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President Donald Trump warned that U.S. forces were preparing to take control of Kharg Island in a major escalation of the war in Iran, and a national security expert denounced his statements as "unhinged" and unnecessarily risky.

The 79-year-old president posted on Truth Social that U.S. forces would be "hitting Iran ... very hard tonight" and seizing the country's oil and gas markets on the Persian Gulf island.

The Trump administration has quietly floated an eyebrow-raising new "fix" for Americans struggling with skyrocketing Obamacare costs: take out a loan from health insurers, The New York Times reported Wednesday.

Buried in the dense 1,121-page final rule the administration issued last month governing how the Affordable Care Act marketplace will operate next year, the proposal suggests insurers offer loans to cash-strapped customers who can't cover their out-of-pocket medical costs, per the Times. The debt would have to be repaid, "presumably with interest," the report noted.

Pentagon police are in gas masks and full chemical gear Thursday as a hazmat team locks down floors 2 through 5 of the massive complex.

Floors 2 through 5 in corridors 4 through 7 have been locked down, and other floors have been evacuated, three sources told CNN. The Pentagon Force Protection Agency's hazardous materials response team is on scene alongside the Arlington County Fire Department.

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche twice refused to discuss the federal lawsuit threatening Trump's White House UFC fight — with a ruling expected within hours.

Blanche was appearing alongside DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin at a Thursday morning press conference on unaccompanied migrant children when a reporter tried to get him on record about the looming court fight.

Reacting to the bombshell reporting in the New York Times about the Jeffrey Epstein “war room” that was convened in the White House Situation Room, MS NOW’s Sam Stein singled out a proposal about Ghislaine Maxwell that he found beyond the pale.

Speaking with Morning Joe co-host Jonathan Lemire about the report from the Times’ Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan, Stein noted, “There's one anecdote in there where they talk about whether they should give a pardon for Ghislaine Maxwell, and the response inside the room has nothing to do with the morality, ethics or legality of it. It's ‘Oh no, that would create a real PR problem for us if we were to do that.’”

President Donald Trump's birthday celebration on the White House lawn was disparaged as a "volcano of corruption" in a new legal challenge.

Attorneys fighting to block this weekend's UFC matches at the White House told a federal judge Wednesday the president and his allies stand to profit from what they called "the first private, for-profit sporting event ever held on White House grounds" — and warned the country is approaching a historic moment of institutional corruption, reported MS NOW.

Vice President JD Vance is losing his chief of staff, Jacob Reses, whose influence over foreign policy, insiders say, rivaled that of the vice president's own national security adviser.

Reses, Vance's chief of staff since joining him after the 2022 Ohio Senate race, will leave the administration at the end of the summer, people close to the vice president's office said Thursday. He informed Vance of his plans several months ago after his wife became pregnant with their first child.

As President Donald Trump's approval ratings hit record lows, far-right media outlets are experiencing a parallel collapse, with major conservative websites posting devastating traffic declines in May.

According to media watchdog Status, The Righting—which monitors website traffic—reported catastrophic numbers across the conservative media landscape. The top 20 right-wing news websites all posted year-over-year declines in May visits, with 90 percent experiencing double-digit drops.

President Donald Trump lobbed a series of outrageous statements about the Iran war Thursday morning during a call to "Fox & Friends."

The 79-year-old president phoned in to the show he regularly watches to provide an update on the war, which he has escalated in recent days in response to the downing of a U.S. Army helicopter, and he complained at length about media coverage of the conflict, saying that Iranian officials have told him they appreciate the assistance from American journalists.

Sordid new details are coming out about how President Donald Trump and his allies hijacked the bipartisan "America250" celebration approved by Congress and siphoned off its money to alternative celebration planning entities under his own control.

According to The Atlantic's Michael Scherer, newly obtained documents behind the scenes of Trump taking over the event "described frayed trust and growing conflict that has become so acrimonious that the Department of Interior is refusing to honor a December agreement with America250" to transfer $50 million in funding.

Asked Thursday about bombing Iran's civilian water supply on Fox News, Donald Trump launched into a minutes-long rant about rigged elections instead.

Brian Kilmeade, the Fox News host who fielded Trump's call-in, had framed the water strike in approving terms — describing the U.S. campaign as an "Anaconda" strategy squeezing Iran into submission. But when he pointed out that American strikes had hit a water facility serving a population already running out of water, Trump changed the subject.

As soccer fans from across the world travel to the United States this month to cheer on their countries’ teams at the 2026 FIFA World Cup, a poll released Wednesday by Data for Progress suggests Americans don’t believe many visitors have warm feelings toward the host country after a year-and-a-half of President Donald Trump’s leadership.

Overall the poll found that 62% of American voters think the country’s reputation has deteriorated under Trump, with just 32% saying it’s gotten better.

Rep. Rob Bresnahan (R-PA) was an outspoken defender of AI data centers — until he realized it was political poison with voters.

According to Axios' Andrew Solender, Bresnahan, who represents a competitive district in northeastern Pennsylvania, has introduced a bill called the Local Control Protect Act, which seeks "to restrict companies' ability to sue municipalities for rejecting applications to build data centers," as well as require developers to get community permission to build them.