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by Aurélia END

Six months after defeating Joe Biden, President Donald Trump is back in power but remains obsessed with his White House predecessor, taking every opportunity to blame the man who remains his greatest political bugbear.

A US judge on Wednesday accused Apple of defying an order to loosen its grip on the App Store payment system to the point that criminal charges could be warranted.

US District Court Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers found that Apple "willfully" violated an injunction she issued at trial, with the company instead creating new barriers to competition with the App Store and even lying to the court in the process.

Recently-elected Democratic National Convention Vice Chair David Hogg and veteran Democratic strategist James Carville vented their feud with a heated debate on the Tara Palmeri Show on Wednesday, in which Carville blasted Hogg's plans to encourage primary challenges to certain long-time Democratic incumbents.

Hogg, a Gen Z student activist and school shooting survivor who was elected to the DNC at the start of the year, has pushed people to donate to his PAC, Leaders We Deserve, to elect more young people and to mount contests in districts where he believes Democratic incumbents are complacent and not representing their voters.

Television host Stephanie Ruhle warned Wall Street and Main Street sources are fully reacting with “paralysis, anger and devastation” at what Trump is doing to the economy.

Recent numbers predict the U.S. economy will be shrinking for the first time since a major pandemic, in complete contrast to the last presidency. Now, Wall Street leaders and business owners who supported Trump in 2024 are horrified at their vote.

Rattled by declining profits and sinking stock prices, Tesla’s board has begun quietly seeking out a successor to CEO Elon Musk, according to a new report in the Wall Street Journal.

The move, which began about a month ago, comes amid investor frustration over Musk’s increasing focus on his job as head of President Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency, which is tasked with slashing trillions from the federal budget.

White House special envoy Steve Witkoff has drawn criticism from foreign policy and national security experts for his unorthodox negotiating style with Russia – and now former Trump administration insiders are even calling out the real estate billionaire’s approach.

Witkoff, a longtime Donald Trump friend and golfing buddy, has reportedly met with Russian President Vladimir Putin at least four times while entirely unaccompanied by the usual set of advisers that traditionally accompany officials in such high-level talks. He has also stepped into negotiations in the Middle East involving the complex situation with Israel and Hamas, the Daily Beast reported.

President Donald Trump is "profoundly wary" of the Medicaid cuts being debated under House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), Politico reported on Wednesday.

The cuts are part of Trump's "big, beautiful bill" combining tax cuts with border security and energy changes. GOP lawmakers have repeatedly denied they would cut Medicaid as part of the necessary $800 billion health cost savings they set in their budget framework, but left room for themselves to institute limits on the growth or federal cost sharing for the Affordable Care Act's Medicaid expansion — which could still end in millions of people thrown off their coverage.

President Donald Trump "absolutely" complicated his administration's efforts to defy a Supreme Court order to "facilitate" the return of a Maryland father who was wrongly deported to El Salvador, a CNN legal analyst said Wednesday.

Elie Honig joined Anderson Cooper on Cooper's eponymous show and was asked whether Trump's comments in an exclusive ABC News interview "complicate[d] things for the administration."

House Republicans' "antisemitism" bill is a thinly-veiled effort to target left-wing organizations and criticism of Israel, global affairs journalist Emily Tamkin wrote in a column for MSNBC published on Wednesday evening — and a last-minute amendment they slipped in is a "blatant giveaway" of this fact.

"That bill — the Antisemitism Awareness Act — would codify the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s definition of antisemitism as the sole definition to be used by the Department of Education when investigating allegations of antisemitic discrimination," wrote Tamkin. The problem is, "elevating it to the only definition under the law, some critics (admittedly including me) warn, would lead to it being used to conflate anti-Zionism with antisemitism."

El Salvador’s top anti-gang official has joined others who are skeptical over President Donald Trump’s claims that tattoos prove a Maryland father wrongly deported in March is a member of the notorious MS-13 gang, according to media reports.

Salvadoran Minister of Justice and Security Gustavo Villatoro confirmed Wednesday in an interview with the Telegraph that Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been moved to a low-security prison after the Trump White House failed to present any “evidence” linking him to the gang.

The Senate narrowly shot down a resolution to block President Donald Trump's global scheme of "reciprocal tariffs" on Wednesday evening, NBC News reported.

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), one of the resolution's cosponsors, alongside Sens. Susan Collins (R-ME) and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), joined with Democrats on the measure, which needed a simple majority to pass. However, the bill came up short because two senators expected to support the resolution were absent.

CNN's Jake Tapper repeatedly questioned Rep. Brendan Gill (R-TX) on Wednesday why he and his partisan colleagues want to eliminate funding for NPR and PBS. He claimed these networks promote "far-left ideologies" — but failed to name a single example of this when pressed.

"Speaker Johnson has said he would additionally like to cut funding for public broadcasting, PBS, which does receive some support from the federal government," said Tapper. "I just — it's interesting, I just have to say, on a personal level, I learned to read by watching 'Sesame Street' and 'Mister Rogers' Neighborhood' and 'The Electric Company.' That's literally how I learned to read as a kid. Why do you not think PBS is important?"

The United States and Ukraine unveiled a new reconstruction and investment fund that gives the U.S. access to Ukraine’s rare earth mineral reserves, formalizing a months-long economic agreement between the Trump White House and Ukraine, according to the New York Times.

The deal announced Wednesday ends tense negotiations over whether the United States will continue to back Ukraine with economic and military support as peace negotiations for the Russia-Ukraine conflict continue, the Times reported. It is aimed at satisfying President Donald Trump’s claims that the U.S. has handed Kyiv “a blank check,” according to the report, while providing the war-torn country with a security arrangement.