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A former high-ranking intelligence official expressed alarm over President Donald Trump's comments following his high-stakes summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping.

Sue Gordon, who resigned as deputy director of national intelligence during Trump's first term, told MS NOW's Nicolle Wallace she was concerned with the president's indifferent attitude to Chinese companies stealing American intellectual property.

Republicans' nationwide redistricting push has been widely viewed as a bid to boost the GOP in November, but one Democratic strategist says it has a more specific target: Black lawmakers, particularly one from South Carolina.

“They’re not going for revamping representation. They’re going for Black political extermination,” said Antjuan Seawright, an adviser for Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-SC), speaking with The Wall Street Journal for its report Saturday.

When German Chancellor Friedrich Merz told an audience of young Catholics on Friday that he wouldn't recommend his children study or work in the United States right now, ex-Republican strategist Steve Schmidt heard something that ran far deeper than diplomatic friction.

"The words matter because the speaker matters," Schmidt wrote in his Saturday newsletter, The Warning. "When a German chancellor — a conservative Atlanticist, a lifelong admirer of the United States, a man formed politically by the postwar alliance that made modern Germany possible — says publicly that he wouldn’t want his adult children to study in America or work in America, the world should stop and listen."

FBI Director Kash Patel's war on reporters has exposed a troubling pattern: his FBI has exclusively targeted female journalists who have reported damaging stories about his tenure with investigations — while ignoring similar exposés from male counterparts at major publications.

According to Salon columnist Sophia Tesfaye, three female journalists have been targeted by Patel's FBI despite male reporters from outlets like the Wall Street Journal publishing equally embarrassing details about the embattled director's conduct.

As was predicted by economists, Trump's war against Iran has sent oil prices surging and squeezed household budgets across the country, including in GOP strongholds like northeastern Colorado where one three-time Trump voter issued the president a particularly scathing nickname, Reuters reported on Saturday.

“He voted three times for Trump, but like many interviewed by Reuters, he considers himself a political independent, saying he distrusts the Republican Party nearly as much as their ⁠Democratic foes,” Reuters’ Brad Brooks wrote in the outlet’s report.

Donald Trump’s return from Beijing without any provable examples of successful negotiations with Chinese President Xi Jinping was yet another sign that, whatever lofty plans he had in store for the second year of his second term, they are easier to boast about than achieve.

According to analysis by the Washington Post’s Michael Birnbaum and Isaac Arnsdorf, the China summit didn’t include any measurable wins for a president who has had a rough year so far.

Panic spread Saturday as reports suggest that the “next supply-chain headache” could reach the United States soon – one sparked by President Donald Trump’s war against Iran that may risk causing widespread shortages of a critical product used regularly by most Americans.

That product is motor oil, an essential lubricating fluid required to keep anything with an engine – namely vehicles – functioning properly, and outlets such as Yahoo Autos, Axios and others have reported this week on how the U.S. war against Iran may soon bring a shortage of the critical product to U.S. shores.

A cloud of dread has descended upon CBS News as controversial editor-in-chief Bari Weiss prepares to overhaul "60 Minutes" when the show returns next season — with network insiders warning changes are coming that will upend the venerable Sunday night institution.

According to the Guardian, the current season concludes on Sunday, after which the iconoclastic Weiss is expected to impose her ideological imprint on a program that has operated with editorial autonomy for decades.

On Thursday, President Donald Trump disclosed a “flurry” of financial transactions he’d made earlier this year, but on Saturday, Bloomberg correspondent Josh Wingrove unpacked those transactions in greater detail, and in doing so, sparked outrage among critics.

The financial disclosures revealed this week that Trump or his advisers had made “at least $220 million in financial transactions in the securities of major U.S. companies” during the first three months of 2026, Bloomberg previously reported. On Saturday, Wingrove provided additional details on the president’s financial disclosures.