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Canadian businessman and star of CNBC's "Shark Tank," Kevin O'Leary, sparked an uproar on CNN on Wednesday after he defended the costs of President Donald Trump's war in Iran.

O'Leary argued during a segment on CNN's "NewsNight" with host Abby Phillip that waging the war in Iran is worth the associated costs because it will allow American businesses to sell products in an emerging region, and that the Strait of Hormuz will be policed by another nation in the region. O'Leary added that the short-term rise in oil and fertilizer prices is just part of the deal for Americans.

Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts whined about how Americans view his court during a recent speaking appearance, according to a new report.

NBC News reported on Wednesday that Roberts decried how little Americans know about the Supreme Court's functions and how they view the court as "truly political actors." He also added that the court takes great effort to "figure out what the Constitution means," even though he acknowledged that some of the court's decisions are "unpopular," the report added.

Political analysts and observers were aghast on Wednesday as a new report revealed the impetus for President Donald Trump's most recent abrupt reversal.

NBC News reported that Saudi Arabia had revoked the U.S.'s access to its military bases to conduct operations for "Project Freedom," Trump's plan to guide ships through the Strait of Hormuz and ward off attacks from Iranian ships. That seemed to help explain why Trump abruptly reversed course about Project Freedom on Tuesday and said his administration would pause the operation to focus on negotiations with the Iranian regime.

An immigration judge in California sued the Trump Department of Justice on Wednesday, alleging she was fired because of her political beliefs and affiliations with an immigrant-rights group, Fox News reported.

The judge, Kyra Lilien, alleged that the Trump DOJ declined to continue employing her past her probationary period for myriad reasons, including her age, her Hispanic heritage, and because she is fluent in Spanish. She named Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche as a defendant in the lawsuit and accused him of violating her First Amendment and civil rights, according to the report.

President Donald Trump just launched a new war on the American people, and it's being led by an "eccentric" MAGA figure, according to a new report.

Sebastian Gorka, the White House terrorism czar, has come up with a plan to label broad swath of Americans as domestic terrorists, journalist Ken Klippenstein reported on Wednesday. The plan labels three types of major terrorist groups: “Narcoterrorists and Transnational Gangs,” “Legacy Islamist Terrorists,” and “Violent Left-Wing Extremists, including Anarchists and Anti-Fascists.” It also identifies “left-wing,” “anti-Fascists,” “Anarchists” and “radically pro-transgender” ideologies as threats on par with the likes of al Qaeda and ISIS or narco-traffickers, Klippenstein reported.

A New York Times reporter melted down during a segment on CNN on Wednesday during a discussion about President Donald Trump's war in Iran.

Lulu Garcia-Navarro, a reporter with the New York Times, said she is "completely flabbergasted" by the Trump administration's negotiations with the Iranian regime. Trump has recently rejected two offers to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, a critical global waterway that accounts for 20% of the world's energy trade, because the Iranian regime refused to give up its nuclear weapons. She was also taken aback by the seeming inability of Trump to predict that the war would turn from a military conflict to an asymmetrical war.

The official X account for the U.S. Department of Education posted an overtly political image on Wednesday to mark Teacher Appreciation Week — depicting a beloved Nickelodeon cartoon character as a MAGA supporter.

"Teachers are dedicated," stated the account, showing a picture of Mrs. Puff, SpongeBob SquarePants' drivers' ed instructor, reading a giant red book labeled "MAGA."

A federal judge ruled on Wednesday that the Trump Department of Justice can keep the ballots it seized from the Fulton County election office in Georgia, according to reports.

U.S. District Judge Jean-Paul Boulee ruled that Fulton County's lawyers had not established that the Trump DOJ showed "callous disregard" for the county's rights, CBS News reported. Even so, he noted that the Trump DOJ's affidavit was "defective" in some instances and made "troubling" omissions about the voting mechanisms, according to the report.

Jesse Watters of Fox News instigated a full-blown shouting match on Wednesday after he told one of his Democratic colleagues that her party does not have any "standards of morality."

Watters sparked a clash with co-hosts Jessica Tarlov and Greg Gutfeld on "The Five" during a debate about why some people continue to support President Donald Trump despite his morally questionable actions. Tarlov claimed Trump is a "completely morally bankrupt person," which seemed to set off Watters and Gutfeld.

A GOP heavyweight tore into President Donald Trump in a new op-ed on Wednesday after he helped the Indiana GOP defeat itself.

On Tuesday, four of Indiana's high-profile GOP lawmakers lost their reelection bids to candidates endorsed by Trump. The endorsement followed months of pressure exerted by Trump on the Indiana state legislature to redraw its congressional election map to help the GOP preserve its majority after the 2026 midterm elections.