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Former President Donald Trump shocked the nation Wednesday when he made a campaign cash-grab that included the declared "haul out the guillotine" — and warned that heads would roll if Joe Biden wins the election.

Trump's contradictory message — both summoning the mass execution device he's floated with staffers before then claiming it would be used against him and his allies — had critics relying on one word to describe the presumptive Republican nominee: "Unhinged."

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) defended snubbing a House committee after he was subpoenaed to testify about the effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election on Jan. 6, 2021.

During a Wednesday House floor debate on holding Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) argued that claims of Department of Justice "weaponization" against Republicans "melted away" after President Joe Biden's son Hunter was convicted of three felonies.

A legal group aligned with Donald Trump has filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission alleging that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg illegally coordinated with President Joe Biden to prosecute the presumptive Republican nominee.

America First Legal filed the formal administrative complaint Wednesday, alleging that the president's principal campaign committee, Biden for President, had violated the Federal Election Campaign Act by coordinating with Bragg to put Trump on trial for falsifying business records to cover up his own alleged violations of election finance law – of which a jury convicted him on all 34 counts last month.

Hunter Biden was found guilty on all three felony firearms charges against him, but Donald Trump's allies were privately hoping he'd be acquitted.

The former president's Republican allies have had mixed reactions to Tuesday's verdict, with Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) calling it "kinda dumb" while others suggested it was part of a conspiracy to protect president Joe Biden, but Trump pals had been hoping for an acquittal to make a narrative that would be easier to spin, reported the New York Times.

CNN reporter Hadas Gold on Wednesday took a hatchet to Trump allies' claims that the criminal conviction of President Joe Biden's son were part of a broader plot by Biden to cover up even worse crimes.

Many observers have said that Hunter Biden's conviction massively undercuts former President Donald Trump's claims that President Biden has "weaponized" the Department of Justice against him.

U.S. consumer inflation continued to cool last month, according to US government data published Wednesday, giving the US Federal Reserve some positive news shortly before it publishes its latest interest rate decision.

The annual consumer price index (CPI) came in at 3.3 percent in May, down 0.1 percentage point from April, the Labor Department said in a statement.

Republicans should, in theory, be relieved and vindicated over Hunter Biden's conviction on federal gun charges. But many of them are not satisfied, and are alleging it's all a vast government conspiracy to protect against the real crimes committed by President Joe Biden, wrote Greg Sargent for The New Republic.

And there's a reason for that, he argued: the guilty verdict is actually causing their whole "sleazy scam" of attacking the criminal justice system to fall apart.

Donald Trump could be tempted to use the conviction of Hunter Biden on felony gun charges as a campaign cudgel against Joe Biden, who is fiercely attached to his son, but experts say that strategy is risky.

Indeed, Trump's campaign team did not wait long to offer a hot take on Tuesday's ruling in a Delaware court, which stemmed from the younger Biden's 2018 purchase of a handgun while addicted to crack cocaine.

When U.S. President Joe Biden meets world leaders at a lavish Italian resort this week he will be shadowed by an invisible and, for now, uninvited guest: Donald Trump.

The G7 summit in Puglia comes just five months before a nail-biting US presidential election that is not only testing America's democracy but also causing huge uncertainty for its allies.

Partisan websites masquerading as media outlets now outnumber American newspaper sites, a research group that tracks misinformation said Tuesday, highlighting a local news crisis in a year of high-stakes elections.

Hundreds of sites mimicking news outlets –- many of them powered by artificial intelligence -- have cropped up in recent months, fueling an explosion of polarizing or false narratives that are stoking alarm as the race for the White House intensifies.

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough urged president Joe Biden to take on Donald Trump directly over his son's felony conviction on firearms charges.

The president and his Republican challenger are scheduled to face off June 27 in a debate, and the "Morning Joe" host encouraged Biden not to back down if Trump attacked his son Hunter Biden's conviction for lying about his drug use on a federal background check form and possessing a gun while addicted to, or using, illegal drugs.