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Oil executives handed President Donald Trump a searing defeat in his effort to lower energy costs for Americans ahead of the midterms, according to a new report.

The Washington Examiner reported on Friday that executives from Exxon Mobil and Chevron said they have no plans to increase production, which could help lower pump prices. Their comments come after Interior Secretary Doug Burgum and Energy Secretary Chris Wright called on oil companies to increase their production earlier this month.

Two of the top GOP leaders issued a rare rebuke of President Donald Trump on Saturday after the president sent "the wrong signal" to his Russian counterpart, according to a new report.

Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Roger Wicker (R-MS) and House Armed Services Committee Chairman Mike Rogers (R-AL) issued a joint statement in which they bashed Trump's decision to remove 5,000 U.S. troops from Germany, the Washington Examiner reported. Trump made the decision after German Chancellor Friedrich Merz criticized Trump's negotiations with the Iranian regime.

The MAGA media world just underwent a "seismic shift," and it revealed that President Donald Trump's impending doom may be just over the horizon, according to two analysts.

On Friday, the MAGA media outlet "The Daily Wire" laid off about half of its staff, according to reports. While the layoffs are notable in their own right, Democratic analyst Adam Mockler and strategist Mike Nellis argued during a new podcast episode on Saturday that the company's downsizing reveals just how unpopular Trump has become.

Political analysts and observers were agog on Saturday after Tucker Carlson had his words thrown back in his face during an interview with the New York Times.

Carlson sat down with the NYT's Lulu Garcia-Navarro for a wide-ranging interview about his work and current relationship with President Donald Trump. At one point, Garcia-Navarro asked Carlson about his previous comment, in which he called Trump the "antichrist." Carlson denied making the remark, but was swiftly reminded of it when Garcia-Navarro read his words back to him.

MS NOW host Alex Witt was shocked on Saturday as President Donald Trump's war in Iran created a "domino effect of absolute misery" for Americans at home.

Reports indicated that Spirit Airlines canceled all its flights on Saturday as it ceased operations. The budget airline cited rising jet fuel prices stemming from Trump's war for its decision, but that didn't help the thousands of Americans stranded at airports across the country.

Economic analyst Henrietta Treyz left MS NOW’s Alex Witt stunned on Saturday after issuing a dire prediction about the American economy, particularly as it relates to the ongoing surge in energy costs.

Witt queued up a clip of President Donald Trump claiming that gas prices – which recently reached a four-year high of $4.30 per gallon – would soon fall as his war against Iran ends, and despite peace talks between Washington and Tehran having reached a stalemate. She then asked Treyz, were the war to “end tomorrow,” how soon Americans could expect prices at the pump to fall.

In a “private meeting” on Tuesday, President Donald Trump met with several of his top officials to discuss ways to address a growing vulnerability that may prove politically toxic for Republicans in the upcoming midterm elections, The Washington Post reported on Saturday.

"Gas prices are surging, voter backlash is building, and inside the White House, the options to lower prices at the pump are dwindling," the Post reported.

Political scientist and scholar Norman Ornstein warned of an impending “double-triple whammy” about to hit Americans’ finances on Saturday, one he attributed directly to what he described as an “insane policy” of President Donald Trump’s.

The policy in question was the Trump administration’s ongoing war against Iran, which has already sent gas prices skyrocketing to levels not seen since Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine. Ornstein warned, however, that the current price increases were only the beginning.

Despite President Donald Trump’s recent demand that Israel halt its bombing campaign of Lebanon amid his administration’s efforts to secure a peace deal with Iran, the Israeli military confirmed that it had carried out “about 50 airstrikes” targeting what it claimed to be Hezbollah infrastructure sites, NBC News reported Saturday.

Last month, Trump issued an unusually fierce demand to Israeli leadership, declaring Israel to be "prohibited by the U.S.A” from “bombing Lebanon any longer.” A key demand of Iranian leaders in their negotiations with the United States has been that Israel halt its siege on Lebanon.

Famed reporter Julie K. Brown obtained a leaked email penned by Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell while in prison last year – an email, Brown theorized, that might hold a “clue” to the convicted sex trafficker’s plan to secure either a pardon or other reprieve from her 20-year sentence.

Republicans on the House Oversight Committee recently signaled an openness to offering Maxwell – who was found guilty of five federal charges related to sex trafficking minors – clemency in exchange for testifying under oath. In a report published on her Substack recently, Brown predicted Maxwell will ultimately receive a pardon or other relief, citing an email she sent her sister last October.