DETAILS: Man ON TRIAL for 1996 murder of rapper Tupac Shakur
Fox News senior national correspondent William La Jeunesse and Fox News contributor Donna Rotunno discuss the trial of the suspect charged with allegedly orchestrating the 1996 killing of rapper Tupac Shakur on ‘The Story.
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Kirk assassination case faces PIVOTAL fight over trial
Retired NYPD inspector Paul Mauro analyzes the latest in the Tyler Robinson case. Prosecutors are pushing for a trial in the Charlie Kirk assassination plot, while defense attorneys argue there is insufficient evidence to proceed.
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🚨NEW: Fox News' John Roberts says he developed pericarditis after his third COVID shot and that it worsened after his fourth shot.
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Trumps confirms secret plane switch amid Iranian assassination threat
Wed, August 12, 2026
Aug. 12 (UPI) – President Donald Trump confirmed he was smuggled off Air Force One and secretly boarded onto a different aircraft before departing the NATO Summit in Turkey for a flight to a British air base in July, amid a possible threat on his life.
Speaking to reporters at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland on Tuesday night, Trump saidthe decision to make the switch in Ankara was made by the "Secret Service and the military."
"I go by Secret Service and the military. They wanted me to go in a different flight, different plane.I just have to do what they say," he said.
NBC News said it had confirmation of reports that after apparently boarding Air Force One as normal, Trump was moved, secreted in a catering truck,to an unmarked VIP transport aircraftfor the first leg of the July 8 flight back to the United States, via RAF Mildenhall.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent remained on board and the press corps accompanying Trump and most White House staffers flew the leg on Air Force One unawarethat Trump was not present, but Trump dismissed questions over whether leaving them aboard the decoy aircraft may have placed them in harm's way.
"I think actually the plane that I flew on was at greater risk. I think it was at greater risk because that would be the plane I think that they would be more likely to go for," said Trump, without saying why that might be the case.
Trump said he didn't delve too much into the threat but he said he was "not surprised" he had been targeted, saying it was an occupational hazard for any president who was getting results.
"Any consequential president has a lot of threats," he said.
NBC said it had been told by a U.S. official the switchwas due to credible intelligence of an Iranian threat to kill Trump, possibly using a shoulder-fired missile launcher to attack Air Force One as it departed Ankara.
Other reports said U.S. intelligence had information of a person with a shoulder-fired missile launcher seen near where the summit was being held.
"As the president has said recently, there are many enemies of America who have their sights on him, and we use every tool at our disposal to address those threats," the White House said in a statement to ABC News.
Trump said at the time he would take the original Air Force One and not the new one provided by Qatar because he was sending it to Mildenhall for U.S. service members to tour.
However, the sequence of events was that Trump boarded Air Force One in view of the cameras in Ankara, clandestinely switched to the C-32 carrying Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth for the flight to Britain. Once on the ground at Mildenhall,the maneuver was reversed and Trump emerged from Air Force One as if he'd been aboard the whole time.
Administration officials,even Hegseth, reportedly were unaware of the ruse until afterward.
Trump subsequently switched onto the new Qatari-gifted "Air Force One" for the rest of the flight back to Washington.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/trumps-confirms-secret-plane-switch-120041041.html
WED, AUG 12 2026
S&P 500 rises after tame inflation data; AI-related shares jump: Live updates
The S&P 500 rose on Wednesday on the back of a tame U.S. inflation report and tech gains led by artificial intelligence plays CoreWeave
and Super Micro Computer.
The broad market index climbed 0.3%, while the Nasdaq Composite added 0.7%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average
traded around the flatline.
July’s consumer price index came in as expected, with headline rising 0.1% on the month and the annual inflation rate landing at 3.4%. Core CPI, which excludes food and energy, advanced 0.2% last month and 2.5% on the year. The annual rate for both headline and core CPI marked a slight decrease from June.
This comes as the Federal Reserve has been laser focused on the impact higher pricing pressures are having on the U.S. consumer, with three dissenters at the last meeting voting to raise rates. Those concerns have yet to abate, with U.S. oil prices pushing above $83 a barrel Wednesday, as hopes of a reopening of the Strait of Hormuz dwindle.
However, odds that the Fed will leave its rates unchanged next month increased following the report. Fed funds futures trading is now pricing in a roughly 58% chance that the central bank will keep its benchmark rate in its current range of 3.50% to 3.75%, according to the CME FedWatch tool. That’s up from more than 45% a week ago.
“In-line inflation will keep the ‘no need to hike rates’ narrative that took hold after last week’s jobs report intact,” said Ellen Zentner, chief economic strategist at Morgan Stanley Wealth Management. “There will be another round of inflation data before the September FOMC meeting, so the storyline could still change. But unless those numbers tell a much different story, the Fed will likely still be in a position to leave rates unchanged next month.”
Meanwhile, the latest quarterly results and guidance from CoreWeave and Super Micro Computer reassured investors that demand in the artificial intelligence buildout is stable. CoreWeave shares jumped 18% after the cloud infrastructure mainstay’s second-quarter adjusted operating income margin of 5% exceeded expectations, while its revenue doubled from a year ago. Super Micro Computer added 14% following a strong earnings and revenue forecast for the first quarter.
Other stocks related to AI also gained. Dell Technologies
and Micron Technology
advanced more than 5% and 6%, respectively, while Cisco Systems rose more than 2%. Additionally, U.S.-listed shares of Dutch neocloud specialist Nebius
were also up more than 27%.
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/11/stock-market-today-live-updates.html
UK fears naval escalation with Russia – Times
The British newspaper claims Moscow has shunned military dialogue with London,contrary to Russian public statements
Published 12 Aug, 2026 11:20 | Up
British officials and diplomats fear an unintended maritime escalation with Russia andare pressuring senior military leaders to restore direct communication with their Russian counterparts, The Times reported on Tuesday.
According to the newspaper, former British chief of the defense staff Tony Radakin and his successor, Richard Knighton,have repeatedly sought contact with Russian Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov but have been unable to speak with him for four years. Their last reported conversation took place in 2022. There has likewise been no direct contact between the two countries’ defense ministers since October of that year.
Moscow has repeatedly said it does not rule out diplomacy with Western countries despite regarding many of them, including the UK, as “unfriendly.” Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov wrote in a keynote article in June that Russia is “not opposed to contacts with any party.”
The Times cited sources as saying that “senior officials and diplomats are nervous about the lack of communication” and are concerned that “a misunderstanding in the high seas could be the trigger for a wider conflict with Russia.”
The newspaper cited a recent incident in which Russian frigate the Admiral Grigorovich fired warning shots near a British yacht in the English Channel.Both Moscow and London said the shots were intended to prevent a possible collision.
A military hotline linking the UK armed forces with the Russian Defense Ministry’s situation center remains operational.Diplomatic communication is also possible through the two countries’ embassies.
Relations between London and Moscow had deteriorated significantly long before the escalation of the Ukraine conflict in 2022. Russia has accused Britain of playing a major role in worsening tensions, including by supporting the 2014 Western-backed change of government in Kiev.
In 2021, the Royal Navy destroyer HMS Defender sailed through waters off Crimea that Russia considers its territorial sea, with London claiming it was exercising the right of innocent passage through Ukrainian waters.
Since the escalation in 2022, the UK has become one of Kiev’s leading military backers and has supplied Kiev with advanced weapons, including Storm Shadow cruise missiles.Moscow has alleged that such systems require Western expertise to program and launch.
Then-British Prime Minister Boris Johnson discouraged Ukraine from going through with a peace agreement negotiated with Moscow during talks in Istanbul in the early weeks of the conflict.
Alongside France, the UK co-leads the so-called ‘coalition of the willing’, a group of countries supporting Kiev’s terms for resolving the conflict and advocating for deployment of NATO forces in Ukraine in the future.
In an article written for Politico Europe that the outlet ultimately declined to publish, Lavrov accused Britain and other Western European governments of pursuing expansionist policies while portraying Russia as the aggressor.He argued that such an atmosphere was “scarcely the climate for substantive dialogue.”
(https://www.rt.com/news/644164-uk-russia-miiltary-dialogue/
UK fears naval escalation with Russia – Times
Vance dresses down Zelensky over Black Sea tanker attacks – FT
Washington was unhappy with Kiev launching drone attacks on vessels carrying oil to a terminal co-owned by US companies, the article says
Published 12 Aug, 2026 15:09 |
The US has called Ukraine to heel for targeting oil tankers in the Black Sea after Kiev began launching drone attacks on vessels sailing to a partly US-owned Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC) terminal in Russia, the Financial Times has reported.
Ukrainian drone raids targeting the CPC – which funnels Kazakh crude across southern Russia to a marine terminal near Novorossiysk, from where tankers carry it onward to Europe and Asia – have tested Washington's patience to the limit, prompting US Vice-President J.D. Vance to press Vladimir Zelensky to shut down the attacks during a July 31 phone call, unidentified Ukrainian officials told the FT.
The CPC route incorporates a combination of Russian, Kazakh, and Western interests, with Chevron and ExxonMobil among the heavyweight US shareholders.
According to the newspaper's sources, Vance told Zelensky that Ukraine was not only harming the interests of American companies, but also rattling oil markets, which are already under strain due to the still-ongoing US-Israeli war on Iran. Zelensky appears to have quickly caved and called off strikes on tankers near the CPC terminal, as long as they are not under Ukrainian sanctions or carrying Russian cargo.
“We very carefully listen to our American partners,” a senior Ukrainian official told the newspaper, saying Kiev had installed new ‘mechanisms’ after the US intervened.
Ukraine also reportedly attempted to use the strikes as a bargaining chip in talks with the US.An FT source claimed that Kiev had agreed to Washington’s request because it was seeking a US license to produce desperately needed Patriot interceptor missiles.
While US President Donald Trump promised a license in early July, he later walked back on that pledge, while reportedly declining to send additional air defense missiles due to a shortfall caused by the Iran war.
Russia has denounced Ukraine’s attacks on oil tankers as “terrorist acts,” while accusing Kiev of targeting civilian infrastructure.
Kazakhstan also protested the drone raids, though without directly blaming Ukraine. It called the strikes on civilian vessels moving CPC crude as an “unacceptable infringement” on its economic interests and warned that they risked destabilizing lawful trade, energy markets, and global supply chains.
However, Kiev publicly refused to accept responsibility and urged Kazakhstan and other affected countries to “refrain from making hasty and unfounded accusations.”
https://www.rt.com/news/644171-vance-dresses-down-zelensky-black-sea-drones/