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Political analysts and observers were shocked on Thursday by new reporting on the draft peace plan that U.S. and Iranian negotiators are discussing.

The New York Times reported that part of the deal on the table includes a $300 billion investment fund to help rebuild Iran at the end of the war. The report was published at a time when the Trump administration and Iranian officials are in a standoff over the Strait of Hormuz, a critical global waterway for energy trade, which has prolonged the over three-month-old conflict.

Cities contracting with Flock Safety to run networks of license plate reader cameras are growing increasingly alarmed about the company's involvement with the Trump administration's mass deportation schemes, to the point that some are now covering their own cameras in trash bags, a new report revealed.

According to 404 Media, one city bagging up its cameras is Dayton, Ohio, which followed "months of resident outrage, a scandal in which the city was sharing Flock camera data for immigration enforcement, apparently by accident, and a $30,000 audit into how the cameras are being used." They had to bag the cameras rather than take them down outright because "police there are unsure whether the cameras are still active, and the city also doesn’t seem to know whether it is allowed to take the cameras down."

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's defense on Thursday of slapping President Donald Trump's face on a $250 bill ahead of America's 250th birthday appalled a political analyst.

During the daily press briefing, Bessent was challenged by CNN's Kaitlan Collins about whether putting the president's face on a new currency is appropriate, given the cost-of-living challenges many Americans are facing, and Trump is seeking more than $1 billion in taxpayer money to build his ballroom. There is also a federal law that prohibits living presidents from being featured on U.S. currency.

President Donald Trump's Justice Department has opened a federal criminal investigation into the legal funding for E. Jean Carroll, the writer who successfully sued Trump for defamation after accusing him of rape, and the investigation could reportedly expand into whether Carroll committed perjury when she discussed the source of her legal fees.

But this move is going to blow up in his face, Steve Benen wrote for MS NOW's MaddowBlog in an analysis published Thursday — not only because he won't get a conviction out of it, but because it will only bring his long history of alleged sexual abuse back into the spotlight.

An expert in Middle East affairs shared a startling prediction about President Donald Trump's latest peace plan for the region during a new podcast interview on Thursday.

Trump has demanded that more Muslim-majority countries in the Middle East sign on to the Abraham Accords, a bilateral agreement the first Trump administration struck with some Middle Eastern countries in 2020, as part of the peace deal for the war in Iran. Reporting from Politico suggests that the idea has been met with "laughter, dismissal and, often, silence" from leaders in Middle Eastern countries.

A Fox News segment about Jill Biden's bombshell debate admission took a sharp turn Wednesday when Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE) pushed back hard on host Martha MacCallum's attempt to draw a contrast between Joe Biden's fitness and Donald Trump's.

The segment opened with MacCallum pressing Coons on Jill Biden's revelation to CBS News that she feared her husband was having a stroke during his disastrous June 2024 debate against Trump.

A school board official in the Deer Valley neighborhood of Phoenix, Arizona is facing outrage and calls for censure after she protested the direction of a meeting by giving a Nazi salute.

According to local news station 12 News, Kimberly Fisher "held up a Nazi salute and said 'heil' at the end" of the meeting on Tuesday night. She then doubled down when she "took to Facebook after ... and expressed her displeasure with how the end of the meeting was handled, even calling the board president a 'dictator.'"