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President Donald Trump boasted to his Facebook followers about turning the White House into a "palace" Wednesday as a hostile Republican fight erupted in the House of Representatives.

The 80-year-old president celebrated the completion of a new granite helipad on the White House South Lawn on Wednesday, as House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) enraged his colleagues by calling an early recess — and avoided Rep. Thomas Massie's (R-KY) impeachment resolution against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) delivered a dire warning Wednesday as the United States battles its worst measles outbreak in 35 years, saying the crisis is “going to be a terrible legacy for this administration.”

“Misinformation and misguided policies are leaving children and adults unprotected against disease that we know how to prevent,” Cassidy said during a confirmation hearing for three Trump administration health nominees, according to The Washington Post.

President Donald Trump's supporters in North Carolina are venting their frustration over the problematic candidate he's decided should be their senator.

Michael Whatley, the former head of the Republican National Committee, is fighting to claim the seat currently held by U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis despite trailing behind the popular former Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper in the polls.

Republican senators are privately complaining their party isn't advancing legislation that helps ordinary voters ahead of the crucial midterm elections, according to a new report.

Endangered incumbent Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) told colleagues at a closed-door GOP meeting Tuesday that the Senate should take up bills that “actually help regular Americans,” Punchbowl News reported.

One D.C. insider has a scathing theory as to why President Donald Trump thinks his eldest son and namesake is "an idiot," it was revealed Wednesday.

Jacob Weisberg floated his thesis on "Money Power Politics” amid a discussion about the new ProPublica report that a Russian oligarch "footed the bill for hundreds of thousands of dollars" of Donald Trump Jr.’s wedding expenses.

Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson claimed President Donald Trump personally ordered the cover-up of federal files on convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and admitted as much to him, according to a new report.

Carlson, 57, described the private conversation in an interview with Vanity Fair, the Daily Mail reported Wednesday.

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) canceled Thursday's votes and will likely send members home until the November midterms, a move one Republican suggested was meant to sidestep a forced impeachment vote on Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

Johnson told reporters Wednesday that Thursday's votes were canceled and the House will likely leave for recess after the final votes, Fox News correspondent Bill Melugin reported on X. The House had been scheduled to return Nov. 9, CNN reported.

Donald Trump's latest social media blitz could shape how history judges his presidency, according to a blistering new analysis.

Writing in The i Paper, political editor James Ball argued that Trump's troubles with Ukraine, Iran and climate change may not be what he's remembered for. Instead, Ball said, the crisis that defines his legacy could be how he handles the rise of artificial intelligence.

Conservatives are livid at President Donald Trump for undoing whatever little good last week's Dallas Republican convention actually achieved, according to Politico.

"Trump-a-palooza" was supposed to hand the GOP a "unified message" to energize his MAGA supporters who "typically stay home in a midterm year," Politico reported. Instead, the president has spent the week bouncing between "unrelated storylines" like his White House ballroom construction and the Kennedy Center takeover, leaving candidates fielding questions about whether they agree with him that AI concerns are a "hoax" and defending the administration's embrace of Flock surveillance cameras.

Gulf Oil Chief Energy Adviser Tom Kloza predicted this week that gas prices are about to go through the roof.

Kloza argued Wednesday morning that onerous gas prices were about to spike even higher amid President Donald Trump's war with Iran and the subsequent stranglehold on the Strait of Hormuz.

A House-led effort to release more information about convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein is gaining traction — and spurring serious concerns within the White House, according to two GOP lawmakers.

In July, Reps. Thomas Massie (R-KY) and Ro Khanna (D-CA) filed a successor to their successful Epstein Files Transparency Act (EFTA), the bill that forced the Trump administration to release millions of files.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was raked over the coals on MS NOW on Wednesday morning over reports of significant destruction to U.S. military facilities during the Iran war and munitions shortages.

“Morning Joe” hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski ridiculed Hegseth’s tenure after a new report from the Wall Street Journal revealed “The war in Iran has drained American supplies of missile interceptors and highly accurate offensive weapons."

A Beltway insider issued a dire prediction Wednesday as reports revealed President Donald Trump made nearly 28,700 stock trades in 17 months.

During an appearance on “Morning Joe,” political journalist and pundit John Heilemann analyzed a new Bloomberg analysis that found Trump traded more securities than every member of Congress combined since his return to office in 2025.