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Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman addressed whether it was "awkward" after President Donald Trump endorsed him as his second choice for New York governor.

During a Monday press conference, Blakeman expressed "respect" for Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) after she dropped out of the race for governor.

The Trump administration is expected to suspend leases for offshore wind farms after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth claimed they interfered with military radar.

"Today we're sending notifications to the five large offshore wind projects that are under construction that they're going to be, their leases will be suspended due to national security concerns," Energy Secretary Doug Burgum told Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo on Monday. "But we've completed the work that President Trump has asked us to do."

Hosts of the pro-MAGA Real America's Voice network agreed that the Kennedy Center should not be renamed until President Donald Trump is dead.

Hosts Emily Finn, Gina Loudon, Terrance Bates, and David Brody discussed the name change on Monday.

President Donald Trump declined to take questions just hours after an attorney with the Department of Justice said that the administration would defy a law requiring all of the files on Jeffrey Epstein to be released by the end of the day.

Trump ended a Friday meeting with pharmaceutical CEOs by announcing that he had suddenly had an idea to meet with health insurance companies. The president insisted that he didn't want to "soil" his idea by taking questions from the media.

A crowd at Turning Point USA's AmFest event booed slain Hollywood director Rob Reiner after MAGA influencer Steve Bannon said liberals believed he had a larger impact on culture than Charlie Kirk.

"Just I want to say one thing," Bannon told the AmFest crowd on Friday. "You know, the Rob Reiner — The situation is obviously a tragedy. The president's given you his unique take on things about that situation."

Despite a law requiring the release of the Epstein files by Friday, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche insisted that the Department of Justice would not release "several hundred thousand" of the documents.

"So today is the 30 days when I expect that we're going to release several hundred thousand documents today," Blanche told Fox News on Friday. "And just so everybody appreciates, President Trump has said, for years, that he wants full transparency, and he wants the Department of Justice to release everything that we can with respect to this investigation in cases."

Fox News host John Roberts told White House aide Howard Lutnick that President Donald Trump's claim of cutting drug prices by 600% was "mathematically impossible."

"I'm going to ask you about the reality versus the perception," Roberts said the day after Trump's speech to the nation. "Because some of them were just mathematically impossible."

CBS News staffers were spared an end-of-the-year all-hands meeting with the head of the news division after a much-hyped town hall with Erika Kirk, widow of TPUSA founder Charlie Kirk, produced poor ratings and criticism from a conservative news outlet.

Bari Weiss, the former New York Times opinion writer appointed by Donald Trump-friendly Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison to oversee CBS News editorial direction, personally hosted the town hall with Kirk on Saturday night. Her decision to conduct the interview herself, rather than utilize existing CBS on-air journalists, initially drew skepticism.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent reportedly left a restaurant in Washington, D.C. after a woman heckled him.

NOTUS reporter Daniella Diaz said she was dining in Adam's Morgan on Wednesday when she noticed the woman heckling Bessent.

MAGA conspiracy theorist Candace Owens came out of her meeting with Erika Kirk with questions about FBI Director Kash Patel.

Following the meeting with the wife of the slain Turning Point USA founder, Owens said she would focus on Patel during her Wednesday show.

President Donald Trump threatened NBC's broadcast license days after the network aired an interview with Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA).

"Raphael Warnock was on Meet the Fake Press with a one sided and very biased Kristen Welker as the Host(ess!)" Trump ranted on Wednesday. "Warnock spent the entire show using Religion to try and divide the Country! If a Republican, in particular ME, made those statements, it would be FRONT PAGE NEWS."

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) insisted he had not lost control over the House after Republicans signed onto a Democratic discharge petition to force a vote on extending health care subsidies.

"Look, we're working through very complex issues as we do here all the time," Johnson told reporters on Wednesday, downplaying the discharge petition. "Everybody's working towards ideas. We're keeping the conversation going. That's what happened."