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'Total malpractice': Unprepared Trump negotiators stun ex-White House official

A former White House official who handled Iran's nuclear file told The New Yorker he was appalled by how little Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff had prepared for the Geneva talks that came just before the U.S. went to war with Iran.

The criticism appears in a long profile of President Donald Trump's son-in-law by Pulitzer Prize-winning staff writer Dexter Filkins, published this week. The magazine casts Kushner as a Washington operator who has turned government service into a personal fortune.

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Melania Trump breaks silence on scandal embroiling Don Jr's wedding

First Lady Melania Trump is distancing herself from reports that a Russian oligarch helped pay for Donald Trump Jr. and Bettina Anderson's lavish wedding celebration.

The first lady's representatives issued a statement to The Daily Mail in response to reports that Trump Jr. and Bettina Anderson's lavish wedding celebration was paid for in part by Russian oligarch Umar Kremlev, a close associate of Russian President Vladimir Putin, who paid hundreds of thousands of dollars toward the celebration.

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Bizarre new details emerge about would-be Trump assassin

Newly disclosed FBI documents describe years of increasingly strange behavior by Thomas Matthew Crooks, the gunman who tried to assassinate President Donald Trump before he was killed by Secret Service fire.

The records, provided to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) as part of his ongoing inquiry into the July 2024 shooting in Butler, Pennsylvania, include FBI interviews with Crooks' father, Matthew, and were reviewed by the New York Post.

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Trump whisperer melts down at return of 'brain dead' McConnell: 'Wheeling a corpse around'

Former Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's return to the Senate floor was greeted with a great deal of relief by his colleagues, but not by one person who seems to have President Donald Trump’s ear.

The Kentucky Republican, who was already slated to step down from the seat he has held since 1985, was wheeled onto the floor of the Senate, where he last voted on June 11 before he suffered a medical emergency involving a fall at his home.

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Republicans tee up effort to 'turbocharge' Trump family's 'bottomless corruption': report

Republicans are gearing up to vote Tuesday on a major bill that experts warn could “turbocharge” the “bottomless crypto corruption” President Donald Trump’s family has been accused of engaging in, Zeteo reported Tuesday.

The U.S. Senate is poised to vote Tuesday on the Clarity Act, a bill designed to regulate the growing cryptocurrency sector — an industry that has made the Trump family more than $1.4 billion in 2025 alone, a windfall critics have argued amounts to "corruption." The CLARITY Act’s critics, however, say the bill would fail to actually restrain the Trump family’s crypto dealings, and in some cases, could actively enable them.

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Demon-obsessed Trump official called out by colleagues: 'Totally weird stuff'

The second-most powerful official at the State Department put the brakes on a U.S. exhibit featuring a bull statue because he worried it might evoke Baal, a pagan god some associate with satanic child sacrifice.

Axios reported that Deputy Secretary of State Chris Landau emailed staffers Aug. 19 about the "Golden Bull imagery" planned for an international exposition next year in Belgrade, Serbia, writing that he had researched the topic online and didn't want it "to become a distraction."

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Scheme to turn blue wave into tsunami includes a candidate who isn't even a Dem

With less than 50 days until Election Day, House Democrats are adding new candidates to their top recruits list — including one who isn't actually a Democrat.

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee announced Tuesday that it is expanding its "Red to Blue" program, which offers candidates strategic guidance, staffing and fundraising help, to include Bill Hill, an independent running for Alaska's at-large House seat, along with Michigan Democrat Will Lawrence and Wisconsin Democrat Mitchell Berman, reported MS NOW.

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'Ugly' portrait of Trump secretly painted by George W. Bush — who won't let anyone see it

George W. Bush is reportedly sitting on a humiliating portrait of Donald Trump — one he painted himself and refuses to let anyone see — even as he stays publicly silent about the current president, according to a blistering new book.

Author Jacob Weisberg, the former Slate editor and CEO who once compiled the bestselling "Bushisms" books mocking the 43rd president's verbal gaffes, is now "taking aim at Bush's silence" in his latest work, "Profiles in Cowardice: A Study of Collaboration in the Trump Era." In an interview with The Intelligencer's Michael Calderone promoting the book, Weisberg said Bush belongs among Trump's enablers — not because of anything he's done, but because of everything he hasn't said.

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Trump humiliated as his enemies secure 'almost unprecedented achievement'

A lightning offensive by Iranian-backed Houthi militants along Yemen's Red Sea coast has handed Tehran fresh leverage in its economic standoff with Washington, giving Iran the ability to threaten a chokepoint even busier than the Strait of Hormuz.

The Houthis swept through the towns of Mokha and Dhabab last week and seized the island of Perim, cementing control over the Bab al-Mandab Strait at the mouth of the Red Sea, known as the "Gate of Tears," and notching a stunning strategic victory, experts told the Washington Post.

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Pentagon insider smears antifascists who unmasked Nazi terrorists later convicted by DOJ

Days after the State Department designated an Italian tech group as a terrorist entity, thousands of antifascist sites on its web hosting service wound up on a searchable online research tool described as an “anonymous blog network that quietly powers antifa.”

Jennica Pounds, a Pentagon special government employee better known as Data Republican and the creator of the search tool, described the antifascist sites that she purported to expose as “a whole elaborate doxxing scheme that’s set to ruin people’s lives.”

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'Um what?' McConnell return comes with eyebrow-raising condition flagged as 'bigger' story

Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) finally returned to the Senate on Monday after his nearly three-month health-related absence, though his return reportedly came with a strange condition attached.

McConnell has been absent from the Senate since his hospitalization in June, which the Kentucky Republican claimed was due to a fall. According to reports, he was found unconscious in his home and administered CPR, leading some to speculate his condition was far more severe than initially claimed.

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Top red state election official altered votes and deceived a judge: fired watchdog

A former top elections official is accusing Missouri Secretary of State Denny Hoskins of changing local election results, trying to deceive a federal judge in a voting administration case and illegally using state funds to influence a St. Louis County election.

Nick La Strada, whom Hoskins fired as director of election integrity in May, made the allegations in a lawsuit filed Monday in Cole County. His attorneys said he sued because he could not keep quiet about the way Hoskins is running Missouri elections.

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Republicans sense MAGA dam breaking but 'they're afraid of looking like idiots': report

Republicans in Kansas and well beyond fear voters are quietly souring on President Donald Trump's economic record and foreign policy, but are staying publicly loyal until enough of them decide the MAGA dam has finally broken, according to a report Tuesday.

Kris Clark, a 40-year-old software engineer in Olathe, the state's fourth largest city, says he can sense something shifting among the most devoted Republicans in his own life, but so far they're staying quiet about their change of heart, reported the Washington Post.

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