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President Donald Trump hinted Tuesday that his administration may take immediate action to intervene in what he called a “humanitarian crisis of epic proportions” in Iran, demanding that it be addressed immediately.

“The failing Islamic Republic of Iran is not paying large segments of their military, while at the same time killing protesters, even when they are not protesting, at levels not seen before,” Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social. “It is a humanitarian crisis of epic proportions, and must be stopped, NOW.”

Panelists on "CNN This Morning" highlighted an unusually jocular interview on Fox News with Democratic Senate candidate Dr. Abdul El-Sayed.

The Democratic Senate nominee in Michigan and host Jesse Watters frequently laughed as El-Sayed fielded questions – and asked some of his own – during a Monday night prime time appearance, and the broadcaster squirmed when the physician turned a question about gender-affirming surgery for minors around on him.

President Donald Trump lobbed a new threat in escalating the trade war with Canada.

The 80-year-old president has been trading insults with Ontario's outspoken premier Doug Ford since Prime Minister Mark Carney backed out of trade talks, and Trump threatened to take symbolic control of Lake Ontario in response.

Amid the ongoing and deeply unpopular U.S. war against Iran, the Trump administration has drained its supply of crude oil reserves to its lowest levels in more than 40 years, and a bleak prediction by the financial data company Barchart has onlookers panicking.

Sharing data from a Bank of America research chart on Monday, Barchart predicted that the United States has “just 41 days of crude oil inventory left” after the Trump administration had drained the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to its “lowest level in half a century.” Established in the mid-1970s, the Strategic Petroleum Reserve previously held around 726 million barrels of crude oil in 2010 — as of Monday, according to Reuters, only 289.7 million barrels remain.

President Donald Trump's standing with Republicans will be put to the test on Tuesday, and if he comes up on the short end, he may never recover.

According to a report from Politico, the president has bet it all by throwing every bit of weight he has behind Sen. Darline Graham Nordone (R-SC) to be on the ballot in November.

House Judiciary Committee Democrats have escalated their investigation into Jared Kushner, warning his conduct tied to a luxury resort in Albania could expose him to liability under a federal anti-bribery law.

Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), the panel's top Democrat, sent Kushner a letter demanding records on the "approval or consideration" of his Albanian coastal development, including communications with U.S. and Albanian officials, reported MS NOW.

CNN political commentator Charles Blow flipped a conservative panelist's guilt-by-association attack back on Donald Trump during a heated Monday night clash, invoking Jeffrey Epstein and Trump's affinity for authoritarian leaders in a comeback that quickly ricocheted across social media.

The clash unfolded on "NewsNight" with host Abby Phillip, where Blow and National Review columnist Caroline Downey are frequent sparring partners. Downey was pressing the argument that Democratic candidates campaigning alongside progressive streamer Hasan Piker should be judged by that association.

The United States has suspended its government activities in and official travel to Mexicali, the capital of Mexico's Baja California state, citing an unspecified security threat.

In a security alert issued Monday night, the U.S. Embassy in Mexico said that "due to threat information, U.S. government activities in, and travel to, Mexicali have been suspended on August 25," and warned American citizens of the "potential threat."

Conservative judge Michael Luttig warned Monday that President Donald Trump seems likely to push Congress into a "high noon" scenario if the midterms don't go well for Republicans.

If public polling is any indication, Democrats could win both the House of Representatives and the Senate after the midterms, which would significantly imperil the Trump administration. Trump seems to have preemptively dispatched his son-in-law Jared Kushner to negotiate some kind of truce with House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), as reports of a meeting between the two men have rankled political analysts across the spectrum.

President Donald Trump seems to have dispatched his "secret weapon" in hopes of staving off the one thing he is terrified of happening, according to one expert.

David Rothkopf, global affairs columnist for The Daily Beast and a former international trade official in the Clinton White House, argued during a new episode of "The Daily Beast Podcast" that Jared Kushner's secret meeting with House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) signals that Trump is terrified of being impeached again. Kushner wouldn't have met with Jeffries unless the White House is preparing for Democrats to regain control of the House of Representatives after the midterms.

The Supreme Court undermined its own prior rulings to give President Donald Trump a win on his mail-in ballot executive order, GOP legal expert Ben Ginsberg told CNN's Kaitlan Collins.

The order requires the U.S. Postal Service to restrict delivery of mail ballots to states that haven't handed over vast troves of voter information to the Department of Homeland Security — which, if implemented now, could lead to widespread chaos.

The Bulwark's Will Sommer took a deep dive on Monday into how the Trump administration tried to feed information to a trusted MAGA influencer — and her paranoia of "entrapment" set off a "circular firing squad" within the pro-Trump movement.

The controversy surrounds Jennica Pounds, better known as "Data Republican."

President Donald Trump's latest round of trade war against Canada is self-defeating, warned the conservative Wall Street Journal editorial board — because he'll take the U.S. auto industry down in the process.

"Mr. Trump is angry that Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney over the weekend vowed to retaliate dollar-for-dollar against his latest tariff barrage," wrote the board. For that reason, he is imposing a 50 percent tariff on “all Cars, Trucks, both large and small, Automotive Parts, and Steel,” according to his Truth Social posting.