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CNN's Abby Phillip confessed on a recent podcast that she is aware Scott Jennings, one of the network's most brazen Trump-defenders, is broadly reviled by the audience, The Daily Beast reported on Wednesday.

“I know that folks really dislike Scott for his views,” Phillip told Kara Swisher on the Pivot. “But I would say that there are views that you don’t like, that you think are unfounded, but that are pretty widely shared. I think Scott falls into that category.”

The voting machine company Smartmatic submitted a new court filing this week in its lawsuit against Fox News, calling for the judge to issue a quick ruling in their favor. The details in the filing, however, reveal previously unknown comments from top Fox hosts and allies of Donald Trump who never believed his 2020 election conspiracies.

Before going to work for the Trump administration this month, Jeanine Pirro was claiming that software from Dominion was known to switch votes. Meanwhile, according to Smartmatic's filing, Pirro didn't buy the election fraud claims.

Judge Richard Berman issued a blistering rebuke of President Donald Trump's administration for refusing to release more than 100,000 pages of documents it has from the investigation into Jeffrey Epstein. One legal expert is calling it "quite a response."

In a ruling on Wednesday, Berman blasted, "The Government's 100,000 pages of Epstein files and materials dwarf the 70-odd pages of Epstein grand jury materials."

Democratic Texas state Rep. Nicole Collier, who was locked in the House chamber after refusing a police escort, faced a felony threat for taking a call about redistricting in the facility's bathroom.

The incident occurred on Wednesday during a Democratic National Committee (DNC) call with Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) and California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D).

President Donald Trump's deputy chief of staff, Stephen Miller, was on hand with Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on Wednesday when the group visited a Washington, D.C. Shake Shack.

A crowd of protesters and travelers shouted up at the second floor of the Union Station balcony as National Guard soldiers surrounded them.

A business executive trying to resurrect a classic retail brand proclaimed Wednesday that they would not open any brick-and-mortar retail stores in California — and Gov. Gavin Newsom hit back with a snappy retort.

Marcus Lemonis, a businessman and philanthropist who has hosted the CNBC show "The Profit," is in the process of creating a physical retail presence for Bed, Bath & Beyond. The original home goods retail chain bearing that name, after struggling for years to compete with Amazon, filed for bankruptcy and liquidated in 2023. Overstock.com proceeded to buy the intellectual property, create a web-only version of the store, then take an ownership stake in another chain of home goods retailers, which has opened a physical Bed, Bath & Beyond location in Nashville with plans to expand or convert more locations.

Another judge who presided over a Jeffrey Epstein grand jury ruled on Wednesday not to release the court materials, and did so in a blistering takedown of the Justice Department.

Judge Richard Berman explained, "The Government's 100,000 pages of Epstein files and materials dwarf the 70-odd pages of Epstein grand jury materials."

First lady Melania Trump came under fire last week for a letter she penned urging Russian President Vladimir Putin to protect “children,” a letter critics panned as “pathetic” and “performative.”

After the letters’ content was published, however, some critics are now calling into question whether she even wrote the letter herself.

A federal judge in Texas dealt a major blow to a Republican-led effort that seeks to require public schools to post the Ten Commandments.

Judge Fred Biery issued a preliminary injunction on Wednesday blocking Senate Bill 10, which would place a 16-by-20-inch poster or framed English copy of the Ten Commandments in every classroom. Gov. Greg Abbott signed the bill into law in June.

Donald Trump displayed a breathtaking lack of understanding about the Cold War during his recent summit with Vladimir Putin — and left his own advisors “basically helpless” as he waved away their attempts to interject.

That’s according to the president’s biographer, who spoke to the Daily Beast on Wednesday.

A Democratic advocacy group is trolling Vice President JD Vance with a mural showing the viral image of his face distorted to look like a giant baby.

FUBAR PAC, a Democratic group working to win back the House of Representatives in next year's election, plastered the bizarre image on an exterior wall at Sulimay's Restaurant in Philadelphia, reported Philly Voice.