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A federal judge warned President Donald Trump that he will face sanctions if he continues to disregard her orders in his $10 billion lawsuit against the BBC.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Enjolique Lett issued the warning Friday in a court order directing Trump to respond by Oct. 22 to the BBC’s request to force him to sit for a deposition.

The warning came after months of Trump resisting discovery of evidence on several fronts, court records show. Lett wrote that the BBC filed five motions on its own rather than joint motions because of Trump’s “disregard” of those rules....

A former Fox News Radio host accused the network of running a “professional hit job” to take out White House press secretary Katie Zacharia.

Todd Starnes made the charge Friday morning in a post on X that pointed to the network’s own interviews with Zacharia on Thursday night and Friday morning. Starnes worked for Fox News Radio until 2019, when the network declined to renew his contract, The Hill reported at the time.

“Has Katie figured out that Fox News was assigned the task of taking her out as press secretary? That was a professional hit job last night and this morning,” Starnes wrote....

White House press secretary Katie Zacharia called her bar exam results “somewhat inconsequential” while defiantly insisting that she can still call herself a “lawyer.”

Zacharia made the remarks Thursday in an interview on “Human Events Daily,” the Real America’s Voice show hosted by Jack Posobiec, days after she started the job.

A senior administration official told NBC News that Zacharia did not pass the California bar exam, which The Wall Street Journal first reported. NBC News found no evidence that she is licensed to practice law in any state....

New press secretary Katie Zacharia had a rough start at the White House this week as she landed in a small corner office while President Donald Trump’s enforcer kept the large office press secretaries traditionally use.

Steven Cheung, the White House communications director, is “the current occupant of the large office in the White House West Wing traditionally occupied by the press secretary,” CBS News reporter Jennifer Jacobs wrote on X Tuesday.

Zacharia “is in the small corner office in that suite of rooms,” Jacobs wrote. The arrangement added to a tough first day for Zacharia, who now shares that suite with an aide known for insulting reporters....

President Donald Trump’s top broadcast regulator ordered an investigation, CNN reported, after a Republican senator called an ABC News story about venture capitalist Donald Trump Jr. a “hit job.”

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr directed his agency to open the probe after receiving the senator’s letter, an FCC source told CNN media reporter Brian Stelter, who posted the news on X on Monday.

Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-OH) posted that letter on Saturday, urging Carr to open a formal investigation into the network over its since-corrected report on investments tied to the president’s sons....

Supporters of the White House barely showed up in replies to its latest post about election fraud, as critics claimed its “bots” vanished after drones hit a Russian data center.

“Under President Trump, criminals who disrupt the integrity of America’s elections will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law,” the White House wrote on X Monday.

The post shared a Justice Department announcement of charges against 16 people accused of illegal voting, fraudulent voter registration and related election crimes....

In a bid to navigate the “biggest single mistake” of President Donald Trump’s two terms in office, the president has sparked a new “complete catastrophe,” a panel of journalists argued Monday on MS NOW.

“This war with Iran is going to prove to be the biggest single mistake of Donald Trump's two terms in office,” said David Rohde, MS NOW senior national security reporter. “The Saudi Arabian government could fall there — it's a disaster for this country and it's extraordinary what's happening, just the stakes here every day.”

A cascade of attacks has erupted across the Middle East in recent days amid Trump’s deeply unpopular war against Iran, a conflict that has kept U.S. fuel prices elevated. However, Trump has increasingly blamed the Russo-Ukrainian war for elevated fuel prices....

President Donald Trump is already displaying signs that he's a depressed old man, and one author predicted that those signs could be magnified if the November midterms go the way the polls currently suggest.

Kurt Anderson, founder of Spy Magazine, told Joanna Coles on a new episode of "The Daily Beast Podcast" that Trump's recent statements about his devoted aide, Natalie Harp, suggest he's "manifestly miserable." Trump told reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan in an interview for their book "Regime Change" that "All of you will go off and make money ... she'll never leave me," referring to Harp.

Anderson predicted that if Republicans get trounced in the midterms, as polls suggest they might, then Trump's depression might begin to spiral. ...

A clinical and forensic psychologist breaking down President Donald Trump’s weekend rally in Tennessee flagged a moment he called “a really wild thing to watch”: Trump told the crowd he could say the stupidest things and they’d clap, and they did.

Dr. John Paul Garrison, known online as “Dr. G” to more than half a million YouTube subscribers, broke down the Clarksville event in a new video. Trump appeared Saturday at the F&M Bank Arena to campaign for Tennessee Republicans, including Sen. Marsha Blackburn, the GOP nominee for governor, ahead of the Nov. 3 midterms.

“When you stand up here, it’s just like the love. I could say the stupidest things and you clap,” Trump told the audience, which cheered. “You know, I love you so. That’s true.”...