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"What a stupid question," President Donald Trump snapped at a female reporter aboard Air Force One on Monday, then said it again.

Trump was flying to Waterford Township, Michigan, when a reporter asked why he wanted the Senate to stay in Washington instead of heading home to campaign ahead of November's midterm elections.

Pro-MAGA Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS) complained about facing a "purity test" from angry Republican voters, including his own parents, who he says were indoctrinated by watching Fox News.

Marshall, a top backer of President Donald Trump, is a Kansas senator who voted to reject the 2020 election results and is seeking re-election this fall.

A protester seized the microphone from Madison Police Chief John Patterson, forcing the chief from his own podium at a press conference about a fatal police shooting.

Protester Carlos Stanton, who said he represents All Power to All People — an organization he referred to as APTAP — took control of the lectern Thursday at Madison Police Department headquarters in Madison, Wisconsin.

Sen. Steve Daines (R-MT) sparked ridicule Thursday after citing a dinner at Vice President JD Vance's home as evidence he was meeting his oversight responsibilities on the Iran war.

During a Thursday broadcast on Fox Business, host Stuart Varney asked whether the Senate should step in and exercise more control over the conflict.

Late-night comedian Jimmy Kimmel hit CBS with backhanded praise after its canning of Stephen Colbert sent ratings at its rival network soaring.

In an interview with Variety, Kimmel — whose show airs on ABC — credited an almost 20 percent increase in viewership to the head honchos at CBS who pulled the plug on Colbert's show to gain favor with President Donald Trump.

"The ratings are very strong, which we are very grateful to CBS for their wisdom," he sarcastically told Variety. "We were doing pretty well before that, but that really helped."

President Donald Trump was repeatedly beaten by special counsel Jack Smith in hidden court proceedings, and now the president's $10 billion BBC lawsuit threatens to backfire and expose how it was done.

The BBC filed a reply brief Wednesday in federal court in Washington, pressing Chief Judge James Boasberg to unseal rulings from the Smith grand jury probe in which courts rejected Trump's attempts to shield witnesses from testifying under presidential executive privilege.

Republican campaign operatives are bracing for catastrophe, warning that President Donald Trump's next move could cost the party its congressional majorities and "ruin his second term," reports show.

Trump has only promised more war after his ceasefire with Iran collapsed, and U.S. deaths have continued to mount — 18 service members killed since the fighting began in February, the Washington Post reported.

Contract negotiations with one of CNN's highest-profile reporters broke down once again over fears that the pending Paramount + merger will result in controversial CBS News head Bari Weiss assuming the same duties at the cable news network, a new report shows.

Clarissa Ward, CNN's chief international correspondent, was in active contract negotiations this spring to extend her tenure at the network. CNN leadership, under Mark Thompson, was eager to secure the star journalist with a multiyear deal that would keep her on staff for years to come.

But those talks have reportedly collapsed. Instead of signing a long-term agreement, Ward settled for a one-year extension in April—a dramatic shortening of what CNN had hoped to achieve, media watchdog Status reported.

The impasse centered on a single concern, according to Status: what happens to CNN if Weiss gains editorial control following Paramount's $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery.

Ward, a former CBS News correspondent who contributed to "60 Minutes," has watched closely as Weiss dismantled the operations at CBS News that has included a purge of key personnel and made national headlines, according to the report.

A last-minute decision by CBS News to cover Donald Trump's much-maligned address to the nation last Thursday came as a surprise to staffers who had been informed it would only be on the streaming platform.

Now there are questions about what changed after the White House reached out to the news organization headed by Trump-friendly Bari Weiss, according to Oliver Darcy of the media-focused site Status.

A mass media company aligned with President Donald Trump faces over $600 million in penalties after a federal judge halted its $110 billion bid to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery and CNN.

U.S. District Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín issued the emergency order against Paramount Skydance on Monday, siding with a coalition of 12 states that sued to stop the deal a week earlier.