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President Donald Trump is considering an executive order to downgrade the classification of marijuana, reported The Washington Post on Thursday evening.

"Trump discussed the plan with House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) in a Wednesday phone call from the Oval Office, said four of the people, who, like the others, spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly," said the report. "The president is expected to seek to ease access to the drug through an upcoming executive order that directs federal agencies to pursue reclassification, the people said."

Longtime Donald Trump ally Steve Bannon is sounding the alarm about Republicans' prospects of retaining the House majority, after one of Trump's biggest gambits to rig the 2026 midterm election for the GOP crashed and burned.

On Thursday, Republicans in the Indiana State Senate overwhelmingly rejected a Trump-endorsed mid-decade gerrymander that would have carved up the city of Indianapolis and dismantled every Democratic congressional seat in the Hoosier State.

A "minor character" in the MAGA movement is staging a comeback by running for Minnesota governor, and one analyst warned on Thursday that Americans can't simply laugh him off this time around.

Mike Lindell, founder and CEO of MyPillow, announced on Thursday that he is running for Minnesota's governor. If he wins the primary, he will face off against Democratic incumbent Gov. Tim Walz.

The attorney representing a MAGA clerk who was convicted of state charges related to her efforts to subvert the 2020 election was elated on Thursday after President Donald Trump announced a "pardon" for his client, according to a new report.

Tina Peters, the former county clerk in Mesa County, Colorado, was convicted of seven charges for her actions to help Trump allies access the county's voting systems. She was sentenced to nine years in state prison in 2024.

Editors at The Washington Post are getting sick of the error-filled artificial intelligence podcasts their paper is churning out.

According to Semafor, "Earlier this week, the Post announced that it was rolling out personalized AI-generated podcasts for users of the paper’s mobile app. In a release, the paper said users will be able to choose preferred topics and AI hosts, and could 'shape their own briefing, select their topics, set their lengths, pick their hosts and soon even ask questions using our Ask The Post AI technology.'"

President Donald Trump's latest "pardon" was buried in mockery on Thursday night.

Trump announced on Truth Social that he intends to pardon Tina Peters, a Colorado county clerk who was convicted on seven state charges of aiding a security breach into her county's election system. Some analysts pointed out that Trump cannot actually pardon Peters because she was not convicted of federal crimes.

During a heated House hearing, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem was pushed to apologize after Rep. Seth Magaziner highlighted veterans harmed by ICE actions — including a Navy veteran whose wife has been jailed for months over decades-old minor offenses. Confronted directly by the veteran in the room, Noem offered thanks for his service but defended the department’s actions, fueling further criticism of her leadership.

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President Donald Trump said in a social media post on Thursday that he is pardoning Tina Peters, a former Colorado county clerk who was convicted on state charges of sharing passwords to her county's election system with unauthorized parties.

Trump announced the pardon on Truth Social, which does not constitute an official pardon. It is unclear whether the administration has applied to the U.S. Pardon Attorney for Peters' release.

A reporter brutally fact-checked one of President Donald Trump's favorite claims about one of his administration's bombing campaigns during a press conference in the White House on Thursday.

Trump held a ceremony for an executive order he signed banning states from enacting laws that regulate artificial intelligence technologies. After the bill signing, Trump took questions from the press. One reporter asked him about his administration's efforts to end the war in Gaza. Trump's answer weaved through his administration's bombing campaign against Iran, which he claimed "obliterated" the country's nuclear bomb production sites.

MS NOW’s Mika Brzezinski balked on-air after a Washington Post report revealed Donald Trump openly admitted at a sparsely attended Pennsylvania rally that he had used a vulgar slur to describe certain foreign countries—a phrase he previously denied using. Brzezinski, refusing to repeat the word, noted that Trump’s admission contradicts years of pushback against earlier reporting that he used the insult to refer to Haiti, El Salvador, and multiple African nations.

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New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman warned on Thursday that President Donald Turmp's second administration appears to be pushing America toward its third civil war, citing the "flying elephants" that the administration keeps letting out.

To Friedman, these flying elephants are incidents that reveal "something very different is going on" that people need to pay attention to. Friedman called attention to a 33-page National Security memo the Trump administration published last week as the latest flying elephant that "no one should ignore."

Rep. Bennie Thompson sharply confronted DHS Secretary Kristi Noem during a nationally televised hearing over which administration approved the asylum of Rahmanullah Lakanwal, accused of shooting two National Guardsmen in D.C. Noem repeatedly credited the Biden administration’s vetting process, frustrating Thompson, who pressed her to acknowledge any Trump-era involvement. When Noem deflected, Thompson turned to National Counterterrorism Center official Joe Kent, highlighting the tense standoff over accountability for a high-profile security failure.

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