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A Republican congressman has abruptly changed his tune on country music star Jelly Roll after the singer delivered a brutal series of jokes about President Donald Trump on late-night TV.

Rep. Jimmy Patronis (R-FL) once warmly welcomed Jelly Roll to his Florida Panhandle-area district, according to a June 2024 post on X, which resurfaced Wednesday by MeidasTouch editor-in-chief Ron Filipkowski.

The military is in dire straits because of the Trump administration's mismanagement, warned Paul Rieckhoff, Iraq War veteran and host of "Independent Americans," on MS NOW Wednesday.

The Pentagon is finally returning the U.S.S. Lincoln home after weeks of uninterrupted service in the Iran war that led to horrific conditions for troops — but two of its escort destroyers have been ordered to stay behind, infuriating families of the sailors who remain stuck in limbo.

Elon Musk's X Corp. just lost a federal lawsuit aimed at blocking a New York law forcing social media companies to publicly disclose how they handle hate speech, extremism and disinformation on their platforms.

U.S. District Judge John Cronan, an appointee of President Donald Trump, dismissed X's entire case against Attorney General Letitia James on Wednesday, ruling the company's First Amendment claims simply didn't hold up. X had argued the state law violated its free speech rights by forcing the platform to disclose sensitive details about its content moderation policies for categories like hate speech and foreign political interference.

President Donald Trump declared a national emergency Wednesday over foreign-made equipment that the White House warned could leave the nation’s power system vulnerable to sabotage and catastrophic disruption.

Trump signed an executive order aimed at protecting “the security, integrity, and reliability” of electric equipment used in the country’s bulk-power system, according to the White House.

A federal judge shot down the Trump Justice Department's attempt to wipe out Steve Bannon's contempt of Congress conviction Wednesday, ruling prosecutors didn't even bother explaining why they wanted the case dropped.

Bannon, an ally of President Donald Trump, was convicted in 2022 on two counts of contempt for defying a subpoena from the House January 6 Committee and served four months in prison after his conviction was upheld on appeal. But after the Supreme Court agreed to send his case back for further review earlier this year, the Trump DOJ moved to dismiss the entire indictment, and Bannon's own lawyers didn't object.

A sealed Florida grand jury report reveals how $10 million meant to reimburse taxpayers for a Medicaid overbilling scandal was secretly diverted to defeat a 2024 marijuana legalization measure — and why no one is going to take any criminal blame.

The money originated from a settlement with health care giant Centene, which had overbilled Florida's Healthy Kids program by tens of millions of dollars, reported CBS News. Rather than returning the full $67 million owed to taxpayers, the DeSantis administration quietly rewrote the deal twice within two days in September 2024, ultimately siphoning $10 million to the Hope Florida Foundation, a controversial nonprofit tied to first lady Casey DeSantis.

Maine’s Republican nominee for governor was caught on audio revealing plans to ask for federal agents to be stationed at polling locations during the upcoming midterm elections - an idea critics quickly blasted as “deeply alarming” and “likely illegal.”

Bobby Charles told supporters at an Aug. 20 Maine Young Republicans event that he would ask White House border czar Tom Homan to send Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and U.S. Marshals to voting locations, according to audio obtained by The Associated Press.

An Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent facing felony assault charges for shooting a Venezuelan immigrant through a duplex door could walk free from Texas custody as soon as Thursday, after a federal judge sided with Gov. Greg Abbott over Minnesota in an unusual interstate legal fight.

U.S. District Judge Fernando Rodriguez Jr., a Trump appointee, ruled Wednesday that Minnesota hadn't proven Abbott acted improperly by refusing to act on the state's extradition request for agent Christian Castro, reported The New York Times. Under Texas law, defendants can only be held on extradition warrants for 90 days — a window closing just as the ruling came down.

Republican primary voters in the nation’s reddest state appear to have had enough of the Wyoming Freedom Caucus after they “annihilated” its candidates in the recent primaries.

That’s according to conservative Washington Post columnist Henry Olsen, a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, who argued Wednesday that Wyoming’s results crushed the conservative narrative that establishment Republicans are out-of-touch “RINOs.”