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Donald Trump will be returning the White House Correspondents' Dinner, after years of boycotting the event and attacking journalists for their reporting on him.

According to reporting from Status's Oliver Darcy and analysis from The Atlantic's Paul Farhi, some of the president's most controversial appointees will also be there to cheer him on, courtesy of recently Trump-friendly Paramount and CBS.

President Donald Trump praised himself for "doing a great job" after 13 service members were killed in the Iran war.

During a Tuesday interview on CNBC, Trump noted that many other wars lasted years instead of months.

President Donald Trump begged Iran's leadership to release eight women he believes will be executed as his administration attempts to negotiate a peace agreement.

The 79-year-old president expressed hopes that a delegation, likely led by Vice President JD Vance, will strike a "great deal" with Iran during talks in Pakistan, but he shared a post from a pro-Israel influencer to set a new condition to open negotiations.

CNN's Harry Enten highlighted a potential advantage that could help Democrats regain the House majority in this fall's midterm elections.

Voters will decide on a contentious redistricting measure in Virginia that would redraw the state's congressional map to give Democrats an advantage in 10 of its 11 seats, and Enten examined how Tuesday's election results would impact the November contest.

A senior Trump administration official revealed Tuesday the extent of the GOP’s “intra-party freakout” as the midterm elections draw closer amid the president’s unprecedented unpopularity among Americans, telling Zeteo that the panic is far worse than what’s seen in public.

“The bedwetting is making the whole bedroom damp,” the senior Trump official told Zeteo, speaking on the condition of anonymity.

President Donald Trump made a stunning admission Tuesday when pressed by CNBC’s Joe Kernen about his threats to destroy Iran’s civilian infrastructure, suggesting the decision was not ultimately his to make.

“I think regimes only respond to certain things, and I understand your threats to bomb the bridges and the electric grid, but I don't think the regime cares about the people of Iran,” Kernen said, with Trump phoning in to CNBC’s “Squawk Box.”

The citizens of tiny Social Circle, Georgia, where Donald Trump received 70 percent of the vote all three times he ran for president, are in full revolt against the president’s administration after the Department of Homeland Security bought a facility projected to hold 10,000 immigrants while they await deportation.

According to MS NOW’s Antonia Hylton, that has led to a standoff with the city manager who is insisting the town of approximately 5,000 does not have the water and sewage infrastructure to accommodate the flood of detainees.

Democrats are aggressively targeting Republican-held House seats in districts President Donald Trump won decisively in 2024, betting that his unpopularity and scandals plaguing GOP incumbents create unexpected vulnerabilities in traditionally safe Republican territory.

The strategy centers on forcing Republicans to defend seats they previously considered secure, stretching GOP resources thin across multiple fronts, reported the Washington Post.

A retiring House Republican contradicted President Donald Trump on a pair of key political issues.

Rep. Ryan Zinke (R-MT) appeared on "CNN This Morning," where he was asked by host Audie Cornish about his decision to join 34 other GOP lawmakers who are retiring from the House in this midterm election cycle.

Following the recent “revolt” of House Republicans against President Donald Trump and his push to extend a mass surveillance program, GOP Senate leaders are “privately fuming” at their House counterparts for “dumping many crises in their laps,” Punchbowl News reported Tuesday.

Beyond House Republicans’ rejection of Trump’s push to extend the mass surveillance program, the House GOP also rejected a plan approved by Senate Republicans to partially fund the Department of Homeland Security amid the ongoing partial government shutdown, another instance that frustrated Senate GOP leadership.

Reacting to reports out of the Beltway that Republican lawmakers are crossing their fingers and hoping either Supreme Court Justices Sam Alito or Clarence Thomas will make a surprise retirement announcement just prior to the midterm election, MS NOW Now’s Jonathan Lemire reported that Democrats have their own opinions about what is transpiring.

Last week it was reported that both of the elderly justices will be returning, which dashed the hopes of some far-right lawmakers who want Donald Trump to pack the court with younger right-wing extremists.

Mike Waltz, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, appeared on NBC News’ “Meet the Press” over the weekend to push back against criticism of the U.S. war against Iran and its high number of civilian casualties, but in doing so, inadvertently made a telling admission, writer and analyst William Saletan noted on Monday.

“As you know, some Iranian advocates are urging the United States not to target civilian infrastructure, and you say the United States is okay targeting civilians?” NBC News’ Kristen Welker asked Waltz during his appearance on the network on Sunday.

President Donald Trump's contradictory public statements about Iran negotiations have created confusion within the administration and required repeated staff corrections, particularly regarding whether Vice President JD Vance would attend diplomatic talks in Pakistan.

The Washington Post reported that Trump told journalists from ABC and MSNBC on Sunday morning that Vance would not travel to Pakistan due to security concerns, directly contradicting statements from United Nations Ambassador Mike Waltz and Energy Secretary Chris Wright, who confirmed Vance's participation.