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President Donald Trump coined the "Anti-Weaponization Fund" as the vehicle for a billion-dollar scheme to funnel taxpayer money to his allies, and one of his highest-profile targets is stealing the name and aiming it right back at him.

Miles Taylor, the former Trump homeland security official who anonymously blew the whistle on the first administration, announced this week that his group Defiance is launching "the real Anti-Weaponization Fund" to go to bat for Americans caught in the president's campaign of retribution.

Tennessee taxpayers are paying about $1,961 each to fund the Trump administration’s mass deportation policies, according to an analysis of the federal budget released by the Economic Policy Institute.

The think tank developed an online tool that calculates the average taxpayer’s share of the estimated $268.9 billion cost of deportations through the end of President Donald Trump’s term.

Jared Kushner drew immediate backlash for a social media post claiming President Donald Trump had opened a new chapter of 'peace' in the Middle East, as a U.S.-initiated war raged on.

Kushner posted Thursday on X to mark what he called the six-year anniversary of the Abraham Accords — the 2020 diplomatic agreements that normalized relations between Israel and several Arab states.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt’s out-of-the-blue announcement that she is abandoning her current job to become an off-the-books adviser to the president raised eyebrows on Thursday.

During a panel discussion on MS NOW’s “On The Line” with host Alicia Menendez, it was noted that the imminent departure of President Donald Trump’s spokesperson comes on the heels of an unexpected and controversial memo from Attorney General Todd Blanche released on Tuesday, after he was sworn in.

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts' board voted Thursday to move forward with a plan to close the building for renovations, after being accused by a federal judge of being "derelict" in its duties, according to a new report.

The decision will still require approval from the federal judge who found fault after a review of the closure plan after an earlier vote, the New York Times reported Thursday

Russian President Vladimir Putin's has set his sights on a member of Donald Trump's Cabinet — by going after his kid.

A Moscow court has ordered the arrest of Conor Kennedy, the son of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., branding him a "mercenary" for a stint spent fighting alongside Ukrainian forces, according to the Russian state media outlet TASS.

President Donald Trump's antisemitism lawsuit against Harvard was dismissed Thursday by a federal judge who called the government's arguments "fevered."

U.S. District Judge Richard G. Stearns, who has presided over Harvard antisemitism cases for three years, ruled the government's complaint relied almost entirely on incidents from the 2023-2024 school year.

President Donald Trump has a crack problem — and America is paying the cost of it, according to Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman.

Krugman argued on Substack Thursday that Americans are unlikely to see gas prices drop because, as he put it, "Donald Trump is not a well man. He is, unfortunately, also President, which means that we all pay a price for his inability to accept reality."

Attorney General Todd Blanche's "strange" address to the Justice Department on Thursday stunned a legal analyst who hurled his own words — and the mounting dangers judges' families face — back in his face.

MS NOW commentator Lisa Rubin took to X to condemn Blanche for a rallying cry to his troops she characterized as blatantly contradictory to his leadership.

Donald Trump's hold over the Republican Party is eroding at a rapid clip, according to longtime Democratic strategist James Carville — and the sudden demise has left the longtime critic reeling.

Speaking on his Politics War Room podcast, Carville pointed to what he called one of the most overlooked stories in American politics — a rapid slide in approval ratings among his own party members. He put the number at roughly 80 percent — a steep drop from the 95 percent he was pulling earlier in his term.

Attorney General Todd Blanche let a 92-year federal ban on unregistered gun silencers and short-barreled rifles collapse, days after telling senators his duty was to defend it.

The appeal deadline passed Wednesday without a filing from the Justice Department, and gun-rights groups wasted no time.

President Donald Trump’s attempt to beef up income at his money-losing Truth Social platform has been a stunning flop, a new analysis contends.

MS NOW delivered this assessment one day after a new federal lawsuit targeted Trump Media's selling Wall Street traders exclusive access to Truth Social posts for up to $100,000 a month.

Newly confirmed Attorney General Todd Blanche is being handed a massive headache in his new job due to President Donald Trump's latest pet project, according to a new analysis.

Blanche, who is expected to have his hands full defending the current administration's policies that are facing an avalanche of lawsuits, will also have to clean up the mess over the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool prosecutions.