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President Donald Trump sought to lecture Pope Leo XIV about geopolitics after the pontiff criticized the U.S. war with Iran.

During a press gaggle on Thursday, Trump was asked about why he lashed out at the pope on Truth Social.

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr got a tongue-lashing on Thursday during a House Ways and Means Committee hearing as Rep. Linda Sanchez (D-CA) brought up his much-ridiculed HHS video using aging rocker Kid Rock to promote better health.

According to the fuming Sanchez, who repeatedly had to speak over the Trump appointee, the controversial secretary has been wasting money while not doing his job warning the public about serious health issues like the growing measles outbreak.

A Donald Trump attorney who was nominated for a lifetime appointment on the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit was lambasted by MS NOW’s Jonathan Lemire on Thursday morning for being afraid to admit President Joe Biden beat Trump in 2020.

On Wednesday, Justin Smith was grilled by Democrats sitting on the Senate Judiciary Committee and, in an exchange with Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), was asked, “Who won the popular vote in the 2020 election?“

Right-wing host Tucker Carlson explained that "there are signs" that suggest President Donald Trump "could be" the Antichrist.

After Trump posted an image of Jesus, Carlson insisted that the president was "mocking Jesus."

Rep. Terri Sewell (D-AL) scolded Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. after he denied saying that "every Black kid" should be "re-parented" instead of getting mental health treatment.

During a Thursday hearing before the House Ways and Means Committee, Sewell noted that Kennedy had made the remarks in a 2024 podcast on the 19Keys Online Show.

CNN's Brian Stelter called out Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth for using religion to justify attacks on the free press.

The Pentagon chief focused much of his weekly update Thursday morning on attacking media coverage of the Iran war, but Stelter told "CNN News Central" that Hegseth seemed to be "doubling down" on President Donald Trump's self-aggrandizing use of religious language.

President Donald Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth do not have a real plan in place to neutralize the threat from Iran, NBC national security reporter David Rohde told MS NOW's "Morning Joe" on Thursday.

"The problem is if it's just more airstrikes, that didn't work," said Rohde. "And the real issue, the biggest leverage Iran has is that it hasn't attacked the energy facilities that exist across the Persian Gulf, the refineries, the natural gas processing facilities and pipelines. They've hit a few of them, but that's their sort of, you know, their top option ... their biggest threat is that if the U.S. bombs again and bombs their infrastructure, their power plants, they will take out all those facilities and it will take months, months to rebuild them. So this goes from an energy crisis that lasts for a few weeks to months and months."

Former Virginia lieutenant governor Justin Fairfax shot his wife to death and then killed himself, authorities in Annandale said.

On Thursday, officials confirmed to Fox 5 that Fairfax was found in their home at the 8100 block of Guinevere Drive. Two bodies were identified as Fairfax and his wife.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth once again used a Pentagon press conference to complain about the reporting on the Iran war that is trapped in a stalemate, claiming the straight reporting on Donald Trump's attack on Iran has been “garbage.”

He then claimed he attended church last Sunday with his family and heard a sermon about the Pharisees that reminded him of the persecution of Jesus Christ –– then comparing them to the US press.

“Morning Joe” co-host Jonathan Lemire had the entire panel laughing on Thursday morning as he read from a report from the New York Post on Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. reportedly pulling the car over so he could cut off the genitalia of a dead raccoon.

That eventually led MS NOW host Mika Brzezinski to blurt out, “What is wrong with him? There is something seriously wrong with him."

The U.S. is staring down a potentially "serious long-term consequence" as a result of President Donald Trump's "discretionary" war in Iran, according to one expert.

Margaret Donovan, a former Army JAG lawyer, discussed the impacts of Trump's war in Iran on CNN's "NewsNight" with Abby Phillip on Wednesday. She noted that the war is having an impact both at home, due to the sharp rise in energy prices, and abroad, with U.S. allies in the region, who have expended a lot of their missile defense systems.

A CNN analyst was befuddled by the more than 2,000 videos he reviewed from the Jeffrey Epstein files that were released by President Donald Trump's Department of Justice.

Tom Foreman, a CNN correspondent, said during a segment on CNN's "The Source" with Kaitlan Collins that the files paint a "clear picture" of a "creepy guy" and raised questions about why so many people in his inner circle hung out with him. The videos show Epstein, the disgraced financier and convicted sex criminal, discussing some menial items like landscaping his properties, as well as interviews from a documentary that former Trump whisperer Steve Bannon was making about Epstein.

Former GOP strategist Tara Setmayer had zero patience on Thursday's edition of MS NOW's "All In" in response to the explanation by Rep. Cory Mills (R-FL) why he didn't feel the need to resign or face accountability for his actions, after being accused of an array of scandalous behavior, including sexual misconduct and domestic violence.

"I just want to be clear that he has not been charged with any crimes that are classified as assault," said anchor Chris Hayes. "And he is — he denies wrongdoing. So I just want to be clear about that, about where things stand. He is being investigated by the ethics committee. Tara, I want to play for you his own defense of himself. Why he says his is different than ... the two cases of Tony Gonzales and Eric Swalwell. Take a listen."