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Senator reveals moment Trump's GOP lunch exploded: 'Not a good discussion'

A Republican senator who attended Wednesday's closed-door lunch with President Donald Trump recalled the discussion that reportedly led to yelling.

Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS) told Semafor the exchange was memorable — and not in a good way.

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Trump just broadcast his next election move with abrupt housing bill cancellation: analyst

President Donald Trump's decision to abruptly cancel a bill-signing ceremony on Wednesday for a widely popular piece of legislation raised red flags for one political analyst.

Trump announced on Truth Social that he was canceling the signing event for a bipartisan housing affordability bill, and said it won't be signed until the SAVE America Act is passed, a bill that would fundamentally transform how American elections are conducted. John Heilemann, a journalist and MS NOW political analyst, warned during a segment on "Deadline: White House" that Trump used a phrase to remember in his Truth Social post announcing the cancellation, one that will become more important as the 2026 midterm elections draw near.

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Internet mocks Trump's UN ambassador after 'desperate' Fox News interview

Reactions were mounting after U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Mike Waltz, appeared on Fox News on Wednesday to defend President Donald Trump's Iran agreement.

Waltz claimed the Iran deal was a success, despite conflicting reports about the terms of the negotiations.

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Conservative warns Trump's 'giant miscalculation' on allies just blew up in his face

President Donald Trump's "giant miscalculation" on Europe's nationalist right just backfired, a conservative New York Times columnist warned.

David French, an Iraq War veteran and longtime conservative writer, laid out the diagnosis on MS NOW on Wednesday. Trump assumed Europe's nationalist leaders were his natural allies. French said that the numbers prove that the assumption was wrong.

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'Criminal': MAGA comes unglued as Trump DOJ suffers another big court blow

Pro-Trump influencers lit into a federal appeals court Wednesday after it refused to force Michigan to hand over the personal data of every registered voter in the state.

In a 2-1 decision, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals held that the Justice Department cannot compel Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson to produce the state's unredacted voter file, which includes the date of birth, driver's license number, and partial Social Security number of every registered voter. The court found the file isn't covered by Title III of the 1960 Civil Rights Act because Michigan creates and maintains the database itself, and separately ruled the DOJ never properly stated the basis and purpose for its demand.

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Court thwarts Trump election meddling scheme by nixing Michigan voter rolls demand

A federal appeals court ruled the Trump administration has no legal right to demand voters' private data, dealing a fresh blow to its unlawful bid to control American elections.

The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals handed down the 2-1 decision Wednesday, siding with Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson (D-MI), who refused to turn over the birthdates, partial Social Security numbers, and driver's license numbers of every registered voter in the state.

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Expert sounds alarm as Supreme Court reveals 'no one left to pull it back from the brink'

A Supreme Court watcher was alarmed after a series of decisions handed down by the High Court shredded a long-standing myth about the body.

Mark Joseph Stern, a senior writer at Slate, argued in a new article that four decisions the Supreme Court handed down on Tuesday were a "blunt reminder that the GOP appointees remain in total control of the court" because each of the cases was decided by a 6-3 majority. Stern also argued that the opinions show the Court's claims that it does not always rule along ideological lines is "dubious at best."

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Trump fires back after heated clash with GOP lawmakers: 'I don't like a few people'

President Donald Trump took a swing at defiant Republicans following a reported clash between himself and a scorned GOP lawmaker.

Trump was attending the Senate GOP lunch after refusing to sign a bipartisan housing bill and claiming he needed Republicans to back the Save America Act. During the event, Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) apparently confronted Trump over the legislation and Iran war. Cassidy and Trump have had a contentious relationship, with Trump endorsing a GOP challenger who ousted Cassidy in his primary bid for re-election.

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Stephen Miller's latest screed trounced as 'straight up Nazi rhetoric'

White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller posted six words Tuesday and walked straight into accusations of Nazi rhetoric.

The post, published on X, read: "Change the voters, change the country."

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Trump and scorned Republican get into heated yelling match at GOP lunch: report

Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) started yelling at President Donald Trump at a Senate GOP luncheon on Wednesday, according to reports from insiders at the event.

Trump had vowed earlier Wednesday to block a bipartisan affordable housing bill Congress had given final passage to the night before, declining to sign the bill and fueling panic from lawmakers. Just hours later, Republicans were gathered together when the reported clash between the president and the longtime GOP lawmaker, who lost his re-election to a Trump-endorsed candidate, came to a head.

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Court deals a deathblow to Trump's executive order on voting rights

Just as Donald Trump entered a luncheon with Republican Senators to air out their grievances with each other over the SAVE America Act, designed to create roadblocks to voting, a federal judge delivered a massive blow to a voting rights executive order that had similar aims.

According to Associated Press reporting, U.S. District Court Judge Denise Casper in Boston converted a preliminary injunction from a year ago into a permanent ban on Trump's first executive order on elections—effectively ending his attempt to overhaul voting procedures nationwide.

Casper's ruling directly rejected Trump's core argument that the lawsuit brought by Democratic state attorneys general was premature because the rules hadn't yet been implemented, the AP reported before adding the judge affirmed "... that the Constitution gives states and Congress the authority to regulate elections, and that Trump’s requirements violated the separation of powers."

"The Constitution does not grant the President any specific powers over elections," Casper wrote in her decision.

The order Trump attempted to impose would have required voters to provide documentary proof of citizenship when registering—a voter suppression tactic reportedly designed to disenfranchise millions of eligible Americans. It also would have prevented mail ballots from being counted if they arrived after Election Day, even if postmarked by the deadline, and would have withheld federal funding from states that refused to comply.

According to the report, the ruling is yet another in a string of judicial defeats for Trump's elections agenda, noting "He [Trump] has since signed another executive order on elections, seeking to create a national voter list and limit mail balloting. That directive also faces multiple legal challenges."

Insiders reveal Trump’s disturbing ‘fascination’ with gory details of deadly attack

President Donald Trump was reportedly “fascinated” with the gory details regarding Israel’s Operation Grim Beeper, the 2024 attack that saw thousands of pagers explode simultaneously and brutally maim thousands of Lebanese Hezbollah members and civilians alike, including children, according to a new book.

“Trump ‘regaled’ his guests with horror stories of the destruction that the explosions had wrought,” reads an excerpt from the new book “Regime Change” by New York Times journalists Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan, as flagged by Zeteo in its report Wednesday.

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Lawmaker gives Trump nominee a tongue-lashing over insulting Senators: 'You're telling me'

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) pressed Konstantinos Ligris, President Donald Trump's nominee for Assistant Attorney General, during a tense hearing on Capitol Hill Wednesday after discovering the Department of Justice hopeful had posted several social media attacks on lawmakers.

Whitehouse mentioned the comments during the nominee's testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, pushing Ligris to respond.

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