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Experts raged on Wednesday night after the cost of President Donald Trump's first week at war with Iran was revealed.

The Associated Press reported that the first week of the war cost $11.3 billion, which includes all of the munitions used in the bombing operations that killed former Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and destroyed a girls' school, killing 175 civilians in the process. The report was published at a time when the Trump administration is facing considerable backlash for bombing Iran, which Trump himself described as both a "war" and an "excursion" during a press conference on Wednesday.

President Donald Trump was mocked on Wednesday after unleashing his latest attack on California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat.

In a Truth Social post, Trump claimed that Newsom's recent interview, in which he claimed he had dyslexia and was a poor reader, had disqualified him as a presidential candidate.

President Donald Trump's sudden announcement that the U.S. would unload some of its Strategic Petroleum Reserves to ease the market pressure resulting from the war in Iran caught some allies off guard, according to a new report.

The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday that Trump's announcement that it planned to undertake the largest-ever oil market intervention left some allies "stunned." The announcement was made at a time when global oil prices had soared following the coordinated strikes by the U.S. and Israel in Iran.

President Donald Trump has put some of his state GOP allies in a tough spot as he seeks to overhaul the leadership at the Department of Homeland Security, a new report reveals.

Last week, Trump announced that he was removing DHS Secretary Kristi Noem and replacing her with Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK), effective March 31. The move was announced after two days of disastrous Congressional hearings for Noem, where she claimed that Trump approved a more than $220 million contract to advertise Noem and the work DHS had done on immigration.

The Trump administration's latest "cruel" plea to the Supreme Court sparked outrage among political analysts and observers on Wednesday.

The administration filed an application to stay a lower court's order prohibiting it from ending Temporary Protected Status for more than 300,000 Haitian immigrants. In the application, the administration argued that the lower courts were relying on a "far-fetched and far-reaching equal-protection claim" for immigrants who receive TPS and conceded that the claim could "invalidate virtually every immigration policy of the current administration."

A federal grand jury has indicted the chairman of the Nye County, Nevada, Republican Party for allegedly defrauding the government of roughly $500,000 in COVID-19 relief funds, according to a new report.

Nye County Republican Party chairman Leo Blundo is facing charges of wire fraud and money laundering connected to the several loans and grants he received from the federal government, local news station 8NewsNow reported. The money was supposed to go to Blundo's restaurant, Carmelo’s Bistro, but instead was funnelled into several investment and cryptocurrency accounts, according to the report.

A federal judge ripped into the Trump administration on Wednesday over its actions to suppress protests by National Park Service employees.

Federal Judge Sparkle L. Sooknanan from the District of Columbia wrote in a new order that the Trump administration's decision to announce a new ban on flags at Yosemite, including at El Capitan, a world-famous rock climbing spot in the park, "appears to implicate fundamental First Amendment issues that bear on the free speech rights of park rangers and federal employees across our country."

President Donald Trump was roundly mocked on Wednesday after he made an inadvertent admission during a speech in Kentucky.

Trump spoke at Verst Logistics in northern Kentucky, a company that the president has claimed is investing $10 million into its domestic manufacturing capacity. During his speech, Trump made a claim that raised the eyebrows of several political analysts and observers.

President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that he is considering making a drastic move to combat rising oil prices that have resulted from the U.S. and Israel's coordinated bombing campaign in Iran.

During an interview with a local television station in Cincinnati, Ohio, Trump indicated that he plans to tap the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve to help bring down energy costs. The comments were made at a time when AAA's petroleum market experts measured the national average cost of a gallon of gasoline at $3.54, about $0.38 higher than this time last week.

President Donald Trump admitted he voted for a Democrat in the most recent Palm Beach, Florida, municipal elections, according to a new report.

Speaking to a crowd of supporters at Trump National Doral Miami, Trump said he voted for Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw, a Democrat, because "he’s kept Palm Beach safe for a lot of years," MeidasTouch reported. Those comments stand in stark contrast to Trump's public comments about Democrats, whom he has described as "scum," "vermin," and "animals."