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White House envoy Steve Witkoff has praised Vladimir Putin in glowing terms as trustworthy and said the Russian leader told him he had prayed for his "friend" US President Donald Trump when he was shot.

Witkoff met with Putin over multiple hours last week in Moscow and told US media the talks -- which involved discussions about forging a path towards ending Russia's war in Ukraine -- were constructive and "solution-based."

In just a few weeks, the US tourism outlook has clouded as a result of some of President Donald Trump's policy decisions, which have angered some foreign visitors and prompted fear of a surge in prices and a stronger dollar.

Foreign traveler arrivals in the United States are expected to decline by 5.1 percent in 2025 compared to last year, against a previously projected increase of 8.8 percent, Tourism Economics said in a report published late last month.

A jovial new podcast in which California Governor Gavin Newsom pals around with provocative right-wing guests has infuriated the Democratic Party, as its leaders clash over the best way to fight back against Donald Trump.

In an apparent bid to court centrist US voters, Newsom -- a presumed frontrunner for the Democratic leadership -- this month launched "This is Gavin Newsom," pledging to talk to "those I fundamentally disagree with."

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth raised onlookers' eyebrows on Saturday with an attack on a judge who recently ruled against the Trump administration in a court case about banning transgender troops.

A right-wing news source recently reported that, "U.S. District Judge Ana C. Reyes orders Pentagon to allow transgender troops, calls Trump ban ‘unabashedly demeaning.'"

Chief Justice John Roberts may have been sending Donald Trump a message, but it's the President's response that concerned a Supreme Court writer on Saturday.

Slate senior writer Mark Joseph Stern appeared on MSNBC over the weekend, and was asked about Roberts issuing a rare statement suggesting that appeals, not impeachments, are how to handle court orders you don't like.

A judge might decide to prosecute Trump's DOJ officials for disobeying a court order, despite the fact that Trump would likely pardon them, an ex-prosecutor said on Saturday.

Former federal prosecutor Joyce Vance over the weekend weighed in on the case in which Judge James Boasberg ordered Trump's DOJ to turn planes around as they deported Venezuelan immigrants to a third country's prison. Vance told a story which she said could tell us how Boasberg might handle the Alien Enemy Act case, "where the government seems disinclined to provide factual information regarding contempt allegations the Judge is reviewing."

Republican senator John Cornyn of Texas took heat from anti-Donald Trump observers and MAGA on Saturday after he posted a "staged" photo.

Cornyn, who has been largely supportive of Trump's agenda but has bucked the President at other times, took to X this week to post a photo of himself reading Trump's Art of the Deal. The ghostwriter for that book has since opposed the President.

Donald Trump's recent reply to a reporter's question is sure to end up hurting the President in court, according to another reporter on Saturday.

A MSNBC reporter flagged a "confusing" response from Trump, who was asked about why he signed a controversial immigration order in the dead of night but replied by saying someone else handled it. The White House has said Trump was talking about the law on which is order was based, which was signed hundreds of years ago, but MSNBC panelists were skeptical.

Donald Trump made a "revealing" error when he attempted to revoke security clearances from his political enemies, a former Republican lawmaker said Saturday.

Representative Adam Kinzinger of Illinois, a retired Republican who served on the Jan. 6 committee, said he was enjoying a barbecue with friends when he heard that his security clearance had been revoked.

Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas's Fatah movement called on its Islamist rivals Hamas on Saturday to relinquish power in order to safeguard the "existence" of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.

"Hamas must show compassion for Gaza, its children, women and men," Fatah spokesman Monther al-Hayek said in a message sent to AFP from Gaza.

Donald Trump has been criticized for a wide array of actions, but one stands out above the others, according to a Democratic lawmaker.

Rep. Robert Garcia, a Democrat from California, joined MSNBC on Saturday, where he was asked about Trump's bid to gut the Education Department.

China on Saturday announced measures to simplify the marriage registration process and lessen the financial burden on couples, the latest initiative by Beijing to boost births.

Couples having children outside of marriage is rare in China, where there is social stigma and fewer protections for such families.