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Amid the ongoing Iran war, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shared a video on social media Friday of a U.S. servicemember urging fellow servicemembers to be “combat ready” and ready for deployment, but over the weekend, the post soon backfired after critics pointed out it was five years old and featured a retired Marine who had been relieved of duty amid controversy.

Hegseth shared the video without context, leading onlookers to assume that the U.S. servicemember was speaking about the need to be “combat ready” as it relates to the Trump administration’s war against Iran. On Saturday, however, political commentator Micah Erfan revealed the context around the video, context that appeared to undercut Hegseth’s apparent effort to drum up support for war.

During an appearance on MS NOW’s “The Weekend,” Jack Schlossberg, son of Caroline Kennedy, burst into laughter at the suggestion that Donald Trump might want to be given one of the “Profiles in Courage" awards that have been given to Democrats and Republicans alike.

Appearing to promote the upcoming ceremony for the award given annually by the Kennedy family to recognize displays of courage similar to those former President John F. Kennedy, Sclossberg was put on the spot by co-host Jackie Alemany.

House Speaker Mike Johnson's razor-thin majority faces a growing crisis as Republican lawmakers increasingly fail to show up for votes, leaving bills stranded and the Louisiana Republican scrambling to maintain legislative momentum.

According to reporting from The Hill, Johnson finds himself watching bill after bill collapse simply because the votes aren't there when it's time to tally results.

The United States’ war against Iran has triggered a shortage of a critical resource, one so crucial to the economy that one expert predicted a “horrendous” and imminent “collapse,” while another said that President Donald Trump would bear the blame.

That resource is Helium, which plays a critical role in applications ranging from semiconductor manufacturing to medical equipment. Shortly after Trump first authorized strikes on Iran late last month, Qatar, which supplies a third of the world’s helium, was forced to halt production of the critical resource.

President Donald Trump vowed Sunday to make good on his previous threat to deploy Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to airports nationwide in a fiery rant shared on social media.

“On Monday, ICE will be going to airports to help our wonderful TSA Agents who have stayed on the job despite the fact that the Radical Left Democrats, who are only focused on protecting hard line criminals who have entered our Country illegally, are endangering the USA by holding back the money that was long ago agreed to with signed and sealed contracts, and all,” Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social.

As Donald Trump’s war on Iran enters its 23rd day, the administration is putting out signals that it would like to begin peace talks at the same time that the president is raising the threat that he will destroy the country’s energy infrastructure within two days.

Appearing on MS NOW, to discuss the mixed messaging, AXIOS reporter Eli Stokols stated that the president is clueless about the best path to proceed down, and events on the ground –– particularly the closing of the Strait of Hormuz –– show no signs of being easily resolved.

President Donald Trump’s demand Saturday that Iran “fully open” the Strait of Hormuz by Monday night was rebuffed Sunday morning by Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf, who not only appeared to dismiss Trump’s open threat, but issued one of his own.

Following the United States’ surprise attack on Iran last month, the Middle East nation has denied U.S.-aligned ships access to the Strait of Hormuz, a crucial shipping route through which a fifth of the world’s oil trade flows, sending oil prices soaring and reportedly sparking panic within the Trump administration.

President Donald Trump and his MAGA allies seem to be realizing that there is no "formula" to save Trump from the disastrous fallout of the war in Iran, according to one of Trump's biographers.

Since Trump decided to bomb Iran in late February, global energy markets have been in upheaval. The average cost of a gallon of gas in the U.S. has risen by more than $1 per gallon over the last month, at a time when public polls show voters are most concerned about the rising cost of living.

A federal judge slammed President Donald Trump's Department of Justice during a recent court order after the agency admitted to making a rookie mistake in the probe of protesters who attended a church service in St. Paul, Minnesota, according to a new report.

In January, protesters attended a service at City Church in St. Paul, where the pastor, Dave Easterwood, also serves as a top Immigration and Customs Enforcement official in the state. Following the protest, the Department of Justice charged 39 people, including former CNN anchor Don Lemon, with conspiring to violate religious freedoms and interfering with the exercise of religious freedoms.

President Donald Trump issued a blistering ultimatum to the Iranian regime on Saturday night, one that raised the eyebrows of multiple political analysts and observers.

Trump posted on Truth Social that Iran has 48 hours to reopen the Strait of Hormuz or else the U.S. will strike multiple energy plants in the country. He made the threat as global energy prices continue to climb from the regime's effective blockade of the Strait of Hormuz to U.S. ships.

President Donald Trump appears to have given Iran a way to inflict economic pain across the globe for years to come, according to one expert.

Josh Lipsky, senior director of The Atlantic Council's GeoEconomics Center, argued during a new CNN interview on Saturday that Iran has learned it can cause significant economic damage by controlling the Strait of Hormuz, and that the regime could leverage that for the foreseeable future. Lipsky noted that Iran learned this lesson after Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu started bombing Iran in late February.

A House Democrat smacked down President Donald Trump's rambling threat to deploy Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to airports nationwide.

Trump wrote on Truth Social on Saturday that he is considering sending ICE officers to conduct security screenings at airports as negotiations to reopen part of the Department of Homeland Security seem to have stalled.