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CNN's Scott Jennings was left momentarily speechless after host Sara Sidner challenged him to justify Donald Trump's attacks on a judge.

U.S. District judge Tanya Chutkan declined to temporarily block Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency from accessing sensitive government data across federal agencies, finding that Democratic state attorneys general had failed to show they would "suffer imminent, irreparable harm absent a temporary restraining order."

Four British women who have accused notorious influencer Andrew Tate of rape said Wednesday they were "concerned" by reports the US government was petitioning Romania to ease his travel restrictions.

American and British dual-citizen Tate faces several charges in Romania including trafficking of and sexual relations with minors, as well as money laundering and organizing a criminal group, all of which he denies.

Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman on Wednesday took a blowtorch to what he described as President Donald Trump's "depraved and stupid" plan to end Russia's three-year invasion of Ukraine.

Writing on his Substack page, Krugman explained that the "deal" Trump offered Ukraine was for it to hand over 50 percent of the revenue it generates from resource extraction in exchange for essentially nothing.

A conservative commentator compared Donald Trump's relationship with U.S. adversaries as "rival crime families," and said the president was remaking American foreign policy to fit his antiquated worldview.

U.S. and Kremlin officials met Tuesday in Saudi Arabia to discuss a deal to carve up Ukraine and its resources as part of an agreement to end Russia's invasion, but didn't include any Ukrainian representatives, and CNN commentator Jonah Goldberg said the president seems to view the world through an imperial lens.

Longtime Washington Post columnist David Ignatius was almost speechless on MSNBC on Wednesday morning after watching Donald Trump spew flagrant falsehoods about Russia's invasion of Ukraine while siding with Russian strongman Vladimir Putin.

Speaking in Florida on Tuesday, Trump told reporters, "This could have been settled very easily, a half-baked negotiator could have settled this years ago," before pressing for elections in Ukraine, falling in line with Putin's hope to depose President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

Speaking with "Morning Joe" co-host Joe Scarborough, Ignatius cut right to the chase with, "Yesterday was in many ways a shameful day for the United States."

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"As you just said, standing up to Russian aggression for many decades has been at the center of American foreign policy and at the center of our identity as a country," he continued. "Yesterday two big things happened. First, the United States in the meeting in Saudi Arabia normalized a regime headed by somebody who's been designated as a war criminal and all of the crimes of this war, the killing, the just brutal assault on Ukraine –– illegal, brutal assault –– was, in effect, washed away."

"Then to have that followed by President Trump in Florida with the shocking comment that the war was really the fault of the victim, the war was really the fault of Ukraine, 'You never should have started it?' I can't believe that a president of United States would have said something as factually wrong and insulting as that."

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U.S. President Donald Trump expanded his offensive against trading partners on Tuesday, threatening 25 percent tariffs on imported cars, and similar or higher duties on pharmaceuticals and semiconductors.

Trump has announced a broad range of levies on some of the biggest US trading partners since taking office in January, arguing that they will help tackle unfair practices -- and in some cases using the threats to influence policy.

Donald Trump's special envoy was in Kyiv Wednesday, saying he was there to "listen" to Kyiv's concerns, a day after the U.S. president tore into his Ukrainian counterpart in a surprise press conference.

Speaking on Tuesday, after Russian and U.S. officials met in Saudi Arabia for their first high-level talks in over three years without Ukraine taking part, Trump appeared to blame Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky for having "started" the war.

CNN panelists clashed over how long Donald Trump and his seeming co-president Elon Musk would remain in good graces, but they agreed that JD Vance had been sidelined after his election as vice president.

The pair appeared Tuesday night in an interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity, who reacted to their apparent chumminess by comparing them to "two brothers," but conservative commentator Jonah Goldberg predicted that Trump's MAGA base would force a crackup between the president and his billionaire benefactor.

Panama's government denied Tuesday that migrants deported by the United States who were seen holding up signs to hotel windows pleading for help were being held against their will.

Public Security Minister Frank Abrego said the migrants were not being "deprived of their freedom" while they await repatriation.

Donald Trump's attempt to blame Ukraine and its leaders for the Russian invasion during a press conference on Tuesday was torn apart on MSNBC on Wednesday morning as completely at odds with reality.

On Tuesday, the president, who has regularly heaped praise upon Russian President Vladimir Putin, told reporters that the leaders of Ukraine have no right to complain that they are being excluded from peace talks being headed by neophyte Secretary of State Marco Rubio with Russian officials.

As part of his comments, Trump insisted, "You know, they're upset about not having a seat. Well, they've had a seat for three years and a long time before that. This could have been settled very easily, a half-baked negotiator could have settled this years ago," before adding, "So when they're worried about not being seated, you mean somebody that should have gone in and made a deal a long time ago? And I think I have the power to end this war, and I think it's going very well."

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After sharing the clip from Trump's comments on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," co-host Joe Scarborough told his clearly appalled panel, "There's so many things wrong with that, I know you've got a fact check on it. I will say first of all, the idea that they could have just given away a little land to Vladimir Putin? Wrong."

"He [Putin] wanted Kyiv, he wanted to be in Kyiv in three days. He wanted Odessa. He wanted to rebuild the old Russian empire by seizing their capitol, Kyiv and Odessa," he continued. "So the idea that –– that is so factually inaccurate. There's not a single military historian, there's not a single person who's covered this war that would actually say that's accurate. But there's so many other things in. those statements that are just flat wrong factually."

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by Issam Ahmed with Daniel Lawler in Paris

An asteroid that could level a city now has a 3.1-percent chance of striking Earth in 2032, according to NASA data released Tuesday -- making it the most threatening space rock ever recorded by modern forecasting.

The American Prospect's Ryan Cooper has found himself utterly flabbergasted by the way that President Donald Trump and X owner Elon Musk are leading what he describes as "the dumbest imperial collapse in history."

In his latest piece, Cooper makes the case that the post-World War II American empire is "collapsing" as Trump has done "irreparable damage" to longtime alliances with nations ranging from Canada to South Korea to Denmark.

Colombia's President Gustavo Petro claimed Monday to have been the target of a plot to down his plane with missiles by "big mafias" irate at his government's attempts to hunt them down.

"They want to shoot a missile at my plane... not one, but two missiles. We know who they are," the South American country's first-ever leftist president told a police ceremony in Bogota.