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The latest attack against the transgender community by Republicans in Kansas incited outrage among analysts on Wednesday night.

The Kansas Division of Vehicles sent letters to transgender people on Wednesday, saying that their driver's licenses would be considered invalid as of Thursday because of a new state law, Erin In The Morning reported. That law also said transgender people caught driving with an invalid license can be charged with a class B misdemeanor, carrying up to six months in jail and a $1,000 fine.

The FBI fired at least 10 agents who investigated President Donald Trump in 2021 for his handling of classified information, according to a report.

CBS News reported on Wednesday, citing multiple sources, that the firing occurred after Reuters reported that the FBI had subpoenaed phone records from White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles and FBI Director Kash Patel when they were private citizens as part of the probe. Patel claimed in the report that the agents had used "flimsy pretexts" to justify the subpoenas, and then buried the process "to avoid oversight."

Someone in the Trump administration may be trying to profit from the president's push to release information about extraterrestrial life, according to a new analysis.

The Atlantic analyzed betting data on Kalshi, a prediction market app, and found that one bettor placed a $100,000 wager that President Donald Trump would reveal the existence of aliens by the end of December. Another, who The Atlantic surmised could actually be the same person, placed another "market-moving" bet within a half hour of the first, raising concerns about insider trading.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis got a blow on Wednesday, as Justice Department attorneys torpedoed a key way his state was hoping to pay for an infamous immigrant detention project known as "Alligator Alcatraz."

According to the Florida Phoenix, federal attorneys have declared that a $608 million federal reimbursement planned to go from the Federal Emergency Management Agency to the state cannot be used to pay for construction or renovation of the facility — only for routine operating expenses. This ruling "breaks from past assertions from both President Donald Trump and the DeSantis administration that the $608 million grant would largely foot the bill for Florida’s state-run detention centers," the report noted.

President Donald Trump's Surgeon General pick faced a tough grilling on Wednesday at her Senate confirmation hearing, and the Wall Street Journal's editorial board was not impressed.

Casey Means, a wellness entrepreneur, badly stumbled when pressed on vaccine safety, dodging straightforward questions about childhood immunizations and autism.

Rep. Randy Fine (R-FL) has been sued for violating the First Amendment rights of a man who mocked his racist tirade, claiming Muslims should have fewer rights than dogs.

The suit, brought by AI entrepreneur Amjad Masad and represented by the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, alleges that Fine discriminated against him by viewpoint when he blocked him on X for his sarcastic reply to his post.

President Donald Trump's record-breaking 108-minute State of the Union extravaganza dazzled Republicans, but veteran GOP strategist Karl Rove said the MAGA leader committed a "key mistake."

Trump's lengthy speech honored Olympic hockey heroes and Medal of Freedom recipients, electrifying the chamber by awarding goalie Connor Hellebuyck the Presidential Medal of Freedom as Democrats chanted "USA! USA!" To boot, Congressional Medal of Honor recipients, including a wounded helicopter pilot and a 100-year-old Korean War hero, brought the House to its feet.

President Donald Trump's "hokum" on affordability left many Republicans disappointed after the State of the Union, according to one analyst.

During the speech, Trump barely touched on affordability, which is shaping up to be the most important issue in the 2026 midterm election. Catherine Rampell, economics editor at The Bulwark, argued in a new article on Wednesday that Trump's decision to gloss over the topic left Republicans feeling disappointed in their leader.

President Donald Trump's Department of Homeland Security has made a guarantee to state elections officials that Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers will not be stationed at polling places in November — an election intimidation move that was highly sought by the far-right elements of the MAGA camp.

But MS NOW pundit Michael Steele, the former chairman of the Republican National Committee and frequent Trump critic, does not buy this promise whatsoever.

A report produced by the office of Sen. Adam Schiff reveals that federal immigration enforcement agencies amassed a gigantic weapons stockpile during the first year of President Donald Trump’s second term.

In total, the report released by Schiff (D-Calif.) finds that US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) committed to spending over $144 million on weapons and ammunition over the last year, a massive increase over these agencies’ spending on weapons in years past.

White House senior adviser Stephen Miller and former Obama speechwriter Jon Favreau got into a heated Twitter exchange on Wednesday after Favreau dismissed Miller's dramatic reaction to Democrats sitting during parts of President Donald Trump's State of the Union address.

Miller ignited the spat by declaring that Democrats' refusal to stand during certain moments of the speech was "a moment that chills to the bone and which will live for a thousand years." Miller was reacting to CNN conservative pundit Scott Jennings calling it the "moment of the night" when Democrats refused to stand for the American victims of violence at the hands of undocumented immigrants.