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Political analysts and observers were outraged on Sunday after The Washington Post uncovered a MAGA influence operation being conducted inside the Pentagon.

The Post reported, citing people familiar with the operation, that the Pentagon hired several MAGA influencers as employees to amplify Pete Hegseth's viewpoints and to "attack those who scrutinize the Trump administration." Two of the hires mentioned in the report are Rob Maness, a retired Air Force colonel with more than 135,000 followers on X, and Kurt Schlichter, a retired Army colonel with nearly 620,000 followers on X.

President Donald Trump raged at what he described as a "highly conflicted judge" on Sunday over his pet Kennedy Center project.

"Kennedy Center is an old and decrepit building that is badly in need of a major construction and public relations fix before it can attain greatness and prestige, perhaps far greater than ever before," Trump wrote on Truth Social. "It has been losing a fortune for many years, and will continue to do so if the highly conflicted judge on the case doesn’t allow us to do what has to be done!"

CNN data guru Harry Enten was astounded on Sunday after new data revealed just how little Americans think of President Donald Trump's latest stunt.

Last week, Trump signed an executive order renaming Lake Ontario Lake America as part of his ongoing trade spat with America's northern neighbor. Enten did a little digging into Google's search data and said during Sunday's broadcast of "CNN Newsroom" that the data painted a revealing picture of how Americans are thinking about the move.

President Donald Trump has prepared an earthquake-type scheme to thwart the impact of the midterm elections if Democrats take back control of Congress, according to one White House insider.

Maggie Haberman, White House correspondent for The New York Times, argued during a new episode of "The Court of History" podcast that Trump may deploy a two-pronged scheme if Republicans suffer steep losses. On one hand, Trump could issue a number of pardons to officials who would face congressional inquiries. On the other, his administration officials would thwart any inquiries Democrats launch.

There's an "interesting sign" emerging after the U.S. conducted a new round of strikes against Iran on Sunday that risks spurring America's enemies to act, according to one analyst.

The U.S. launched a series of strikes against two sites on Larak Island in the Strait of Hormuz where Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps members were staging rocket launchers to attack merchant ships, according to reports. The strikes came just days after President Donald Trump called Iran a "failing nation" in a post on Truth Social.

The United States conducted its first offensive operation in Iran in almost a month on Sunday by striking multiple sites where the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) had stored rocket launchers, according to reports.

A U.S. official who spoke with multiple news outlets said the strikes occurred on Larak Island, which sits in the Strait of Hormuz, a critical waterway that is responsible for about 20% of the global energy trade. The official told CNN that "U.S. forces are monitoring the area closely and remain prepared to protect the free flow of commerce through this essential waterway."

A GOP strategist was awed over the weekend after a string of new polls found that the Republican Party's attempts to "goose" voters during the midterms were falling flat.

Republicans have been pushing several policy positions in hopes of getting their base to turn out for the midterms, such as increasing voter identification requirements, fighting back against a billionaire tax proposal in California, and addressing the rising cost of living. President Donald Trump has also pleaded with voters to pretend he's on the ballot in state races to boost turnout.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's top henchman in the Department of Defense sparked fury on Sunday after he made a damning admission about President Donald Trump's war against Iran on social media.

The Washington Post reported earlier in the day that several of the military's top leaders have sent Hegseth "non-concurring" orders, or statements letting the secretary know that they disagree with an order. The order that received the most recent batch of non-concurring orders was Hegseth's directive to maintain the 50,000-troop threshold in the Middle East that the U.S. has amassed in its fight against Iran, a level that generals described as "unsustainable," according to the report.

Fans of President Donald Trump's Make America Great Again movement came unglued on Sunday after a Democratic governor unveiled what they described as a "literal biblical curse" at a public event.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul spoke to a group of Muslim men at the Islamic Cultural Center in New York over the weekend. During the event, Hochul stood on stage wearing a hijab, a common way for people to honor Muslim customs and etiquette. The move caused a stir among the MAGA faithful, many of whom accused Hochul of siding with a foreign government.

During his speech at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Texas on Friday, President Donald Trump’s entire body twitched in a manner that one forensic psychologist argued was consistent with what’s known as a focal aware seizure or a partial seizure.

John Paul Garrison, a Georgia-based clinical and forensic psychologist, analyzed footage of Trump’s speech in a video published Saturday that he called “the most concerning footage” of the president he had analyzed yet.

A powerful voting bloc that helped President Donald Trump win the 2024 presidential election has turned on him ahead of a crucial midterm election, according to a new report.

Republicans now fear they'll lose Senate control as Arab American voters flock to Democratic candidate Abdul El-Sayed and abandon the Trump-endorsed candidate, former Michigan Rep. Mike Rogers (R), Politico reported Sunday.

President Donald Trump erupted Sunday in a lengthy rant against Canada amid the ongoing trade war between Washington and Ottawa, a dispute that experts warn could soon “spiral” and cost tens of thousands of jobs, or more.

“I don’t want Canadian cars, I don’t want Canadian parts, I don’t want Canadian anything. They’ve been ripping us off for decades, and it’s going to stop,” Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social.

A scandal-beleaguered Texas candidate running on President Donald Trump's questionable endorsement spewed a word salad Sunday when asked why he had three primary homes.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton — running for the U.S. Senate against state Rep. James Talarico — spluttered on and on about his state's constitution, various counties, the locations of a few of his 15 homes, and fraud.