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President Donald Trump has not appeared at a single public event in eight days — and the White House isn't saying when that will change.

Trump's last confirmed live public appearance was May 27, when he presided over a Cabinet meeting at the White House. Since then, his schedule has been a wall of closed-press policy meetings, Executive Time, and private dinners. The only glimpse of the president came via a pre-taped Fox News interview with his daughter-in-law, Lara Trump — not a public event.

President Donald Trump is on the brink of burnout from his "descent into rage-madness," Nobel Prize-winning economist turned political commentator Paul Krugman wrote for his Substack on Wednesday — and is at risk of being rendered irrelevant to the very movement he created.

The president, wrote Krugman, cannot ever admit he led America into disaster with the Iran war, "but the debacle has clearly broken him. So we are now saddled with a president who has given up governing, but will maintain his grip on power wherever he can. And his power will be exclusively focused on rage and revenge."

President Donald Trump has faced a rare wave of bi-partisan scrutiny over his pick to replace outgoing Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard, and on Wednesday, a raunchy video resurfaced that may pose even more problems for the Trump nominee.

Recorded in 2023 in Florida at a mock-stock event, Bill Pulte – the current Federal Housing Finance Agency director and Trump’s pick to become DNI – is seen on video receiving a trophy with the inscription “Bill Pulte f----.”

A rare loss by a Republican who waltzed into Tuesday's primary with a high-profile endorsement from Donald Trump has raised concerns that a change is in the air for November’s general election.

According to a report from MS NOW, authored by Hunter Woodall and Alex Tabet, the fact that Rep. Randy Feenstra (R) lost the GOP primary for Iowa governor nomination to rival Zach Lann has Republicans “anxious” about what voters want, with the added threat that Lann’s Democratic opponent might be the next governor.

The Justice Department's No. 3 official briefly admitted on X that the agency was moving to revive a controversial fund to compensate Jan. 6 defendants — then deleted the post on Wednesday.

Associate Attorney General Stanley E. Woodward, Jr. responded to a post from Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) with a terse three-word reply — "We're on it." — before quietly scrubbing it. Politico's Josh Gerstein flagged the deletion.

Donald Trump's appointment of Bill Pulte as acting Director of National Intelligence hands a man with no intelligence experience — and a documented willingness to weaponize government power against Trump's enemies — control over the nation's entire spy apparatus just months before the midterm elections, a former federal prosecutor warned Tuesday.

Joyce Vance, who served as U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama, laid out the threat in stark terms. The DNI's portfolio includes advising the president on potential foreign interference in elections — a responsibility that, in Pulte's hands, Vance wrote, could become something far more sinister.

Ever since Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton was nominated as the GOP's U.S. Senate candidate in the Lone Star State, a Republican group in Austin is in crisis, as some of its members openly advocate for Democratic challenger James Talarico.

According to the Austin American-Statesman, an unofficial Facebook forum for the Travis County Republican Party has had to block and remove dozens of people as they have posted messages in support of Talarico: "Andy Hogue, a member of Travis County Republicans ... posted the directive in the group last week."

President Donald Trump was pressed in an interview published on Wednesday about the soaring inflation caused by his deeply unpopular war against Iran and its impact on Americans, a line of questioning the president responded to by blurting out a blatant falsehood – one that coincided with reports that directly contradicted his claim.

“In your first term, I think that was one of the hallmarks, that peoples' wages – especially working peoples' wages – were rising much faster than inflation,” said The New York Post’s Miranda Devine in a video interview recorded in the White House.

The U.S. Supreme Court is entering its most consequential month in years with a series of significant decisions on the horizon, according to CNN's reporting.

The court is weighing 26 decisions expected to be decided by the end of June, and the Trump administration has taken an active role in all but one of those, and CNN reported that an explosive confrontation is looming.

President Donald Trump admitted in an interview published Wednesday that he lobbed expletives at Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in an explosive phone call on Monday, citing his growing frustration with Israel’s refusal to halt its invasion and bombardment of Lebanon as the cause for his outburst.

Details of the supposed call were first reported on by Axios, which claimed Trump had called Netanyahu “f------ crazy,” and said that “everybody hates you” and “hates Israel.” Trump also reportedly told the prime minister that he’d “be in prison if it weren’t for me,” with Netanyahu having been indicted on corruption charges by the Israeli government, and for war crimes by the International Criminal Court.

In the wake of the firing of longtime “60 Minutes” host Scott Pelley, there are growing concerns among the remaining staffers that the show may not be in a position to return on time to the airwaves after the summer hiatus.

The turmoil at CBS News' flagship program was intensified with the firing of longtime host Scott Pelley on Tuesday night.

Late Tuesday newly appointed executive producer Nick Bilton, who has faced criticism over his lack of relevant qualifications, fired off a blistering email terminating Pelley's employment "for cause effective immediately," reported Oliver Darcy of Status.

Bilton accused Pelley of "hijacking" his first staff meeting to "disparage me, my qualifications, and my intentions with remarkable incivility and contempt." The email suggested Bilton had sought to find common ground before concluding that Pelley's "antipathy to the future of the show has come through loud and clear."

The firings represent the latest upheaval at the program following CBS News head Bari Weiss's sweeping purge that included longtime executive producer Tanya Simon, correspondents Sharyn Alfonsi and Cecilia Vega, and Executive Editor Draggan Mihailovich, among other senior staffers.

Inside the newsroom, the instability has created serious doubts about whether the program can even get on the air by fall.

"One staffer told me before Pelley's firing they believed there was a 50/50 chance the program will be ready for air after Labor Day. That's because while '60 Minutes' does go on a summer hiatus, staffers are still hard at work filling the pipeline for the next season. Stories are green lit, correspondents are sent on shoots, etcetera. 13-minute stories of the '60 Minutes' caliber are not produced overnight," Darcy reported.

The uncertainty extends to basic operational questions. It remains unclear which correspondents will even be available to pursue stories.

The Trump administration has diverted at least $90 million in national park entry fees to fund Washington, D.C., beautification projects, including a $1.6 million Fourth of July fireworks display and $76 million to repair city fountains, according to internal National Park Service documents.

The redirection of funds — more than five times the usual expenditure on the annual fireworks celebration — comes as America's park system labors under a $24 billion backlog of deferred maintenance, reported the Washington Post, and critics say the spending priorities represent a dramatic and troubling departure from how park fee revenue has traditionally been allocated.

Scott Pelley, the veteran CBS News correspondent fired this week after publicly accusing network leadership of "murdering" 60 Minutes, issued a formal statement Tuesday night detailing what he says drove him out — and the allegations are specific.

"New management has instructed me to inject falsehoods and bias into a politically sensitive story," Pelley wrote. "I've been told to include assertions that are unverified. To date, in every case, I have managed to ignore these instructions or refuse them."