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Sen. Mitch McConnell's hometown newspaper has a bone to pick with his wife, but not about the swirling rumors around his health.

In a Louisville Courier Journal column, opinion writer Joseph Gerth said he doesn't much care about the specifics of McConnell's condition, arguing the public doesn't need detailed health updates on one of 100 senators the way it would for a president. What he does want to know, however, is why Elaine Chao didn't come home.

The latest killing at the hands of President Donald Trump's immigration forces rang out a "haunting echo" in the ears of one political analyst.

On Tuesday, Trump's Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo during a stop in Houston, Texas. The agency claimed that the 52-year-old small business owner had "weaponized his vehicle in an attempt to run over an ICE law enforcement officer," a claim that was strongly refuted by Araujo's family during a press conference on Wednesday.

President Donald Trump has a new strategy to protect the GOP in the midterms, where he is betting it all on attacking Democrats by painting them as communists — and former Gov. John Kasich (R-OH), in conversation with MS NOW's Katy Tur, found it so weak as to be literally laughable.

"I know enough about Lenin and Marx to know that communism has not turned out well," said Tur. However, democratic socialism, the very leftmost wing of the Democratic Party, is something "people associate ... with Denmark. They associate it with the Nordic countries, maybe even France, where you have a pension, you have healthcare, etc.," and not Soviet breadlines or price controls.

Political analysts pounced on a false claim that President Donald Trump made during his most recent meeting with NATO allies.

Trump claimed during a press conference that the U.S. had "$19.2 trillion ... with a 'T'" that has been invested in the country during his second term. That money is being used to build "plants and equipment all over the country," a claim that some critics were skeptical of, considering the latest economic data showed all industries except for health care and social services experienced a decline in employment.

President Donald Trump's last-minute appeal of a court order to pay writer E. Jean Carroll more than $5 million cannot stop the money from going out the door, legal experts suggest.

Trump's lawyers filed a notice of appeal to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals moments after U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan ordered the court clerk to release the funds Wednesday.

Anchor Katy Tur and an MS NOW panel spent Wednesday poking holes in President Donald Trump's explanation for his abrupt Qatari jet switcheroo.

After flying the Qatari-gifted jet to the NATO summit in Turkey, Trump announced he'd take the old Air Force One home instead.

A park that President Donald Trump bragged that he had "renovated" for $16 million suddenly had its water turn a murky brown this week, the latest in a string of his D.C. beautification "disasters."

Meridian Hill Park — also known as Malcolm X Park — saw its iconic cascading fountain go from sparkling blue to a thick, opaque brown by Tuesday, just months after the National Park Service completed a full restoration.

A federal judge has ordered President Donald Trump to release the more than $5 million payment he owes to E. Jean Carroll, a former magazine columnist who sued Trump for sexually abusing and defaming her, according to a new report.

CNN reported on Wednesday that Judge Lewis Kaplan told Trump to release the money, along with accrued interest, after the Supreme Court refused to hear Trump's appeal in the case. The payment is part of the civil verdict that found Trump sexually abused Carroll in a department store in 1996, and then defamed her when he became president.

Security expert and ex-Homeland Security official Miles Taylor sounded the alarm Wednesday after the Trump administration “just issued” a series of new rules – changes that he bluntly compared with putting a “gun to the heads of noncompliant states by putting the literal lives of their residents at risk.”

Those rule changes – which Taylor referred to as a form of "extortion" – would require states to enact a “sweeping set of election changes,” including running their voter rolls through a “controversial” federal citizenship verification database. States that do not comply would lose significant federal funding, totaling to more than $1 billion in 2026 grants largely earmarked for counterterrorism and disaster preparedness, according to CNN.

Amid reports that diplomats and world leaders are beside themselves over Donald Trump’s threats at the NATO conference in Turkey, the president attempted Wednesday to spin the meeting as a lovefest.

Sound raspy and looking tired, with Secretary of State Marco Rubio, looking over his shoulder, the president, as is his custom, departed from his prepared notes to claim that he is quite the popular guy with his counterparts.

President Donald Trump will fly his aging Air Force One out of Turkey, ditching the Qatari-gifted jet he calls "the world's most luxurious plane," a decision experts suggest was made based on security equipment concerns.

Trump wrote on Truth Social Wednesday that he'd fly the old plane from Turkey to the UK — sending the new jet ahead separately so U.S. troops could tour it. "For old time's sake," he wrote.