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President Donald Trump's handpicked chairman of the Republican National Committee predicted a dismal outcome for the GOP in next year's midterm elections.

RNC chairman Joe Gruters tried to set expectations for 2026 as low as possible, according to The Bulwark's Andrew Egger, after Democrats overperformed in special elections across the country and Republican confidence begins to droop.

The National Trust for Historic Preservation filed a lawsuit Friday to stop President Donald Trump's White House ballroom project.

Historic preservationists had attempted to stop the president from rapidly demolishing the White House’s East Wing for the project and asked him to wait for federal review panels and public comment, but he went ahead and tore down the annex over a week in October, and now the group charged by Congress with helping to preserve historic buildings has asked a judge to block construction, reported the Washington Post.

Protesters in Minnesota tracked Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to an Edina hotel, where they engaged in loud demonstrations to make sleeping uncomfortable.

"They're terrorizing our neighbors by day and retreats in their cushy hotel rooms at night!" one protester shouted on Thursday night amid drums and loud music outside a Hilton hotel.

CNN’s Jeff Zeleny was visibly stunned on-air after host Jake Tapper broke news that Indiana Republicans had overwhelmingly rejected a Trump-backed push to redraw the state’s election map ahead of the 2026 midterms. Despite holding a dominant 40–10 majority in the state Senate, 21 Republicans crossed over to join Democrats to kill the proposal — a sharp rebuke to Trump’s pressure campaign and a public call-out he made of Senate leader Rod Bray on Truth Social.

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A collection of Jeffrey Epstein photos released by Democrats on Friday contained one of Donald Trump with an assortment of women which is already raising questions about the president and his relationship with the notorious sex trafficker.

None of them good ones.

Donald Trump triggered a wave of online backlash Thursday night after referring to his son Barron as “her boy” while praising Melania’s latest initiative, prompting critics to call the comment bizarre and unsettling. Trump told the crowd Melania “has a wonderful boy” and is “very proud of her boy,” language many noted seemed to distance him from his own son.

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Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA), the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, revealed that lawmakers had unreleased Jeffrey Epstein photos that are "incredibly disturbing."

Garcia spoke to reporters after the committee released a trove of photos that included prominent figures like President Donald Trump and former President Bill Clinton.