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To defeat the Trump administration's dismantling of the civil service, wrote Mary Harris for Slate, there's a break-glass solution that is difficult and legally risky — but could turn up the heat on the president: a massive strike by federal workers, suspending the public sector.

"Like a lot of people, I see the president’s self-coup and think: Is now the time folks hit the streets?" wrote Harris, whose husband was a recent casualty of Trump's move to dismantle the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols chastised President Donald Trump's administration, saying that what has happened at USAID has created a "mess."

Politico legal reporter Kyle Cheney wrote Wednesday that it became clear in court that the administration had no idea what is happening with USAID employees who were abandoned abroad after it conducted mass firings.

The White House's official social media account on the X platform posted an image of President Donald Trump wearing a crown and referred to him as "king."

The Wednesday social media post came after Trump shared a message on Truth Social, in which he also called himself king.

A Russian nationalist whose ideology influenced Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine gloated as he saw his dream nearing fruition.

High-ranking U.S. and Russian officials cut out Ukrainian representatives as they discussed plans to carve up the war-torn nation and wind down the invasion. Russian intellectual Aleksandr Dugin – who has been described as Putin's brain – celebrated as both President Donald Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance publicly threatened Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky to accept the terms without complaint.

Political and legal analysts were shocked to see President Donald Trump declare himself the king of the United States.

'Long live the king!" he blared in a Truth Social as he gloated about killing a congestion pricing system in New York City.

CNN's Brianna Keilar and Jim Sciutto on Wednesday noted an alarming trend in President Donald Trump's rhetoric, which they said was sounding more and more like that of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

After Keilar read Trump's social media post from earlier in the day when he threatened Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and accused him of being a "dictator," she stated flatly that "Trump sounds like Putin."

President Donald Trump referred to himself as "king" as he celebrated his decision to pull approvals for congestion pricing on New York City transportation Wednesday.

"New York State's congestion pricing plan is a slap in the face to working class Americans and small business owners," Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said in a statement, blasting the program as "backwards and unfair."

A rant by Donald Trump on his Truth Social platform attacking President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of the Ukraine as a "dictator" was on the receiving end of a barrage of criticism on social media on Wednesday morning.

An overnight comment by the leader of Ukraine who stated, "Unfortunately, President Trump, with all due respect to him as the leader of a nation that we greatly respect... is living in this disinformation bubble," appears to have gotten under The U.S. president's skin, and led to a diatribe where Trump ranted, among other things, "A Dictator without Elections, Zelenskyy better move fast or he is not going to have a Country left. In the meantime, we are successfully negotiating an end to the War with Russia, something all admit only 'TRUMP,' and the Trump Administration, can do."

Vice President J.D. Vance warned Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky to keep his mouth shut about his disagreements with U.S. President Donald Trump as he considers plans to end Russia's invasion.

The vice president gave an interview to British right-wing influencer Raheem Kassam, editor-in-chief of The National Pulse, and urged Zelensky, whom he met with last week, not to publicly criticize Trump as the U.S. and Russia draw up plans for Ukraine — without that beleaguered nation's representatives being present.

Syria's tiny Jewish community said they held their first group prayer in decades Wednesday, in a synagogue in Damascus's Old City, expressing joy at the long-awaited return to public worship.

In the Faranj synagogue, Syrian-American Rabbi Yusuf Hamra led the prayer for the first time since arriving this week from the United States, where he has lived since the 1990s.

President Donald Trump blew up the U.S. Senate's budget bill on Wednesday — and the Republican Senate leadership had no idea it was coming, according to a report.

According to NBC News' Ryan Nobles, Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) said he "had no idea that Donald Trump was planning to blow this process up via his social media this morning. It was news to him when he saw the president's position on this."