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Just moments after President Donald Trump and his entourage of officials and business leaders landed in Beijing, China, CNN data analyst Harry Enten dropped a series of brutal poll numbers on how Americans rate the president’s handling of China.

“In term number one, China was a strength for Donald Trump, Americans really liked what he was doing vis-à-vis China, and no longer is that the case,” Enten said on Wednesday, moments after Trump landed in China ahead of his two-day summit with President Xi Jinping.

Pope Leo XIV has once again named a pastor critical of the Trump administration's mass deportation policy to a high-ranking church position — this time overseeing a deeply conservative diocese.

According to Christopher Hale's "Letters from Leo," Father Emilio Biosca Agüero, who runs the Shrine of the Sacred Heart in D.C., will now be the Bishop of Naples, a diocese that covers much of southwest Florida.

The Department of Homeland Security's inspector general has launched an audit of a controversial $38 billion program that converted commercial warehouses into immigration detention centers, a plan championed by former DHS Secretary Kristi Noem and her top adviser Corey Lewandowski.

The inspector general is expected to announce an "audit of ICE's acquisition of detention space" that will review all warehouse purchases made under the program, reported the Wall Street Journal, and the probe expands on an existing investigation into contract handling at DHS and the role of political appointees in awarding them.

The ex-girlfriend of Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) is alleging that he arranged a hush payment to her to bury allegations against one of his colleagues and close allies, Rep. Victoria Spartz (R-IN), offering her $5,000 to end a wrongful termination complaint.

According to Axios, "After she broke up with Massie, West said, she was fired by Spartz, who has a reputation as one of the 'worst bosses on the Hill,' according to Legistorm. This March, according to a proposed agreement obtained by Axios, West was offered a $60,000 settlement in her wrongful termination complaint against Spartz. But it came with a nondisclosure agreement that West refused to sign, she said."

Rep. Andy Ogles (R-TN) took to Fox Business Wednesday to complain about his phone being confiscated by law enforcement in 2024 as part of a federal probe into his campaign finance filings, an incident so impactful, he claimed, that his child “still has nightmares” about former President Joe Biden.

“The impact that has on your family... my little one still has nightmares, afraid that his dad is gonna be taken away by big, bad Biden and his Department of Justice,” Ogles told Fox Business’ Maria Bartiromo. “That should never happen again!”

MS NOW's Joe Scarborough marveled at President Donald Trump's all-night posting sprees, where he amplifies conspiracy theories, attacks his enemies and celebrates himself as the nation sleeps.

The Wall Street Journal this week catalogued 44 flurries of a dozen or more Truth Social posts published between 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. since the 79-year-old Trump returned to the White House, and the "Morning Joe" host expressed alarm about what those posts revealed about the president's mental state.

In the wake of President Donald Trump’s recent overnight posting spree that left onlookers concerned for his mental well-being, former FBI Director James Comey said Tuesday that he believed there to be “something wrong” with the president and that he didn’t “seem okay.”

Appearing on CNN’s “The Source with Kaitlan Collins,” Comey was asked about his recent indictment by the Justice Department over his social media post that included a photograph of seashells, which Trump allies have interpreted as a threat on the president’s life. Comey said he expected an endless string of indictments until “Trump leaves office because he is obsessed with retribution.”

In a predawn vote Wednesday, Louisiana's Republican-controlled Senate committee approved a new congressional map that eliminates the state's second Democratic-majority district, setting the stage for GOP control of five of six seats.

The 4-3 vote came at 4:25 a.m. after more than nine hours of testimony, with "bleary-eyed" lawmakers and spectators witnessing the outcome of a gerrymander battle triggered by the Supreme Court's April 29 ruling that declared Louisiana's original Democratic district unconstitutional, according to local news reports.

President Donald Trump's niece sounded a "chilling" warning about his recent moves to threaten democracy.

Mary Trump, a psychologist and political commentator, directed readers' attention to last week's FBI raid on the office of L. Louise Lucas, the Democratic president pro tempore of the Virginia State Senate, and the subsequent ruling of that state's Supreme Court to strike down a redistricting referendum approved by voters.

An increasing number of Republican lawmakers are openly rebuking President Donald Trump’s demands after a key source of his leverage has all but disappeared, a dynamic that led Punchbowl News to question whether Trump was “losing sway on Capitol Hill” in its Wednesday morning newsletter.

That leverage was the threat that GOP lawmakers could face a Trump-backed primary challenger, but with primary elections wrapping up around the country, that threat has mostly been neutralized until at least 2028. As such, Republicans appear to have found a newfound courage to more frequently give Trump “the stiff arm,” Punchbowl News reported.

MS NOW's Joe Scarborough and other panelists on "Morning Joe" were astonished by President Donald Trump's admission that he does not think about the impact of the Iran war on Americans' finances.

Fuel prices have hit a four-year high due to Irans closure of the Strait of Hormuz, and the 79-year-old president was asked whether the affordability crisis motivated him to reach a deal to end the way, but Trump told reporters, 'I don’t think about Americans’ financial situation, I don’t think about anybody – I think about one thing: We cannot let Iran have a nuclear weapon."

President Donald Trump took to social media Tuesday night to demand that Robert Karem, a Republican Senate staffer, be fired over an incident that took place earlier that day during a Senate hearing, one that Trump claimed made Sen. Mitch McConnell “look foolish and completely out of it.”

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth testified Tuesday before the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee, and in what Newsweek described as an “awkward moment,” the committee’s chair, McConnell, had to be reminded by a staffer “that several senators still had questions after he attempted to wrap up proceedings early.”

President Donald Trump was mocked on Tuesday for offering a startling admission about the state of the U.S. economy.

Trump told reporters outside the White House that the financial stress many Americans are under is not motivating his negotiations to end the war in Iran. That claim caught the attention of David Pakman, host of the liberal political podcast "The David Pakman Show," who argued in a new reaction video that it revealed exactly where Trump's priorities lie.