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An attendee at President Donald Trump's state fair event was forced to seek refuge from extreme heat by dunking herself in a baptismal pool.

The entire Washington, D.C., metropolitan region is under extreme heat warning through the July 4 weekend with heat index values expected to be up to 112 degrees, and one MAGA fan told WTTG-TV that she took unusual measures to cool off Thursday at the Great American State Fair, which was celebrating "Faith, Values and Inspiration Day."

Republicans yelped about socialism after Mayor Zohran Mamdani urged New Yorkers to keep their thermostats set at 78 degrees to ease strain on the city's power grid during a brutal heat wave.

The city is expecting numerous days of extreme temperatures through the holiday weekend, and Mamdani suggested that residents conserve power where possible to prevent power outages, saying city buildings would maintain 78-degree temperatures and turn off or dim lights during peak times for electricity demand.

An offhand comment from Donald Trump to Vice President JD Vance may not have been meant for public consumption, according to political analyst Heather Digby Parton.

In an unguarded moment this week, Vance disclosed that Trump told envoys tasked with negotiating a peace deal with Iran to "use the [memorandum of understanding] to refill the world's oil economy, refill some stocks and then to see where the hand is."

A high-ranking Trump administration attorney received a swift schooling Thursday when he took to social media to whine about a recent court ruling regarding ICE agents' ability to go masked.

Rather than take a victory lap, James Percival, Seventh General Counsel for Homeland Security, lashed out at Philadelphia Democrats who challenged his department's authority.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt's post about President Donald Trump's new Air Force One backfired this week when critics zeroed in on its shelf of fake books.

In a post on X, Leavitt shared a beaming photo of herself seated aboard the plane, a bookshelf looming behind her. The shelf surrounds a screen displaying the presidential seal. The books filling it appear to be purely decorative.

A Republican congresswoman faced derision Thursday for urging Americans she identified as "communists" to move to Europe and suffer through a record-breaking heat wave.

Rep. Lisa McClain (R-MI) cried out in alarm on Newsmax over a string of Democratic primary election wins this week by candidates endorsed by the Democratic Socialists of America.

Republican Party lawmakers, fed up with taking the blame for President Donald Trump's failures, are launching pre-emptive strikes ahead of the upcoming midterm election, according to a new report.

In interviews with NBC News, GOP senators and operatives unloaded on the president, saying he's already setting the stage to blame Republicans if the party suffers losses in November. Trump has already latched onto the failure to pass the SAVE America Act as "his weapon of choice," they noted.

The Justice Department accidentally released former special counsel Jack Smith's sealed report on President Donald Trump to lawyers for the former prosecutor accused of stealing it.

Volume II includes Jack Smith's evidence in his case to prove Trump mishandled classified documents after leaving office — the report Trump has fought to keep secret. U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, the Trump-appointed judge who dismissed the underlying case, has barred the Justice Department from releasing it outside the department.

Saddled by infighting, Donald Trump's demands and a GOP House speaker who can’t get his caucus to agree on anything, Senate Republicans are looking at a long summer devoid of any legislation that could bolster their standing with voters in November.

House leaders have lost control of their chamber with just eight legislative days left before a planned five-week recess, leaving Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) and Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R_SD) staring down the reality that their pre-midterm agenda is essentially dead. Major legislation is piling up, and Trump's "series of mercurial power moves" keep shifting the goalposts, and Senate Republicans are increasingly "frustrated and morose."