Patriots’ Daily News – August 20, 2026

MAGA Insider: Top Political Stories for Patriots—August 20, 2026

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1: HOLY SMOKES: Harvard Hit With $53 Million Settlement Over Gruesome…

Harvard University has agreed to pay $53 million to settle a sprawling class-action lawsuit brought by grieving families whose loved ones’ bodies, donated in good faith to the school’s medical program, were instead dismembered and sold on the black market by a Harvard employee.

The settlement, which received preliminary approval from a Massachusetts Superior Court judge this week, resolves lawsuits filed by dozens of families who accused one of the world’s most prestigious academic institutions of catastrophic negligence in overseeing its own morgue for years. READ MORE

2: BREAKING: Iranian Hackers Accused of Stealing 31 Terabytes of U.S. Research

The Justice Department this week unsealed sweeping new charges against 17 Iranian nationals accused of running a years-long, state-sponsored cyber theft campaign that hacked into hundreds of American universities, private companies, and government agencies on behalf of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

The 14-count superseding indictment, unsealed in federal court in Manhattan, expands a case originally brought against nine defendants back in 2018, adding eight newly charged individuals and incorporating additional criminal conduct that prosecutors say continued well beyond the original filing. READ MORE

3: MUST READ: UAE Halts All Trade With Iran After…

The United Arab Emirates announced this week that it is suspending all trade and financial transactions with Iran, a dramatic move that severs one of Tehran’s last major economic lifelines as President Trump’s pressure campaign against the Islamic Republic continues to intensify.

The decision came after the UAE said it detected two ballistic missiles fired from Iranian territory on Tuesday night, triggering a nationwide shelter-in-place alert across Dubai. Emirati air defense systems tracked both projectiles, with one landing in international waters and the other falling inside the UAE’s own territorial waters. READ MORE

4: HOLY CRAP! Ex-Fauci Officer Pleads Guilty To…

A former senior adviser to Dr. Anthony Fauci pleaded guilty Tuesday to conspiring to defraud the United States government, marking the most significant criminal accountability yet to emerge from years of Republican-led scrutiny into the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Dr. David Morens, who worked under Fauci for years as a senior official at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, entered his plea during a hearing in federal court in Greenbelt, Maryland. He now faces up to five years in prison when he is sentenced on November 12 by U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis. READ MORE

5: BOMBSHELL: Declassified Files Reveal The FBI Had Evidence…

Newly declassified FBI records made public this week confirm what many conservatives have argued for years: the bureau possessed substantial evidence that a suspected Chinese intelligence operative known as “Fang Fang” compromised then-Congressman Eric Swalwell through a sexual relationship, campaign donations, and placement of foreign nationals inside his office.

The files, released Monday, August 17, by the White House Government Transparency Task Force, were declassified on the order of President Trump as part of a broader push to expose foreign interference in American politics. READ MORE

6: BREAKING: After Pleading the Fifth More Than 100 Times, Fauci Now Refuses to…

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the former face of the federal government’s response to COVID-19, is once again running from congressional accountability. On Friday, an attorney representing Fauci formally notified Senator Ron Johnson’s office that the former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director will not voluntarily appear before Johnson’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, opening yet another chapter in a years-long saga of a public official who has repeatedly dodged serious scrutiny over his role in the pandemic response.

The refusal comes at a particularly telling moment. Just over a week earlier, Republicans on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee voted along party lines to hold Fauci in contempt of Congress. READ MORE

7: BREAKING: Bill Gates’ Daughter Could Face Up To 20 Years In Prison For…

Phoebe Gates, the 23-year-old daughter of Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, is now facing the kind of scrutiny that no amount of family wealth can make disappear.

Her startup, Phia, stands accused of running a deceptive scheme known as cookie stuffing, a practice that federal prosecutors have treated in the past as wire fraud, carrying a maximum penalty of 20 years behind bars. READ MORE

8: HOLY SMOKES! Anthony Fauci Allegedly Forced ABC News To…

For years, Americans who questioned whether COVID-19 could have emerged from a laboratory in Wuhan were mocked, censored, and branded conspiracy theorists by much of the corporate media and public-health establishment.

Now, a former senior ABC News correspondent is offering a disturbing look behind the curtain—claiming his own network dramatically altered a 2021 Nightline investigation into the lab-leak theory after, he says, he was told, the story was reviewed by Dr. Anthony Fauci. READ MORE