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A reporter pointed out a dismal detail that serves as a leading indicator of just how poorly attended President Donald Trump's state fair has been.

The Great American State Fair leading up to the July 4 celebration of the nation's 250th birthday has prompted grim fascination and drawn comparisons to the disastrous Fyre Festival, and Atlanta Journal-Constitution reporter Tia Mitchell told "CNN News Central" about her own experience at the event.

President Donald Trump and his family have made unfathomable profits off their cryptocurrency ventures, Tim O'Brien wrote for Bloomberg Opinion on Thursday — and it is a new level of brazenness from a president who once made his real feelings about crypto tokens very clear.

"Trump is 80, and he has been working for the better part of 60 years," wrote O'Brien. "His crypto windfall is certainly far larger than any amount he earned in a single year as a real estate developer, casino impresario and reality TV oddity during that span."

Director Kash Patel's FBI has ordered every field office to immediately send analysts to support its investigation into the 2020 election in Georgia, according to a new report.

MS NOW obtained an unclassified memo showing Patel is mobilizing 260 intelligence analysts — from every field office in the country — as part of what the bureau calls a "priority effort" in Atlanta.

With the country engrossed by the unexpected success of the US men's team’s performance in the 2026 World Cup, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin refused to take the high road when the team from Iran was eliminated.

In a column for MS NOW, political analyst Zeeshan Aleem called out the former Oklahoma plumber-turned-US senator for gloating in the Iran team elimination after the US government made their appearance a nightmare with travel restrictions and continued harassment by government officials.

A year after Republicans quietly rebranded their signature tax cut legislation, President Donald Trump's own pollster is publicly disputing his role in the decision.

According to two sources who attended a White House strategy meeting last fall, Tony Fabrizio, Trump's longtime pollster, told the room that while the president loved the name "One Big Beautiful Bill Act," it simply didn't test well with voters, reported NOTUS.

President Donald Trump brought anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. into his coalition in 2024, creating the so-called "Make America Healthy Again" movement by wooing a broad swathe of health activists and medicine deniers to join his cause. But the Supreme Court he helped appoint just dealt a massive blow to that movement, Dr. Vin Gupta noted to MS NOW's Jonathan Lemire on Thursday's edition of "Morning Joe."

Specifically, they blocked lawsuits from going forward against Bayer-Monsanto, over an herbicide at the heart of years of cancer litigation. While the actual scientific evidence that glyphosate-based herbicides cause cancer is limited, the legal crusade against it, and in particular against Bayer-Monsanto's Roundup weed killer, has been a fixture in health circles.

Blockbuster reports that Donald Trump is cashing in to the tune of billions during his second term have trickled down to some of his MAGA supporters, and they had a few unpleasant things to say about it to MS NOW’s Alex Tabet.

On “Morning Joe," co-hosts Jonathan Lemire and Willie Geist shared a clip of Tabet talking to Florida GOP voters, all of whom admitted they voted for the president, with Lemire first offering, “He's making money, his rich friends are making money, his family is making money, you know, but we saw it at the opening of the show. Who has a 401(k)?”

Longtime Republican strategist Karl Rove took square aim at Vice President JD Vance in a blistering op-ed for the Wall Street Journal, tearing apart his oft-stated idea that there is a distinct class of "heritage Americans" who are more American than other Americans.

"America wasn’t built by the rich and powerful but in large part by discards, rejects, losers and throwaways who made their way here," wrote Rove, who has been sounding the alarm about the vice president since before he even took office. He noted that his Norwegian father used to read him the Declaration of Independence, and that when he goes abroad, people in other countries tell him how much they want the American dream and what the idea of working hard and building a life means to them.

Steve Bannon, the former White House chief strategist turned MAGA power broker, is delivering a stark warning to Republican leadership.

In a wide-ranging interview with Politico, Bannon argued that recent democratic-socialist primary wins — including Melat Kiros's upset of a longtime Colorado incumbent, following Zohran Mamdani's momentum in New York — signal a national leftward shift in grassroots organizing that Republicans have not yet figured out how to counter.

President Donald Trump's push for his top congressional priority is running into resistance not from Democrats, but from within his own party's rural wing.

The 80-year-old president wants an expanded SAVE America Act to include sweeping mail-voting restrictions alongside provisions targeting transgender athletes and gender-affirming care for minors, but that effort has stalled because House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) doesn't have the votes to pass Trump's preferred version, reported Politico.