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JD Vance's quick reversal on his own comments driven by 'fear it might go nuclear': report

From "fundamentally none of our business" to making his own efforts to ensure peace, Vice President JD Vance has reportedly been all over the place when it comes to one foreign conflict.

David E. Sanger, Julian E. Barnes and the so-called Trump whisperer Maggie Haberman of the New York Times reported on the developments on Saturday in an article entitled, "Reluctant at First, Trump Officials Intervened in South Asia as Nuclear Fears Grew."

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'Verbatim copying': Bombshell report says Hegseth broke Princeton's academic honesty rules

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth can add plagiarism to his list of things he's been formally accused of.

Trump's pick for the top Pentagon spot has previously faced allegations of sexual assault and of having a drinking problem. Now it's being reported that, while in school at Princeton, he copied other pieces for his thesis.

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'Total reset negotiated': Trump gives initial preview of new trade meeting with China

Donald Trump on Saturday proclaimed the first U.S.-China tariff meeting since the trade war began went well.

Trump took to Truth Social over the weekend, where he gave a preview of the much-anticipated talks on trade.

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'Latest controversy' erupts in Oval Office as statue showing Trump being shot appears

The "latest controversy" in the Oval Office is a statue that has been "spotted" there, according to a new report.

Donald Trump's rally where a wannabe assassin grazed Trump's ear with a bullet became a flashpoint of the election, and now it's creating drama in the White House, the Daily Beast reported.

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Trump 'screws MAGA voters' over as attempt to burn Biden backfires: analyst

Donald Trump recently went all out in an effort to reverse a Joe Biden-era program, only to hurt his own voters in the process, according to a report.

Greg Sargent, staff writer at the New Republic, wrote over the weekend that the president "grew angry over a Biden-era program with the word 'equity' in its name, so he ended it."

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'Bigger problem': Conservative highlights 'worse explanation' for lack of Trump pushback

Donald Trump's most dangerous actions are flying under the radar for an even worse reason than some might expect, a conservative Atlantic columnist said Saturday.

Former Republican Tom Nichols appeared on MSNBC for an extended interview over the weekend, and was asked at the end of the conversation about how Trump's actions have largely gone unchallenged.

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'He does support Sharia Law': Trump ally hurls 'very alarming' accusation at GOP senator

A Republican senator who Donald Trump needs to pass the president's agenda is clashing with a top Trump ally over the weekend.

Republican Senator John Cornyn of Texas came under fire by controversial Trump associate Laura Loomer, who took to X to air her grievances.

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Trump's 'troubling' new move can 'absolutely' be used to 'undercut' his legal case: expert

Donald Trump's administration just took action in a way that could negatively impact a separate lawsuit, a legal expert said Saturday.

Former federal prosecutor Kristy Greenberg, who previously commented on Trump's criminal legal matters, appeared on MSNBC over the weekend to discuss the administration's current cases.

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'Trump is out of the loop': Questions raised about president's 'ignorance' on hot topics

Donald Trump could be "out of the loop," according to a new Washington Post analysis.

Aaron Blake, senior political reporter for WaPo, wrote on Saturday that the president appears to be taking a backseat in his own presidency despite criticizing his predecessor for being asleep at the wheel.

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Verdict due Tuesday in Depardieu sexual assault trial

A court in Paris on Tuesday is set to hand down a verdict in the sexual assault trial of French cinema icon Gerard Depardieu, a case that gripped the country for weeks.

As the ruling will coincide with the start of the Cannes Film Festival, it is likely to be among the biggest talking points on the first day of what is one of the main events on the cinema calendar.

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Trump appointee Pirro left trail of 'stiffed' creditors dating back to 2006: report

According to a report from NOTUS, Donald Trump's replacement hire to serve as the interim U.S. attorney for Washington, D.C., has hundreds of thousands of dollars dating back to 2006 that have reportedly never been paid.

As Dave Levinthal of NOTUS wrote, Fox News personality Jeanine Pirro's unsuccessful run for the U.S. Senate resulted in vendors left hanging according to FEC reports to the tune of $600,000.

As he wrote, "Pirro’s 2006 U.S. Senate campaign failed for years to file mandatory financial reports with the Federal Election Commission, despite repeated warnings from regulators," with one regulator warning in 2024, "The failure to timely file a complete report may result in civil money penalties, an audit or legal enforcement action."

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Reporting, "The Pirro committee’s $600,000 in total debts involved nearly two-dozen creditors, including Mercury Public Affairs ($37,640), Verizon ($1,859.28) and the U.S. Postal Service ($1,627.30)," Levinthal reported that in 2019 the Pirro for Senate committee claimed, "... these debts, based on contract, are not collectable as the [New York state] 6-year [statute] of limitations has long passed.”

In May of the same year, the FEC allowed the committee to abandon filing reports with the admonition, “... administrative termination of your reporting obligation does not relieve the committee of any legal responsibility for the payment of any outstanding debt or obligation.”

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'Everything is worse' at Kennedy Center as the 'Trump anti-Midas touch' takes hold: expert

In an interview with Slate's Mary Harris, the New Yorker's Katy Waldman stated that nothing is going well at John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts since Donald Trump took over the venerable Washington D.C. institution.

Following up on earlier reports that crowd-pleasing –– and ticket-selling – performances like the musical "Hamilton" have bailed on appearing due to the president's meddling, Waldman bluntly claimed, "Everything is worse."

Singling out Richard Grenell who Trump put in place to oversee his vision of what the Kennedy Center should be, Waldman noted a purge of employees that followed and explained, " think the ways in which he has fired people or laid people off have been somewhat heartless. And also, there’s been a lot of slippery explanations," while describing his manner of dealing with people as " Seed any ground, come in hot, attack, attack, attack."

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Asked about disputed reports coming the Trump administration that the arts center has been a money loser, she offered, "From what I could tell, it was flourishing. It had money, and it was doing what it was supposed to be doing pre-Trump. That doesn’t necessarily mean that it was always making more money than it spent on its programming. But because its sources of revenue were not just box office, but were also gifts and donations, it was still overall in the black."

With that in. mind, she added that financial difficulties are in the foreseeable future as ticket sales have collapsed.

"That’s a whole different part of the picture, which is no matter how well or badly the center was doing before Trump, the Trump anti-Midas touch is in operation here, and now everything is worse," she explained before adding, "Not only are ticket sales down, but donations have been paused, artists are pulling out. All of the spigots for money have slowed or have been turned off."

You can read the Slate interview here.

'Guess what, buddy?': CNN panel laughs off Trump's latest bid to make history

The panel on CNN's "Table for Five" laughed off Donald Trump's habit of making bold –– and distracting –– proposals when things are not going well for him and noted they all seem to be designed to raise his profile among all presidents.

Speaking with host Abby Phillip, longtime D.C. insider Chuck Todd noted that the president was doing all he could earlier in the week after he created a firestorm by telling an NBC host he wasn't sure if he was supposed to follow the Constitution.

That, in turn, led the embattled president to propose re-opening the Alcatraz prison despite the fact that is has been falling into disrepair for decades.

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Pointing out that the NBC interview with host Kirsten Welker "didn't go well," Todd added, "Suddenly, instead of that being the thing, 'Oh, let me throw up this Alcatraz thing.'"

"I do think sometimes –– I’m with you guys –– it’s just, what do they call it, flak? You know, to distract the fighter jets, what are you shooting at? We cannot take the bait and I completely agree. But he’s obsessed with being in history. He wants, maybe he really is afraid that he is not going to be more than one page in the history book."

He then pointed out, "And I promise you, guess what buddy? You probably maybe will be two because you’re impeached twice," before adding, "No president ever lives as long in the history books as they think they will."

"You’re so right about that, because maybe it’s all these things at once, right? Trump wants to be a historical figure. And in his mind, it’s acquiring territory. It’s renaming things," host Phillip contributed. "He really would love to be on the Mount Rushmore. I think he’s maybe realized that that’s like a little bit tough of a sell. But this is important to him."

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