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FBI Director Kash Patel has purged another longtime senior official, triggering a fresh wave of fear throughout the bureau as employees brace for what appears to be another politically motivated purge of nonpartisan agents who have drawn disfavor from President Donald Trump or Republicans.

According to MS NOW's Ken Dilanian, Deputy Assistant Director Emily Morales was summarily fired and escorted out by FBI security last Friday on orders from Patel who has been keeping a low profile after being buffeted with accusations of excessive drinking.

Americans already grappling with elevated gas prices face another inflation squeeze as severe weather, trade policy and geopolitical conflict could send consumer costs surging just before November's midterm elections.

Grocery prices rose in April by the most in nearly four years, and experts warn the pressures will only worsen through 2027, when the U.S. Department of Agriculture projects a 3.2 percent increase in grocery prices and other experts warn that could rise even higher, reported Bloomberg.

Former Republican strategist Rick Wilson warned Tuesday that President Donald Trump's health is declining and the White House is concealing the reality through a coordinated cover-up.

In his Substack post, "Trump Is Dying," Wilson compared the deception to Edith Wilson forging her husband's signature in 1919, citing "memos," claims of "excellent health," and "careful staging" to obscure Trump's diminished condition.

The National Republican Senatorial Committee spent months calling Ken Paxton corrupt, adulterous, and incompetent. Then he won — and the receipts started disappearing.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton defeated incumbent Sen. John Cornyn in a Republican Senate runoff Tuesday, making Cornyn the first Republican senator from Texas to lose his party's nomination for reelection. Within hours, the NRSC was quietly deleting its own ads and press releases attacking the man it will now be expected to elect.

The Trump administration launched an unprecedented effort Tuesday to bar federal workers from sharing "non-public" information, and on Wednesday, former Homeland Security official Miles Taylor warned that the move bore all the hallmarks of a tactic Trump employed in the private sector, one Taylor described as "creepier than you think."

“Federal workers would be forbidden from talking about almost anything they see or do on the job, including things Trump or his subordinates order them to do,” Taylor wrote in an analysis published Wednesday on his Substack.

A key official for the Kennedy Center argued to a federal judge this week that the famed venue would see a collapse in donation revenue if President Donald Trump's name were to be removed from the building.

The filing, part of a lawsuit brought against Trump by Kennedy Center boardmember and Democratic congresswoman Joyce Beatty, was flagged on Wednesday morning by Lawfare senior editor Roger Parloff in a post to X.

A far-right congressional candidate backed by President Donald Trump exchanged racist jokes with a vigilante border militiaman, according to The Arizona Republic.

Mark Lamb, the former sheriff of Pinal County, made the exchanges on a 2016 campaign social media account with Nick Steele of Border Narcotics Intelligence, a private extremist group that claims to patrol the border on behalf of the public.

A 79-page opinion written by two Donald Trump-appointed federal judges and one put in place by former President Bill Clinton has put the Supreme Court on the spot to make clear how the nation's highest court, with its conservative majority, justifies race-based gerrymandering.

On Tuesday, the panel blocked Alabama from using its 2023 congressional map, which the court found was deliberately designed to dilute Black voting power. The judges ordered the state to adopt a replacement map allowing Black voters the right to elect their preferred candidates.

A Trump administration official's proposal to punish Democratic-led cities was met with harsh criticism.

Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin appeared on Fox News late Tuesday to discuss plans to stop processing international travelers and cargo at U.S. airports in cities that refused to cooperate with the administration's immigration crackdown.

On Tuesday, Texas GOP voters elected to nominate Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in his bid for Senate, but on Wednesday, political data strategist John Hagner flagged a telling marker buried within the election data that may spell disaster for Republicans in the midterm elections.

In March, Texas held its primary election, during which around 2.3 million Democrats and 2.2 million Republicans cast their votes, the first time since 2020 that Democrats “voted in higher numbers than Republicans.” The GOP race for Senate kicked off a runoff election between Paxton and incumbent Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) which was held on Tuesday, and the results, Hagner noted, spoke volumes.

Former Attorney General Pam Bondi was diagnosed with thyroid cancer shortly after President Donald Trump removed her from the Justice Department last month, according to Axios.

Bondi, 60, underwent treatment and is recovering, a source told the outlet. The diagnosis came weeks after Trump ousted her as AG in early April — a departure he framed warmly in a Truth Social post calling her "a Great American Patriot and a loyal friend."