{"id":812701,"date":"2026-08-13T22:12:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T22:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/812701\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T22:12:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T22:12:10","slug":"carving-board-notus-news-of-the-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/812701\/","title":{"rendered":"Carving Board – NOTUS \u2014 News of the United States"},"content":{"rendered":"

Good afternoon. This is the Final NOTUS newsletter for Aug. 13, 2026. You can get it in your inbox every day by signing up here<\/a> \u2014 it\u2019s free!<\/p>\n

THE LATEST<\/p>\n

The Kennedy Center\u2019s board voted to carve<\/a> Donald Trump\u2019s name into the building\u2019s white marble facade, months after a judge ruled the president\u2019s name had to be taken off the center\u2019s signage.<\/p>\n

The board, which Trump fired en masse last year and restocked with allies, also voted to proceed with shutting down the building for a $250 million renovation project.<\/p>\n

The federal government investigated left-leaning groups during its immigration crackdown in Minnesota, according to a new filing<\/a> in the U.S.\u2019s case against a set of activists. Documents show<\/a> Homeland Security officials used invasive tactics to investigate groups and individuals who were never accused of crimes.<\/p>\n

THE ADMINISTRATION<\/p>\n

The White House says the U.S. is losing<\/a> up to $26 billion in annual tax revenue from tariff dodging, specifically highlighting how China responded to new import taxes in 2018 in a new report<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Todd Blanche tried to rally<\/a> the DOJ troops in his first address to staff as attorney general.<\/p>\n

\u201cEverything that I do will not be the right path or the right decision,\u201d he said, adding that he will listen to staff suggestions and make adjustments accordingly.The agency assailed<\/a> the D.C. Council for demanding more than a dozen U.S. governors withdraw their National Guard troops by Sept. 1.THE HILL<\/p>\n

Lawmakers are demanding answers<\/a> after reports of deteriorating conditions on the USS Abraham Lincoln. The USS George Washington carrier group is headed to the Middle East to replace the aircraft carrier in a previously planned swap, according to CNN<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Reports about poor conditions were \u201ccompletely misrepresented,\u201d Hegseth told<\/a> reporters in Panama today.<\/p>\n

Chatbots are doing the work of Congress with little oversight, The Washington Post reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s kind of like you can sit there and talk to an expert,\u201d Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Alabama) said of his experience with ChatGPT. \u201cYou don\u2019t know whether or not they\u2019re 100 percent correct. But they put you on the right path.\u201dFOR THE LOW PRICE OF $14.99<\/p>\n

Thank you for reading! Today\u2019s newsletter was produced by Kelly Poe and Erik Schutz. If you liked it, please forward it to a friend. If someone shared it with you, please sign up<\/a> \u2014 it\u2019s free! Got a tip or comments to share? Email us at finalnotus@notus.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Good afternoon. This is the Final NOTUS newsletter for Aug. 13, 2026. You can get it in your…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":812702,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-812701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=812701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/812702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=812701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=812701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=812701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}