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Noah Kai Newkirk, a prominent activist and Democratic congressional candidate from Arizona, filed an official complaint with the state’s attorney general recently alleging that the state of Israel had interfered in the Arizona Democratic primary election using artificial intelligence (AI).

“Just dropped off an official complaint with Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes’ office about the state of Israel’s election interference in our primary election,” Newkirk said in a video he published on social media.

President Donald Trump expressed outrage Sunday in a purported phone call with Axios’ Barak Ravid over Israel’s latest act of defiance, one that risks jeopardizing his long-sought peace deal with Iran that he’s shown a “strange insistence” for finalizing on Sunday, his 80th birthday.

On Saturday, Trump said that a peace deal between Washington and Tehran was scheduled to be signed on Sunday – a statement that also included what many interpreted to be a threat to use nuclear weapons. On Sunday morning, however, Israel launched airstrikes at Lebanon – killing at least three and injuring 16 – a violation of Iran’s conditions for signing any peace agreement with the United States.

A new national NBC News poll published Sunday spelled trouble for Republicans as the midterm elections approach, with one GOP pollster who helped conduct the survey reacting to the news with concern.

“These are rocky numbers for Republicans,” said Republican pollster Bill McInturff with Public Opinion Strategies, speaking with NBC News, noting that while the numbers boded poorly for the GOP, they were “not catastrophic.”

A political columnist is comparing President Donald Trump's gilded redecoration of Washington to the excesses of the French monarchy on the eve of the revolution that toppled it.

In a column titled "Caligula on the Potomac," political analyst and longtime federal trial attorney Sabrina Haake argues that Trump is "desecrating the nation's capital monument by monument," remaking the city in his own gold-plated image.

Despite the White House’s claim that the upcoming Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) posed “no conflict of interest” regarding President Donald Trump, a new development directly undercut that claim and established a firm connection between the event and the “Trump family’s financial interests,” The Guardian reported Sunday.

As revealed by UFC on Friday, fighters participating in the event will be partially paid “in a form of cryptocurrency issued by Trump family business World Liberty Financial.” Some fighters will also receive “USD1 stablecoins” issued by World Liberty Financial, the finance company founded in 2024 by Trump and a number of his family members.

Celebrity birthday wishes poured in for President Donald Trump as he turned 80 on Sunday – but many doubled as brutal condemnations of the president’s global impact, with one columnist declaring Trump’s legacy to be one of “mass immiseration and death.”

“Dear Number 47. You’re aging fast, Mr President, plagued by bruising, memory holes, verbal incoherence and unwelcome fits of sleep,” wrote novelist Siri Hustvedt, as reported by The Guardian.

As President Donald Trump turns 80 years old, an expert in politics and government sounded the alarm Sunday over what they say is making the president “even more dangerous,” and predicted that Americans had a “frightening” two years ahead of them.

Trump has faced growing scrutiny over what some critics argue are signs of his cognitive decline, including apparent spells of dozing off during cabinet meetings, increased instances of rambling during speeches and an unexplained MRI scan. The issue, argued Larry Jacobs, who heads the University of Minnesota’s Center for the Study of Politics and Governance, was that Trump's “limited toolkit” compared with other presidents made his alleged cognitive decline exponentially more “dangerous.”