NewsBrevity & Co. — August 8, 2026

In this briefing: • Senate Approves Funding Bill to Avoid a Shutdown Before the Election • Senate Confirms Todd Blanche as Attorney General • Trump’s Immigration Crackdown Prompts Worries from Industry Groups • Iranian Leaders Fear Mojtaba Khamenei’s Decline • Iran Has Made Our Most Urgent National-Security Priority Painfully Clear • Musk Blocks Ukraine from Using Starlink for Deep Strikes in Russia • U.S. Synagogues Turn Members into Security Teams • Justice Department to Review Fauci Referral After Senate Committee Votes to Hold Him in Contempt of Congress • Exodus: West Bank Hardships Drive Out Palestinian Christians • Starship Likely to Be Lost at Sea, Elon Musk Says • Prediction Markets Take Center Stage in Latest Round of Quarterly Earnings • Data Centers Are a Political Issue Crossing Party Lines, Driving Voters to Candidates • Pentagon Revokes Security Clearance of Former Air Force Chief • You Snooze, You Lose? • GOP Holdout Who Holds Trump’s AG Nominee’s Fate in His Hands Makes Major Announcement • Princeton Study Shows How Bad Actors Can Exploit Georgia Elections to Expose How You Voted • Mount Etna Ash Suspends Arrivals at Italy’s Catania Airport • Turley Takes on Dem Candidate’s ‘Utterly Absurd’ Claim About Policing • Moonshot Shake-Up Seeks to Win Beijing Nod for Stock Market Debut • Christian Persecution is Exploding: New Report Reveals the World’s Worst Hotspots