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Bank accounts held by President Donald Trump were closed by Capital One in 2021
-- after it flagged financial activity that had characteristics of money laundering, the bank disclosed in a court filing over the weekend.
The court filing is tied to a lawsuit filed against Capital One by one of Trump’s financial holding companies shortly after he was sworn into office a second time.
Trump alleges that Capital One illegally closed his accounts for political reasons, following …

Trump accounts at Capital One were closed in 2021 over money laundering concerns
Capital One closed President Donald Trump’s accounts in mid-2021 after flagging financial activity that resembled money laundering. The bank disclosed this in a court filing over the weekend. Trump has sued Capital One, alleging the closures were politically motivated following the Jan. 6 Capitol attacks. Capital One seeks to dismiss the lawsuit, stating the closures followed months of analysis by its anti-money laundering team. Trump has also sued JPMorgan Chase, claiming similar political m…

Ryan Flournoy feeling more comfortable, confident going into year 3 with Cowboys https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/ryan-flournoy-feeling-more-comfortable-confident-going-into-year-3-with-cowboys

Four more freelance crypto journalists, with bylines at Forbes, Entrepreneur, Information Age, and TNW, have not verified their IDs after a reporter's queries (Rob Waugh/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/tech-websites-…

Tech websites remove articles after failing to verify journalists exist
Press Gazette raises questions about four more profilic tech writers who cover world of crypto.

Bill Belichick joins Giants' 1986 reunion following North Carolina's loss to Notre Dame

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/bill-belichick-joins-giants-reun…

Microsoft court filings: an expert hired by publishers found that only ~60K of 8.2M Copilot chat logs contained at least 16 words in common with news content (Lauren Feiner/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/policy/990267/microsoft-openai-new-york-time…

Microsoft says virtually nobody was grabbing NYT articles through its chatbot
Microsoft claimed in a legal filing that its Copilot chatbot hardly ever regurgitates sentences from articles and books used to ground the AI.

Ryan Flournoy feeling more comfortable, confident going into year 3 with Cowboys https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/ryan-flournoy-feeling-more-comfortable-confident-going-into-year-3-with-cowboys

MPA: Southeast Asia's premium VOD subscribers rose 15% YoY to 75M in Q2, with viewing hours up ~33%; streaming revenue is projected to grow 14% to $2.9B in 2026 (Natsumi Kawasaki/Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/spotlight/asea

Southeast Asia's streaming success spurs filmmakers' global hopes
Thai, Indonesian, Filipino movies and series face further 'travelability' test

Following “a careful review” of classified information he has seen so far, Sen. Tim Kaine told the White House on Monday,
that he US military’s strikes on alleged drug boats have likely
illegally killed “individuals who are not involved in narcotrafficking,”
“They are murder victims,” the Virginia Democrat wrote in a letter to Donald Trump.
So far, the US military has killed at least 221 people and destroyed at least 67 vessels in the “Operation Southern Spear” campa…

‘They are murder victims’: Senator suggests US strikes have killed people who weren’t involved in drug trafficking
The US military’s strikes on alleged drug boats have likely illegally killed “individuals who are not involved in narcotrafficking,” Sen. Tim Kaine told the White House on Monday, following “a careful review” of classified information he has seen so far.

AMC Theatres launches Leawood Films, a new label for distributing small and mid-sized movies while allowing filmmakers to maintain ownership of their feature IP (Anthony D'Alessandro/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/08/amc-theaters-leawood-films-launch-12370…

AMC Theatres Gets Into Distribution Game With Launch Of Leawood Films Label
AMC Theatres, the world's largest exhibitor, is getting into the distribution business launching Leawood Films, a label for small and mid-sized films.

The Justice Department’s updated position stunned industry stakeholders.
The Department of Justice spent years favoring copyright owners.
That changed Wednesday.
With the Trump administration filing in support of OpenAI amid its legal fight with The New York Times,
the administration departed from the status quo position of Washington politicians
— one that had long cast its lot closer to the entertainment industry in matters of copyright legalities
— to …

‘Darn Unusual’ DOJ Filing Has the Trump Administration on Different Path
The administration's support for OpenAI in its legal fight against The New York Times departed from historic norms and could save AI companies billions of dollars.