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President Donald Trump shared what appeared to be an AI-generated image Monday night of a golden eagle statue affixed to the White House facade, and while the post was ridiculed by critics, one former GOP staffer flagged what they believed was a hidden message.

The image in question shows a golden eagle statue attached to the front facade of the White House holding a red, white and gold shield surrounded by 11 stars. Trump described it as a “golden gift to the White House for its 250th birthday year,” suggesting there may be plans to bring the image to life.

A crowd of reporters gathered outside the Capitol Hill office of Rep. Tom Kean Jr. (R-NJ) Tuesday morning, but the long-missing congressman has not yet shown.

Kean last voted in the House on March 5. He has missed more than 140 votes since then.

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. appeared on Newsnation Tuesday to tout the return of the Presidential Fitness Test to public schools, but during the interview, made an off-handed comment that carried a startling suggestion.

“One of the criticisms of the Presidential Fitness Test back in the 2010s before it was nixed was that it wasn’t great for kids’ self-esteem, that it was hard for the kids who weren’t physically inclined,” said Newsnation’s Anna Kooiman.

A legal battle over one Jeffrey Epstein accuser's unreleased FBI interview notes has emerged as a flashpoint threatening to complicate acting Attorney General Todd Blanche's path to confirmation, as a federal judge presses the Justice Department for answers it has so far declined to give.

The woman, known in court filings as Jane Doe 4, alleged in four 2019 FBI interviews that she was abused by Epstein in the 1980s and separately assaulted by Donald Trump when she was between 13 and 15 years old, and a federal judge has asked the Justice Department for answers about her case that have so far not been provided, reported The Guardian.

A federal judge ruled Monday that a pro-impeachment protest group can keep flying a flag with a phrase President Donald Trump has called a death threat against him.

The group Accountability NOW USA has displayed a flag reading "8647" as part of a months-long demonstration outside a federal courthouse demanding Trump's impeachment.

As Secretary of State Marco Rubio assumes a commanding position as the presumed successor to Donald Trump’s MAGA throne, one of the former Florida senator’s supporters wondered this week if he is damaged goods.

Writing for NOTUS, longtime conservative columnist Matt Lewis noted that he supported Rubio in 2016 and his esteem for him has only grown, but now he worries that not only has he been “complicit,” which could damage his future or worse, or could he have learned the wrong lessons from the Trump administration.

Mary Trump is once again training her fire on her uncle — this time throwing her weight behind a Senate campaign in Florida, the state President Donald Trump now calls home.

In an email sent on behalf of Senate candidate Alex Vindman, the psychologist and outspoken Trump critic framed the race as a direct test of her uncle's standing in his own adopted territory.

A new White House hire of a controversial former Donald Trump adviser could land Chief of Staff Susie Wiles in court.

On Monday, a report claimed the White House is in talks to bring Jason Miller, long associated with the president since his first term, back to help with communications issues before the midterm elections. That potential hiring did not go unnoticed by Miller’s former girlfriend A. J. Delgado who has been waging a war with him for years over child support.

The Supreme Court handed President Donald Trump another victory Monday by expanding his authority to fire heads of independent agencies, a decision that Zeteo’s Andrew Perez argued was just the latest example of the court’s “far-right justices” executing a long sought-after plan.

“Fundamentally, Trump and the justices are partners in fascism,” Perez wrote in an analysis published in Zeteo Tuesday. “With teamwork, a handful of elite, unelected far-right operatives and a narcissistic game-show host can take apart American liberal democracy piece by piece, and replace it with authoritarian rule.”

A veteran journalist and former New York Times public editor called out CBS News' gesture toward public accountability as a "blatant sham."

The network's Donald Trump-aligned new owners tapped Kenneth R. Weinstein, a former chief executive of the right-leaning Hudson Institute, to review complaints about its coverage as ombudsman, but media expert Margaret Sullivan wrote on her "American Crisis" Substack that he had failed to be independent or transparent as promised.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has publicly disavowed the existence of any formal agreement reached during his August summit with President Donald Trump in Alaska, undercutting months of Kremlin messaging that had treated the meeting as a diplomatic turning point in the war in Ukraine.

Senior Russian officials had insisted for months that a path to ending the war — largely on Moscow's terms — had effectively been settled in Anchorage, with only Ukrainian resistance standing in the way, but that narrative has unraveled in recent days, and Putin himself finally undercut Trump's diplomatic claims, reported the Washington Post.