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An unredacted email appears to reveal testimony that contradicts President Donald Trump's longstanding narrative about Jeffrey Epstein's relationship to Mar-a-Lago. The 2009 correspondence from Epstein's attorney Jack Goldberger was substantially redacted in the Justice Department's initial Epstein files release.

Representative Dan Goldman displayed the complete email on the House floor Wednesday, exposing its contents. The correspondence documents a telephone conference involving Trump, his attorney Alan Garten, and a person presumed to be Brad Edwards, representing Epstein's victims.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's approach to war messaging has devolved into pure spectacle — TikTok-style video montages splicing missile strikes into movie clips and video game footage — leaving military veterans and Congress members stunned by the brazenness of treating armed conflict like entertainment content.

According to Politico, the White House communications team has churned out more than half a dozen of these viral videos, apparently plucked straight from staffers' private group chats. But outside the administration bubble, the reaction has ranged from bewilderment to outright revulsion.

Officials detected multiple unidentified drones above Fort Lesley J. McNair, the U.S. Army base where Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth live, prompting heightened security measures and White House deliberations on potential relocation of the officials, according to sources briefed on the situation.

The drones appeared on a single night within the past 10 days as the military heightened alert levels following U.S. and Israeli military strikes against Iran. Officials have not determined the drones' origin, though the sightings triggered a White House meeting to discuss response options, reported the Washington Post.

Wall Street is sounding the alarm as Trump's Iran war threatens to crater an already fragile economy, with financial analysts warning the protective guardrails shielding the U.S. from economic catastrophe are rapidly eroding.

Just three weeks into the conflict, the damage is already mounting. Oil prices have exploded past $100 a barrel with no relief in sight, inflation is climbing, hiring has stalled, wage growth is collapsing, and mortgage rates are surging as market anxiety deepens. The Federal Reserve held interest rates steady Wednesday, but the underlying economic picture is darkening by the day, Politico reported.

A ex-federal prosecutor is warning that President Donald Trump is "highly likely" to use presidential pardons to protect himself and his allies from criminal charges once he leaves the White House.

Glenn Kirschner, founder of the Justice Matters podcast, told the The Daily Beast that Trump is terrified that multiple of his actions leave him open to being hammered by legal authorities as soon as he leaves the White House.

President Donald Trump's latest "red line" threat to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday drew fresh outrage from political analysts and observers.

Trump wrote on Truth Social that the U.S. was not aware of Israel's recent bombing strikes against the South Pars gas field, which is Iran's largest energy source. Multiple reports indicate that the U.S. and its ally in the region, Qatar, were aware of the plan and approved it ahead of time.

President Donald Trump raged at Israel for conducting a bombing campaign in Iran's largest energy field without his consent.

On Wednesday, Israeli forces bombed the production facility for the South Pars gas field, which Iran shares with neighboring Qatar. The facility produces about 20% of the United Arab Emirates' oil and is responsible for 5% of the global granulated sulphur used in phosphate fertilisers, The Guardian reported.

Political analysts and observers were aghast on Wednesday after a new report indicated that President Donald Trump is considering an "insane" escalation in the war in Iran.

Phil Stewart, the chief national security reporter at Reuters, and Idrees Ali, a Reuters national security correspondent, reported on Wednesday that Trump is considering deploying additional troops to Iran to help reopen the Strait of Hormuz, a roughly 100-mile-long waterway that the Iranian regime has effectively blockaded to U.S. and Israeli ships in response to the recent bombing campaign against those countries.

The Trump administration sent the UFO enthusiasts and conspiracy theorists into a frenzy on Wednesday when it quietly registered the domain name "Aliens.gov," as speculation swirled over what the federal government may be preparing to reveal about extraterrestrial life.

The domain, which is not yet live, was flagged on Wednesday by an automated tracker of new federal websites, the New York Post reported. Its registration comes roughly a month after Trump announced he was ordering agencies to identify and release government files related to UFOs, unidentified aerial phenomena, and extraterrestrial life.

MS NOW's Jen Psaki smacked down a MAGA senator's silence about a "double-super-secret mission" he didn't elaborate on during his confirmation hearing.

Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) appeared before the Senate Homeland Security Committee on Wednesday, where he was questioned by Sen. Gary Peters (D-MI) about previous comments he made concerning foreign travel and Mullin's work for special security forces. During the tense exchange, Mullin did not go into detail about his foreign travel, claiming that it is still "classified."

The temperature in President Donald Trump's White House is about to go up as a Trump ally mulls a potential legal settlement, according to a new analysis.

Bank of America is reportedly in talks with victims of disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein to settle claims concerning the bank's connection to Epstein's sex trafficking operation. That settlement was revealed after hedge fund manager Leon Black's deposition before the House Oversight Committee was moved up in the schedule, according to New York Times reporter Matthew Goldstein.

A top Trump administration intelligence official who quit in a dramatic public protest over the Iran war left with the FBI hot on his heels, according to a new report.

Joe Kent resigned Tuesday as director of the National Counterterrorism Center. His public resignation letter blasted the Trump administration's justification for bombing Iran, writing the country "posed no imminent threat to our nation" and that the president acted under "pressure from Israel."