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Alabama Republican Senator Katie Britt, who gave what has been widely panned as a cringe-filled GOP rebuttal to President Joe Biden's State of the Union address, was parodied on Saturday Night Live. Now, Texas Republican Senator Ted Cruz is saying he's "jealous" of Britt for the person chosen by the show to target her.

Actress Scarlett Johansson appeared on the show's cold open and portrayed Britt, telling viewers that she would be "auditioning for the part of scary mom" and "performing an original monologue called 'This Country Is Hell.'"

Conservative pundit Piers Morgan was silenced on his own television show Wednesday when broadcaster Mehdi Hasan delivered a brutal rundown of his reasons why former President Donald Trump should not be reelected as president.

"He's a racist by any definition of the term," Hasan told Morgan. "You said you were going to give me some facts about Trump? Let me give you some actual facts."

If GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump defeats incumbent President Joe Biden in the 2024 election, his return to the White House could bring about a dramatic change in U.S. foreign policy.

Biden, an aggressive supporter of military aid to Ukraine during its conflict with Russia, has been a vehement critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Trump, in contrast, speaks fondly of Putin.

Maverick American director Oliver Stone told AFP that the legal proceedings against Donald Trump are "all political" and that the ex-president was a victim of "lawfare" -- when prosecutions are used to silence political figures.

"Almost 100 indictments against the guy... it's ridiculous," said Stone.

House Speaker Mike Johnson told Sen. Katie Britt not to worry about State of the Union rebuttal "horror stories" before she gave her own speech — that many have said was the worst yet.

Britt (R-AL) shared this factoid Tuesday with Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) on his podcast "The Verdict," where the pair of Republican senators unpacked the backlash from the "creepy" and "breathlessly weird" rebuttal.

The conversation got heated Wednesday as The View hosts former federal prosecutor Sunny Hostin and ex-Donald Trump staffer Alyssa Farah Griffin debated special counsel Robert Hur's testimony before Congress on Tuesday.

Hur had been questioned about his report into classified documents improperly found in the possession of President Joe Biden.

The U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved a bill on Wednesday that would force TikTok to divest from its Chinese owner or be banned from the United States.

The legislation is a major setback for the video-sharing app, which has surged in popularity across the world while causing nervousness about its Chinese ownership and its potential subservience to the Communist Party in Beijing.

Financial Times columnist Edward Luce on Wednesday took stock of former President Donald Trump's third White House run — and found that much of its shock value had worn off.

However, Luce cautioned that Trump has not gotten any less shocking than he was eight years ago, and he noted that over the last week Trump made inflammatory statements and took several alarming actions that, for any other candidate, would be on the front page of every major American newspaper.

Attorneys for Hunter Biden said that their client will not appear at a public hearing on the impeachment of his father, President Joe Biden.

In a letter to House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY), attorney Abbe Lowell said there was a scheduling conflict with a criminal case.