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'Omg': SNL jolts viewers with Trump-Epstein skit that 'MAGA will hate'

Saturday Night Live's season finale featured a controversial sketch in which actor Will Ferrell played Jeffrey Epstein's ghost, drawing widespread attention for a dark joke about the financier's prison death.

In the sketch, Ferrell's Epstein character delivers a punchline that references his disputed 2019 death in federal custody. When a character playing Donald Trump raises his hand for a high-five, Epstein responds: "You know, this time, I'm gonna leave YOU hanging."

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Trump's DC project scramble may pose 'hazardous' threat to workers: union leader

President Donald Trump is hoping to have his latest Washington, D.C. renovation project complete in time for the United States’ 250th anniversary on July 4, but in doing so, may be putting workers’ safety at “risk,” one union leader warned Sunday.

The Trump administration is racing to renovate the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, and selected a Virginia-based company that previously worked on a swimming pool at one of Trump’s golf clubs in a controversial no-bid contract that bypassed the normal competitive bidding process.

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Trump goes on midnight rampage against GOP lawmaker

President Donald Trump has intensified his retribution campaign against Republican lawmakers who don't toe his line, launching a scathing midnight attack on Kentucky Rep. Tom Massie after a GOP senator lost his race.

"Tom Massie of Kentucky, the worst and most unreliable Republican Congressman in the history of our Country, is an even bigger insult to our Nation than Senator Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, who suffered an unprecedented loss tonight by not even being allowed to run in the Republican Primary," Trump wrote in a Truth Social post at 12:40 AM Eastern in which he gloated about Cassidy being barred from seeking reelection in the senate contest. Trump cast Cassidy's exclusion from the primary ballot as unprecedented punishment, attributing it directly to his impeachment vote against Trump during term one.

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'His career is over!' Trump gloats after hated GOP rival loses three-way primary

President Donald Trump took a victory lap after one of his most hated Republican rivals finished last in a three-way GOP primary.

Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) was among only seven Senate Republicans who voted to convict him over Jan. 6, and the 79-year-old president endorsed Rep. Julia Letlow (R-LA) to unseat him, and state treasurer John Fleming forced a runoff after finishing in second place after funding his own campaign.

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Trump enemy Bill Cassidy loses seat after two Republicans advance past him in GOP primary

A Donald Trump-backed candidate for a critical Senate seat in Louisiana will advance to the runoffs, after Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) failed to hold onto his seat or even claw enough votes to gain second place.

Rep. Julia Letlow (R-LA) was leading with more than 40 percent of the vote late on Saturday, according to live reporting by CNN. Behind her, Louisiana State Treasurer John Fleming advanced with just under 30 percent of the vote, according to AP as it called the race in his favor.

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Trump ballroom funding hits a major obstacle as Senate Republicans prepare to vote

President Donald Trump's ballroom project hit a procedural hurdle that may give Senate Republicans the cover they wanted.

The Senate parliamentarian ruled Saturday night that the GOP majority cannot include $1 billion for the proposed White House ballroom in their bill funding immigration enforcement under the strict rules for reconciliation bills, which could save them from a politically unpalatable vote, reported HuffPost.

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Fired Trump hardliner unloads on 'swamp creatures' blocking immigration crackdown

A fired Trump administration official and deportation hardliner is turning on his former employers, calling them "swamp creatures."

Former Border Patrol "commander-at-large" Greg Bovino slammed the Trump administration and the Department of Homeland Security, which oversaw his agency, while speaking with Megyn Kelly, in appearance flagged by The Daily Beast.

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'Side deals galore': Writer predicts Trump bailout from China 'embarrassment'

President Donald Trump's state visit to China ended with few gains for the United States, according to one of his biographers, and he predicted the president will try to whip up a win the only way he knows how.

Author Michael Wolff told The Daily Beast's "Inside Trump's Head" podcast that Chinese President Xi Jinping displayed political, economic and military dominance over the 79-year-old president during his visit to Beijing, and he said Trump has to realize his failure.

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Disgusted NY Times writer nails 'egregious' irony in court upending America's 'high point'

There's a bleak irony in the right-wing U.S. Supreme Court striking down one of the highest points in American democracy, argued New York Times columnist Jamelle Bouie.

The conservative majority severely weakened Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act in a 6-3 decision in Louisiana v. Callais, ruling that protecting minority representation in congressional maps is unconstitutional, and Bouie argued in a new column titled "the law they hate was a high point in our history" that they had betrayed democratic values.

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Trump 'dumped' too much 'poison' into critical US alliance to save it: ex-GOP strategist

An ex-Republican strategist warned that a critical United States military alliance has already been so damaged by President Donald Trump that it's too late to save it.

"NATO's on the clock," Rick Wilson said in the latest episode of his podcast. "It's got three, two years left, tops. Even when Trump dies, even when he's gone, the poison he dumped into the system is so profound, I don't know how you reverse it."

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'Anyone interested?' Trump seeks primary challenger after another MAGA ally breaks ranks

President Donald Trump reacted to Rep. Lauren Boebert's self-deprecating joke about her infamous indiscretion by begging someone to challenge her in a Republican primary.

The Colorado Republican joined the 79-year-old president's most hated Republican – Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) – for a pair of campaign events Saturday in his home district in Kentucky, and Trump issued a call for a GOP primary challenger for his one-time MAGA ally.

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Ex-MAGA influencer makes startling claim about State Dept. and 'Palm Beach aesthetic'

A former conservative influencer claims that the State Department under the Trump administration is employing people who encouraged her to pay for cosmetic surgeries and pricey merchandise.

"I don't think you people understand how these people are at the State Department," said Ashley St. Clair, who worked as a brand ambassador for the conservative activist group Turning Point USA, while appearing on an episode of the podcast Krystal Kyle & Friends.

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'Very important document' proves DOJ shielding Epstein co-conspirators: House Dem

One of the Democrats on the House Oversight Committee called attention to a document displayed at a new hearing with Jeffrey Epstein's victims that could potentially reveal the names of his co-conspirators.

The panel's Democratic minority held a shadow hearing Tuesday in Palm Beach, Florida, where survivors of the well-connected sex offender provided tearful testimony about his abuse and international sex trafficking ring, and Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) described powerful evidence about individuals allegedly involved in that network.

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