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An author who has written about President Donald Trump for more than a decade flagged signs that the president is "starting to slow down" during a podcast interview on Wednesday.

Katy Tur, who covered Trump for MS NOW and wrote a book about covering his 2016 campaign called "Unbelievable," discussed the signs that Trump is aging on a new episode of "The Daily Beast Podcast" with Joana Coles, the outlet's chief content officer.

A legal expert slammed prosecutors in Georgia on Wednesday after they moved to dismiss a long-standing case against President Donald Trump because it would take too long to prosecute.

Prosecutors in Georgia charged Trump with crimes under the state's RICO statutes for his attempts to interfere in the 2020 presidential election. The trial dragged out as Trump's lawyers argued that the former prosecutor, Fani Willis, was providing improper benefits to another prosecutor, Nathan Wade. A judge ultimately ruled that Willis needed to be replaced on the case.

President Donald Trump got a tongue-lashing from the conservative Karl Rove on Wednesday, over his constant stream of social media provocations that have now escalated to death threats against members of Congress.

"We’re witnessing the rise of a new class of political performance artists," wrote Rove. "They want to be at the center of national attention, creating chaos and conflict, shocking sensibilities, and unleashing dark passions. The hard work of legislation, of addressing Americans’ real needs, is of little interest. Instead, they compete to see who can say the most outrageous and inflammatory things. Their goal is more posts, more views, and more reactions — positive or negative, it doesn’t matter."

President Donald Trump's plans to control aerial drones during the 2026 World Cup and 2028 Olympics, which will be held in cities across the U.S., have put the administration squarely at odds with one of its staunch allies, according to a new report.

Politico reported on Wednesday night that Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) is pushing back on the administration's attempts to give itself more power to take down aerial drones during the events. Cruz has described the plan as "extremely problematic" and could prevent the measure, which is tucked into the latest defense spending bill, from passing.

President Donald Trump described immigration as a "risk to our survival" in a dark speech on Wednesday night.

Trump posted a video on his Truth Social page where he discussed the attack in Washington, D.C., that left two National Guard troops critically injured. Authorities believe a 29-year-old immigrant from Afghanistan named Rahmanullah Lakanwal from Bellingham, Washington, carried out the shooting.

A former insider in Trump world warned on Wednesday that someone in the president's orbit is "about to get fed to the political wood chipper."

Michael Cohen, Trump's former attorney for more than a decade, wrote in a new essay for Meidas+ that FBI Director Kash Patel's days in the administration may be numbered. He cited ongoing issues with Patel's use of FBI resources, like taking a government jet to go on a date with his girlfriend, country music singer Alexis Wilkins, and providing her with an FBI security detail.

President Donald Trump privately told the prime minister of Japan to back off its aggressive stance against China invading Taiwan, reported the Wall Street Journal — a move that blindsided an allied leader whom Trump generally praises for hawkishness.

"Days after Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi outraged China by suggesting a Chinese attack on Taiwan could mobilize a Tokyo military response, Xi spent half of an hourlong phone call with Trump, people briefed on the matter said, hammering home China’s historic claim to the democratic self-governing island as well as Washington and Beijing’s joint responsibility to manage the world order," said the report.

An official account associated with the White House called a reporter "stupid" and a "sick, disgusting ghoul" for questioning President Donald Trump's National Guard takeover of Washington, D.C., following the incident in which two National Guard troops were shot.

"This is so tragic, so unnecessary, these poor guardsmen should never have been deployed," wrote Jane Mayer of The New Yorker on X, in response to the news. "I live in DC and watched as they had virtually nothing to do but pick up trash. It was for political show and at what a cost."

A rising political star on the left may have revealed the best way to disarm President Donald Trump, according to one analyst.

Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic Socialist mayor-elect of New York City, recently met with Trump at the White House after enduring weeks of threats from the president that he would cut off funding to Mamdani's city if he were elected. Will Saletan, a writer at The Bulwark, argued in a new article that the "chummy" meeting between the two leaders also revealed Mamdani's strategy for dealing with Trump.

A shooting of two National Guard troops just blocks from the White House rocked Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, and new details have surfaced about the suspected gunman.

The shooting occurred at the intersection of 17th St. and I St. Authorities believe the gunman acted alone. Both troops were in critical condition as of Wednesday night.