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President Donald Trump's electoral coalition is falling to pieces and one blunder is to blame, Vice President JD Vance's former adviser Sohrab Ahmari argued Thursday.

"Well, it was nice while it lasted," Ahmari wrote for UnHerd. "Beginning in 2016, Donald Trump won over large shares of working- and lower-middle-class Americans to the GOP" — and that ultimately blossomed into a coalition that won the 2024 election as well. "But now a re-realignment may be afoot."

Influential podcaster Joe Rogan was raked over the coals on Thursday morning after professing to be completely in the dark about corruption allegations targeting Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.

Rogan, based in Austin, appeared to play dumb as Texas comedian Ron White called Paxton — running for U.S. Senate in their state — a "piece of s---" and detailed criminal charges that led to impeachment proceedings.

A House Republican, whose caucus is being besieged with questions about President Donald Trump, is leading the charge to spare lawmakers the irritation of reporters camped off the House floor, according to a new report.

Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), who chairs the House Rules Committee, revealed that some of her colleagues want to ban the press entirely from the Speaker's Lobby, the Washington Sun reported Thursday.

A Minnesota judge on Thursday gave a "rare" interview to the New York Times to double down on his "stark" warning about President Donald Trump.

Judge Patrick J. Schiltz spoke out against Immigration and Customs Enforcement months after it violated nearly 100 federal court orders, some mandating the release of undocumented immigrants, the Times reported.

A sudden warning sign inside the Trump administration triggered days of round-the-clock alarm among senior officials, according to people familiar with internal discussions.

The trigger, officials say, was the preview and staged rollout of Anthropic's powerful Mythos model, which set off fears inside the administration that the technology could be weaponized to launch damaging cyberattacks or otherwise threaten national security, reported the Wall Street Journal.

President Donald Trump told Republican candidates at his midterm convention in Dallas to run their campaigns as if he were personally on the ballot — an order, just one week later, they appear to have ignored, New York Magazine reported Thursday.

"I'm asking you to pretend that I'm on the ballot," Trump told the crowd. "I'm on the ballot. I'm on the ballot."

President Donald Trump's administration may be walking into a fresh competence scandal as ex-staffers from the Department of Government Efficiency appear to be running the show again, according to a new analysis.

The Washington Sun revealed Thursday that officials are quietly developing an "AI-driven government website" called America.gov, meant to serve as a one-stop shop for federal services, including free passport renewals and free tax filing.

World leaders are not impressed with President Donald Trump's claim that welcoming Canada into partnership constitutes a "hostile act," the Washington Post reported Thursday.

Trump made this claim in North Carolina Wednesday in response to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen's proposal to make Canada the European Union's first-ever "associate member."

The U.S. military's cyber defense chief says artificial intelligence has caused a "tenfold" spike in vulnerabilities across the Pentagon's aging computer networks, exposing systems that have gone without major upgrades for nearly 30 years to a new generation of AI-powered attacks.

Lt. Gen. Paul Stanton, who leads the Army's cyber defense command, told attendees at last week's Billington CyberSecurity Summit in Washington that the Defense Department had chronically shortchanged network maintenance in favor of funding advanced weapons programs — a tradeoff he said the military can no longer afford, reported the Washington Post.

The Republican-led House of Representatives is skipping town again — shutting down all business until the midterms. And MS NOW's Jen Psaki drew attention to the likely reason they are doing it.

"There have been 185 weekdays since this year began," said Psaki. "And of those 185 weekdays, the House of Representatives has been on the job for a whopping 71 days." In other words, she said, "That is less than 40 percent of the days that you and I and everybody else have been expected to show up for work this year."