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The Wall Street Journal editorial board trashed President Donald Trump on Wednesday for his recent releases of "meme coin" cryptocurrencies themed after him — a development even many crypto enthusiasts are denouncing as a scam.

This comes after the conservative-leaning editorial board already laid into Trump over his mass pardons of January 6 rioters who assaulted police officers, which was one of his very first acts after being sworn back in as president.

A key Cabinet pick for President Donald Trump appears to be in "jeopardy," a Republican senator warned Wednesday.

Former Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard was nominated for the position of director of national intelligence but has faced swirling questions over her controversial stances, such as her warmth towards Russian President Vladimir Putin and longtime Syrian ruler Bashar al-Assad, as well as her distinct lack of background in intelligence.

President Donald Trump is already governing as if the law doesn't apply to him, former federal prosecutor John Flannery told MSNBC's Ari Melber on Wednesday evening.

"Your thoughts on what we just saw there and these, these pardons of people convicted of sedition against the United States?" asked Melber, himself an attorney.

Federal employees on Wednesday were put on notice by President Donald Trump’s administration that “adverse consequences” would follow if they failed to report coworkers who refused to sweep out diversity, equity and inclusion policies from their department.

The threat was sent out to tens of thousands of government workers across federal agencies, warning that the White House would not allow any efforts to “disguise these programs by using coded or imprecise language,” The New York Times reported.

A meteorologist has reportedly been fired from the Milwaukee-based CBS58 station after criticizing tech billionaire Elon Musk for making a gesture at a Donald Trump inauguration rally that drew comparisons to a Nazi salute.

Musk, who made the gesture twice while thanking Trump's supporters, has denied it was a Nazi salute; however, some Jewish lawmakers have sounded the alarm, and some neo-Nazi groups are celebrating what they see as a shout-out to them.

Haiti's capital could become overrun by criminal gangs if the international community does not step up aid to a UN-backed security mission there, United Nations chief Antonio Guterres warned in a report Wednesday.

More money, equipment and personnel are needed for the Kenya-led international force, Guterres said, adding that any further delays risk the "catastrophic" collapse of Haiti's security institutions and "could allow gangs to overrun the entire metropolitan area" of Port-au-Prince.

by Leon Bruneau

Following an executive order signed Monday hours after Trump took office, "all previously scheduled travel of refugees to the United States is being canceled," said a State Department email to groups working with new arrivals.

For years, as disputes over names on the map riled up nationalist passions in several parts of the world, US policymakers have watched warily, trying to stay out or to quietly encourage peace.

Suddenly, the United States has gone from a reluctant arbiter to a nomenclature belligerent, as President Donald Trump declared that the Gulf of Mexico will henceforth be called the "Gulf of America."

The 17-year-old who killed a female student at a high school in Nashville before taking his own life was an African-American Reserve Officers' Training Corp member who hated Black people and identified as involuntarily celibate, according to a manifesto apparently posted by him online.

A document outlining his views was posted to the X account of the shooter, Solomon Henderson, along with a photo of a handgun in a backpack that appears to have been taken in a bathroom before he walked into the cafeteria at Antioch High School and opened fire around 11 a.m. Central Time. Henderson’s X account was still active, with the link at the time of publication.

by Frederic J. BROWN

Ferocious flames were devouring hillsides near Castaic Lake, spreading rapidly to cover more than 5,000 acres (2,000 hectares) in just a few hours.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez took to the House floor on Wednesday to denounce the Laken Riley Act, the bill sailing through Congress on the support of the GOP and a small handful of Democrats that would require mandatory detention of immigrants for certain theft-related crimes.

When her time expired, another lawmaker tried to shut her down — except one of her colleagues jumped in to let her finish.

The country’s agricultural sector is in full-blown panic mode as President Donald Trump’s long-promised mass deportations are starting to become a reality in farming communities across the United States.

And the ripple effect could soon hit supermarkets, as the chaos surrounding Trump’s strict immigration policies – which already include stepped-up ICE raids – is already threatening to send food prices soaring before long, according to a report in The New Republic.