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The Trump administration said Wednesday that it is appealing a court ruling ordering the White House to restore the Associated Press's access to official presidential events.

The US Attorney's Office said it was filing the appeal with the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia on behalf of the three senior White House officials named in the AP complaint.

by Chris Lefkow

US President Donald Trump ordered extraordinary Justice Department investigations on Wednesday into two members of his previous administration, including one he alleged may have committed "treason."

The Trump administration moved Wednesday to drop its case against a man who it described two weeks earlier as a leader of the Salvadoran gang MS-13 living illegally in the United States, court records showed.

In a statement, Attorney General Pam Bondi described 24-year-old Henrry Josue Villatoro Santos as a "terrorist" and said he would "now face the removal process."

by Noe LEIVA

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Wednesday lambasted "arbitrary" US import tariffs at a summit of Latin American leaders that urged a united front against Donald Trump's economic measures.

CNN’S Jake Tapper launched a terse take down of President Donald Trump’s executive order targeting two members of his former administration he now views as his political enemies with Department of Justice investigations.

The presidential directives came Wednesday during an Oval Office signing ceremony where Trump called former Homeland Security cybersecurity director Chris Krebs “a disgrace” and “fraud.” Trump made similar statements about former DHS official Miles Taylor, who he said was “guilty of treason,” as he asked his DOJ to probe the two former Republican officials.

Congressional Democrats—and a small but growing number of Republicans—are throwing their support behind last-ditch legislative efforts to wrest tariff authority from U.S. President Donald Trump as he unilaterally plunges the nation into a full-blown global trade war, with potentially catastrophic consequences for workers, businesses, and the worldwide economy.

"Enough is enough," Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) said Tuesday, accusing the president of "driving our economy into recession, killing jobs, and wiping out seniors' retirement funds as we speak."

President Donald Trump's director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, cast a ballot in Hawaii, even though she had declared her state of residence as Texas and filed an under-oath certification of a homestead in Travis County, reported CNN — potentially running afoul of state voting laws.

"Gabbard’s attorneys said she applied for a homestead tax exemption, which Texas law only allows on a principal residence, because she 'took the advice of local officials' who told her it was required to shield her address from public view. Her office said she was facing a significant security threat," reported Casey Tolan, Isabelle Chapman, Anna-Maja Rappard, and Kyung Lah. "Gabbard’s representatives did not respond to questions about why she separately swore under oath that she was a Texas resident if she considered herself to still live in Hawaii, and did not provide a comment from her after repeated requests."

President Donald Trump targeted two members of his former administration with an executive order on Wednesday and then asked if the Justice Department would investigate them.

Among the targets is Miles Taylor, who published an anonymous New York Times op-ed exposing shocking details about Trump from the inside. Chris Krebs, the other Trump target, was the director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. He released a statement saying that 2020 "was a secure election."

The House of Representatives is plowing ahead with a scheduled vote on the Senate's budget blueprint Wednesday evening, even as some Republicans in the chamber warn they don't appear to have enough support to pass the significant piece of President Donald Trump's agenda.

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) has said the vote will proceed as planned, with a final vote expected around 7:30 p.m. Eastern Time. But Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) said he doesn't know why the GOP is pushing ahead with a final vote, telling CNN's Manu Raju he's certain his party "doesn't have the votes" to pass the legislation.

After Trump announced his widely criticized "reciprocal tariffs" policy, which many believe could lead the United States into a recession, he temporarily eased some of his import duties for three months. However, some of Trump's most vocal supporters in the 2024 presidential election are expressing their dissatisfaction, saying this is not what they voted for.

A notable example: billionaire financier Bill Ackman.

The majority of President Donald Trump's supporters either fully embrace his vision — with many expressing readiness to endure temporary economic difficulties — or feel cautiously hopeful that the president's controversial tariffs policy will serve as effective bargaining tools, according to a new report published Wednesday.

NBC interviewed 20 Trump supporters from key swing states to discuss Trump's tariffs following his recent policy announcement.

A Jewish-led progressive advocacy group was among those expressing horror Wednesday at a new policy unveiled by the Trump administration as part of what it claims is a wide-scale effort to protect Jewish people from antisemitism, but which critics warn is itself antisemitic.

The decision by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to begin considering immigrants' "antisemitic activity on social media," said Bend the Arc: Jewish Action, is actually an example of the administration "using Jews as an excuse to move a cruel, anti-immigrant, authoritarian agenda."