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John Ullyot, the former senior Pentagon spokesperson who was sidelined last month amid growing controversies at the Defense Department, announced Wednesday he would leave this week.

“I made clear to Secretary Hegseth before the inauguration that I was not interested in being number two to anyone in public affairs,” Ullyot said in a statement to Politico. “Last month, as that time approached, the Secretary and I talked and could not come to an agreement on another good fit for me at DOD. So I informed him today that I will be leaving at the end of this week.”

President Donald Trump’s reported plans to slash $40 billion from the Department of Health and Human Services sent MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow into a ferocious takedown of his MAGA administration’s new efforts.

The primetime host spent the opening minutes of her Wednesday evening show by highlighting the growing backlash to Trump’s policies across the country before flagging reports surrounding his proposal to gut “fully a third of what the United States spends on health care and research.”

The Trump administration aims to remove degradation of habitat from its definition of "harm" to endangered species, proposing Wednesday a rule change that would open the door to human activity in ecologically sensitive environments.

The US Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said the definition of "harm" in the Endangered Species Act should exclude "actions that impair the habitat of protected species."

by Frankie TAGGART

Inflamed by endless claims of liberal "deep state" operatives targeting their president for prosecution, Donald Trump's supporters dreamed of the day when he would return to office and take his revenge.

U.S. District Judge James Boasberg laid down the law in his warning that he was on the brink of holding Trump administration officials in criminal contempt of court, former federal prosecutor Elie Honig told CNN's John Berman on Wednesday evening.

The move, which could lead to the jailing of Trump administration figures, stems from the ongoing defiance of federal rulings about the mass deportation of migrants to El Salvador's infamous CECOT megaprison, which is being done without any due process.

Fox News anchor Sean Hannity is no fan of reports the White House is mulling over hiking taxes on the rich.

Republicans in the White House, Senate, and House were reportedly discussing a possible new tax bracket that would raise taxes on very wealthy people — specifically those making $1 million or more per year. Bloomberg reported Tuesday the plan "signals the GOP under President Donald Trump is seriously considering ideas to raise taxes on the rich."

Americans opposing President Donald Trump are getting more emboldened, New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof wrote in an analysis published Wednesday, and in some ways, even more hopeful.

For months in the immediate aftermath of the 2024 election, the Trump opposition appeared sapped of energy, with some Democratic lawmakers even capitulating on some of Trump's priorities. "Hands Off" protests that erupted this month are one of many signs that's over now — and not a moment too soon, because, wrote Kristof, Trump's designs for this country are grim.

A week after President Donald Trump took the extraordinary step of ordering his Department of Justice to launch an investigation into former Homeland Security cybersecurity director Christopher Krebs, the onetime Republican official is speaking out.

And promising to fight back.

Attorney and author Shan Wu is writing in the Daily Beast that President Donadl Trump is demanding the power to prosecute individuals and whole groups of people alike without either the benefit of court or legal language.

Trump is using executive orders at “a record-breaking” pace to “further personal grievances” that are untethered to the law,” says Wu. This includes his presidential memoranda accusing his own former officials, Miles Taylor and Chris Krebs, of crimes including, in the case of Taylor, treason — which carries a potential death sentence.

President Donald Trump on Wednesday continued his assault against the American judicial system in a social media post where he strongly criticized a federal judge who handed the White House a legal defeat yesterday.

“Can you believe it? A Judge ruled against us on 530,000 Illegal Migrants (that Joe Biden flew over the Border in his program to transport Illegals into the Country by airplane) saying that they can’t be looked at as a group, but that each case has to be tried individually,” Trump wrote Wednesday in a lengthy post on his Truth Social platform.

California is suing the federal government over Donald Trump's on-again-off-again tariffs, the governor and attorney general said Wednesday, claiming the American president does not have the right to impose them.

The move marks the strongest pushback yet against a tariff roll-out that has sent global stock markets into meltdown, and left businesses across the US fretting about uncertainty.

CNN conservative Scott Jennings sparked an on-air clash with Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA) as the two found themselves on opposite sides of the brewing debate over the deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia – and the Democratic efforts to retrieve him.

The heated exchange unfolded Wednesday on CNN’s “The Arena” as Jennings, a longtime GOP strategist, continued to insist that the Maryland father deported to an El Salvadoran mega-prison by President Donald Trump last month did not have a legal right to remain in the United States.

A dismayed Chris Servheen is raising the alarm about what’s become of federal scientists who have kept watch over the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem’s grizzly bear population for the last 55 years.

The group of research biologists and technicians, known as the Interagency Grizzly Bear Study Team, are being hamstrung at best and arguably dismantled, he told WyoFile. For decades, until his retirement in 2016, Sevheen worked closely with the study team while coordinating grizzly bear recovery for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.