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White House chief of staff Susie Wiles gave a series of 11 interviews to Vanity Fair writer Chris Whipple, author of a well-regarded book on White House chiefs of staff, where she offered some withering assessments of the president and his team, including her counterintuitive comparison of Trump to her father, longtime NFL broadcaster and former player Pat Summerall.

"The most valuable gift Susie got from her dad was hard-earned," Whipple wrote. "Summerall was an absentee father and an alcoholic, and Wiles helped her mother stage interventions to get him into treatment. (Summerall was sober for 21 years before his death in 2013.) 'Alcoholism does bad things to relationships, and so it was with my dad and me,' Wiles said."

Early mistakes in the investigation of the fatal shooting at Brown University has left the FBI reliant on another bailout like the tip that led to an arrest in the Charlie Kirk assassination, according to a law enforcement analyst.

Police have released new photo and video evidence of an individual believed to be the suspect but have asked for public assistance in identifying the alleged killer, and former Homeland Security official Juliette Kayyem told "CNN News Central" anchor John Berman that FBI Director Kash Patel had bungled the case within hours of the shooting.

Business leaders are expressing growing apprehension that Donald Trump may either disregard a Supreme Court ruling or employ legal maneuvers to evade consequences if the conservative-leaning court invalidates his tariff policies.

According to Politico, indicators suggest the Trump White House anticipates an unfavorable decision — and is taking steps to retain tariff revenues already collected, potentially creating a complicated aftermath to any adverse ruling.

Politico legal analyst Ankush Khardori noted that the administration's apparent indifference to a potential loss obscures new legal and political challenges it would face. He wrote, "Their seeming indifference, however, also obscures the new legal and political obstacles that the Trump administration would confront.

"The fallback effort would not be as simple or straightforward a matter as they have claimed. It is true that the administration could use other statutes to replicate (largely, though probably not entirely) the current tariff regime in the short term. But a new set of questions would immediately emerge."

Khardori points to the lawsuit filed by wholesale retailer Costco as evidence that businesses recognize the administration's position and are positioning themselves for refunds from a government reluctant to provide them.

Trade lawyer Timothy Meyer warned that actions taken by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent warrant scrutiny. Meyer noted, "Bessent and other members of the administration have spent months telling the public and the courts that refunding the IEEPA tariffs would lead to a fiscal calamity." He characterized efforts to use refunds as leverage in litigation as "ham-handed," stating that such tactics have "really just eviscerated any confidence that anyone would have that the administrative process would be administered efficiently, quickly and in good faith."

Meyer added, "People increasingly suspect the Justice Department will drag this out for as long as possible."

A Supreme Court defeat could have broader political consequences for the Republican Party. While Trump's congressional allies might be expected to encourage the president to abandon his tariff strategy to protect their political interests, Trump remains firmly committed to the policy. By continuing to pursue tariffs despite a major court setback, he risks damaging his party's standing and could face intensified Democratic scrutiny if they regain House control.

Residents of Vice President JD Vance's hometown in Ohio have mixed feelings about the city's most famous native son.

The 41-year-old Vance detailed his troubled upbringing in Middletown, where globalization hollowed out its industrial core and chased off good-paying jobs, in his 2016 memoir, “Hillbilly Elegy,” and Washington Post columnist Carine Hajjar found the folks back home never quite embraced him as one of their own.

FBI Director Kash Patel sparked outrage Tuesday after being featured in a preview for an upcoming podcast with his girlfriend as a fullscale manhunt for the Brown University shooter goes on.

“Doing podcast fluff while the Brown shooter is still at large?” wrote Blakeley Bartley, a New York songwriter and political commentator who’s amassed more than 70,000 followers on X.

Combined with other factors, President Donald Trump’s big tariffs on Chinese goods are costing Ohio farmers and their counterparts in other states heavily, according to a new report.

The report shows Ohio farmers lost nearly $76 million of their exports to China this year compared to one year earlier.