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Vice President JD Vance drew scrutiny this week after praising Richard Nixon and downplaying the severity of Watergate during an appearance at his presidential library in California — but an analyst argued that historical revisionism was aimed at the present political moment.

CNN's Aaron Blake called out Vance's comments – "if Watergate happened tomorrow, it would be like a 12-hour news story, like, the idea that it would have taken down a presidency is crazy" – as historically inaccurate and revealing more about President Donald Trump's political vulnerabilities than admiration for Nixon himself.

A Baltimore man in what witnesses called an "Uncle Sam costume" was arrested on opening day of President Donald Trump's Great American State Fair for allegedly performing lewd acts in front of a circus audience.

Gian Rachtelli, 54, was taken into custody Thursday on the National Mall, where President Donald Trump's Freedom250 nonprofit had launched its 16-day patriotic celebration just hours before.

President Donald Trump ranted against "godless communists" across more than 400 words as he prepared to speak to the Faith and Freedom Coalition.

The 80-year-old president issued sharp warnings about what he described as the rise of "Communists" in American politics after this week's election wins by candidates backed by New York's democratic socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani, but his comments strayed off into lengthy boasts.

House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer announced Friday that the panel will subpoena billionaire investor Leon Black as part of the Republican-led investigation into Jeffrey Epstein's financial network.

Lawmakers are seeking a deposition and related documents following a closed-door interview in which Black declined to answer questions about non-disclosure agreements tied to the late sex offender, and the subpoenas — one for testimony and one for information about the NDAs — came in the middle of his interview with the committee on Capitol Hill, reported CNN.

After Donald Trump watched fans walk out of the opening rally at his Great American State Fair on the Washington Mall, things have not gotten much better.

According to Washington Post reporting, the 16-day National Mall celebration got off to an inauspicious start Thursday, with organizers struggling to open gates on time and workers "scrambling to hide construction debris."

A Utah judge ruled Friday that a deputy prosecutor in the murder case against a man accused of assassinating conservative activist Charlie Kirk had violated a pretrial publicity order by speaking to the media — and held him in contempt of court.

Judge Tony Graf declined, however, to impose the more severe sanction, stripping prosecutors of the option to seek the death penalty, that had been sought by defense lawyers for shooting suspect Tyler Robinson, reported MS NOW.

Countless right-wing figures predicted last year that New York City would experience an unprecedented rise in crime under the leadership of Mayor Zohran Mamdani, but after recently published data suggested the opposite to be true, onlookers braced themselves for what some anticipated would be a MAGA meltdown.

Right-wing pundits who predicted New York City’s crime would explode under Mamdani include Fox News’ Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham and disgraced conservative commentator Bill O’Reilly, who said he warned his own daughter – who lives in Manhattan – that she wouldn’t be able to go outside “at night or even twilight.”

Ryan Fournier, a MAGA activist and co-founder of Students for Trump, was arrested Thursday morning on a cocaine charge, his third arrest since May.

A joint D.C. police and FBI task force executed a search warrant at Fournier's luxury Washington apartment. They found a bag of white powder that field-tested positive for cocaine, according to court records. He was charged with misdemeanor cocaine possession.

President Donald Trump scored a major victory Thursday after the Supreme Court cleared the way for his administration to potentially expedite the deportation of 1.3 million migrants, but the win could very well end up handing Democrats the key to winning the midterms, one security expert argued Friday.

The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 Thursday to allow the Trump administration to end what’s known as Temporary Protected Status, a designation that allows migrants fleeing dangerous countries to work in the United States legally. The ruling immediately puts more than 350,000 Haitian and Syrian migrants at risk of deportation, and threatens the status of all 1.3 million people currently protected under the program.