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A prominent Republican House member was left "scared" after getting a first look at a new technology during a recent “closed-door demonstration,” Punchbowl News reported Friday — technology that the lawmaker warned most of their colleagues failed to comprehend the ramifications of.

That technology was Claude Mythos, the latest large language model developed by Anthropic using generative artificial intelligence, the capabilities of which were so great that the Trump administration suspended its use by foreign nationals, effectively blocking its public release for the immediate future.

The first day of President Donald Trump's "Great American State Fair" did not go to plan, after a power outage knocked out the food hall on the National Mall, according to The Daily Beast.

The Thursday blackout left dessert vendors watching their stock melt, Fox 5 DC reporter Homa Bash reported on X, writing that the hall still had food but that all of its ice cream had melted. Stuffed pretzel rolls priced between $12.48 and $24.96 were also affected, USA Today reported, with workers saying it took about 30 minutes to reheat them once power returned.

Comments made by Vice President JD Vance at the Richard Nixon Library on Thursday earned him a thrashing on MS NOW after he blamed Nixon’s Watergate scandal on the “deep state.”

As “Morning Joe” co-host bluntly observed, Nixon's use of the FBI, CIA and Washington insiders — which brought down his presidency — was the very definition of the ”deep state.”

A 37-year CBS News veteran is preparing to torch his former employer in a tell-all memoir, and CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss is squarely in his crosshairs.

Bill Owens, the longtime executive producer of "60 Minutes" who quit the program last April over what he described as corporate interference, calls CBS "the worst-run media company in the history of America" in a 22-page book proposal obtained by Breaker and reported by The Daily Beast on Friday.

One Trump administration insider offered an unsettling warning about the president, according to a new report.

President Donald Trump has been seemingly weathering a barrage from all sides, according to a report from The Atlantic. He's faced mounting bipartisan criticism over the deal he struck with the Iranian regime. Meanwhile, inflation is up, and Trump's poll numbers are sinking among several key demographics. In turn, Republicans are fearing a "November wipeout," according to the report, as "Trump, whose political image revolves around strength, finds himself diminished."

Former Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard seemed to depart from the Trump administration without a peep, but one psychologist argued on Thursday that she represented a "deeply troubling" pattern of officials who may not be working in the best interest of the American people.

The Washington Post recently published a bombshell investigation revealing that Gabbard may be under the influence of a cult-like guru named Chris Butler. Butler, who founded the Science of Identity Foundation, an organization that former members have described as a cult, was in frequent contact with Gabbard throughout her career, according to the report. There were also instances in which Gabbard repeated the exact talking points Butler had sent her in other communications.

MS NOW host Michael Steele erupted on Thursday's broadcast of "The Weeknight" while discussing what he described as the Trump administration's "claptrap" about the 2026 midterm elections.

Steele discussed the Trump administration's efforts to eliminate mail-in voting with panelists Angelo Carusone, CEO of Media Matters, and Janai Nelson of the Legal Defense Fund. Steele noted the apparent irony in the effort, considering that President Donald Trump has voted by mail in every election since he moved to the White House.