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White House communications director Steven Cheung provided a characteristically scenery-chewing response to Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA), and a former Republican insider shed light on his antics.

The Georgia Democrat kicked off a political firestorm by highlighting rumors about President Donald Trump and his close personal aide Natalie Harp, and the White House issued an official response through Cheung that rudely misspelled Ossoff's name and casually mixed in sexual innuendo.

Former CNN anchor Jim Acosta expressed his shock and disgust Tuesday following the White House’s “deeply personal attack” on a reporter that invoked their children, an attack that Acosta argued reached a “new low” even for the Trump administration.

President Donald Trump snapped at CNN’s Kristen Holmes on Monday after she asked about his especially close relationship with his 35-year-old female aide Natalie Harp, a relationship so close that it’s reportedly “unnerved people around” the president. Trump’s staffers followed suit, attacking Holmes online.

Military families spoke out against President Donald Trump's remarks about their loved ones serving a record-long deployment as part of his war against Iran.

Lincoln's crew has endured roughly nine months at sea – a modern-day record – amid reported mental health strain and supply disruptions, and Military Times correspondent Natalie Oliveria told "CNN News Central" that the sailors' families were disappointed when the president stated their deployment was "not nearly long enough."

President Donald Trump doubled down on his threat to annex the Strait of Hormuz as a U.S. territory – which an expert flagged as a violation of international law.

The 80-year-old president first suggested the idea of taking control of the Persian Gulf waterway, which is located in the territorial waters of Iran and Oman, at a campaign-style event on Friday and then claimed Monday the U.S. already controlled it, and he posted a map Tuesday morning on Truth Social labeling the area as a "new U.S. territory."

President Donald Trump contradicted Special Envoy for Peace Jared Kushner on Tuesday, flatly denying that any Iran talks were happening hours after Kushner called them active and ongoing.

Trump wrote on Truth Social that "there are no talks or conversations going on, or scheduled, with the Islamic Republic of Iran."

The U.S. official overseeing Donald Trump's contested White House ballroom quietly held talks with Vladimir Putin's aides during a June trip to Russia, in what looks like an off-the-books attempt at diplomacy on the war in Ukraine.

Rodney Mims Cook Jr., 70, chair of the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts, attended the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, an event often called Putin's answer to Davos, becoming the first U.S. official to appear there in nearly a decade. According to the Financial Times, Cook met privately with Kremlin figures including Anton Kobyakov, a senior Putin aide, and was given a diplomatic passport and briefings before he traveled.

A very excitable former official in Donald Trump’s first administration went off on the president and the GOP for heading into the midterms with nothing to appeal to voters.

Appearing on MS NOW’s “Morning Joe,” former State Department official Matt Bartlett was asked by host Jonathan Lemire, “What if you were a campaign manager right now? What is the message for Republicans heading to, you know, who's up for election this November at a time when the president's poll numbers are so low and Americans are so unhappy about prices, about the war in Iran, the list goes on and on.”

U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro is pushing exceedingly hard to keep an accused World War II memorial vandal behind bars.

After Magistrate Judge Matthew Sharbaugh declined prosecutors' request to delay suspect Melissa Farris' release, the U.S. attorney's office filed a 30-page appeal within three hours, asking Chief U.S. District Judge James Boasberg to overturn the ruling, and Politico reported that "Pirro is going to unusual lengths" to keep her locked up.

A former Justice Department civil rights attorney says the Trump administration's antisemitism investigations into three Ivy League schools were rigged from the start — with settlements demanded before the evidence was even in.

According to MS NOW, Haley Van Erem, who spent nearly a decade in the DOJ's Civil Rights Division before joining the antisemitism task force and departing in May 2025, told Congress the findings against Harvard, Brown and Columbia were "predetermined" by political priorities that blew past standard investigative procedures.

Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond demanded Gov. Kevin Stitt (R-OK) place his own secretary of state on leave after the official's arrest on suspicion of public intoxication.

Secretary of State Benjamin Lepak was taken into custody by Edmond police Friday night outside a McDonald's drive-through, OKC Fox reported. Lepak is part of a Republican family that the governor has repeatedly awarded government jobs to.

Melania Trump is locked in a behind-the-scenes standoff with 35-year-old White House aide Natalie Harp over access to the president, according to Donald Trump biographer Michael Wolff.

Harp has become a near-constant fixture at Trump's side, which Wolff says has effectively pushed the first lady out of her own husband's daily orbit, according to The Daily Beast.

Peace talks between Washington and Tehran are officially dead, according to a statement released by President Donald Trump on Tuesday, despite the president having claimed talks were ongoing just days earlier.

“There are no talks or conversations going on, or scheduled, with the Islamic Republic of Iran,” Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social. “The Naval Blockade remains in full force and effect. The Hormuz Strait is open and operating. All water mines have been removed or detonated. Thank you for your attention to this matter!”

Investor and market expert Lawrence McDonald highlighted a series of “red flashing signals” Tuesday during an appearance on Fox Business, signals that he warned were “very similar” to conditions leading up to the 1987 global market crash known as Black Monday.

Founder of The Bear Traps Report and a former Lehman Brothers vice president who co-wrote the bestselling account of the bank's 2008 collapse, "A Colossal Failure of Common Sense," told Fox Business host Cheryl Casone that President Donald Trump’s tariffs were producing weaker results even as bond markets flash global warning signs.