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MS NOW's Nicolle Wallace was aghast on Thursday's edition of "Deadline: White House" as Trump escalates his threats against Canada, seeking a closer partnership with the European Union — and Canada going for it anyway.

"I think ... the way it translates to voters, especially Republican voters, is the stench of weakness," Wallace told guest Cornell Belcher. "We have never looked so weak, being isolated. And I say this with a little bit of experience from my time in government: people care a lot about the national security implications. But the association of standing alone is something that all voters internalize and dislike, and it makes people feel frightened, and it makes America look weak."

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was repeatedly thwarted during a speech critical of childhood vaccines by a reading lamp that kept falling from the podium and resisting his efforts to operate it, often drawing laughter from the friendly audience.

Kennedy delivered the address Thursday afternoon at the Grand Hyatt Washington, where Children's Health Defense held a one-day conference, according to the group. The group is the anti-vaccine organization Kennedy co-founded and chaired until 2024, and the speech was his first at one of its events since he became health secretary.

Democrats have gained a surprising advantage over Republicans on the economy and other financial concerns in competitive House districts likely to determine control of Congress, according to new polling.

Voters in those districts report trusting Democrats more to handle the economy, inflation, gas prices, international trade and corruption, the Cook Political Report found. Immigration was the only major issue included in the comparison that Republicans maintained an advantage.

TOPEKA — Attorney General Kris Kobach doesn’t plan to request an endorsement from President Donald Trump in the November general election.

Kobach is running for reelection against Democratic nominee Chris Mann, an attorney and former police officer who lost to Kobach in 2022.

A federal judge is tightening the leash on the Trump-allied Kennedy Center board, ordering it to provide 30 days' written notice before making any changes to its renovation plans, including potential demolition of the historic building's main structure.

U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper denied a request for an emergency hearing from preservation advocates, but used the order to reinforce a promise the Kennedy Center previously made in a related case: that it would alert both the court and plaintiffs if the board ever reversed its position that the building wouldn't be demolished or replaced with new construction.

Rep. Derrick Van Orden (R-WI) said a gay president is more likely to be a Republican because Black voters are "not ready" to elect one.

Van Orden made the remarks Thursday in an interview with TMZ outside the U.S. Capitol.

President Donald Trump’s declaration that he will soon decide whether to “annihilate” Iran quickly drew disbelief from critics warning that further attacks could only worsen the situation.

“Sounds like a game show to him,” wrote ex-Netanyahu aide Shalom Lipner, now a nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council.

The Trump White House dragged Taylor Swift’s husband into its latest pitch to fight fraud on Thursday after Travis Kelce was identified as the victim of a multimillion-dollar Ponzi scheme.

“This is why we do what we do,” the White House wrote in response to a Fox News report about the Kansas City Chiefs star.

Retiring Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) is blocking Kari Lake's nomination as ambassador to Jamaica, saying Senate confirmation would open the door to other powerful government roles.

Tillis made the remarks in an interview with Semafor published Wednesday, while discussing Trump's latest round of ambassador nominations.

A proposed Trump administration rule that would fundamentally rewrite how the Census defines a person's residence was drafted so imprecisely that it fails to define its own key terms, according to a former senior bureau official who reviewed the plan.

The rule, obtained by Talking Points Memo through internal records, would replace the Census's longstanding definition of "usual residence" — where a person "lives and sleeps most of the time" — with a standard tied to tax records and a person's "allegiance" to the United States.

A federal judge has been asked to tell President Donald Trump in plain words that he cannot demolish the Kennedy Center under any circumstances after the government played "shell games" and shut down the facility despite a court order forbidding its closure.

The warning came in a court filing in Beatty v. Trump, a months-long lawsuit over the administration's control of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C.