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Every Senate Republican went on record against a presidential pardon for convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell, breaking with President Donald Trump, who has refused to rule one out.

Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-NV) forced the vote Wednesday through a procedural move called unanimous consent, which passes automatically when no senator objects. No Republican objected, according to Axios.

Republicans on Capitol Hill are scrambling to save an embattled cybersecurity agency after they voted to gut it to appease President Donald Trump, according to a new report.

Politico reported on Wednesday that Republicans have changed their tune on the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency after an unreleased OpenAI model attacked another company and roamed free on the internet for four days. The move comes at a time when the Trump administration is ramping up its rhetoric about elections and is attempting to make some wholesale revisions to how American elections are conducted ahead of the midterms.

President Donald Trump's "Restoring Trust in the Smithsonian Institution" executive order, which requires disclaimer signs characterizing museum exhibits as "inaccurate" and anti-American, closely mirrors claims made by David Barton, a Christian nationalist activist and self-described historian, according to Popular Information's Judd Legum.

"Despite having no degree in history, David Barton calls himself a historian," Legum explained.

Scandal-plagued Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is turning into the child nobody wants with two major campaign funders waiting for the other to step into the breach.

The Republican Party's top spending committees are locked in a "high-stakes game of chicken" over Paxton's floundering Senate campaign—each hoping the other will kick in tens of millions needed to save his sinking candidacy.

President Donald Trump appeared to endorse a theory that Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett – whom he nominated in 2020 – is "clearly terrified of the left," sharing a prominent right-wing figure's post about her voting record on social media Wednesday.

Conservative podcaster Tim Pool wrote that "Amy Coney Barrett is clearly terrified of the left" in response to a viral post on X highlighting her voting record and a supposed drop-off in her alignment with the bench's other conservative justices. Trump shared Pool’s post on his social media platform Truth Social without additional commentary.

President Donald Trump's campaign to invalidate former President Joe Biden's pardons gave Anthony Fauci the ammunition to stonewall Senate Republicans at a Wednesday hearing, according to a pro-Trump former prosecutor.

Bill Shipley, who represented dozens of Jan. 6 defendants, made the case on X.

Preservationists are moving to block President Donald Trump's plan to test a controversial paint on the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, warning the project could cause irreparable damage to the historic landmark, according to a new report.

In an emergency injunction request set to be filed Thursday, the law firm Cultural Heritage Partners argues that the administration's plan to paint four small test panels on the building's Gilded Age façade is being carried out without proper expert oversight, reported CNN.

President Donald Trump is publicly minimizing his frustrations with Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD), according to a new report.

Previously, the president has privately characterized Thune as "one of my biggest headaches," according to Atlantic reporter Jonathan Lemire.

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche ran into "trouble" Wednesday when a Republican senator, key to his confirmation, suddenly scrapped a meeting just before a federal judge's deadline for unredacted Epstein files, according to new reports.

Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee hold only an 11-to-10 majority, a margin thinned by the death of the late Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) — holdouts are Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) and Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), who just abruptly canceled the meeting.

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche stunned survivors of Jeffrey Epstein's abuse with shows of impatience during a meeting in which he snapped they should "get to the point," they said Wednesday.

Dani Bensky, surrounded by fellow survivors of the notorious sex trafficker, revealed these chilling details in a conversation with MS NOW.

A visibly rattled Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) announced Wednesday he had scheduled a vote that could see senators hold Anthony Fauci in contempt of Congress, a citation that, if referred to and acted on by the Justice Department, could carry criminal penalties of up to a year's imprisonment and up to $100,000 in fines.

The former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Fauci was compelled to appear before the Senate Homeland Security Committee Wednesday to testify on his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. During the roughly three-hour hearing, Fauci repeatedly invoked his Fifth Amendment right to remain silent.