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The Wall Street Journal's editorial board on Wednesday blamed Donald Trump for the Democratic gerrymander that just cost Republicans up to four House seats in Virginia.

In a sharply critical editorial, the Journal's board laid the Virginia debacle squarely at Trump's feet, arguing that the president "started this rolling rock that has now come down on their heads" by goading Texas Republicans into redrawing their own map last year.

A former FBI official shredded FBI Director Kash Patel's claim on Wednesday that he was unaware his agency was probing a New York Times reporter who wrote an article critical of Patel and his girlfriend, country music singer Alexis Wilkins.

The NYT reported on Wednesday, citing a source inside the FBI, that the agency had started looking into reporter Elizabeth Williamson over the article, which raised questions about the amount of security Wilkins received and Patel's use of FBI jets to travel to see her. Wilkins described Williamson as a "stalker" in a post on X after the article was published. The FBI declined to pursue formal charges, the NYT added.

Rep. John Rose (R-TN) laid into Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) on Todd Starnes' Newsmax show Wednesday evening, suggesting the Republican leader should step aside if he isn't prepared to carry out the full MAGA agenda.

Rose particularly took issue with the fact that President Donald Trump's SAVE America Act, a draconian crackdown on voting rights, hasn't been able to pass despite a Republican Senate majority, and the fact that the GOP is still wrangling over how to bypass Democrats to pre-fund immigration enforcement through the entire remainder of Trump's term.

A Republican strategist's comments were sent into the abyss Wednesday on CNN as producers ended a segment while he was trying to respond to a Democratic strategist's claim.

David Urban, a Republican political operative, joined former Obama speechwriter David Axelrod on CNN's "AC360" on Wednesday, where the group discussed the upcoming November midterm elections. Host Anderson Cooper shared recent polling data showing that President Donald Trump's job approval has continued to sink since the war in Iran began in late February, and asked the two analysts for their reactions.

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas's recent speech at the University of Texas at Austin about the ties between progressivism and vicious fascist leaders like Adolf Hitler alarmed an analyst on a new podcast episode on Wednesday.

Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz, co-hosts of "The Court of History," argued in a new episode that Thomas's claim that all the ills of modern society can be traced back to the original Progressive era was not an accurate reading of American history. Wilentz was alarmed by the speech because it seemed to further claims that have been circulating on conspiratorial parts of the internet for several years.

Former Rep. George Santos suggested on social media Wednesday that he would run for Congress again if lawmakers did not remove Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN).

Santos was expelled from Congress in late 2023 after a federal fraud indictment. He was originally sentenced to 87 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to identity theft and wire fraud in August 2024, beginning his sentence in April 2025.

The Trump administration is quietly changing its narrative around gas prices as officials realize President Donald Trump's promises are unworkable, Politico reported on Wednesday.

"Administration officials facing lawmakers declined to put a timetable when the war in Iran would end and the ensuing rise in energy prices would ease, instead offering vague assurances of their track record in lowering prices," said the report. "'I think the conflict will end, and I think gasoline prices will come back to where they were, or perhaps lower,' Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told Senate appropriators."

President Donald Trump received a tongue-lashing from the late Reverend Billy Graham's granddaughter on CNN on Wednesday over an AI-generated image the president posted of himself.

Last week, Trump posted, and then deleted, an image of himself appearing as Jesus Christ healing a sick man in bed. The image showed Trump dressed in a white robe with a red shawl, a common Christian symbol, and also included images of the Statue of Liberty and soldiers. Trump claimed the image made him look like a doctor.

Eric Swalwell's legal headaches just got worse, according to a new Fox News report.

A conservative watchdog group filed a formal complaint Wednesday, demanding federal investigators look into whether the former California congressman spent his time on Capitol Hill moonlighting as a salesman for his own private tech company using his congressional seat as a calling card.

President Donald Trump is nearing a $500 million deal to bail out Spirit Airlines, which would also see the federal government potentially taking a majority equity stake in the troubled ultra-low-cost carrier.

The news resulted in a surge in stock prices for Spirit, which was reportedly on the verge of ceasing all operations and liquidating as soon as this week. But several current and former elected Republican lawmakers were enraged over the news, seeing it as an irresponsible intervention in the free market.

CNN's Senior White House Correspondent, Kristen Holmes, reported on Wednesday that there is an unspoken reason Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth removed a Navy leader.

Holmes reported that Hegseth may have removed Navy Secretary John Phelan because of his proximity to President Donald Trump, rather than for any job-related reason, because he was a threat to Hegseth's power. Initial reports of Phelan's departure indicated Hegseth may have fired him because he was "too slow on ship reform," Holmes said.

The Trump administration is nearing a deal to provide Spirit Airlines with a $500 million loan to help the struggling carrier cope with rising jet fuel costs resulting from Trump's Iran war and the Strait of Hormuz blockade.

Under the proposed agreement, the government would receive warrants for a potential significant stake in the discount airline.