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CNN's Jake Tapper scolded a pair of Trump administration cronies on Wednesday for their "offensive" comments.

On Wednesday, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told CNN's Kaitlan Collins that the White House believes the network's coverage of U.S. soldiers who died in the aftermath of the U.S. attack on Iran is "trying to make the president look bad." Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth made similar comments earlier in the day.

A federal court is kicking off the process that could force President Donald Trump's administration to start refunding tariff payments.

According to Bloomberg News, "In an order on Wednesday, Judge Richard Eaton, who sits on the federal trade court in New York, ordered Customs and Border Protection to stop calculating President Donald Trump’s emergency tariffs on importers’ customs paperwork. He also questioned why the government was continuing to do so after the Supreme Court ruled the tariffs illegal. Eaton also ordered officials to recalculate certain duties that had passed that step of the customs process, removing Trump’s contested tariffs."

President Donald Trump just gave Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem a big "vote of no confidence," according to one GOP senator.

Noem sat for two days of questioning in the House and Senate this week, and faced considerable criticism for her handling of Trump's deportation operations and other misdeeds at DHS. But there was one moment where Noem revealed that the president has lost faith in her leadership, Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) said on Wednesday.

Political analysts and observers roasted President Donald Trump on Wednesday after he went on another "insane lying" spree about his war in Iran.

Trump was asked during a roundtable at the White House about his reasons for striking Iran in coordination with Israeli forces over the weekend. The president and his administration have offered shifting rationales for the strikes, ranging from Iran posing an imminent threat to the U.S. to the country's continued enrichment of uranium, which is required to make a nuclear weapon.

Another House Republican is fleeing for the exits as the GOP braces for what's expected to be a brutal midterm election.

Utah Republican Rep. Burgess Owens said in a statement Wednesday he won't seek reelection, ending months of speculation about his political future.

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem just created a "political nightmare" for President Donald Trump, according to one analyst.

Noem appeared before the Senate and House judiciary committees on sequential days this week, where she was questioned about her leadership at DHS and the actions of immigration officers in Minnesota. Carine Hajjar, an opinion columnist at The Washington Post, argued in a new column on Wednesday that Noem's appearances revealed how sloppily her agency has managed Trump's deportation operations, making it far more difficult for immigration hawks to defend those actions as the 2026 midterm elections approach.

Rep. Wesley Hunt (R-TX) placed third in the Republican Senate primary in Texas on Tuesday and was eliminated, with incumbent Sen. John Cornyn and Attorney General Ken Paxton advancing to a runoff.

According to NOTUS, that loss comes after Hunt only ran his Senate campaign as a last-ditch effort to get out of a seat in the House that he hates representing.

A Senate Republican claimed he was attempting to "de-escalate" after video emerged of him helping police forcefully remove an anti-war Marine during a mid-hearing scuffle, leading to audible gasps as the man appeared to be injured.

Bystanders accused Sen. Tim Sheehy (R-MT) of breaking the hand of Marine veteran and anti-war activist Brian McGinnis during a break in a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on Wednesday. McGinnis put his hand in a doorway to prevent Capitol Police from removing him from the room.

CNN's Jake Tapper shaded White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt on Wednesday over her explanation for why the State Department is scrambling to help U.S. citizens leave Iran after the bombing strikes over the weekend.

During a press briefing on Wednesday, Leavitt was asked why the U.S. appeared not to have a plan to evacuate U.S. citizens from the 14 neighboring countries surrounding Iran following the coordinated strikes that killed Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and several top military and political leaders. Leavitt said there were "many signs" put out by the State Department, and she said the media would not report on them.

A GOP pollster issued a stark warning to President Donald Trump after the latest NBC News poll about the decision to bomb Iran was released on Wednesday.

Overall, the poll found that 54% of American voters disagree with the decision to coordinate strikes in Iran with Israel, compared to just 41% who support the move. Support was heavily divided by political ideology and age, with about two-thirds of voters under the age of 35 disagreeing with the decision, according to the poll.

Gov. Jared Polis (D-CO) continues to give signals he's in favor of giving at least partial clemency to imprisoned former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters to reduce her prison term — and Democrats in the legislature are enraged, according to The Colorado Sun.

Peters, a proponent of 2020 election conspiracy theories, was convicted of attempting to influence a public servant, conspiracy to commit impersonation, official misconduct, violation of duty, and failure to comply with an order of the secretary of state, related to a plot in which she tried to tamper with election equipment to prove the race was stolen from President Donald Trump.

Sen. Tim Sheehy (R-MT) was accused of breaking the hand of Marine veteran and anti-war activist Brian McGinnis.

During a break in a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on Wednesday, McGinnis put his hand through a hole in the wall to prevent Capitol Police from removing him from the room.