President Donald Trump has vehemently denied any plans to get rid of Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth — but that resolve already appears to be cracking, former NBC anchor Chuck Todd told a CNN panel on Wednesday evening, as the scandals continue to mount and his position becomes less and less tenable.

Hegseth faced a fresh wave of pressure to step down this week following the revelation of a second "Signalgate" chat leaking highly sensitive military battle plans, as well as reports that his senior staff are in complete chaos and uncontrollable.

The White House appears to have altered its messaging around the trade war with China, and it seems China views it as a "win" for them.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent spoke to the International Monetary Fund on Wednesday, saying that there should be a "de-escalation" of the tit-for-tat tariff increases.

Former first lady Michelle Obama isn’t going high just to make other people feel better anymore.

Obama on Wednesday opened up for the first time about her much-talked-about snub of President Donald Trump’s second inauguration on an episode of her podcast, “IMO With Michelle Obama and Craig Robinson,” according to a report in USA Today.

Arkansas Republican Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders — who was once President Donald Trump's White House press secretary — is now urging him to reverse his administration's denial of her disaster relief request.

Rolling Stone reported Wednesday that Sanders' initial request for assistance from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) following severe storms in her state was denied. She's since written a separate letter begging her former boss to intervene and reverse the denial.

President Donald Trump blinked in his trade war with China, a CNN reporter said in a blunt assessment Wednesday.

The financial markets are showing optimism after Trump indicated a possible "U-turn on messaging" around trade with China, said Jeff Zeleny, the network's chief national affairs correspondent.

The Trump Administration, with the help of the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), continues to target a wide range of federal government agencies for mass layoffs — from the Social Security Administration (SSA) to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). Critics of the layoffs, including some conservatives and libertarians, fear that public safety will be jeopardized.

Former Rep. Charlie Dent (R-Pennsylvania) considers the layoffs reckless and haphazard, warning that the U.S. is in trouble when air traffic controllers are losing their jobs and the SSA is losing workers who help seniors receive their Social Security payments. And former SSA Commissioner Martin O'Malley fears the SSA will have difficulty functioning in the months ahead.

President Donald Trump's key advantage with voters has eroded in new surveys, as the whole nation begins to fret about the economic path he has put the nation on, Aaron Blake wrote for The Washington Post in an analysis published on Wednesday.

Trump's numbers have been in steady decline ever since he took office — but, Blake wrote, it's his performance on the economy that is a real flashing red light for the Republican Party.

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Televangelist Paula White, leader of the White House Faith Office, argued that women must "submit" to men.

During a Wednesday interview on Real America's Voice, host Steve Gruber spoke to White about the state of faith in America during President Donald Trump's second term in office.

President Donald Trump has lost no time since taking office in disappearing immigrants into an infamous Salvadoran megaprison with little to no due process — and it's time for Democrats to confront him head-on before he ramps up efforts to do the same to U.S. citizens, Jonathan Chait wrote for The Atlantic on Wednesday.

Indeed, he continued, far from backing down and conceding as Democrats did on the issue shortly after Trump was elected, they should press the offense.

President Donald Trump has repeatedly argued that his calls for tougher border security are about stemming the flow of dangerous drugs like fentanyl into the United States. But one new policy he's implementing could end up making the problem even worse.

That's according to a Wednesday article in the Daily Caller — a prominent conservative news outlet — which reported that Trump's plan to stop enforcing a key section of the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) is worrying many in the law enforcement community. The U.S. Treasury Department officially announced the rule change last month, which may end up helping drug cartels operating in the United States.