Latest Headlines

A longtime Republican Party strategist is cautioning Donald Trump that his days of bulldozing opponents and receiving little to no opposition are drawing to a close, which is a harbinger of worse things to come if he loses control of Congress.

As Naftali Bendavid of the Washington Post wrote on Saturday, the president is getting it from all sides as world leaders in Davos not only ignored his demands to be handed Greenland, but also pushed back, while at the same time at home, his immigration policies have given rise to massive demonstrations, including a strike that shut down the city of Minneapolis on Friday.

The Trump administration is gearing up for a mass “retribution” campaign over the president’s false claims that the 2020 election was “rigged,” NBC News reported Saturday, a campaign that one former federal judge warned may be “beyond all comprehension.”

President Donald Trump has long alleged, falsely, that the 2020 election he lost by more than 7 million votes was "stolen," and has sworn retribution against those he alleges to be involved. He ramped up those calls this week during his address at the World Economic Forum, warning that “people will soon be prosecuted for what they did.”

The Pentagon on Friday night released a long-awaited National Defense Strategy that marks a “stunning reversal” from decades of U.S. policy by shifting the focus away from China and toward defending the U.S. homeland and the Western Hemisphere.

That’s according to a report in Politico, which added that the new Trump administration strategy breaks sharply from both Democratic and Republican administrations – including President Donald Trump’s first White House term.

Attorney General Pam Bondi refused to back down Friday after a federal magistrate judge declined to sign off on criminal charges against former CNN anchor Don Lemon, whom she accused of “terrorizing” parishioners during an anti-ICE protest inside a Minneapolis church.

Appearing on Fox News’ “Hannity,” Bondi sharply criticized Lemon and others involved in the incident, which she framed as an attack on a religious institution.

President Donald Trump's civil rights chief, Harmeet Dhillon, took to the right-wing Newsmax channel on Friday to bash a magistrate judge who blocked the ongoing detention of Minnesota activists charged with conspiracy against rights for protesting inside a church where an ICE official worked.

"When you go in front of a magistrate with these types of charges, it's not known to the people who are being charged in advance, that's the beginning of the process to get an arrest warrant," said Dhillon. "We made a presentation to the magistrate judge, two of my prosecutors worked tirelessly from Sunday night until presenting on Tuesday with the U.S. attorney's office, and the attorney general was right on the scene as well. And the magistrate judge, who is married to someone who works for Attorney General Keith Ellison, who has had a lot to say about ICE, and a lot to say about our FACE Act theory, declined to give us all that we were asking for."

Reaction was swift and brutal online after news broke that the Department of Justice sought to investigate Minnesota mother Renee Good for criminal liability even after her death – a move that elicited an “extremely rare” judicial rejection.

According to a report in MS NOW, aides to Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche directed the U.S. Attorney’s Office and FBI agents in Minnesota to shift a civil rights investigation into Good’s fatal encounter with law enforcement toward a criminal probe of the deceased woman. A federal judge ultimately rejected the proposed warrant, despite the low standard of evidence needed, the report noted.

Trump suffered a humiliating week of defeats that exposed cracks in his iron-fisted façade, legal experts said Friday.

This week, President Donald Trump "suffered a string of defeats that exposed the real limits of his power at home and abroad," noted Slate's Marc Joseph Stern and Dahlia Lithwick on Friday.

The Wall Street Journal editorial board tore into President Donald Trump's Federal Communications Commission chairman, Brendan Carr, for his effort to regulate the ability of late-night comedians to host political interviews.

Carr has come under fire for drastic changes at the FCC, including a proclamation that he does not consider his agency "independent," which led to any references to the agency's independence being scrubbed from its website in real time during a congressional hearing.

Former Trump administration official turned whistleblower Miles Taylor revealed startling details Friday about the dangers he says Donald Trump posed during his first White House term, revealing that the Department of Homeland Security quietly prepared for the real possibility of nuclear war.

Speaking at Zeteo’s “One Year of Trump” live event at the Howard Theatre in Washington, D.C., Taylor – a former DHS chief of staff who anonymously authored a 2018 New York Times op-ed about resistance from within – said internal fears quickly turned to concrete plans inside DHS.

Right-wing conspiracy theorist and activist Laura Loomer unleashed a bombshell claim Friday night that members of the Republican Party are intentionally tanking the midterms to pave the way for President Donald Trump's impeachment.

Loomer laid out her theory with stark language on X.

President Donald Trump and his Republican acolytes are gearing up to try to provoke a "race war" over his Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids, veteran Democratic strategist James Carville warned MS NOW's Ari Melber on Friday evening.

And the key moment he's going to try to do it, Carville argued, is during the "convention" Republicans are arranging in Minneapolis this summer, an unusual move outside of a presidential year that Trump is hoping can juice his flagging numbers ahead of the midterms.

An attempt to troll critics by President Donald Trump's White House backfired spectacularly on Friday as observers gave the administration a geography lesson.

As Trump openly fantasizes about taking over Greenland from Denmark, the official White House account posted an artificial intelligence-generated photo of the president walking next to a penguin on a block of ice. In the photo, the penguin carries a U.S. flag and the two walk toward a Greenland flag.

MAGA activist Laura Loomer unleashed a blistering attack on Vice President JD Vance on Friday, accusing him of protecting conservative figures she says openly attack Donald Trump while refusing to confront extremists within his own political orbit.

In an explosive post on X, Loomer tore into Vance over a laundry list of unresolved issues.