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Mockery abounded on Wednesday as reports surfaced that movie theaters will hawk a limited-edition Melania Trump-themed popcorn bucket for $12.99, timed to the first lady's new documentary hitting screens Friday.

As ridicule swirled earlier this week over dismal expected sales for Amazon's expensive documentary, social media lit up again when Gizmodo reported that Melania-themed popcorn buckets will be available for purchase this weekend.

President Donald Trump's mass immigrant arrest scheme suffered a huge setback on Wednesday, as a federal judge in Minnesota ordered a halt to any arrest and detention of lawful refugees not accused of committing crimes.

Senior U.S. District Judge John Tunheim ordered that the moves to arrest Minnesota's 5,600 refugees, transport them to other states, and interrogate them in detention cannot continue — and that anyone who was shipped out to other states in this manner must be returned to Minnesota.

One of MAGA's favorite companies is still reeling from its political ties to President Donald Trump, and that could cost its CEO a $1 trillion payday he recently negotiated with its board of directors, according to a new report.

Last year, Tesla shareholders approved a pay package for CEO Elon Musk that would allow him to earn more than $1 trillion in company stock if Tesla meets aggressive metrics over the next decade. Those metrics include growing Tesla's market capitalization from $1.5 trillion to $8.5 trillion, putting it ahead of companies like Nvidia and Amazon, as well as earning and product-specific targets.

A Border Patrol agent recently spilled the beans about more than a dozen 'secret and obscure watchlists' that President Donald Trump's administration has created to monitor Americans, according to a new report.

Independent journalist Ken Klippenstein reported on Wednesday that a source inside Customs and Border Patrol spoke to him about a list of "aggressive protesters" that the administration has cobbled together using multiple existing government databases. The protesters the administration cares about most are anti-ICE and pro-Palestinian protesters, the report said. Some of the codenames of the lists are Bluekey, Grapevine, Hummingbird, Reaper, Sandcastle, Sienna, Slipstream, and Sparta, it added.

A federal judge blasted President Donald Trump's Immigration and Customs Enforcement forces in a scathing order on Wednesday that gave the administration a temporary win.

Kyle Cheney, senior legal affairs reporter for Politico, posted on X that the order cancelled an upcoming contempt hearing scheduled for Friday. Federal Judge Patrick J. Schiltz of the District of Minnesota had previously compelled acting ICE Director Todd Lyons to appear in court and answer questions about the agency's ability to comply with court orders.

Election workers in Georgia issued a dire warning to the public after President Donald Trump's FBI raided the Fulton County Election Hub and Operations Center on Wednesday.

Trump's FBI executed a search warrant for all ballots from Fulton County's 2020 general election, including digital imagery, ballot counts, and voting machine information. The warrant also included a demand for the Fulton County voter rolls, which the administration has been trying to obtain from state and local governments throughout Trump's second term.

Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) accused President Donald Trump's Medicare and Medicaid administrator on Wednesday of inciting racial bigotry against Armenian-owned businesses in his state.

"Our office is reviewing reports that Dr. Mehmet Oz targeted the Armenian American community in Southern California recently — making racially charged claims of fraud outside Armenian-owned businesses, including a popular bakery," Newsom's press office account stated on X. "Given the historic sensitivities involved, we are taking these allegations seriously. Any and all acts of hate have no place in California."

A prominent Democratic operative and former aide to Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel has been hit with serious criminal charges, fueling GOP accusations of misconduct at the AG's office.

Belmont attorney Traci Kornak, a former treasurer of the Michigan Democratic Party, has been charged with two counts of embezzlement and one count of false pretenses stemming from her handling of finances for Rosalene Burd, an 86-year-old wealthy western Michigan woman who died in April 2025. Kornak served as Burd's conservator, The Detroit Free Press reported.

More information emerged Wednesday about why President Donald Trump's administration raided an election office in Georgia on Wednesday.

Greg Bluestein, chief political reporter for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, received a copy of the warrant Trump's FBI used to enter the Fulton County Clerk's office and posted it on X. The warrant confirmed suspicions among some analysts that the raid was tied to Trump's insistence that he won Georgia in the 2020 presidential election.

President Donald Trump's immigration forces stunned observers on Wednesday after they drew their weapons on an elderly couple in a church parking lot in Minneapolis.

The retired couple spoke with journalists outside the church on Wednesday, where Trump's immigration agents were trying to catch members of the congregation as they left the building. The operation happened just days after the federal government arrested protesters who attended a church service in St. Paul and questioned one of the pastors over his ties to the local Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) has planted his flag on a series of reforms to Immigration and Customs Enforcement that Senate Democrats are demanding in order to approve the funding bill for the Department of Homeland Security.

According to Igor Bobic of HuffPost, the core demands from the Democratic caucus articulated by Schumer are to cease roving patrols, tighten requirements for warrants, establish a unified code of conduct all federal agents involved with immigration must follow, require body cameras on agents, and ban agents from concealing their identity with masks.