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The decision by Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) not to run for reelection despite reported pressure from the White House to remain in the race, has Iowa Republicans on their heels coming right after Democrat Catelin Drey won a key race in the state this past week that altered the balance of power in the state legislature.

According to a report from Politico’s Liz Crampton and Holly Otterbein, Democrats see a chance to make major inroads in the reliably red state where the GOP is faced with not only coming up with a suitable candidate for the Senate seat, but also face a challenge holding onto the governorship.

Conservative political scientist Norman Ornstein condemned the Trump administration Saturday for its “outrageous” policies he says will “damage lives,” while at the same time he handed Democrats a roadmap as to how they could make a serious dent in President Donald Trump’s plans to consolidate power.

Speaking on MSNBC, Ornstein first painted a picture for why he thought Democrats have struggled to adequately oppose the Trump administration, a characterization supported by the party’s tanking poll numbers.

The former director of the CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Disease raised a “red flag” on Saturday morning, accusing Health and Human Services head Robert F. Kennedy Jr. promoting eugenics.

Appearing on MSNBC’s “The Weekend,” Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, who resigned in protest over the firing of CDC Director Susan Monarez, hammered at RFK Jr’s purge of scientists at the CDC, which has plunged the department into chaos.

Media personality Van Jones pushed back on GOP strategist Pete Seat Saturday over accusations that Democrats don’t “talk about” crime, during a CNN panel discussing the ongoing federal takeover of Washington, D.C.

“I don't like crime, I'm not a part of some pro-crime lobby, but there's a smart way and a dumb way to do anything,” Jones said, speaking to President Donald Trump’s deployment of thousands of federal officers and National Guard members to the streets of the nation’s capital.

The dozen or so high-ranking Department of Justice attorneys who were reassigned to the DOJ's Sanctuary Cities Enforcement working group have all quit, the Washington Post is reporting on Saturday.

According to the report from Post’s Perry Stein, a the time of the reassignment they were told to either accept the move or resign and, as of this week, the last attorney who accepted the move has now quit.

Reacting to the purge of high-level officials at the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) who are refusing to bend to the will and demands of HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., conservative attorney George Conway accused the Donald Trump administration of attempting to plunge the U.S. back into the “dark ages.”

Speaking with the hosts on MSNBC’s “The Weekend,” Conway brought up Trump firing the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics because he disagreed with the job numbers coming out of the department, which he claims were made-up without any presenting evidence.

Amid the stalled peace talks kicked off by President Donald Trump to end the Russo-Ukraine War, a number of Trump officials are now casting blame elsewhere in a move that has left some of America’s allies “puzzled,” Axios reported Saturday.

"The Europeans don't get to prolong this war and backdoor unreasonable expectations, while also expecting America to bear the cost," said a top Trump official, speaking with Axios on the condition of anonymity. "If Europe wants to escalate this war, that will be up to them. But they will be hopelessly snatching defeat from the jaws of victory."

President Donald Trump’s so-called “America First Priorities” are in some cases being welcomed with open arms by Chinese officials, who have said that the United States’ growing isolation and provocative trade policy is helping China “increase its global influence.”

“China may suffer economically because of the tariffs, but politically, China is gaining more sympathy and more support from other countries, and not just in the Global South,” said Xinbo Wu, who leads the Institute of International Studies at Fudan University and Shanghai as its dean, speaking with the Wall Street Journal Friday. “We now certainly face less diplomatic pressure than we did under the Biden administration.”

An offhand comment Donald Trump made about receiving a Nobel Prize nomination while speaking with Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India is the reason the two have gone from allies to enemies, reports the New York Times.

On Saturday, the Times’ Mujib Mashal, Tyler Pager and Anupreeta Das reported that an already aggravated Modi, who represents a major trading partner with the U.S. , took exception to Trump pointing out that the leadership of Pakistan had nominated him for the prize, which has become an obsession of the president in his second term.

Among the Trump administration's defining characteristics has been the president’s ire for those appointed to positions of power by past administrations, with President Donald Trump declaring early on in his second term that he would “clean house immediately” of most officials appointed under the Biden administration.

Now, however, Trump has redirected his angst toward his own appointed officials in a pattern of firings that one expert noted surpassed any previous administration in history.

A federal court in Washington, D.C. has blocked President Donald Trump's plan to expand an expedited deportation process to immigrants who have been in the country longer than two years.

In the ruling released on Friday, U.S. District Judge Jia Cobb slammed the Trump administration's apparent lack of care for due process, warning that under these new rules, basically anyone could be deported without an adequate chance to defend themselves.

The conservative Wall Street Journal editorial board laid into Trump's history of failed industrial policy decisions on Friday — using as an example his intervention on behalf of an auto plant in Lordstown, Ohio, that his first administration "supposedly saved."

The Lordstown plant has been a long string of failed and broken promises for the president ever since the whole sequence of events got set in motion in 2019, when General Motors moved to close the facility, endangering the northeast Ohio area that has more broadly seen a massive decline in the manufacturing sector over the last several decades.

Unions and progressive organizations are planning nearly 1,000 "Workers Over Billionaires" demonstrations across the United States this Labor Day to protest President Donald Trump's assault on workers' rights.

The day of national action has been organized by the May Day Strong coalition, which includes labor organizations like the AFL-CIO, American Federation of Teachers, and National Union of Healthcare Workers, as well as advocacy groups like Americans for Tax Fairness, Indivisible, Our Revolution, and Public Citizen.