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The FBI fired at least 10 agents who investigated President Donald Trump in 2021 for his handling of classified information, according to a report.

CBS News reported on Wednesday, citing multiple sources, that the firing occurred after Reuters reported that the FBI had subpoenaed phone records from White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles and FBI Director Kash Patel when they were private citizens as part of the probe. Patel claimed in the report that the agents had used "flimsy pretexts" to justify the subpoenas, and then buried the process "to avoid oversight."

Someone in the Trump administration may be trying to profit from the president's push to release information about extraterrestrial life, according to a new analysis.

The Atlantic analyzed betting data on Kalshi, a prediction market app, and found that one bettor placed a $100,000 wager that President Donald Trump would reveal the existence of aliens by the end of December. Another, who The Atlantic surmised could actually be the same person, placed another "market-moving" bet within a half hour of the first, raising concerns about insider trading.

President Donald Trump's record-breaking 108-minute State of the Union extravaganza dazzled Republicans, but veteran GOP strategist Karl Rove said the MAGA leader committed a "key mistake."

Trump's lengthy speech honored Olympic hockey heroes and Medal of Freedom recipients, electrifying the chamber by awarding goalie Connor Hellebuyck the Presidential Medal of Freedom as Democrats chanted "USA! USA!" To boot, Congressional Medal of Honor recipients, including a wounded helicopter pilot and a 100-year-old Korean War hero, brought the House to its feet.

President Donald Trump's "hokum" on affordability left many Republicans disappointed after the State of the Union, according to one analyst.

During the speech, Trump barely touched on affordability, which is shaping up to be the most important issue in the 2026 midterm election. Catherine Rampell, economics editor at The Bulwark, argued in a new article on Wednesday that Trump's decision to gloss over the topic left Republicans feeling disappointed in their leader.

The husband of Rep. Tony Gonzalez's late aide, who took her own life after being involved in an affair with the Congressman, spoke out on Wednesday during an interview on CNN.

Adrian Aviles, the widower of Regina Santos-Aviles, spoke to CNN's Erin Burnett about the evidence he still has against Gonzalez. The lawmaker has faced growing calls to resign after text messages surfaced between himself and Santos-Aviles that appear to show him coercing her into a sexual relationship.

Increasing public pressure appears to have caused Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) to change his tune about a scandal-ridden Republican.

On Monday, Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-TX) faced calls to resign after it was revealed that he was involved in a sex scandal with one of his aides, who later took her own life through self-immolation. Those calls continued throughout the week and may have prompted Johnson to push back against the lawmaker.

A whistleblower revealed a "terrifying" warning about President Donald Trump's new immigration force recruits during an interview on CNN.

Ryan Schwank, a former Immigration and Customs Enforcement trainer, told CNN's Jake Tapper on Wednesday that ICE's decision to reduce its training standards for new recruits is already having disastrous impacts. He warned that those impacts will likely get worse as new recruits are required to pass fewer training courses than their veteran peers.

A Democrat spoke out on Wednesday after her guest was "forcibly removed" from President Donald Trump's State of the Union address yesterday.

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) invited Aliya Rahman, a disabled woman who was seriously injured by Trump's immigration agents in January, to attend Trump's SOTU on Tuesday. At one point, Rahman was removed from the speech while other attendees in the gallery stood quietly, Omar posted on X.

Observers blasted Vice President JD Vance on Wednesday after he announced the Trump administration's first moves in its new "war on fraud."

Vance said on Wednesday that the Trump administration is pausing certain Medicaid payments to Minnesota in response to allegations of fraud in the state's social services programs. Vance said the move was to ensure the state "takes its obligations seriously to be good stewards of the American people's tax money."

A Democratic mayor squared off against a MAGA pundit on Wednesday over her "racist' defense of President Donald Trump's State of the Union address.

Ras Baraka, the mayor of Newark, New Jersey, and Natalie Winters, co-host of Steve Bannon's podcast, "The War Room," got into a heated shouting match on the latest episode of "Piers Morgan Uncensored" after Winters claimed that Democrats support illegal immigration because they want to lower wages for American workers. She also claimed that immigrants are "destroying" American culture.