Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO), who went from obscurity to late-night punchline after his "gotcha" attack on former special counsel Jack Smith collapsed, has pulled out of a scheduled TV appearance as embar...

President Donald Trump faced immediate pushback Thursday after claiming he had always said it would take four to six weeks to eliminate Iran’s nuclear threat — and that he accomplished the task “in one night.”“I stated, numerous times, that it would take 4-6 weeks to get rid of THE IRAN NUCLEAR THRE...

President Donald Trump's ambassador to Greece, Kimberly Guilfoyle, faces calls for her removal after reportedly pulling a lobbyist into meetings with foreign officials.Guilfoyle, a former Fox News host who was once engaged to Donald Trump Jr., was confirmed to the post last year. The Wall Street Jou...

The family of Renee Good, a U.S. citizen shot and killed by a federal immigration agent in Minneapolis in January, has sued President Donald Trump's administration.A pair of lawsuits seeking damages and a jury trial accuse administration officials of negligence and of violating the civil rights of G...

The Democratic National Committee sued the Trump administration Thursday over a rushed change to the federal form overseas Americans use to request absentee ballots, accusing the Pentagon of quietly stripping voting access from citizens who've never lived in the United States.According to The Guardi...

A new review of text messages behind MAGA Sen. Eric Schmitt’s (R-MO) botched attack on Jack Smith reveals a “remarkable detail," The Hill reported Thursday. Neither basketball team at the center of the controversy was actually named in the texts.Schmitt, a Missouri Republican, questioned the former ...

President Donald Trump's handling of inflation has become a defining liability of his presidency, with new polling showing roughly 8 in 10 Americans disapproving of his approach to the cost of living.A new AP-NORC poll released Thursday found Americans disapprove of Trump's handling of cost-of-livin...

President Donald Trump uncorked a bizarre dig at former President Joe Biden during a campaign rally Thursday. Trump stopped by the Peterbilt truck assembly factory in Denton, Texas, to stump for local Republicans like Rep. Brandon Gill (R-TX), Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), and Senate candidate Ken Paxton, t...

A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to reinstate Seattle's court-appointed U.S. attorney Thursday, ruling the president acted unconstitutionally when he abruptly fired him, dealing yet another blow to the administration's workaround for installing prosecutors without Senate confirmation...

MS NOW's Nicolle Wallace had nothing but scorn for the latest effort by Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) to play off his nationally-televised humiliation while interrogating former special counsel Jack Smith this week.Schmitt proclaimed to have caught Smith perjuring himself by getting him to deny he was at...

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott withdrew his endorsement of a Houston-area legislative candidate after dashcam footage surfaced showing the Republican using a racial slur while trying to talk his way out of a drunk driving arrest earlier this year.According to the Houston Chronicle, David Flores, running to ...

President Donald Trump's latest campaign swing through Texas was a rambling mess delivered to a sparse audience, according to a progressive commentator.On Thursday's episode of "The MeidasTouch Podcast," host Ben Meiselas said Trump "just wrapped up a disastrous speech in Texas in front of a very sm...

President Donald Trump is completely losing touch with reality and looking for anyone to validate his greatness as the American public turns on him, MS NOW's Jen Psaki said on Thursday evening.It's likely the impetus for his upcoming cryptocurrency deal — but even there, she said, there are signs th...

Republican senators are turning on President Donald Trump's government-funded ads glorifying himself, with one pointing to an unexpected source of funding. In a Thursday article for The Bulwark, Joe Perticone reported pushback from multiple GOP senators on ads that have been airing during NFL games ...

President Donald Trump's legal setbacks are stacking up faster than a friendly Supreme Court can undo them, according to former federal prosecutor Joyce Vance.Vance, who served as U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Alabama, walked through a string of courtroom developments in four cities in ...

A former Trump official said fractures in the president's coalition are fueling a wave of senior departures from the White House.The official was among roughly six current and former administration aides who spoke with the Daily Mail for a report published Thursday about the steady stream of exits f...

President Donald Trump's aides have developed a secret language to communicate behind the president's back because of his "wholly unfiltered" rage, according to Trump's biographer. Michael Wolff, who has written four books about Trump, claimed during a new episode of "Inside Trump's Head," a podcast...

The White House has told the Justice Department to slow-walk abortion-related actions until after November's midterm elections, according to a new report.Senior White House officials, led by chief of staff Susie Wiles, delivered the message directly to Attorney General Todd Blanche in a series of di...

President Donald Trump's last-minute rollout of massive infrastructure projects in battleground states has Republicans asking the same question: why didn't this come sooner?According to Politico, the projects slated for Alaska and Iowa — states central to the GOP's midterm fight — are "too little, t...

President Donald Trump singled out a lone GOP senator late Thursday night in a last-minute call to action — despite the Senate having already gone on recess until after the midterms.In a lengthy, 385-word post on his social media platform Truth Social, Trump called on the Senate to pass the Sunshine...

Elbridge Colby, the under secretary of defense for policy, openly admitted recently that the Defense Department was actively working to increase the “[nuclear] options available” to President Donald Trump — leaving a number of academics and journalists horrified.“None of this is hypothetical, not fo...

Donald Trump is eyeing a move that would lock in the changes he's made to the Oval Office for future presidents.The 80-year-old president told Time magazine reporters in a lengthy interview published ...

President Donald Trump faced immediate pushback Thursday after claiming he had always said it would take four to six weeks to eliminate Iran’s nuclear threat — and that he accomplished the task “in on...

An Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer fatally shot Good, 37, in the driver’s seat of her SUV during a Jan. 7 encounter.

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President Donald Trump's convention pitch to send every American a $5,000 check if Republicans keep Congress has flopped spectacularly with voters, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll.The four-day s...

A Justice Department task force created to prosecute threats against election workers has apparently gone dormant under the Trump administration as federal prosecutors pursue a growing number of cases...

Sen. John Fetterman’s political operation is offering conservative groups a hefty cut of donations to recruit new donors, according to an exclusive new report in The Atlantic that is drawing sharp criticism of the Pennsylvania Democrat. After Democratic fundraising firm MissionWired ended its work w...

Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) sued former special counsel Jack Smith Wednesday — and accused him of mocking President Donald Trump's complexion in a codename chosen for his investigation.The lawsuit, filed Wednesday in federal court in Tennessee by the New Civil Liberties Alliance, targets Smith pers...

Former special counsel Jack Smith got a resounding cheer from Salon's Troy Farah on Wednesday — who noted that he is actually meting out "consequences" to Republicans who have spent years trying to rewrite the narrative against anyone who investigated President Donald Trump.The GOP has been trying t...

MS NOW host Rachel Maddow revealed a surprising move that President Donald Trump seems to have made that is pummeling the GOP's chances of maintaining their majority after the midterms. Under more normal circumstances, a president with a historically low approval rating might allow his party to crit...

President Donald Trump on Wednesday recounted what he repeatedly called an “amazing” story about an Israeli plumber who supposedly helped save a plunging passenger plane — while acknowledging he didn’t know whether the extraordinary account was true.Trump told reporters in the Oval Office that Israe...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued troops a book in which President Donald Trump promises not to ask them to "fight dumb Wars" as the U.S. wages war on Iran.The 144-page book went to the 600 troops attending Hegseth's speech on Wednesday, ABC News reporter Steven Beynon reported on X.The book col...

President Donald Trump is now facing such a severe collapse of his political brand that even hardcore MAGA politicians are looking for a way to distance themselves from him, Democratic strategist Lis Smith told MS NOW's Nicolle Wallace.This is most clearly exemplified by the new reporting that Ken P...

President Donald Trump made a cryptic remark Wednesday about his political future while defending his Republican midterm convention against criticism from Texas Senate candidate Ken Paxton.Paxton reportedly told conservative donors in a private conversation that Trump’s September convention in Dalla...

Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) was warned that texts he used to accuse former special counsel Jack Smith of perjury were unvetted.Republican staff on the Senate Judiciary Committee cautioned Schmitt ahead of Smith's testimony Tuesday that the Justice Department texts had not been verified, a source with d...

A planned White House promotion for Sen. Eric Schmitt's general counsel is reportedly now in jeopardy after the Missouri Republican's attempted gotcha moment against former special counsel Jack Smith collapsed into public humiliation during a congressional hearing.Ethan Harper had been set to leave ...

Senate Commerce Chair Ted Cruz (R-TX) single-handedly blocked a bill letting people sue over AI-generated deepfakes Wednesday, reigniting a bitter, long-running rift with fellow Republican Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) over how to regulate artificial intelligence.According to Politico, Blackburn trie...