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President Trump made a tactless joke about Pearl Harbor during an Oval Office appearance with Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, drawing audible gasps from the room.

When asked why he hadn't alerted allies about the Iran strikes, Trump justified the secrecy by saying, "Who knows better about surprise than Japan? Why didn't you tell me about Pearl Harbor?" The remark sparked immediate backlash on social media.

Jeffrey Epstein's ties with Missouri's boarding school network emerged in newly released files showing his August 2018 correspondence with his "island manager," Ann Rodriquez, regarding school placement for her teenage daughter.

Among the five options listed was Wings of Faith Academy, a private Christian boarding school for "troubled girls" accused of severe physical and psychological abuse.

Republican senators are prepared to approve Senator Markwayne Mullin as Homeland Security Secretary despite privately acknowledging Senator Rand Paul's "vicious" attack on him during his confirmation hearing was not unfounded.

Paul, the Homeland Security Committee chair, highlighted Mullin's past comments calling him a "freaking snake" and his acknowledgment of understanding why Paul's neighbor attacked him in 2017, breaking Paul's ribs.

Representative Dan Goldman revealed an unredacted 2009 email on the House floor Wednesday contradicting President Donald Trump's longstanding claims about Jeffrey Epstein's relationship to Mar-a-Lago.

Trump's attorney Alan Garten stated Epstein was "never asked to leave" the club, directly contradicting Trump's public assertions that he kicked Epstein out.

On Wednesday, former Republican operative Rick Wilson warned President Donald Trump in a Substack post that he faces "misery, humiliation, and shame" as his approval ratings plummet, gas prices surge, and the Iran war continues.

Wilson, co-founder of anti-Trump organization The Lincoln Project, argued that impeachment is no longer Trump's greatest threat; congressional oversight is.

Sen. Rand Paul played a video compilation during Sen. Markwayne Mullin's confirmation hearing for Department of Homeland Security secretary on Wednesday, featuring clips of Mullin exhibiting "low impulse control" and "machismo" threats of violence.

Mullin, Trump's nominee to replace ousted Secretary Kristi Noem, refused to apologize for past remarks calling Paul a "freaking snake" and claiming to understand why someone assaulted him in 2017.

Sen. Jon Ossoff pressed National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard on Wednesday during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing to answer whether the intelligence community assessed an imminent nuclear threat from Iran, justifying the military strikes.

Gabbard repeatedly dodged the question, claiming it's the president's responsibility to determine imminent threats based on intelligence inputs.

Anthropic abruptly shut down its AI systems used by the Department of Health and Human Services with only hours' notice, throwing Trump administration staff into chaos.

Employees lost access to chats, coding projects, and work built on Anthropic's Claude AI model with no time to save or transfer their work.

Democratic strategist James Carville predicted at Politicon that President Donald Trump will resign within a year, stating, "I think he's just going to quit next year by this time."

Carville argued Trump's position has become untenable because Democrats control the House and Senate, making him irrelevant.

On Tuesday, President Donald Trump's administration reversed course on Iranian threats to U.S. homeland security after being called out for contradictory messaging.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt previously claimed ABC News provided false information about Iran's drone attack capabilities, posting "No such threat from Iran to our homeland exists, and it never did." However, the White House Rapid Response account subsequently clarified there was no drone threat to the West Coast while reaffirming the nuclear threat from Iran's regime.

This past February an anonymous individual claiming to have broken into Jeffrey Epstein's 7,600-acre Zorro Ranch in New Mexico provided Democratic state lawmakers with photographs and evidence, according to Justice Department files obtained by Al Jazeera.

The tipster emailed state Representatives Andrea Romero and Marianna Anaya with disturbing findings from summer 2020, stating "In the summer of 2020, I orchestrated a break-in at the El Zorro property," they continue, "I realize this might be illegal, but men like that don't deserve the protection of the law."

Peter Ticktin, an 80-year-old South Florida lawyer and Donald Trump's former New York Military Academy classmate, has advised the president to issue an executive order seizing control of November's midterm elections.

Ticktin claims foreign interference constitutes an election emergency justifying presidential action. He has drafted an executive order outline and circulated a 17-page memo in conservative circles proposing the takeover, though he denies writing the longer document. Ticktin promotes election conspiracy theories spanning Venezuela, Michigan, and China, claiming that a Belgrade data center's disabling in 2024 enabled Trump's win.

The Republican-led House Oversight Committee subpoenaed Attorney General Pam Bondi on Tuesday. Her deposition is scheduled for April 14, where she will be questioned on the DOJ's handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files and her compliance with the Epstein Files Transparency Act signed by President Donald Trump in November.

The subpoena passed with support from all Democrats and five Republicans.