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The high cost of inflation is leading to mounting credit card debt, as one former consumer watchdog leader lamented that Americans are living on a "treadmill of debt."

Speaking to MSNBC on Wednesday, one financial expert warned that inflation, tariffs and price gouging are making life increasingly difficult for the U.S., particularly as children go back to school.

President Donald Trump was on the receiving end of some harsh language during a call with European leaders ahead of his summit with Vladimir Putin.

The U.S. president told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and other leaders on Wednesday that he hoped to achieve a ceasefire and get a better understanding of whether a peace deal is possible during Friday's meeting with the Russian president, two sources familiar with the call told Axios.

Among President Donald Trump’s many goals for his second term in office has been the destruction of the intergovernmental organization known as BIRCS, a coalition of Russia, China and eight other nations to challenge the western-dominated world order, though his efforts to do so, wrote The Washington Post’s Max Boot Wednesday, are only “backfiring.”

“Trump has emerged as the strongest salesman for the value of this international organization, created in 2009 at Russian President Vladimir Putin’s instigation to challenge the post-1945, American-led world order,” Boot wrote in an op-ed published Wednesday in The Washington Post. “Trump seems intent on alienating America’s potential partners in the group.”

President Donald Trump vowed to name himself as a Kennedy Center honoree in 2026.

On Wednesday, Trump kicked off his announcement of the 2025 nominees with a complaint about hosting the event.

Business leaders are growing concerned about President Donald Trump's new executive order that, in effect, wages a war against the Mexican drug cartels and how it could impact their companies.

Politico explained in a Wednesday report that the administration has designated several major Mexican cartels as "foreign terrorist organizations," putting them in the same category as groups like al-Qaeda and ISIS. This classification allows for the deployment of military, intelligence, and law enforcement tools to dismantle cartel operations more aggressively.

President Donald Trump's former fixer Michael Cohen revealed in a new interview that he handled a rape complaint against him and the late financier Jeffrey Epstein just weeks before the 2016 election.

Cohen mentioned the Jane Doe complaint almost in passing during an interview with journalist Tara Palmieri, who wrote on her "Red Letter" website that the details revealed by the former attorney resembled allegations made at that time by a woman known as Katie Johnson.

President Donald Trump renewed concerns about his mental fitness with an early morning social media complaint about media coverage of his planned summit with Vladimir Putin.

The president singled out his former national security adviser-turned-nemesis John Bolton in his Wednesday morning Truth Social post as he lashed out at "fake news" reports about his upcoming talks with the Russian president in Alaska to discuss an end to its invasion of Ukraine.

As new reporting continues to show inflation ticking up, with the consumer price index rising by 2.7% in July, President Donald Trump’s poll numbers on inflation have plummeted in what CNN’s Harry Enten labeled an “abject disaster for the president.”

“Into the gutter we go, underwater we go; he's 25 points underwater my goodness gracious, that is where the Little Mermaid is and he is matching the Little Mermaid, that's how far underwater he is on the issue that got him elected,” Enten said.

As President Donald Trump continues his effort to reshape exhibits at Smithsonian museums to fit his own “historical vision,” scrutiny continues to mount, including from one Republican strategist who says they believe Trump is likely to end up seeing the move as a “mistake” and reverse course.

On Tuesday, the Wall Street Journal uncovered White House plans to vet exhibits at Smithsonian Museums to eliminate “improper, divisive or anti-American ideology,” a move that critics continue to decry as “weaponizing history.” Shermichael Singleton, a GOP strategist, seemed to share some of those concerns, telling CNN Wednesday that he anticipates the White House rolling back the initiative.

President Donald Trump went after what he called the “very unfair media” Wednesday for its coverage of his upcoming meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, singling out criticism from his former national security advisor John Bolton.

“Very unfair media is at work on my meeting with Putin,” Trump wrote Wednesday in an online post on his social media platform Truth Social.

The White House has ordered the Smithsonian Institution to align its museum exhibits with President Donald Trump's vision of American history, which has set off alarms about how that will impact the accuracy of the story told to visitors.

Eight museums are covered under the order setting a 120-day deadline for "replacing divisive or ideologically driven language with unifying, historically accurate, and constructive descriptions," and MSNBC's Jonathan Lemire said that would necessarily corrupt how they presented the history of slavery and other difficult topics.