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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.

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.

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.

The mental health and substance use organization the Trimbos Institute issued a “red alert” Friday after discovering a batch of ecstasy pills shaped like the head of President Donald Trump that contained a potentially lethal substance, a discovery that critics were quick to flag as ironic.

The pills depict the face of Trump on one side, and his last name branded on the other. Far more concerning to the Trimbos Institute, however, was that the pills contained a “high concentration of a chemical called PMMA, or para-methoxymethamphetamine,” a chemical similar to MDMA, the synthetic drug often found in ecstasy.

Milo Yiannopoulos, the once-prominent British MAGA figure and provocateur who last year urged the Trump administration to “deport millions and millions of people,” was deported Friday to Britain, The New York Times reported Saturday.

Yiannopoulos was detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) earlier this week in Louisiana, with the agency claiming that he had “overstayed” his visa after failing to appear for an immigration hearing.

A trio of MAGA lawmakers have officially requested that the Trump administration investigate a prominent journalist as a dangerous “traitor” to the United States, and the journalist in question hit back with a fierce response.

First revealed by far-right influencer Laura Loomer and later confirmed by the Daily Wire, Reps. Randy Fine (R-FL), Randy Weber (R-TX) and Keith Self (R-TX) submitted a letter addressed to both Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Attorney General Todd Blanche asking them to investigate The Grayzone founder and editor Max Blumenthal over his reporting on Iran.

The president's longtime biographer Michael Wolff struck a nerve on Saturday with his commentary about the "buffoons" Donald Trump has endorsed.

The Daily Beast's report on Wolff's reasoning included a raging-mad remark from the White House after the outlet reached out for comment.

House Speaker Mike Johnson unwittingly skewered President Donald Trump on live television Saturday when two off-the-cuff comments bounced badly off B-roll.

The leading House Republican mistakenly lobbed insults at the leader of his own political party when Newsmax aired images of Trump in the Oval Office and Johnson said this:

Call it socialism, imperialism, corruption or theft — senators, conservatives, journalists, former ambassadors and economists all agree President Donald Trump's "deal" to control 65 billion barrels of Venezuelan oil is a very bad move.

Trump's Truth Social announcement on Friday of a deal with Delcy Rodríguez — who became Venezuela's acting president in January after the U.S. military captured former President Nicolás Maduro — spurred an uproar over cries of corruption.