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President Donald Trump is scheduled to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing this week for a high-stakes summit – viewed by some as a “de facto deadline for stabilizing the Iran war” – but not only will Trump now likely show up to the summit “empty-handed,” the president’s efforts were severely undercut just days or hours before his expected departure.

The Trump administration has been working to secure a deal to bring about the end of the U.S. war against Iran since at least early April, but thus far has been unable to reach an agreement with Tehran. Iranian officials were given a new proposal from the Trump administration last week, which Tehran responded to with a proposal of their own on Sunday – a proposal that was quickly rejected by Trump as “unacceptable.”

A new poll reveals a striking erosion of public trust in the authenticity of alleged assassination attempts against Donald Trump, with nearly 55 percent of Americans expressing skepticism about whether the latest incident was on the up and up, revealing a crisis of credibility fueled by conspiracy theories, political polarization, and the president's reality-TV governance style.

According to a Washington Post report citing a NewsGuard survey, roughly one in three Democratic respondents said they believed the April incident at the White House Correspondents' Dinner was staged, compared with about one in eight Republicans. Young adults aged 18-29 were also significantly more likely than older Americans to doubt the incident's authenticity.

White House adviser Stephen Miller's romantic history at Duke University tells a starkly different story than the one he promotes today as a hardline immigration hawk.

During his time as a political science student, Miller reportedly dated an attractive light-skinned conservative Latina woman, though according to accounts from their dormmates, the relationship was notably one-sided.

The Washington Post, already buffeted by a massive exodus of subscribers dating back to when Jeff Bezos pulled the plug on a 2024 endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris to be president, attempted to stop the bleeding with a YouTube podcast that has failed miserably, according to media watchdog Status.

On Sunday night, Natalie Korach of Status reported that the struggling Post, which has undergone massive turnover due to departures by top reporters and columnists, followed by substantial layoffs, went to the expense of creating a podcast studio for members of the remaining editorial board to broadcast their takes on the topics of the day.

While an abundance of questions remain surrounding the 2019 death of indicted sex-trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, famed journalist Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez believes she’s discovered at least one answer to the puzzling incident – namely, who was responsible for creating the conditions that allowed one of the world’s most notorious sex offenders to die while in federal custody.

“I believe [President] Donald Trump needed Jeffrey Epstein dead,” Valdes-Rodriguez wrote in a recent report on her Substack. “I believe William Barr’s [Department of Justice] made it possible.”

The panel on MS NOW’s “Morning Joe” had a good laugh at Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s expense on Monday morning after he lost an online battle over the weekend with Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ).

Kelly has been a major target of Hegseth’s after he joined with other lawmakers who served in the military to advise current service members to remember their oath to the Constitution.

South Carolina Pastor Mark Burns spent part of his weekend defending his involvement in the dedication of a 22-foot-tall, $400,000 gold-plated statue depicting President Donald Trump with a raised fist, and on Monday, journalist Prem Thakker issued him a particularly scathing rebuke over what he called the “hypocrisy of the religious right.”

The statue was erected at the Trump National Doral Golf Club in Doral, Florida, with Burns heading a dedication ceremony last Wednesday.

The House Oversight Committee is grappling with a fraught dilemma as it prepares to question Sarah Kellen, a key associate of late financier Jeffrey Epstein, about her role in his crimes — with committee members sharply divided over whether she was a victim of his abuse or an active co-conspirator who should face prosecution.

According to reporting from Politico, there is agreement among committee members, led by Rep. James Comer (R-KY), that Kellen should testify on May 21. However, the committee is deeply divided over how aggressively to question her.

Kellen was one of four women named as possible co-conspirators in the controversial 2007 agreement with Florida federal prosecutors that granted all of them immunity while allowing Epstein to serve minimal jail time instead of facing federal sex-trafficking charges.

Senate Republicans have included $1 billion in funding for White House security upgrades related to President Donald Trump's East Wing renovation project in a $70 billion immigration enforcement bill, triggering sharp criticism from Democrats – and resistance from some GOP lawmakers.

The provision, tucked into the reconciliation package by Republicans on the Judiciary Committee, explicitly restricts funds to "security adjustments and upgrades" and prohibits spending on non-security ballroom elements, but the Trump administration has embraced the measure as tacit approval of the president's ballroom project, which Democrats argue amounts to federal funding of the construction, reported MS NOW.

The Wall Street Journal's editorial board is sounding the alarm ahead of President Donald Trump's summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing on Thursday, warning that Xi set a "Venus fly trap" for Trump on Taiwan that could upend decades of U.S. foreign policy.

The board warned that Xi wants Trump to formally "oppose" Taiwanese independence, a subtle but seismic shift from the current U.S. posture of "not supporting" it. While the change might sound like diplomatic hairsplitting, the Journal warned it would have massive ramifications.

Author and journalist Anand Giridharadas identified Sunday what he called the single thing that has allowed the wealthy and powerful figures in Jeffrey Epstein's orbit to escape accountability for decades — and it's something most Americans have lost.

Speaking on The Daily Beast podcast with host Joanna Coles, Giridharadas argued the so-called "Epstein class" — a shadowy network of billionaires, financiers, professors, royals, and political operators — operates by a code of mutual protection that overrides any ideological divide.

A Virginia church group's Sunday discussion turned into a raw debate over whether President Donald Trump deserves forgiveness — with one parishioner flatly declaring it isn't his job to grant it.

About a dozen members of Annandale United Methodist Church gathered in a chapel beside the sanctuary to wrestle with faith, the U.S. war in Iran, and Trump's recent feud with Pope Leo XIV, the Wall Street Journal reported Sunday. The conversation came in the wake of Trump's AI-generated image appearing to depict himself as a Christ-like figure, which the president later deleted.

President Donald Trump lashed out at two of his own Supreme Court picks in a rambling Truth Social post this week, suggesting he should pack the nation's highest court after Justices Neil Gorsuch and Amy Coney Barrett joined the 6-3 majority that struck down his sweeping tariff agenda as unconstitutional.

"I 'Love' Justice Neil Gorsuch! He’s a really smart and good man, but he voted against me, and our Country, on Tariffs, a devastating move. How do I reconcile this? So bad, and hurtful to our Country ," Trump wrote, before turning his ire on Barrett with equal frustration. "I have, likewise, always liked and respected Amy Coney Barrett, but the same thing with her. They were appointed by me, and yet have hurt our Country so badly!"