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President Donald Trump launched another volley in his back-and-forth feud with sports broadcaster Stephen A. Smith, whose intelligence he questioned in response to his criticism.

The ESPN commentator went viral with criticism of the 79-year-old president's attendance at Monday night's Game 3 of the NBA Finals, saying he was needlessly inconveniencing fans and New Yorkers, and Smith then blasted Trump for appearing to doze off as the New York Knicks eventually lost to the San Antonio Spurs.

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has spent the past eight months mounting what critics describe as an unprecedented campaign to install his son-in-law, 26-year-old first-time candidate Michael Alfonso, in a vacant congressional seat — and the backlash from within his own party is growing.

Duffy transferred $1 million in leftover funds from his own congressional campaign account directly to Alfonso's super PAC, attended multiple fundraisers on his behalf, sent members of his former political team to work on the campaign and personally lobbied President Donald Trump to endorse without giving senior White House officials advance notice – much to the annoyance of other Republicans, reported Axios.

Republicans scored a tactical win this week, using the party-line budget reconciliation process to lock in three years of funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol — but that doesn't mean they averted chances of a government shutdown.

The immigration funding maneuver removed one flashpoint from the government funding debate through September 2029, but lawmakers in both parties say the move has done little to improve — and may have worsened — the odds of avoiding a broader government shutdown when the Sept. 30 deadline arrives, reported Politico.

Rep. Sarah McBride (D-DE) got the last laugh against Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC), following the latter's relentless anti-LGBTQ bullying stunts.

Mace, who originally described herself as "pro-transgender rights" as recently as 2023, took a hard turn to campaign against any expression of transgender identity in public spaces. When McBride became the first transgender person elected to Congress, Mace introduced the proposal to bar her from the women's restrooms on Capitol Hill, proclaiming, "The sanctity of protecting women and standing up against the Left’s systematic erasure of biological women starts here in the nation’s Capitol."

A Democratic political strategist was flabbergasted on Tuesday after new reporting indicated that the Jeffrey Epstein scandal has taken a disturbing turn.

On Monday, Scripps News reported that former New Mexico Attorney General Hector Balderas was told to "stand down" from investigating disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein's Zorro Ranch, about 40 miles south of Santa Fe. He told the outlet that he had been looking into crimes that Epstein may have committed there in 2019 until he received a call from the Southern District of New York telling him to back off as the federal government investigated the property.

President Donald Trump's administration is moving to respond after Iran downed a U.S. Army Apache helicopter, with the official X account for the U.S. Central Command proclaiming that they "began launching self-defense strikes against Iran at 5 p.m. ET today at the Commander in Chief’s direction," as "a proportional response to unjustified Iranian aggression."

But the use of the word "proportional" infuriated a number of right-wing war hawks who believe the U.S. shouldn't just settle for "proportional" — and they made themselves heard loud and clear on social media.