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President Donald Trump was pressed in an interview published on Wednesday about the soaring inflation caused by his deeply unpopular war against Iran and its impact on Americans, a line of questioning the president responded to by blurting out a blatant falsehood – one that coincided with reports that directly contradicted his claim.

“In your first term, I think that was one of the hallmarks, that peoples' wages – especially working peoples' wages – were rising much faster than inflation,” said The New York Post’s Miranda Devine in a video interview recorded in the White House.

The U.S. Supreme Court is entering its most consequential month in years with a series of significant decisions on the horizon, according to CNN's reporting.

The court is weighing 26 decisions expected to be decided by the end of June, and the Trump administration has taken an active role in all but one of those, and CNN reported that an explosive confrontation is looming.

President Donald Trump admitted in an interview published Wednesday that he lobbed expletives at Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in an explosive phone call on Monday, citing his growing frustration with Israel’s refusal to halt its invasion and bombardment of Lebanon as the cause for his outburst.

Details of the supposed call were first reported on by Axios, which claimed Trump had called Netanyahu “f------ crazy,” and said that “everybody hates you” and “hates Israel.” Trump also reportedly told the prime minister that he’d “be in prison if it weren’t for me,” with Netanyahu having been indicted on corruption charges by the Israeli government, and for war crimes by the International Criminal Court.

In the wake of the firing of longtime “60 Minutes” host Scott Pelley, there are growing concerns among the remaining staffers that the show may not be in a position to return on time to the airwaves after the summer hiatus.

The turmoil at CBS News' flagship program was intensified with the firing of longtime host Scott Pelley on Tuesday night.

Late Tuesday newly appointed executive producer Nick Bilton, who has faced criticism over his lack of relevant qualifications, fired off a blistering email terminating Pelley's employment "for cause effective immediately," reported Oliver Darcy of Status.

Bilton accused Pelley of "hijacking" his first staff meeting to "disparage me, my qualifications, and my intentions with remarkable incivility and contempt." The email suggested Bilton had sought to find common ground before concluding that Pelley's "antipathy to the future of the show has come through loud and clear."

The firings represent the latest upheaval at the program following CBS News head Bari Weiss's sweeping purge that included longtime executive producer Tanya Simon, correspondents Sharyn Alfonsi and Cecilia Vega, and Executive Editor Draggan Mihailovich, among other senior staffers.

Inside the newsroom, the instability has created serious doubts about whether the program can even get on the air by fall.

"One staffer told me before Pelley's firing they believed there was a 50/50 chance the program will be ready for air after Labor Day. That's because while '60 Minutes' does go on a summer hiatus, staffers are still hard at work filling the pipeline for the next season. Stories are green lit, correspondents are sent on shoots, etcetera. 13-minute stories of the '60 Minutes' caliber are not produced overnight," Darcy reported.

The uncertainty extends to basic operational questions. It remains unclear which correspondents will even be available to pursue stories.

The Trump administration has diverted at least $90 million in national park entry fees to fund Washington, D.C., beautification projects, including a $1.6 million Fourth of July fireworks display and $76 million to repair city fountains, according to internal National Park Service documents.

The redirection of funds — more than five times the usual expenditure on the annual fireworks celebration — comes as America's park system labors under a $24 billion backlog of deferred maintenance, reported the Washington Post, and critics say the spending priorities represent a dramatic and troubling departure from how park fee revenue has traditionally been allocated.

Scott Pelley, the veteran CBS News correspondent fired this week after publicly accusing network leadership of "murdering" 60 Minutes, issued a formal statement Tuesday night detailing what he says drove him out — and the allegations are specific.

"New management has instructed me to inject falsehoods and bias into a politically sensitive story," Pelley wrote. "I've been told to include assertions that are unverified. To date, in every case, I have managed to ignore these instructions or refuse them."

Democratic lawmakers are ready and willing to blow up a bi-partisan deal with Republicans to force President Donald Trump to abandon a controversial priority, Punchbowl News reported Wednesday, a plan in which Democrats yield extraordinary “leverage.”

That priority is the nomination of controversial Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Bill Pulte, who, despite having no prior intelligence or national security experience, was tapped by Trump to replace outgoing Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard. Pulte’s nomination was met with immediate backlash from Democrats, many of whom point to his history of targeting Trump’s adversaries with accusations of mortgage fraud.

Noting the massive disparity in working days between the US Senate under Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) and the GOP-controlled House laboring under embattled Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), Politico is reporting that time is growing short to get legislation — any legislation — voted upon.

According to Politico’s Meredith Lee Hill and Calen Razor, Johnson’s inability to get all of the factions in his caucus on the same page has led to postponed votes, which has prompted GOP lawmakers to stay home and prepare for a bruising midterm.

The newly operational Trump Presidential Library claims it cannot turn up a single Twitter direct message sent by Donald Trump during his first term in office — a striking claim given that court records confirm such messages exist.

In response to a Freedom of Information Act request filed by The Washington Post at 12:01 a.m. on January 20, 2025 — exactly five years after the end of Trump's first term — the library stated it had been "unable to locate any records" related to any direct message sent from Trump's @realDonaldTrump or @POTUS accounts. The request covered the entirety of his first administration, during which Trump sent more than 25,000 public tweets.

Progressive political commentator, author and podcast host Brian Tyler Cohen fumed Tuesday night over a tense moment in a House Appropriations Committee hearing in which a GOP lawmaker shut down their Democratic colleague’s line of questioning regarding files on Jeffrey Epstein, a display, he argued, that had cemented the GOP’s legacy.

“Does the entire f------ party seriously want their reputations to be that they helped prevent accountability for Epstein's victims?” Cohen asked in an episode of his commentary show uploaded Tuesday night.

Rep. Andy Ogles (R-TN) blamed a staffer for a homophobic post that drew widespread condemnation, even from his own party.

The Tennessee Republican's account wished followers a “Happy Nuclear Family Month" a day after Pride Month began, and added that "homosexuality has no place in America," but he deleted the post after Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) and former GOP congressman George Santos, who is openly gay, called him out.

President Donald Trump has been on a lot of late-night posting sprees lately, and one of his biographers thinks it shows the president is spiraling from stress and anxiety.

Michael Wolff, an author who has written four books about Trump, said during a new episode of "Inside Trump's Head," a podcast he co-hosts with Joanna Coles of The Daily Beast, that Trump's late-night post-a-thon on Truth Social illustrates the version of Trump that he doesn't want the public to see. They show the president is capable of feeling the weight of the situation he finds himself in, even if he doesn't want others to know it.