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Pro-MAGA influencers erupted in outrage after CNN tested the bright green water in the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, which President Donald Trump recently renovated.

Trump ordered the landmark repainted "American flag blue" for $14.2 million — far exceeding his initial $2 million estimate. Algae turned the water green within days of the pool being refilled in early June.

President Donald Trump's Department of Justice thrashed a federal judge in a new court filing for demanding that DOJ officials and two Trump cabinet secretaries officially declare that Trump's "anti-weaponization" slush fund is officially dead.

Last month, the Trump administration announced plans to create a $1.776 billion fund to pay claims from people who allege they were wrongfully prosecuted by the federal government. Several of Trump's allies, including formerly convicted members of the Proud Boys, declared that they would seek restitution from the fund, which sparked significant bipartisan pushback.

Former Gov. John Kasich (R-OH) laid into President Donald Trump's administration on MS NOW as they head into final negotiations for a deal to end the Iran war, faulting them for not understanding the most basic things about the enemy they attacked and then capitulated to.

"I wonder if the military brass and the intelligence community laid it on the line to the President before he made a decision to go," said Kasich, a frequent critic of the administration who endorsed former President Joe Biden. "Were they not aware of the fact that Iran had the capability to be able to manipulate the Strait of Hormuz? Did they not understand even that 70 percent of the missile capability apparently has survived the bombing?"

An elected official in a small, rural town in east Georgia bashed President Donald Trump's Department of Homeland Security after local residents defeated the department's attempt to turn a local warehouse into one of the nation's largest deportation centers, according to a new report.

Trump's DHS had planned to open a 10,000-person deportation facility in Social Circle, Georgia, which is about an hour drive east of Atlanta, until local leaders like city manager Eric Taylor decided to fight back. In February, Taylor shut off water to the warehouse Trump's DHS had purchased for the center. He has also reached out to Georgia Sens. Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock, both Democrats, and Rep. Mike Collins (R-GA), who is running against Ossoff in the November election, to help stop the Trump administration's scheme, the Guardian reported.

Democratic political strategist James Carville warned President Donald Trump that the knives would be out after this fall's midterm elections.

The veteran political operative was discussing the forthcoming book "Regime Change" by New York Times reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan on his "Politics War Room" podcast, and he said the depth of their reporting showed the White House was leaking.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is causing needless suffering within the military ranks by eliminating the universal flu vaccine mandate, according to a new analysis.

More than 160 soldiers at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas because of a growing influenza outbreak, which may have killed at least one person in basic training, according to a new editorial from The Washington Post's editorial board. Since the new mandate was handed down in April, at least half of Air Force cadets have skipped getting the shot, and that is part of why the virus is spreading, the editorial added.

A pro-Trump commentator triggered a White House attack after she called President Donald Trump's preliminary deal with Iran a humiliation for the United States.

Batya Ungar-Sargon, a self-described "MAGA lefty" who hosts a weekend show on NewsNation, broke with the administration over the memorandum of understanding Trump signed with Iran.

During President Donald Trump’s second term, White House staff began “monitoring” the president’s trash after it was discovered he had been discarding potentially valuable White House property, according to a new book from two New York Times reporters, the Daily Mail reported Friday.

The book, “Regime Change,” is written by Times journalists Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan and is scheduled for release next week. After getting a “sneak peek” at the book, the Daily Mail reported on one bizarre detail regarding the White House’s high-end silverware.

President Donald Trump seems to be shrinking himself down, according to a conservative columnist, and his seeming capitulation could diminish him even further.

The president signed an agreement to get out of his war in Iran just days after turning 80, and fellow octogenarian George Will published a column for the Washington Post outlining how all of Trump's flaws contributed to his disastrous military debacle.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio scrambled for a printer inside the Palace of Versailles after President Donald Trump went to the sign his Iran deal — without bringing a copy with him.

A new report sheds light on the chaotic behind-the-scenes details of how the historic agreement came together.

After sifting through Vice President JD Vance’s new book titled “Communion,” author Colin Dickey found a startling theme that appears to “telegraph” the impending implosion of the MAGA movement — an apparent precursor to a presidential run that Dickey warned may ultimately backfire.

“It’s hard to say how he thinks this is going to work out for him, but Communion makes clear how he sees his path ahead – even if, by releasing this during Trump’s reign, he may be playing his hand a bit too soon,” Dickey wrote in an analysis published Friday in The New Republic.

Despite the Justice Department’s claim that it released every document related to Jeffrey Epstein as required by law, three million remain unpublished – including those from a lesser-known Epstein email account that may contain "references to Epstein's relationship" with President Donald Trump, CBS News reported Friday.

A significant share of files released by the Justice Department (DOJ) are communications from Epstein’s “jeevacation@gmail.com” email address. However, Epstein maintained several email accounts, such as “jeeproject@yahoo.com” – the contents of which were not released by the DOJ but have since leaked – and “littlestjeff@yahoo.com,” the latter of which could hold new details on Trump’s past ties with Epstein.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ran a secret online search operation that effectively punished subordinates for behavior he has described as "woke."

The result of what the New York Times called Hegseth's "war on diversity" had serious consequences for officers who were up for promotion.