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As President Donald Trump continues to face questions over the state of his physical and cognitive health, his own staff is reportedly “concerned” that the 80-year-old president “won’t survive” to see the end of his second term, columnist Brian Karem claimed in a report published Friday in Salon.

“Members on both sides of the aisle, and even members of Trump’s staff, are concerned that the president will roll over like a cockroach and start spouting gibberish (if he hasn’t done that already) or that he simply won’t survive his full term, which still has 940 days to go,” Karem wrote.

Donald Trump's single-minded obsession with getting the SAVE America Act passed when no one in Congress believes it will come within a stone's throw of getting 60 votes in the Senate has some GOP insiders wondering what is going on.

MS NOW's Hayes Brown captured Trump's destructive pattern, writing, "President Donald Trump has exactly two modes: unfocused and obsessed. Most things in this world activate the first mode. But there are a handful of exceptions that become deeply ingrained in his mind and nothing can shake them loose."

A little-known Donald Trump appointee with no prior diplomatic experience has emerged as a central figure in the administration's outreach to Central Asia — drawing scrutiny over what critics describe as a business-first approach to American diplomacy.

Sergio Gor, who serves simultaneously as U.S. ambassador to India and as the president's envoy to Central Asia, met with Turkmenistan's de facto ruler, Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov, and his son in Ashgabat roughly a month before the reclusive foreign leader's secretive February visit to South Florida, reported Politico.

A Florida judge ordered lawyers to stop filing briefs calling President Donald Trump's $1.776 billion IRS deal a fraud on the court, even as she praised their help.

U.S. District Judge Kathleen M. Williams of the Southern District of Florida issued the order Thursday, telling three separate groups of attorneys that the case was "sufficiently briefed" — while adding that she "greatly appreciates" what they had offered.

A new report from the Commerce Department on Friday delivered a decisive blow to what has been among President Donald Trump’s chief promises while on the campaign trail.

According to the report, the U.S. goods trade deficit had widened to its highest point in more than a year as of June, with U.S. exports shrinking by 5.4% when compared with May and imports rising by 3.6%.

President Donald Trump’s longstanding feud with Pope Leo XIV may reach new heights as the leader of the Catholic Church convenes with cardinals from across the globe Friday and is expected to issue a message “likely to further raise tensions” with the president, Politico reported Friday.

After the gathering, Pope Leo is expected to issue new guidance on what the Catholic Church considers to be a justified war. The anticipated remarks come after the leader of the Catholic Church appeared to criticize the U.S. war against Iran, prompting Trump to attack the pope for being “weak on crime.”

Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is dealing with another political headache related to President Donald Trump.

The prime minister is scrambling to contain domestic political fallout after NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte described her country's support for U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran as "massive," which she says badly mischaracterizes Italy's actual role in the conflict, reported Politico.

A social media post by the wife of Donald Trump adviser Stephen Miller took center stage on MS NOW on Friday morning as part of a discussion over a controversial Supreme Court ruling on Thursday.

On “Morning Joe,” the panel was discussing the majority opinion from Justice Sam Alito, who wrote that he saw nothing racist in Trump’s outrageous comments about Somali and Haitian immigrants, which earned the conservative jurist a lecture from Justice Elena Kagan in her dissent.

Former National Park rangers are organizing a national pushback against an order from President Donald Trump that has stripped dozens of historical exhibits from federal land, launching a public education campaign just as the country prepares to mark its 250th anniversary.

The effort traces back to Elizabeth Kerwin, a former exhibit planner at West Virginia's Harpers Ferry National Historic Park, who spent years building a memorial highlighting hundreds of enslaved people connected to the site, best known for John Brown's 1859 raid on a federal armory, reported NPR.

President Donald Trump's crowd-size anxiety exploded back into view when his Great American State Fair kickoff event drew a strikingly thin turnout.

The 80-year-old president claimed 45,000 people showed up on the National Mall to watch Lee Greenwood and the FBI director's girlfriend perform, but media accounts estimated about 1,000 attendees – fewer than some outdoor movie screenings – had actually turned out, and The New Republic's Greg Sargent said on his "Daily Blast" podcast that Trump can't handle that kind of disappointment.

Jimmy Fallon spent a second straight night ribbing President Donald Trump's new Great American State Fair on Thursday, saving his sharpest jab for a petting zoo bit aimed squarely at the president's cognitive fitness.

The "Tonight Show" host took aim at the fair, which opened to the public on Thursday on the National Mall as part of America's 250th anniversary celebrations, rattling off a list of fictional attractions inspired by Trump.

A new book from two New York Times reporters has exposed a number of President Donald Trump’s secrets, though one claim in particular has the president especially enraged, a senior Trump official revealed Friday.

Published earlier this week, “Regime Change” was written by Times reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan, and had already rattled the White House before its release, with officials fearful that the book’s authors had acquired audio recordings from within the White House Situation Room, arguably the most secure area of the complex where top officials discuss matters of crises and national security.

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has built much of his public health platform around exposing what he calls regulatory failures in the American food system, but that crusade appears to be running into an unexpected complication.

Among his targets is the "generally recognized as safe" (GRAS) designation, a mechanism that allows food manufacturers to introduce new ingredients without review by the Food and Drug Administration simply by self-declaring them safe. Kennedy has called this loophole a "scandal," NOTUS reported, but that loophole he wants to close for processed foods is deeply embedded in the dietary supplement industry he champions.