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Tommy Tuberville asks ChatGPT how to vote during long Alabama drives

Sen. Tommy Tuberville has found a way to pass the long drives across Alabama: chatting out loud with ChatGPT about major policy issues.

The Alabama Republican, now eyeing the governor's mansion, peppers the bot with questions about Medicare and Medicaid and listens as its voice answers back, according to The Washington Post.

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Outrage as Trump aides move to put his name back on Kennedy Center after court said no

The Kennedy Center board is moving once again to put President Donald Trump's name on the side of the performing arts center — defying court orders.

The Trump-loyal board voted Thursday to inscribe "Restored and Renovated by President Donald J. Trump" beneath the venue's main signage — a workaround to a federal law banning new memorials or plaques at the center, The New York Times reported. The move came shortly after the board also voted to move forward with shuttering the main building for two years of renovations, a plan Trump first floated in February, calling the historic venue "tired, broken and dilapidated."

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MAGA candidate's 'unexplained' attendance issues led to 200 missed votes: report

A MAGA lawmaker who is running for a Senate seat in Iowa missed nearly 200 votes during her time in Congress on topics ranging from protecting kids to reducing crime and domestic violence, according to a new report.

Rep. Ashley Hinson (R-IA) has been absent from 196 votes since she was sworn into office in 2021, American Journal News reported on Thursday. Her attendance record was revealed at a time when she is running against Iowa state Rep. Josh Turek, a Democrat, in a high-stakes election, according to the outlet.

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Trump's 'cruel' scheme hurled​ back at him by 'traitor' nemesis

President Donald Trump coined the "Anti-Weaponization Fund" as the vehicle for a billion-dollar scheme to funnel taxpayer money to his allies, and one of his highest-profile targets is stealing the name and aiming it right back at him.

Miles Taylor, the former Trump homeland security official who anonymously blew the whistle on the first administration, announced this week that his group Defiance is launching "the real Anti-Weaponization Fund" to go to bat for Americans caught in the president's campaign of retribution.

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MAGA rep's CNN interview goes off the rails: 'I'm not admitting anything!'

A Republican congressman exploded when a CNN anchor tried to pin him down on accepting campaign cash from a GOP colleague accused of abusing his ex-wife and daughter.

Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) was among 16 GOP incumbents to receive contributions from Rep. Max Miller's (R-OH) Dependable Conservative Leadership PAC, and CNN's Dana Bash asked him about a statement from his campaign spokesman saying he would not give back a $10,000 donation from this campaign cycle.

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Stephen Miller teams up with a 'deadly threat' in new bid to attack helpless kids

Advocates and lawmakers are raising concerns over how the Trump administration is handling unaccompanied migrant children after a contract for legal services was allowed to expire.

The Department of Health and Human Services allowed a legal-services contract for the children to lapse and awarded a new $244 million contract to a nonprofit whose leadership has faced serious allegations, and a writer for Public Notice warned the moves put children in real danger.

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'Magical thinking': Jared Kushner slapped with humiliating takedown over 'peace' claim

Jared Kushner drew immediate backlash for a social media post claiming President Donald Trump had opened a new chapter of 'peace' in the Middle East, as a U.S.-initiated war raged on.

Kushner posted Thursday on X to mark what he called the six-year anniversary of the Abraham Accords — the 2020 diplomatic agreements that normalized relations between Israel and several Arab states.

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Leavitt departure tied to Todd Blanche's surprise memo after confirmation: expert

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt’s out-of-the-blue announcement that she is abandoning her current job to become an off-the-books adviser to the president raised eyebrows on Thursday.

During a panel discussion on MS NOW’s “On The Line” with host Alicia Menendez, it was noted that the imminent departure of President Donald Trump’s spokesperson comes on the heels of an unexpected and controversial memo from Attorney General Todd Blanche released on Tuesday, after he was sworn in.

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Cheney's doctor fires back at White House's insults with blunt dare: 'I want to hear it'

Former Vice President Dick Cheney's cardiologist fired back at White House criticism Thursday after his recent op-ed raised questions about President Donald Trump's health.

Dr. Jonathan Reiner, a CNN medical analyst and professor at George Washington University, published a piece Wednesday in the New York Times detailing concerns about the 80-year-old president's apparent health issues.

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Trump-controlled board moves to shut down Kennedy Center after court smackdown: report

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts' board voted Thursday to move forward with a plan to close the building for renovations, after being accused by a federal judge of being "derelict" in its duties, according to a new report.

The decision will still require approval from the federal judge who found fault after a review of the closure plan after an earlier vote, the New York Times reported Thursday

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Rankled Trump DOJ demands judge booted over 'suspicious' aggression toward Todd Blanche

President Donald Trump's Justice Department is crying foul over the way a federal judge treated Attorney General Todd Blanche, complaining she trashed him in a court order without ever giving him a chance to respond.

In a time-sensitive filing to the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday, the DOJ demanded the court freeze the order, toss it, and reassign the case largely over how U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams went after Blanche.

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Putin guns for Trump Cabinet member as he issues warrant for son's arrest

Russian President Vladimir Putin's has set his sights on a member of Donald Trump's Cabinet — by going after his kid.

A Moscow court has ordered the arrest of Conor Kennedy, the son of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., branding him a "mercenary" for a stint spent fighting alongside Ukrainian forces, according to the Russian state media outlet TASS.

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Trump's 'fevered' lawsuit against Harvard shut down in blistering court ruling

President Donald Trump's antisemitism lawsuit against Harvard was dismissed Thursday by a federal judge who called the government's arguments "fevered."

U.S. District Judge Richard G. Stearns, who has presided over Harvard antisemitism cases for three years, ruled the government's complaint relied almost entirely on incidents from the 2023-2024 school year.

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