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Academy Award-winning actor Tom Hanks had the rug pulled out from under him after a military award ceremony previously scheduled to honor the actor as an “outstanding citizen” was cancelled, the Washington Post reported Saturday.

The alumni association at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point had planned to present Hanks with the Sylvanus Thayer Award, which has been presented by West Point alumni to non-West Point graduates since 1958, and is awarded to those who “exemplify” a devotion to West Point’s motto of “Duty, Honor, Country.”

President Donald Trump ramped up his threats to enact a federal takeover of Chicago, Illinois on Saturday after sharing an image on social media depicting an AI-generated version of himself standing in front the city’s skyline, with military helicopters flying overhead and flames burning in the background.

The image included the phrase ‘Chipocalypse Now,” a reference to the 1979 war film “Apocalypse Now,” and a quote that reads “I love the smell of deportations in the morning,” another reference to one of the film’s most notable lines: “I love the smell of napalm in the morning.”

As the 2026 midterm elections fast approach, President Donald Trump has mere “months” to stave off an electoral disaster for the Republican Party, according to one political scientist who warned Trump he's on a tight deadline.

“[Trump] has a few more months to figure out how he wants to impact public impressions of the economy before a frame gets drawn around the midterms, said political scientist Lanhee Chen, who also served as Mitt Romney’s senior advisor for his 2012 presidential bid, speaking with the Financial Times in a report published Saturday.

Donald Trump need only look in the mirror if he is upset with how the Labor Day weekend came to be filled with a hotbed of conspiracy rumors that he had died or was in such poor health that he couldn’t even post on Truth Social.

The president somewhat allayed speculation about his fate when he finally posted “NEVER FELT BETTER IN MY LIFE”, but by that time the damage had been done and those who live in a conspiracy-filled world weren’t buying it.

The death spiral is continuing for the John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts since Donald Trump’s takeover with ticket sales in free-fall, artist cancellations and now artists who are showing up are facing the prospect of rows upon rows of empty seats.

According to a new report from the Guardian’s Richard Luscombe, “Audiences are ‘voting with their feet to skip out’ on shows that would once have been packed,” with the popular Stuttgart Ballet faced with poor ticket sales that indicate only 20 percent of the seats will be filled.

A stark divide on vaccine policy exists between President Donald Trump and his controversial pick to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., though the president has decided to continue supporting him, a White House official revealed Saturday.

“He doesn't feel as strongly as Bobby on some of these key issues," a White House official told Reuters in a report published Saturday, speaking with the outlet on the condition of anonymity. “He trusts his judgment."

A new joint effort was launched Friday night to compel the release of files on Jeffrey Epstein, as the Trump administration scrambles to suppress further interest in the matter.

Both the New York Times and the Miami Herald have joined forces in filing a request in court for a judge to unseal financial records from Epstein’s estate on Little Saint James island in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Through the request, the outlets hope to learn where Epstein acquired his massive wealth, the details of which still remain a mystery today.

Attempts by the Department of Justice to prosecute Americans who are balking at Donald Trump’s authoritarian impulses are not finding a friendly audience when cases are being presented before grand juries long considered to be prosecutor-friendly.

According to Alan Feuer, writing for The New York Times, the U.S. Attorneys appointed by Trump and working under the supervision of Attorney General Pam Bondi are finding it rough sledding getting grand juries to return a true bill that would set the stage to proceed to the courtroom –– and there is a reason for that.

With President Donald Trump’s tariffs already being felt across the American economy, the president has told Americans to be patient, and that his trade policy would soon usher in a resurgence of domestic manufacturing jobs.

And yet, as job growth slows and prices tick up, Trump’s promise to reshore domestic manufacturing has not only not come to fruition, it appears to be “going in the wrong direction,” according to one analyst who spoke with the Washington Post Saturday.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) is calling out what she considers to be a “major misstep” by her own party’s leadership, one that threatens to cripple the GOP in the upcoming midterm elections.

Greene has been among the loudest voices of dissent within her party as it relates to the handling of files held by the Justice Department on Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced financier who died in 2019 awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges, and is alleged to have run a blackmail operation targeting powerful figures.

Outside of Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, there is little excitement within the Pentagon and among former defense officials to see the Department of Defense (DOD) renamed as the Department of War (DOW) with worries about cost, confusion and also how other nations will use the change for propaganda purposes.

According to a report from Politico, the long-anticipated rebranding landed with a thud on Friday as the president and the controversial Hegseth discussed it in an Oval Office press availability.

One arena in which President Donald Trump's administration has been consistently stymied is the federal judiciary. And an attorney currently leading a prominent lawsuit against the White House is now giving new details on why his efforts have borne fruit.

During a Friday interview on MSNBC's "The Weeknight," Norm Eisen — who was U.S. Ambassador to the Czech Republic during former President Barack Obama's administration — expanded on his simple strategy of filing Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests compelling the Trump administration to release documents pertaining to convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. Eisen previously shed light on his successes in the judiciary with The Atlantic in an article entitled "The Anti-Trump Strategy That's Actually Working." The article reported on "a legal resistance led by a patchwork coalition of lawyers, public-interest groups, Democratic state attorneys general, and unions has frustrated Trump’s ambitions."

The conservative Wall Street Journal editorial board took stock of the latest dismal jobs report on Friday — and laid a key part of the blame for it at the feet of President Donald Trump.

"Friday’s monthly report for August confirms that job creation has stalled amid his tariff barrage," wrote the board, a frequent critic of Trump's trade policy. "Employers added a mere 22,000 jobs last month while the numbers were revised down for the previous two by a combined 21,000. This means only 107,000 new jobs were created in the last four months — an average of 27,000. Monthly job gains averaged 167,000 last year."