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The "most magical place on Earth" is no longer welcoming Venezuelan employees who are losing their temporary legal residency in the United States.

Bloomberg reported that those working at the Florida-based Disney company were told that after President Donald Trump revoked protections they're no longer able to work for "The House of Mouse."

Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA) put the smackdown on President Donald Trump's Environmental Protection Agency administrator, Lee Zeldin, during a hearing this week, over the administration's move to suspend and slash environmental grants across the board, including those vital to mitigating lead exposure threats in children.

Zeldin, who previously served as a GOP congressman from Long Island and mounted a failed bid for governor of New York in 2022, grew visibly annoyed at Schiff's line of questioning and tried to dismissively swat aside his concerns.

MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace began her Wednesday show discussing the Oval Office meeting with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, where Wallace said President Donald Trump "humiliated" the United States "again."

As Wallace explained, Trump attacked Ramaphosa for what he said was a "white genocide" of "white farmers." It's a conspiracy theory spun by David Duke, former grand wizard of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, and tech billionaire Elon Musk.

A CNN panel devolved into guests talking over during a heated discussion over President Donald Trump's "big, beautiful bill."

The debate centered around the controversial Republican-backed budget that calls for drastic cuts to Medicaid and imposes new work requirements for recipients. The discussion highlighted stark partisan divisions.

Historian and law professor Jonathan Zasloff is encouraging law firms to sue President Donald Trump for racketeering.

In a piece in Slate, Zasloff said that Trump's targeting of law firms is "extortion" and, while it's illegal, he won't have his own government prosecute him.

A new report highlighted by Newsweek reveals that fake accounts, likely Chinese in origin, flooded tech billionaire Elon Musk's X platform around when President Donald Trump was rolling out his so-called "reciprocal tariff" regime, to influence public opinion.

Trump originally announced tariffs on virtually every country, ranging from 10 to 49 percent, and 145 percent on China. As markets and members of his own party reacted in fear of a recession, Trump gradually instituted various pauses and reductions, and most recently offered China significantly lower — but still historically high — tariff rates, while exempting some of America's most vital imports.

Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA) battled Fox News host Martha MacCallum for focusing on former President Joe Biden's mental fitness while ignoring President Donald Trump's incompetence.

During a Wednesday interview on Fox News, MacCallum suggested Moulton should have called on Biden to step down while he was president because of the military's withdrawal from Afghanistan.

President Donald Trump summoned Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) and members of the House Freedom Caucus "for a scolding," MSNBC host Katy Tur reported Wednesday. One reporter noted that the president might be losing his patience with the lawmakers.

NBC News Capitol Hill Correspondent Ryan Nobles revealed that there are still over 500 amendments to the House budget bill that must be voted on before the vote on the full bill.

President Donald Trump's "big, beautiful bill" on tax cuts, energy deregulation, and border security is in many ways a repeat of past enormous GOP tax cuts for the wealthy — but there's something different about this one compared to recent similar bills, wrote Mike Konczal of the Economic Security Project.

Specifically, he wrote, the George W. Bush tax cuts, and Trump's own first major tax cut bill in 2017, cut taxes across the board, giving the overwhelming majority of savings to the highest-income earners but at least giving some small tax relief to lower-income Americans as well. This time, however, the bill raises taxes on the lowest-income earners, with the bottom quintile seeing their take-home pay fall by $1,000.