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Melania Trump walked into what should have been friendly territory, only to get a reception organizers apparently wanted nobody to hear.

The first lady was loudly booed Saturday at Louisiana State University's football game against Alabama in Baton Rouge, according to The Daily Beast, and organizers answered by piping music over the speakers in what appeared to be an effort to smother the jeers.

Melania Trump had come to Baton Rouge to unveil a partnership between LSU and her "Fostering the Future" program, which will pay for scholarships for students at the school who have been through foster care....

First lady Melania Trump faced a torrent of outrage after lavishing praise on a Kremlin official whose past has haunted Ukrainian families.

Melania Trump hosted Russian and Ukrainian representatives at the White House on Thursday, where she thanked Russian human rights commissioner Yana Lantratova, saying her "dedication brings hope and dignity to those devastated by war," according to a video posted by journalist Aaron Rupar.

Ukraine's security service accused Lantratova in 2024 of helping deport children from occupied Kherson to Russia, the Ukrainian news outlet Babel reported....

First lady Melania Trump's private complaints got the president to sour on one of his top aides, a rare warning that actually landed.

The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday that after Melania Trump objected when acquaintances of hers were deported, President Donald Trump began telling aides that Stephen Miller, the driving force behind his immigration crackdown, had pushed too far.

Trump went back and forth on immigration throughout the year, according to the report, at times telling aides he wanted a harsher crackdown. Republicans in Texas and Florida privately raised concerns with the White House, and on Election Day, counties with overwhelmingly Hispanic populations broke heavily for Democrats....

Melania Trump's lawyers are dragging out a legal fight to dodge a revelation about her marriage, according to a longtime Trump chronicler.

Michael Wolff, author of four books about President Donald Trump, said on Saturday's episode of "Inside Trump's Head" that the first lady's team is stalling his lawsuit against her because letting it move forward would expose that she and the president "are actually separated."

Wolff told co-host Joanna Coles that his lawyers filed an appeal Friday challenging a federal judge's ruling from several months ago. He sued the first lady in New York state court, but her lawyers moved the case to federal court by arguing that she lives in Florida while he lives in New York....

President Donald Trump went looking for praise from his wife after a recent rally, then shared her stinging verdict with a crowd.

Speaking at the Ocean Center in Daytona Beach, Florida, as he stumped for Republican candidates ahead of Tuesday's midterm elections, Trump recounted a phone call with first lady Melania Trump that followed one of his earlier rallies, The Mirror reported Saturday.

At the earlier event, Trump had done an impression of former President Joe Biden struggling to locate a set of stairs. According to Trump, Melania saw the footage and was less than impressed when he called her afterward....

A key moment has a former Trump White House insider thinking a damning new report on Jeffrey Epstein probably holds up.

Sarah Matthews, a deputy White House press secretary in Trump's first administration, said on Tuesday's episode of "The Bulwark Daily" that first lady Melania Trump's "weird random press conference" earlier this year is the "most convincing piece of evidence" that the House Judiciary Committee Democrats' report is "probably accurate."

Host Tim Miller, a former Republican strategist, opened the show by reading from the report's executive summary, which states that "Donald Trump was an active participant in Jeffrey Epstein's sexual abuse of young women during the mid to late 1990s."...