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Hosts for one of the most-watched daytime news shows were recently asked to back off from criticizing President Donald Trump, according to a new report.

The Daily Beast reported Wednesday that both ABC News president Almin Karamehmedovic and Disney CEO Bob Iger communicated to the hosts of "The View" that their political coverage should be toned down in favor of softer, more celebrity-focused segments. The Beast cited unnamed sources who confided that the hosts didn't take kindly to the suggestion, with co-host Ana Navarro pointing out that a major sector of their audience watches them for political analysis.

The conservative Wall Street Journal scorched House Republicans on Wednesday for their ongoing battle over raising the cap on the state and local tax deduction (SALT), which lets mostly wealthier households offset the cost of what they've paid in certain high-tax states.

Broadly, a number of swing-district Republicans in Democratic-controlled states, particularly New York, are demanding the SALT cap be much higher than GOP leadership's initial offer of increasing it from $10,000 to $30,000. The process is starting to frustrate even President Donald Trump, who told one of the most outspoken SALT rebels, Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY), to just "drop it."

House Republicans released amendments Wednesday night about their massive megabill, and a slew of name changes caught the eyes of critics, who likened the move to cult-like behavior.

The first page of the list of amendments included the following language: "Page 10, in the item relating to section 110115, strike 'MAGA' and insert 'Trump'."

A congressionally-backed U.S. nonprofit institute has regained access to its headquarters after a federal judge declared "null and void" the seizure of the property by tech billionaire Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency task force, CBS News reported on Wednesday evening.

The new developments for the U.S. Institute of Peace "happened in the wake of U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell's ruling on Monday that the takeover of USIP was 'unlawful' and conducted by 'illegitimately-installed leaders,'" said the report. "Howell further ruled that the action was 'null and void.' The judge ruled after USIP's leaders sued the government."

Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC) was on the receiving end of a brutal attack from a Democratic colleague who hurled in her face the number of constituents in her own district that President Donald Trump's so-called "Big, Beautiful Bill" stands to be affected by drastic Medicaid and food assistance cuts.

Foxx represents North Carolina’s 5th congressional district and serves as the chair of the powerful House Rules Committee, which on Wednesday debated the Republicans' tax and spending cuts proposal. But Foxx found herself on the receiving end of a searing attack from Rep. Janelle Bynum (D-OR), who hammered the bill and its effects on Americans.

A former speech writer for George W. Bush reamed President Donald Trump on Wednesday for "sandbagging" South Africa's president during what he called a test run of a "new reality show in the White House: "Surprise the World Leader."

David Frum, an Atlantic writer who has long identified as a conservative Republican but has become an outspoken critic of the modern Republican Party under Donald Trump, joined CNN anchor Erin Burnett on Wednesday on her show "OutFront" to discuss Trump's jaw-dropping meeting with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa.

Officials in the Trump administration debated fabricating a claim that wrongly-deported Maryland family man Kilmar Abrego Garcia was a "leader" in the transnational MS-13 criminal gang to justify his continued incarceration in the infamous Salvadoran CECOT megaprison outside the United States, reported The New York Times on Wednesday.

This, reported Hamed Aleaziz and Alan Feuer, came in spite of the fact that federal officials already knew he had been deported in error and in violation of a court order.

DeSantis rages at open investigation into Hope Florida Foundation, calls it ‘manufactured’

by Jackie Llanos, Florida Phoenix
May 21, 2025

President Donald Trump was genuinely wounded over the refusal by Russia's Vladimir Putin to meet with him over Ukraine peace talks, The Atlantic reported — even as he publicly shrugged it off with a tough guy bravado.

Nonetheless, Jonathan Lemire wrote, it hasn't stopped Trump from moving toward "walking away" from overseeing peace talks between Russia and Ukraine, abandoning Europe to fight a war that he repeatedly promised on the campaign trail he could end within 24 hours of taking office.

The Trump administration lost in court again, after a judge ruled Wednesday that a detained Columbia University student and pro-Palestinian activist must be allowed to meet with his wife.

Attorneys for Mahmoud Khalil had said Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials were not allowing him to meet with his wife and newborn son. Khalil missed his son's birth in April after being arrested by the Trump administration in March.

MAGA Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) turned her ire on a Democratic colleague on Wednesday and introduced a resolution to expel fellow Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-NJ), who faces a federal assault charge on dubious allegations of attacking law enforcement officers this month while protesting at a federal immigrant detention center.

"On May 9th, McIver didn't just break the law, she attacked the very people who defend it," Mace said in a news release announcing the House Resolution. "Attacking Homeland Security and ICE agents isn't just disgraceful, it's assault. If any other American did what she did, they'd be in handcuffs.

The "most magical place on Earth" is no longer welcoming Venezuelan employees who are losing their temporary legal residency in the United States.

Bloomberg reported that those working at the Florida-based Disney company were told that after President Donald Trump revoked protections they're no longer able to work for "The House of Mouse."

Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA) put the smackdown on President Donald Trump's Environmental Protection Agency administrator, Lee Zeldin, during a hearing this week, over the administration's move to suspend and slash environmental grants across the board, including those vital to mitigating lead exposure threats in children.

Zeldin, who previously served as a GOP congressman from Long Island and mounted a failed bid for governor of New York in 2022, grew visibly annoyed at Schiff's line of questioning and tried to dismissively swat aside his concerns.