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Department’s claim that it released every document related to Jeffrey Epstein as required by law, three million remain unpublished – including those from a lesser-known Epstein email account that may contain "references to Epstein's relationship" with President Donald Trump, CBS News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

President Donald Trump's new acting spy chief arrived at his post Friday with orders to fire hundreds of intelligence officials — clearing the way for Trump's election meddling aspirations in the midterms.

Bill Pulte, who took over the Office of the Director of National Intelligence on Friday without Senate confirmation, can hold the post for up to 210 days under the Federal Vacancies Reform Act — well past November's midterm elections.

Donald Trump's physical appearance at this week's G7 summit disconcerted a panelist on MS NOW — who was lightly scolded by the host for pointing out the president's apparent decline.

Joel Payne, the chief communications officer for MoveOn, appeared Friday morning on "Money, Power, Politics," where he commented on the 80-year-old president's appearance at the global leadership event as his administration negotiated an end to the war in Iran.

Vice President JD Vance’s new book was released this week to reviews from professional critics that did not hold back – with The Wall Street Journal arguing it was filled with “egregious sloppiness.”

The amateur critics took it even further, flooding the book’s page on the Barnes & Noble website with one-star reviews.

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche is just hours away from violating a judge's order on President Donald Trump's January 6 slush fund after thumbing his nose at it for weeks.

U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema gave Blanche and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent until Friday afternoon to file sworn declarations confirming the $1.776 billion Anti-Weaponization Fund is dead.

Iran issued the Trump administration a fierce ultimatum that could collapse the tentative peace deal just a day after it was signed, Drop Site News reported Friday.

The demand was related to Lebanon, which Israel invaded in March and has since killed nearly 4,000 Lebanese and sparked a humanitarian crisis affecting millions. Included in the memorandum of understanding agreed to by Washington and Tehran was a provision that Israel terminate its military operations in Lebanon.

President Donald Trump turned his back on Vice President JD Vance in anger last summer after he suggested softening parts of a speech about U.S. strikes on Iran, according to a book from New York Times reporters.

In "Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump," obtained by Politico, New York Times correspondents Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan reported that Vance, an Iraq War veteran and longtime skeptic of foreign interventions, appeared "anxious" to aides the night Operation Midnight Hammer commenced.

Multiple residents of Washington, D.C. told CNN Friday their unfiltered thoughts on President Donald Trump’s $14 million restoration of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool – and the feedback was scathing.

“It looks bad!” one D.C. resident told CNN’s Tom Foreman. “I just see green – green slime.”

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth sounded the alarm recently when meeting with Senate Republicans over the Pentagon’s dwindling supply of funding for weapons — and the details were shared Friday by a GOP senator spurned by President Donald Trump.

“[The Pentagon is] running short on funding they need in order to acquire the weapons and missiles and things like that that they need to protect the nation,” Hegseth reportedly told Senate Republicans, as paraphrased by Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) and relayed to the New York Times.