After a July subpoena to Cloudflare failed to fully identify AnarchistFederation.net's operators, the FBI obtained a second grand jury subpoena to Google that produced names, addresses, and account records for two of the site's administrators.

Florida revoked all Flock camera permits on state roads August 31 and gave agencies 30 days to remove the hardware, ending automated license plate monitoring on the state highway network while providing no approved replacement for the investigative and patrol capability those cameras supported.

Washington Park on Chicago's South Side was the scene of a mass shooting late August 30 that left one dead and 14 wounded, the largest mass casualty shooting in Chicago this year, with no suspects identified by the following morning.

A North Carolina grand jury on August 31 indicted 17-year-old Sarah Santiago on three murder counts for allegedly agreeing to publish the San Diego mosque shooters' manifesto and distribute their livestream, extending criminal liability for mass shooting facilitation beyond the physical participants for the first time in a US mosque attack case.

Nathan Vilas Latsch, 29, a Defense Intelligence Agency Insider Threat Division IT specialist, pleaded guilty on August 26, 2026 to attempted transmission of national defense information after an FBI undercover officer posed as his foreign government contact and monitored two dead drops in northern Virginia before arresting him on May 29, 2025.

The State Department revoked the US visa of former Iraqi Finance Minister Taif Sami Mohammed Al Shakarchi on August 28 after the FBI added her to its Terrorist Screening Database, reversing an implicit security endorsement the Biden administration extended when it honored her with the 2022 International Women of Courage Award.