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David Frum, a former speechwriter for President George W. Bush, is warning the government of the United Kingdom against taking the olive branch being extended by Vice President J.D. Vance to forge a trade pact.

Writing on X, Frum says that cozying up to the United States at a time when President Donald Trump is launching trade wars against nearly every country on Earth would be geopolitical folly for the United Kingdom.

The interim U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, Ed Martin, is raising eyebrows for comments he recently made on TNT's Lembit Opik Show, according to a Newsweek report.

According to Newsweek, Martin recently blamed "crazy Black ladies" for getting him ousted from his job as a right-wing political commentator on CNN several years ago.

The State Department is expected propose the elimination of entire embassies and consulates around the world as the U.S. government looks to shrink its diplomatic footprint.

Punchbowl News obtained a document showing the department will file a fiscal year 2026 budget proposal due to the Office of Management and Budget that calls for the consolidation of outposts in Canada, Japan and some other countries and the “resizing” consulates in major cities to “FLEX-style light consulates.”

The G7 countries' plan to formally condemn a Russian missile attack on Ukraine is being rejected by the Trump administration, reported Bloomberg News on Tuesday.

" Russia fired two short-range ballistic missiles, including one equipped with cluster munitions, at Ukraine’s northeastern city of Sumy on Palm Sunday morning as Ukrainians attended church services," noted the report. "At least 35 people were killed and 119 injured in the attack, including children, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said."

A whistleblower has revealed that engineers with the Department of Government Efficiency had smuggled out highly sensitive data they had accessed from the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB).

The DOGE employees arrived at the agency's headquarters in early March and immediately reviewed its data to ostensibly to maximize efficiency and identify costs to cut, but whistleblower Dan Berulis told Congress that technical staff members believed their actions within those sensitive systems looked like what criminal or state-sponsored hackers might do, reported NPR.

The cracks within some right-wing subcultures are starting to show as they fray with President Trump’s agenda, according to a new analysis in the New York Times by columnist Michelle Goldberg.

In her column, Goldberg made her case by singling out recent comments by right-wing podcast host Alex Kaschuta, who said that "the vibe is shifting" against conservatives as "the cumulative IQ of the right is looking worse than the market.”

Political scientist Ian Bremmer says that President Donald Trump has quickly made the United States into "the principal driver of geopolitical uncertainty" in just three short months.

In his latest video commentary, Bremmer outlines the chaos and instability that Trump has singlehandedly created by launching a trade war against nearly every single nation on Earth, including a remote island solely inhabited by penguins.

As the White House claims they have the ‘upper hand’ in the China trade war, a new POLITICO report is claiming otherwise.

US tariffs on Chinese goods are now at 145 percent. This is up 135 percentage points since February 1, when there was just a 10 percent tariff.

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough blasted president Donald Trump for eroding American advantages as he pushes through unpopular and legally questionable policies.

China has been working to build new trade relationships with nations that Trump has slapped with massive tariffs, as foreign universities are recruiting U.S. researchers who have lost jobs thanks to Elon Musk's funding cuts, and the "Morning Joe" host weighed in on the issue from a trip to the United Kingdom.

MSNBC's Rachel Maddow expressed skepticism on her show late Monday at a new report that Trump administration added thousands of migrants to the Social Security Administration's death file — even though they are alive — alleging they all have links to either terrorist activity or criminal records.

The Trump administration directed the agency to add more than 6,000 living immigrants to its "death master file," a database of people who have died and whose Social Security numbers should no longer be used. The move was meant to pressure the immigrants, many of whom were legally allowed into the country under temporary programs established by the Biden administration, into self-deporting from the United States.

President Donald Trump's condemnation of an arson attack on Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro's residence on Monday earned no applause from an analyst at The Atlantic, who called his response "empty."

When asked about the attack, Trump referred to the suspect as "probably just a whack job" and stressed that "such incidents cannot be tolerated."

Former NAACP director Cornell William Brooks laid into President Donald Trump's move to freeze billions in federal funding from Harvard University, after the prestigious institution rejected his demands to crack down on the political ideology of its faculty and student body — a similar ultimatum Trump used against Columbia University that that school ultimately complied with.

"We have a wonderful Constitution that contains a First Amendment, which this government, this administration is violating," Brooks told CNN's John Berman. "This is to say, the government does not get to dictate political ideology. It does not get to determine whether faculty or staff or too liberal to conservative to this, to that. The First Amendment has a little something to say about that."