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‘Oh my God!’: Fox News flubs preview of interview with second lady with on-air gaffe

Fox News appeared to hit a snag Sunday after its preview of an interview with Second Lady Usha Vance experienced apparent audio problems, with one host heard loudly exclaiming during the incident.

Just ahead of a commercial break, the cast of the “Fox & Friends Weekend” teased an upcoming segment: an exclusive interview with the second lady.

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'Farmageddon' ignites midterm 'prairie fire' as GOP senators complain 'Trump is us'

A political "prairie fire" has erupted in the midwest for Republican Senators who fear President Donald Trump is only fueling the flames, Politico reported Sunday.

Republicans told Politico they're deeply concerned Democrats will regain control of the Senate in November as Trump policy wallops farmers and promotes his personal brand.

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‘You can call me senator!’ Black progressive Dem wallops Trump ally over racist attack

Democratic Senate nominee Angie Nixon hit back Sunday after being called a “ghetto b----” by far-right influencer and White House insider Laura Loomer, a racist attack that included a slight at her manner of speaking as a Black woman.

“These women are all ghetto, entitled, race-obsessed, destructive black B------ who are completely unfit for the power they hold,” Loomer wrote Friday in a social media post on X, referring to Nixon, two Black female lawmakers and one former lawmaker.

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Toilet paper lingers as Donald Trump's reputation circles the bowl: analysis

As his reputation circles the bowl, one particular of President Donald Trump's legacy remains: toilet paper.

That's the analysis from MS NOW Sunday morning on how Trump's trade war with Canada has Americans worrying once again about toilet paper — and raging at the president.

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Outrage as Google ‘capitulates’ to Trump with ‘genuinely disturbing’ move: ‘Just pathetic’

President Donald Trump’s revenge-fueled order to rename Lake Ontario to Lake America was validated by Google on Sunday after the technology company changed the name of the lake on its service Google Maps, sparking outrage among countless critics.

Trump imposed a 50% tariff on $20 billion of Canadian goods earlier this month after trade negotiations between Washington and Ottawa broke down. In response, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney vowed to match those tariffs “dollar for dollar.” Days later, Trump signed an executive order directing the federal government to rename the smallest of the Great Lakes after the United States.

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Dark secret comes out on Trump’s big Venezuela oil deal: report

Buried within President Donald Trump’s unprecedented oil deal with Venezuela is a provision designed to exert a level of control over the South American company for 100 years, the Wall Street Journal exclusively reported Saturday night.

Announced on Friday, the deal will see the United States be granted rights to Venezuela’s untapped oil fields for a century. Furthermore, the U.S. government would take a direct stake in Venezuela's oil reserves, the single-largest proven oil reserves on earth.

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GOP lawmaker slams Trump deal in online post — then quietly swaps it with post praising it

Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar (R-FL) published a scathing rebuke Saturday of President Donald Trump’s Venezuela oil deal only to quietly delete it and swap it for a post championing the deal as “great,” the New York Post reported.

“Any oil ‘deal’ with Venezuela’s interim regime has an expiration date: the day President Trump leaves the White House,” Salazar wrote in a now-deleted social media post on X, according to journalist Orlando Avendaño. “A lasting deal can only be made with a democratically elected government that respects the rule of law, protects private property, and is backed by strong democratic institutions.”

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Judge deals fierce blow to Trump admin's free speech crackdown: 'Belongs to the people'

The Trump administration violated the Constitution when it moved to deport or rescind visas from international students who spoke up for Palestinian rights and criticized Israel’s genocide in Gaza, a federal judge ruled on Friday.

Northern District of California Judge Noël Wise, who was appointed by former President Joe Biden, said that the administration’s actions violated both the First Amendment of the Constitution protecting free speech and the Fifth Amendment ensuring due process.

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Outrage as Trump ambassador ignores brutal attack on American news crew

U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee was condemned Saturday for ignoring a brutal attack on an American news crew that occurred earlier that same day.

A crew of three NBC News correspondents was reporting from the occupied West Bank on Saturday near the Palestinian village of Jalud when a vehicle accelerated toward them with Israeli license plates, the outlet reported.

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CIA chief’s secret Moscow trip exposed as insiders leak details: report

CIA Director John Ratcliffe raised eyebrows this week after secretly jetting off to Moscow, Russia, and while the Kremlin denied that any meetings between Russian officials and Ratcliffe took place, two insiders on Saturday revealed at least one apparent reason for the mysterious trip.

Two sources briefed on the matter told Axios Saturday that while in Moscow, Ratcliffe proposed a “trilateral meeting” between President Donald Trump, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in just the latest effort to end the Russo-Ukraine war. Since the beginning of his second term, Trump has struggled to bring about an end to the conflict despite his repeated efforts.

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Unsettling question raised over Trump admin's role in devastating Nepal floods

The devastating flash floods in Nepal this week that killed at least 670 people and left around 3,000 missing — including 90 Americans — might have claimed fewer lives if not for the actions of the Trump administration, former USAID disaster-response chief Jeremy Konyndyk suggested on Saturday.

A series of catastrophic flash floods hit Nepal near its border with China on Wednesday causing unprecedented destruction. The event is believed to have been caused by a glacier collapse in the Himalayas.

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Scott Bessent called 'worst treasury secretary in history' after baffling move: report

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent was widely scrutinized Saturday after revealing an extraordinary plan designed to stabilize the bond market, a plan described by one expert as a “band-aid on a bullet hole.”

Last week, investor Lawrence McDonald flagged a series of "red flashing signals" on Fox Business, warning that climbing global bond yields were dragging prices lower, a pattern he likened to the run-up to 1987's Black Monday crash.

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Trump's AI duck invasion baffles on both sides of the border: 'Our president is insane'

President Donald Trump's Truth Social post depicting "Donald Ducks" invading Canada baffled critics north and south of the border.

On Saturday, Trump posted an AI-generated video showing armed geese with his hairstyle invading from "Lake America." The post comes after Trump signed an executive order renaming Lake Ontario to Lake America, which came with jokes about renaming the Canadian geese living in the Great Lake "Donald Ducks." Onlookers from both the U.S. and Canada responded with collective online facepalming.

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