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Ex-GOP strategist Rick Wilson delivered “bad news” for outgoing Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and her chief of staff – and alleged lover – Corey Lewandowski on Saturday, warning the pair during an appearance on MS NOW that their trouble had only just begun.

Noem was ousted as head of DHS by President Donald Trump earlier this month after internal frustrations mounted over her leadership, and over her alleged affair with Lewandowski, who, like Noem, is married.

President Donald Trump warned Democratic lawmakers Saturday that unless they approved funding for the Department of Homeland Security “immediately,” he would send Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to airports across the nation where they would “arrest” any undocumented migrants they encounter.

The federal government has been partially shut down since February after Democratic lawmakers refused to fund DHS in protest of the violent immigration enforcement operations carried out by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, an agency under DHS. Democratic lawmakers demanded reforms to ICE before funding the agency, demands that Republicans rejected.

Political commentator Adam Mockler confronted two conservative writers on Saturday over their fierce defenses of President Donald Trump and his decision to launch a war against Iran, telling the two to their faces that their arguments were filled with “contradictions.”

CNN’s “Table For Five” saw conservative writers and commentators Noah Rothman and Brianna Lyman fiercely defend Trump’s decision to launch an attack on Iran. Lyman placed blame for the conflict on Iran, claiming that “we started a war because Iran started a war 47 years ago,” and that Trump was “finishing a war.”

Donald Trump's relentless campaign to bully Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell into slashing interest rates faces a fundamental contradiction: the president's own economic policies and actions are creating conditions that could force the Fed to do the opposite—raise rates instead, according to the Wall Street Journal's Greg Ip.

According to Ip: "The vibe has changed."

The White House lashed out Friday after being called out over its misleading suggestion that the Iran war enjoyed majority support among Americans, and to such an extent that one target of the White House’s fury hit back with a particularly scathing rebuttal.

On Thursday, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt claimed that “Americans agree that Operation Epic Fury is an overwhelming success,” sharing a White House press release that included several polls showing the war’s favorability. As countless critics noted, however, the White House’s release only focused on “MAGA Republicans,” who make up less than 20% of Americans.

The leadership of Stetson University College of Law, located in Gulfport, Florida, is facing the very real prospect of donations drying up in large part because of alumna Pam Bondi’s performance as Donald Trump’s attorney general.

According to a report from BayNews9, there is a growing list of law school alumni who have signed onto a letter urging the school to denounce Bondi, a 1990 graduate, or face a donor boycott.

Just six days after Jeffrey Epstein’s 2019 death at the Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC) in New York, a Bureau of Prisons “After-Actions team” swept the jail and shredded “huge amounts of paperwork,” recruiting the help of at least two inmates to dispose of the files in a dumpster, a newly unearthed FBI report suggests.

Flagged by famed Epstein reporter Julie K. Brown, the FBI report is a crisis intake form, in which an FBI official documented claims made by a federal corrections officer, who contacted the agency via phone to report misconduct. The correctional officer’s name is redacted in the report, which is dated Aug. 16, 2019, just six days after Epstein was found dead in his cell, with his death controversially ruled a suicide.

Sen. Mike Lee’s refusal to back down on pushing his Republican colleagues in the Senate to force through the SAVE America Act has them gritting their teeth and even has some wondering if he should be stripped of a committee chairmanship due to his "scorched earth" tactics.

According to reporting from Politico's Jordain Carney, Lee's aggressive, hyper-online tactics promoting elections legislation overhaul have sparked widespread private frustration among Republicans who view his strategy as self-serving, counterproductive, and potentially damaging to the party's midterm prospects.

Donald Trump's offhand remarks during a Monday press availability about Rep. Neal Dunn (R-FL)—casually stating the lawmaker had received a "terminal" diagnosis and would be "dead by June"—have revived scrutiny of the president's own guarded approach to his health.

The Guardian's Victoria Bekiempis noted Saturday that Trump has consistently boasted about his physical and mental vitality while publicly mocking others' physical conditions, all while maintaining what observers describe as suspicious opacity about his own medical status.

Mark Robinson, North Carolina’s former lieutenant governor and failed GOP gubernatorial candidate, came clean this week over the allegations that he had made a series of shocking online comments, including describing himself as a “Black Nazi” and admitting to enjoying transgender pornography, despite his fierce anti-trans and homophobic rhetoric.

Appearing on the “After The Call” podcast in an interview published on Thursday, Robinson admitted that, regarding reports about his online comments, “there’s some truth to it,” but said he lied in an effort to protect President Donald Trump in the lead up to the 2024 election.

Over the past week, Donald Trump has cycled through claiming the United States needs no assistance from allies in its Iran conflict, then requesting their support, and finally expressing rage at their refusal—a pattern that reflects an escalating personal crisis as the war continues and public approval declines.

Greg Sargent of The New Republic identifies this behavior as evidence of Trump's central "political weakness": his inability to control himself, which has trapped him in a corner regarding Iran with no path forward that serves his political interests.

The Trump administration was hit with a major discrimination lawsuit after having cancelled a $250,000 federal grant for a New York museum celebrating Black history, a move lawyers for the museum described as “overt and coded racism.”

The grant was awarded to the museum – the Underground Railroad Education Center in Albany, New York – in January of 2024, and despite Congress having already approved the funding, the Trump administration axed the grant as part of its dismantling of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs.

Zeteo journalist Andrew Pérez highlighted a more alarming comment from President Donald Trump's Thursday Oval Office meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi that overshadowed the Pearl Harbor joke controversy.

Trump stated the U.S. possesses "unthinkable" military weaponry that "you don't even want to know about," and claimed America could "end this thing in two seconds if you wanted to."