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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

President Donald Trump has a crack problem — and America is paying the cost of it, according to Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman.

Krugman argued on Substack Thursday that Americans are unlikely to see gas prices drop because, as he put it, "Donald Trump is not a well man. He is, unfortunately, also President, which means that we all pay a price for his inability to accept reality."

Attorney General Todd Blanche's "strange" address to the Justice Department on Thursday stunned a legal analyst who hurled his own words — and the mounting dangers judges' families face — back in his face.

MS NOW commentator Lisa Rubin took to X to condemn Blanche for a rallying cry to his troops she characterized as blatantly contradictory to his leadership.

President Donald Trump's tanking popularity presents Democrats a "historic" opportunity to flip southern Senate seats they've been unable to claim for decades, according to an analysis by CNN's Harry Enten.

With less than three months until the midterms and Trump's approval rating sinking to new lows, polling shows Democratic candidates leading in three crucial states, according to the data analyst.