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The U.S. is staring down a potentially "serious long-term consequence" as a result of President Donald Trump's "discretionary" war in Iran, according to one expert.

Margaret Donovan, a former Army JAG lawyer, discussed the impacts of Trump's war in Iran on CNN's "NewsNight" with Abby Phillip on Wednesday. She noted that the war is having an impact both at home, due to the sharp rise in energy prices, and abroad, with U.S. allies in the region, who have expended a lot of their missile defense systems.

A CNN analyst was befuddled by the more than 2,000 videos he reviewed from the Jeffrey Epstein files that were released by President Donald Trump's Department of Justice.

Tom Foreman, a CNN correspondent, said during a segment on CNN's "The Source" with Kaitlan Collins that the files paint a "clear picture" of a "creepy guy" and raised questions about why so many people in his inner circle hung out with him. The videos show Epstein, the disgraced financier and convicted sex criminal, discussing some menial items like landscaping his properties, as well as interviews from a documentary that former Trump whisperer Steve Bannon was making about Epstein.

By Manal Mohammed, Senior Lecturer, Medical Microbiology, University of Westminster.

Antibiotic resistance is often associated with hospitals and the overuse of antibiotics in agriculture. Both are genuine problems, but new research suggests another potential culprit that many people haven’t considered – droughts caused by climate change.

Former GOP strategist Tara Setmayer had zero patience on Thursday's edition of MS NOW's "All In" in response to the explanation by Rep. Cory Mills (R-FL) why he didn't feel the need to resign or face accountability for his actions, after being accused of an array of scandalous behavior, including sexual misconduct and domestic violence.

"I just want to be clear that he has not been charged with any crimes that are classified as assault," said anchor Chris Hayes. "And he is — he denies wrongdoing. So I just want to be clear about that, about where things stand. He is being investigated by the ethics committee. Tara, I want to play for you his own defense of himself. Why he says his is different than ... the two cases of Tony Gonzales and Eric Swalwell. Take a listen."

The plane U.S. Sen Tim Sheehy made an emergency landing near Ennis last Friday is a private aircraft owned by the NASA administrator Sheehy heavily supported during his nomination process.

According to the FAA incident report, the aircraft experienced engine issues and Sheehy, a Navy Seal and former aerial firefighter, was required to make a forced landing in a field.

Republican operatives and White House allies are privately resigned to the fact they may lose the Senate, and fear the House is all but gone too as President Donald Trump's relentless self-sabotage makes an already difficult midterm environment nearly impossible to navigate, Politico reported Wednesday.

“Everything is made more difficult by the nonsense coming out of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue,” one Republican operative close to the White House told Politico.

The conservative Wall Street Journal editorial board expressed horror that President Donald Trump moved to reopen his "vendetta" against Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, threatening once again to fire him early, despite not having any clear statutory authority to do so.

"Mr. Trump is frustrated that his Administration’s criminal investigation into Mr. Powell over a cost overrun on a Fed building renovation is backfiring in a big way. Perhaps that’s what prompted his outburst in a Fox Business interview on Wednesday in which he doubled-down on his earlier threats to sack Mr. Powell," wrote the board. "If Mr. Powell doesn’t leave when his term as Chair ends on May 15, 'I’ll have to fire him,' the President said, adding 'I’ve wanted to fire him, but I hate to be controversial.'"

A legal expert was astounded by the "searing inconsistency" that President Donald Trump's Department of Justice is showing in a high-profile case during a podcast interview on Wednesday.

The Trump DOJ recently filed a superseding indictment against Brian Cole Jr., who has been accused of planting pipe bombs outside of the Democratic and Republican National Committees before the Jan. 6 insurrection. The new indictment charged Cole with attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction and committing an act of terrorism.

Allen West resigned as Dallas County Republican Party chair on Wednesday, just days before his own party was set to vote him out, and just a month after winning reelection.

West called county elections administrator Paul Adams to announce his resignation, according to Commissioner Andy Sommerman, who chairs the elections commission committee. The local Republican Party had been scheduled to meet on Monday, where its county executive committee planned to vote for West's ouster, KERA News reported.

Republicans are staring down the barrel of a scenario few people thought possible, election forecaster Harry Enten told CNN's Erin Burnett on Wednesday: losing their Senate majority just one cycle after securing it.

Even one of Trump's closest Senate allies, Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL), admitted as much on the Benny Johnson Show this week, noted Burnett. She played a clip.

Political analysts and observers mocked Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Wednesday after the New York Post published details of a bizarre science experiment he conducted as a kid.

The Post reported, citing a forthcoming book from Washington Post journalist Isabel Vincent, that Kennedy once pulled over the family car somewhere on I-684 while on a road trip so he could remove a raccoon's sex organs and "study them later." The book cites private journals that Vincent received from a source who knew Kennedy's late wife, Mary Kennedy, after Mary Kennedy's death.

The U.S. Army shut down an entire network of official social media accounts this week after a post celebrating Democratic Sen. Tammy Duckworth, a Purple Heart recipient who lost both legs in combat, drew backlash from a pro-Trump veteran online.

The "Soldier for Life" program, which connects veterans and their families to employment, healthcare and retirement resources, posted a tribute to Duckworth's military career as an Army lieutenant colonel and Iraq War veteran. Within 24 hours of a former Army paratrooper criticizing the post on X, it was deleted.

Former Republican National Committee chair Michael Steele had a withering response to new reports that Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard sent a criminal referral to the Justice Department related to the first impeachment of President Donald Trump, related to his efforts to extort the president of Ukraine.

This is part of a broader pattern of trying to bury Trump's criminality, Steele argued, that also extends to the plot to overturn the 2020 presidential election that led to his second impeachment — and that Trump can't let go of even today.