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The Trump administration is wildly undercounting the casualties in the Iran war, alleged a new report by The Intercept on Wednesday.

"At least 15 U.S. troops were wounded Friday in an Iranian attack on a Saudi air base that hosts American troops, according to two government officials who spoke with The Intercept," said the report. "Hundreds of U.S. personnel have been killed or injured in the region since the U.S. launched a war on Iran just over a month ago."

The Department of Homeland Security has reversed a controversial policy requiring secretary approval for all contracts above $100,000, eliminating a bottleneck that delayed thousands of federal contracts and hampered disaster relief efforts.

Secretary Markwayne Mullin rescinded the directive put in place by former Secretary Kristi Noem in June, CBS News reported Wednesday. The move inserted her office into routine procurement decisions across all DHS components, including U.S. Customs and Border Protection and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) put out a joint statement with Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD), effectively surrendering in the standoff on Department of Homeland Security funding and agreeing to pass the bipartisan Senate funding bill that reopens the agency without Immigration and Customs Enforcement or Border Patrol funding.

This comes after House Republicans blocked the same legislation on Friday, which had passed the Senate by a voice vote with no objection from either party. At the time, Johnson demanded any DHS funding bill must fund those agencies as well, echoing demands from President Donald Trump.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio took a shot at trying to explain the Iran war to the nation before President Donald Trump was scheduled to appear on television networks hours later.

In a video posted by the White House this week, Rubio offered the administration's latest excuse for attacking Iran. The secretary's X account also shared the video on Wednesday ahead of Trump's address.

President Donald Trump's ambassador to Greece signed off on some eye-watering expenditures, according to leaked documents.

Kimberly Guilfoyle, a former Fox News co-host and Donald Trump Jr.’s one-time fiancée, requested the construction of a $58,000 basketball court at the lavish Jefferson House in Athens, where she has been living while serving as the top diplomat, reported The Daily Mail.

On Tuesday, Eric Trump revealed a video mock-up of President Donald Trump’s planned presidential library, but by Wednesday, critics couldn’t help but point out what appeared to be a glaring error.

The nearly two-minute video, which appears to have been made, at least in part, using generative artificial intelligence, shows interior and exterior shots of a tall skyscraper in Miami, Florida, with a large U.S. flag displayed on its facade. What drew critics’ attention, however, appeared within the first 15 seconds of the video.

Former Real Housewives of Salt Lake City star Jen Shah told People that while she was in prison for conspiracy to commit fraud, she observed Ghislaine Maxwell's lack of remorse for her sex trafficking victims.

"I had interactions with her, limited interactions with her," Shah recalled during the wide-ranging interview. "I mean, I worked at recreation, right? And so she would come in and work at recreation, or I mean, to work out."

In a nearly 500-word rant, President Donald Trump unveiled a plan Wednesday to steamroll his agenda through Congress, issuing lawmakers a strict deadline and warning Democrats that his plan was essentially foolproof.

Trump’s proposal was that Republican lawmakers eliminate the Senate filibuster, a Senate rule that allows members to block a bill that receives less than 60 votes. By doing so, Congress could potentially pass a spending bill that fully funds the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which has remained unfunded since February due to disputes over funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP).