supreme leader Kim Jong Un, strongly criticized Japan’s military buildup, warning that Pyongyang could take “additional military steps” in response. What provoked North Korea was the Maritime Self-Defense Force’s test-firing of U.S.-made Tomahawk cruise missiles and Tokyo’s moves to secure long-range strike capabilities.
North Korea characterized these actions as a shift beyond defensive military power, enabling pre-emptive strike capabilities and overseas military operations. Just two days later, on August 6, North Korea launched a missile toward the East Sea. While it cannot be definitively proven that this launch was a direct retaliation for Kim Yo Jong’s warning, the fact that military action followed immediately after the warning certainly warrants attention.
This narrows the question down to one: Is Japan North Korea’s next target? It is premature to draw such a conclusion right now. However, it is hard to deny that Japan’s weight in North Korea’s military strategy is changing compared to the past. Japan is not a new enemy to North Korea. Pyongyang has long designated Japan as a U.S. ally and a military threat surrounding the Korean Peninsula. Yet, recent changes differ from the past. Japan has actually begun strengthening its long-range strike capabilities.
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WASHINGTON EXAMINER
The best defense against AI is ancient intelligence
By Ian V. Rowe
Published August 21, 2026 2:00pm ET | Updated August 21, 2026 4:14pm ET
In Focus delivers deeper coverage of the political, cultural, and ideological issues shaping America. Published daily by senior writers and experts, these in-depth pieces go beyond the headlines to give readers the full picture. You can find our full list of In Focus pieces here.
Sophisticated artificial intelligence tools are making it easier than ever for high school and college students not only to cheat but to make cheating virtually undetectable. “Humanizers” can rewrite AI-generated prose to sound organic, while “autotypers” simulate the cadence of human keystrokes, complete with pauses and typo corrections, in programs such as Google Docs.
The dangers extend far beyond rampant cheating. As students increasingly outsource thinking to machines, we risk a generation less practiced in the very capacities education is meant to develop: judgment, creativity, persistence, and independent thought. Yet AI simultaneously presents incredible opportunities for personalized instruction and high-impact tutoring that can make real advances in student learning.
The duality of AI’s promise and peril is real. The challenge is to ensure the use of artificial intelligence strengthens rather than diminishes human agency. As a school leader who has led public charter schools in New York for more than 15 years, I believe the best defense against the worst excesses of artificial intelligence is to steep students in the other form of AI: ancient intelligence.
Ancient intelligence begins with a question that is as old as philosophy itself: What does it mean to live a good life? The Roman philosopher Cicero called this the summum bonum — the highest good, the central aim of a virtuous life. When young people develop an ethical framework for what is worth pursuing, they become less vulnerable to every convenient shortcut that technology places within reach. They develop the self-restraint to say no to outsourcing their thinking or cheating with AI tools, because they know it is the wrong thing to do.
That is among the reasons why I partnered with the Johns Hopkins Institute for Education Policy to develop the freely available Agency curriculum. Its purpose is not simply to teach students about virtue, but to help them practice the self-command, judgment, and confidence necessary to make wise choices and lead self-determined lives of meaning and purpose.
Agency is a 30-lesson curriculum designed for ninth graders and adaptable for young people navigating what I call “the deciding decade,” ages 14 to 24. Choices made during these years about education, faith, relationships, and work can exert an outsize influence on the rest of life. Reaching the highest good requires agency: the exercise of free will guided by moral discernment.
The Agency curriculum starts with a simple conviction that young people are moral agents capable of shaping their own character. Each lesson asks students to wrestle with enduring questions drawn from classical philosophy, literature, history, and lived experience: What can be learned from Frederick Douglass’s supposition that self-made men are not born into privilege but forge their own path through adversity and productive struggle? How can they embrace the FREE pillars of human flourishing: family, religion, education, and entrepreneurship? What habits help them practice delayed gratification, responsibility, and excellence?
Students encounter the stoic distinction between what is and is not within our control, then apply it to problems they face: peer pressure, plagiarism, online identity, and the seductive convenience of artificial intelligence.
The hope is that students who once defaulted to the path of least resistance learn that the obstacle itself can be the pathway. Every time they outsource a difficult intellectual task, they realize they forfeit an opportunity to develop critical thinking, knowledge, and resilience. A shortcut may yield a better grade today while leaving the student less capable tomorrow.
The intrinsic motivation Cicero associated with the highest good grows through repeatedly choosing the harder path and discovering that it often leads to greater competence and self-respect.
Ultimately, we can treat the rise of undetectable AI cheating as a purely technical problem to be solved with better detection software. That is an arms race society will likely lose. Or we can address the deeper question: What kind of human beings are we helping young people become? The Agency curriculum offers one concrete answer. It does not pretend that virtue can be downloaded nor that character education is a quick fix. It simply insists that the oldest insights into human flourishing remain the most reliable guide for navigating the newest challenges.
INFANTICIDE IS BACK
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The students most likely to thrive in an age of artificial intelligence are those who have first mastered the ancient art of governing themselves. Indeed, Benjamin Franklin famously stated, “Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom.”
By helping students pursue the summum bonum, we equip them to lead lives of genuine freedom, purpose, and contribution — lives in which technology serves human dignity rather than the reverse. That is the highest good education can offer, and it remains as urgent today as it was in Cicero’s time.
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THE EPOCH TIMES
Hong Kong Court Convicts 2 Tiananmen Square Vigil Organizers
The convictions drew international condemnation, including from the U.S. Congressional-Executive Commission on China.
Lee Cheuk-yan, then-chairman of Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China, holds a press conference in Hong Kong on June 1, 2020. Sung Pi-lung/The Epoch Times
Frank Fang
Reporter
8/21/2026|Updated: 8/21/2026
Two Hong Kong activists who once led thousands to annual June 4 candlelight vigils to commemorate the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre in Beijing were convicted on Aug. 21 in a trial that critics have condemned as unjust.
Lee Cheuk-yan and Chow Hang-tung, former leaders of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China, were convicted of inciting subversion under the Beijing-imposed national security law. The alliance was also found guilty.
The two “incited other persons to organize, plan, commit or participate in acts by unlawful means with a view to subverting the state power,” a press summary of the court decision reads.
Lee, 69, and Chow, 41, who were charged in September 2021, pleaded not guilty to the subversion charge in January. That same month, the alliance voted to disband amid mounting pressure from Hong Kong authorities.
The pair face up to 10 years in prison and are expected to be sentenced at a later ...
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THE EPOCH TIMES
Net Zero Is Nearly Dead
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Stephen Moore
8/20/2026|Updated: 8/20/2026
Commentary
It was only a few years ago when the climate change alarms and green energy fad were all the rage at the White House and corporate board rooms. Former President Joe Biden’s policies were all tilted to ending fossil fuels, and many of America’s biggest corporations embraced the concept of net-zero fossil fuels. This was the movement during the Biden years to eliminate virtually all oil, natural gas, and coal production, and replace these energy sources with windmills, solar panels, and electric vehicles.
This goal was pure virtue-signaling, and it never made any practical sense. Roughly 70 percent of American energy comes from fossil fuels, and only about 10 percent comes from “green energy.” Studies showed that the initiative would have decimated the U.S. economy: millions of American jobs lost, hundreds of billions of dollars of lost GDP, and much higher energy costs for American businesses and families.
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THE EPOCH TIMES
5 Things to Know About New York Times Losing First Defamation Case in 50 Years
A jury awarded a college student about $9 million.
The New York Times on display Photo by Sergi Alexander/Getty Images For SOBEWFF
Zachary Stieber
Senior Reporter
8/21/2026|Updated: 8/21/2026
A man whom The New York Times falsely reported was present during a fatal shooting in 2023 has won the first defamation case against the paper in more than 50 years.
Jurors on Aug. 20 ruled in favor of Kai Spears, who was a freshman at the University of Alabama at the time of the shooting. Spears sued the newspaper after it said he was inside a vehicle at a fatal shooting in Tuscaloosa, where the school is located, on Jan. 15, 2023.
Spears was not in the vehicle.
Here’s what to know about the case and its potential ramifications for other defamation proceedings moving forward.
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THE EPOCH TIMES
900 Visas Revoked in Birth Tourism Crackdown: State Department
A State Department official said that US officials have observed a ‘global phenomenon’ where networks try to effectively sell U.S. citizenship.
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio delivers opening remarks during the Ministerial on the Resurgence of Political Terrorism at the State Department in Washington on July 16, 2026. Finn Gomez/Getty Images
Jack Phillips
Breaking News Reporter
8/21/2026|Updated: 8/21/2026
The U.S. Department of State on Aug. 20 said that nearly 900 visas have been revoked since a birth tourism task force was created in early August.
Birth tourism refers to a foreign national traveling to another country to give birth there in a bid to allow the child to gain citizenship of that country. The Trump administration attempted to end birthright citizenship through an executive order last year, which was challenged in court and later blocked by multiple judges.
Describing birth tourism as “an insidious practice,” State Department spokesman Tommy Pigott told Newsmax’s National Report that officials are “seeing this be a global phenomenon, and we’re seeing these networks that are profiting, trying to essentially sell U.S. citizenship.”
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THE EPOCH TIMES
State Department OKs Possible $4.5 Billion Military Refueling Aircraft Sale to Qatar
The sale isn’t expected to impact America’s current military needs.
An artist's rendering of a KC-46A refueling F-16 Fighting Falcons. Courtesy of the Boeing Company
Jill McLaughlin
8/20/2026|Updated: 8/20/2026
The State Department approved a possible $4.5 billion sale of next-generation military refueling aircraft and related equipment to Qatar on Aug. 20.
The sale would include four KC-46A Pegasus refueling aircraft, eight turbofan engines, 10 radar warning receivers, 15 laser transmitter assemblies, and other defense equipment.
“This proposed sale will support the foreign policy and national security objectives of the United States by helping to improve the security of a strategic regional partner that has been and continues to be an important force for political stability and economic progress in the Middle East,” the State Department stated.
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NEWSMAX
DOJ Seeks to Question FBI Officials on Mar-a-Lago Search: Sources
(AP)
Thursday, 20 August 2026 07:59 PM EDT
The Justice Department has requested to interview FBI officials who were involved in the 2022 search of Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida as part of a wide-ranging probe examining past investigations of the president, four sources familiar with the matter said on Thursday.
The requests came from investigators working with Joe diGenova, a Trump ally who began overseeing the Florida-based investigation earlier this year. The investigation has been seeking to establish that Trump was the victim of a criminal conspiracy against his rights.
The questioning over the Mar-a-Lago search, which was first reported by the Associated Press, is an indication the probe is examining a range of prior government investigations into Trump's conduct.
Spokespeople for the Justice Department and FBI did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
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