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An inflammatory report with racist overtones may have landed CBS News head Bari Weiss in hot water with the network.

According to a report from media watchdog Status, Weiss enthusiastically promoted a strained report that appeared to try to link Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed to the Sept. 11 attacks 25 years ago, which infuriated high-ranking network executives.

The U.S. Postal Service is barreling ahead with a “secretive, rushed” effort to implement President Donald Trump’s order to wield federal control over November's election in violation of court orders, according to a new whistleblower report.

The new report, which was put together by the USPS whistleblower's lawyers and released by Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), comes amidst multiple court challenges to the president's proposal to require states to submit lists of their mail-in voters or face penalties, reported CNN.

Onlookers were left in shock Tuesday after the leader of a U.S. ally openly boasted on live television about a successful "influence" campaign waged on American leaders to push the U.S. into launching its deeply unpopular war against Iran.

Underwater in the polls ahead of the nation's October elections, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took to Israel's popular Channel 14 Sunday night with a pitch to voters.

CNN's Audie Cornish called out Vice President JD Vance and other Republicans for condoning right-wing influencer Laura Loomer's racist remarks while smearing left-wing commentators as antisemitic.

The Donald Trump ally drew widespread criticism for attacking Florida Democratic Senate nominee Angie Nixon and other prominent Black U.S. politicians as "ghetto," and the "CNN This Morning" host asked why some Republicans were comfortable condemning Loomer's remarks but Vance and others had not.

A contributing factor to embattled Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth hanging onto his job is a White House afraid of an angry GOP caucus in the Senate.

Appearing on “Morning Joe” on Tuesday morning, New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman was asked about the abrupt departure of Army Secretary Dan Driscoll, who reportedly got fed up with dealing with the abrasive former Fox News personality.

The U.S. House is facing a "massive mess” as a string of absentees and revolting Republicans threaten to send the chamber’s legislative agenda up in smoke, Punchbowl News reported Tuesday.

With just over two months until the midterms, the House is scheduled to remain in session until Thursday before recessing until Sept. 14, and will be out for nearly all of October. And yet, even with “a lot” of bills still on Republicans’ priority list, House Majority Leader Steve Scalise told Punchbowl News, inner-party divisions and absentees have risked “torching this week’s legislative agenda.”

A former White House staffer teased growing tensions inside President Donald Trump's administration over Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's leadership.

Army Secretary Dan Driscoll submitted his resignation directly to the president after clashing repeatedly with the Pentagon chief, and former George W. Bush staffer Ashley Davis told "CNN This Morning" that Trump officials were likely concerned about the dynamic inside the Defense Department.

A bizarre rant by Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy at a rally in Michigan on Monday fell flat with the audience and members of a MS NOW panel were beside themselves with laughter.

Appearing in Michigan to boost the candidacy of former GOP Rep. Mike Rogers who is running for a Senate seat, a very animated Duffy exclaimed, “This is my pet peeve. I don’t know if you know about it. You know the stop/start button on your car? I hate that thing. Thank you [EPA Director] Lee Zeldin! He’s gotten rid of it and the first cars without the stop/start button are rolling off the line. Pet peeve: I hate it.”

U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Dan Caine delivered what one expert described as a “significant” blow to President Donald Trump’s alleged scheme to meddle in the upcoming midterms.

In a letter to Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) shared by CNN’s Zachary Cohen on Monday, Caine confirmed that senior military leaders had “no plans” to deploy federal military personnel or National Guard members to polling places during the midterms, adding that he had “neither received nor anticipate receiving any unlawful order concerning the role of the Joint Force in the upcoming November 2026 midterm elections.”

Rep. Ralph Norman, who lost to Darline Graham in South Carolina's Senate runoff last week, escalated his criticism of President Donald Trump for throwing his weight into the race.

The South Carolina Republican, who had suggested to then-White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows in January 2021 that Trump invoke "Marshall Law" to hold onto power despite his election loss, ripped into the 80-year-old president Monday in a two-minute conversation with reporters, according to The Daily Beast.

President Donald Trump's foot-dragging on releasing hundreds of millions of dollars for the midterms is now causing real distress among the deep-pocketed donors who bankrolled him.

According to Politico, money is trickling out of Trump's MAGA Inc. super PAC, but as September begins, Republican donors say it "should be gushing."

It's "chaos season" on the campaign trail, and the first serious week of the fall sprint is already a mess for Republicans thanks to their own party leader.

That's the read from the political outlet NOTUS, which declared the arrival of "chaos season" in its Tuesday morning newsletter, noting that September of an election year is when campaigns lock in the message they'll ride into November. For weeks, GOP leaders and candidates had carefully built a data-center-skeptic pitch, echoing voters souring on the sprawling AI projects as roughly three-quarters of Americans now say they'd oppose one in their own community.