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Monday, August 31, 2026

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Politics

Official dates only. Each calendar desk is its own page. Economy rows wait for the agency print. Politics is a short list of meetings and elections of similar weight. Crime dates are court dates we can source. Sport is televised MMA and jiu-jitsu from fetched promoter pages.

Compiled Monday, August 31, 2026, Eastern Time.

Important scheduled events only. No hearings, no every United Nations commemorative meeting, no every Supreme Court argument.

UN General Assembly dates are from the official 81st-session meetings page and are marked provisional (A/INF/81/1). We list the opening and the general debate, not the commemorative high-level meetings on that page.

The Supreme Court argument calendar did not load. This list has the statutory term opening (28 U.S.C. § 2), not individual cases.

H.R. 6500 is on the House Majority Leader’s calendar for Tuesday, September 1, 2026, and the balance of that week. The Clerk’s bills-this-week page lists the same bill. We do not invent a vote clock time.

Upcoming

Monday, August 31 – Tuesday, September 1, 2026

No clock time stated

G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors Meeting

Asheville

Agency

U.S. Treasury

Tuesday–Monday, September 8–28, 2026

No clock time stated

United Nations General Assembly, 81st session

Opening September 8; general debate September 22–26 and 28 · New York

Agency

United Nations

Monday, October 5, 2026

No clock time stated

Supreme Court October Term 2026 opens

First Monday in October · Washington

Agency

Supreme Court of the United States

Tuesday, November 3, 2026

No clock time stated

U.S. federal general election (midterms)

United States

Agency

Federal Election Commission