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Donald Trump is searching for an exit strategy from his increasingly unpopular war with Iran, but Saudi Arabia's de facto leader is pushing hard in the opposite direction — pressuring the president to view the conflict as an opportunity to reshape the entire Middle East.

According to the New York Times, controversial Prince Mohammed bin Salman has been aggressively urging Trump to intensify the war against Iran, according to people briefed by American officials on the private conversations.

President Donald Trump's support among male voters is plummeting, and CNN's Harry Enten warned the Republican congressional majority it may not survive the fall.

The 79-year-old president rode a wave of support from that half of the electorate to the White House in 2024, but many of them have already turned on his second term, and that growing unpopularity could cut into his party's chances of maintaining control of the House and Senate.

President Donald Trump has aggressively pushed for Congress to pass the SAVE Act, his voter ID bill that critics say would dramatically suppress voter turnout, but one prominent journalist alleged on Tuesday that the president is well aware the legislation was doomed to fail — but is pushing it regardless for one nefarious reason.

An acronym for the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, the bill would require voters to provide proof of citizenship to register to vote, presenting challenges to the 52% of voters who don’t possess a passport or the 11% who don’t have access to their birth certificate.

While the less than 20% of Americans who identify as MAGA Republicans continue to support nearly every decision President Donald Trump makes, his “contempt” for his most loyal supporters “is getting worse,” argued writer Amanda Marcotte in an analysis published Tuesday.

“To Trump and his top brass, like Vance, feeling like they owe anything to anybody, especially to the red-hat yokels who got them into office, is insulting,” Marcotte wrote on her Substack. “Their resentment at their own voters for actually expecting results is getting worse, and that’s starting to be reflected in policy choices.”

The U.S. Supreme Court's right-wing majority sounds ready to upend election laws across the country, based on its questions on the first day of arguments in a new case.

The conservative justices took whacks one by one at state laws allowing ballots to be counted despite arriving after Election Day as long as they were postmarked in time, and Slate's Mark Joseph Stern expressed concern about their apparent willingness to toss out thousands of ballots in the next election as they considered Watson v. Republican National Committee.

Reeling Republican lawmakers dreading a midterm wipe-out are seeing their chances of holding both chambers of Congress further diminished by Donald Trump sending ICE agents into already troubled airports.

According to MS NOW’s Willie Geist, the nation’s focus has been on the travel chaos brought about by TSA agents skipping work because they are not being paid — for which he said Republicans are being blamed, despite them trying to make Democrats responsible.

Ousted Border Patrol Officer Greg Bovino was revealed Tuesday to have claimed minority status, according to previously unreported legal documents obtained by The New York Times and despite his admission to having referred to undocumented migrants as “filth” and “trash.”

Bovino was moved out of his role at “commander at large” of the US Border Patrol in January following the deadly immigration enforcement operation in Minnesota that led to the killings of American citizens Renee Good and Alex Pretti. Set to retire this week, Bovino spoke with the Times for a Tuesday report that uncovered a surprising revelation.

The day after President Donald Trump deployed ICE agents to the nation’s airports to fill in the gaps as many unpaid TSA agents stay home, images of the heavily armed agents standing around and seemingly doing nothing are making the president look even worse than normal.

That was the opinion of the panel on MS NOW's “Morning Joe,” with co-host Mika Brzezinski repeatedly asking if any of her colleagues knows what the purpose of the ICE airport invasion is supposed to be.

President Donald Trump's freshly minted director of the Kennedy Center is well-liked by former colleagues, but they're a bit puzzled about why he was chosen for the job.

Matt Floca was tapped to lead the landmark performing arts center after Trump fired longtime ally Ric Grenell earlier this month. Sources close to the Kennedy Center told CNN that he impressed the president with his knowledge of building and construction during tours.

Journalist and author Kurt Andersen believes he's identified the secret behind Donald Trump's political success: his lifelong stupidity combined with an American culture that's vulnerable to being conned.

Speaking on The Daily Beast Podcast, Andersen said his theory was on full display in Trump's recent foreign policy moves, which he said are fundamentally uninformed. Regarding Trump's Iran strategy, Andersen said that Trump has "no clue" about the region's history and dynamics.

MS NOW's Rachel Maddow revealed chilling new details on Monday about just how Immigration and Customs Enforcement managed to whisk away Liam Ramos, the 5-year-old boy in Minneapolis seen on camera in the protests, to the child detention facility in Dilley, Texas, so quickly.

In short, she explained, Delta Air Lines was complicit. To understand how this happened, Maddow turned to the work of an activist.

President Donald Trump spent Monday telling a law enforcement task force in Memphis that mail-in voting is "mail-in cheating" and vowing to do something about it.

But later Monday, The Washington Post reported Trump himself voted by mail.