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With Donald Trump expected to meet with evangelical leaders on Friday, The Atlantic’s McKay Coppins claimed on MS NOW on Friday that they may already be looking past him since he's a “lame duck.”

Speaking with “Money Power Politics,” host Stephanie Ruhle, Coppins, who has written extensively on the intersection between religion and politics, claimed Trump’s “act” has been wearing thin within the Christian community.

John Bolton, who served as President Donald Trump's national security adviser during his first term before becoming one of his harshest critics, entered a guilty plea Friday to one federal charge of illegally retaining classified national defense information.

According to NBC News, Bolton appeared before Judge Theodore D. Chuang in Greenbelt, Maryland, for a re-arraignment hearing, where he admitted to the retention charge involving sensitive materials from his White House tenure.

Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner's secret resort deal on Albania's only island has sparked a mass revolt that now threatens to bring down the country's entire government.

Kushner's private equity firm, Affinity Partners, quietly secured rights to build a $1.6 billion luxury resort on Sazan Island — a protected Adriatic nature preserve — and a $4 billion coastal development on a nearby wildlife reserve.

A Republican lawmaker upended the rationale for President Donald Trump's legislative obsession.

The 80-year-old president is demanding congressional Republicans pass his SAVE America Act to prevent widespread election fraud, which he continues to insist cost him the presidency in 2020, but Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) called those claims absurd.

As President Donald Trump continues to face questions over the state of his physical and cognitive health, his own staff is reportedly “concerned” that the 80-year-old president “won’t survive” to see the end of his second term, columnist Brian Karem claimed in a report published Friday in Salon.

“Members on both sides of the aisle, and even members of Trump’s staff, are concerned that the president will roll over like a cockroach and start spouting gibberish (if he hasn’t done that already) or that he simply won’t survive his full term, which still has 940 days to go,” Karem wrote.

Donald Trump's single-minded obsession with getting the SAVE America Act passed when no one in Congress believes it will come within a stone's throw of getting 60 votes in the Senate has some GOP insiders wondering what is going on.

MS NOW's Hayes Brown captured Trump's destructive pattern, writing, "President Donald Trump has exactly two modes: unfocused and obsessed. Most things in this world activate the first mode. But there are a handful of exceptions that become deeply ingrained in his mind and nothing can shake them loose."

A little-known Donald Trump appointee with no prior diplomatic experience has emerged as a central figure in the administration's outreach to Central Asia — drawing scrutiny over what critics describe as a business-first approach to American diplomacy.

Sergio Gor, who serves simultaneously as U.S. ambassador to India and as the president's envoy to Central Asia, met with Turkmenistan's de facto ruler, Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov, and his son in Ashgabat roughly a month before the reclusive foreign leader's secretive February visit to South Florida, reported Politico.

A Florida judge ordered lawyers to stop filing briefs calling President Donald Trump's $1.776 billion IRS deal a fraud on the court, even as she praised their help.

U.S. District Judge Kathleen M. Williams of the Southern District of Florida issued the order Thursday, telling three separate groups of attorneys that the case was "sufficiently briefed" — while adding that she "greatly appreciates" what they had offered.

A new report from the Commerce Department on Friday delivered a decisive blow to what has been among President Donald Trump’s chief promises while on the campaign trail.

According to the report, the U.S. goods trade deficit had widened to its highest point in more than a year as of June, with U.S. exports shrinking by 5.4% when compared with May and imports rising by 3.6%.

President Donald Trump’s longstanding feud with Pope Leo XIV may reach new heights as the leader of the Catholic Church convenes with cardinals from across the globe Friday and is expected to issue a message “likely to further raise tensions” with the president, Politico reported Friday.

After the gathering, Pope Leo is expected to issue new guidance on what the Catholic Church considers to be a justified war. The anticipated remarks come after the leader of the Catholic Church appeared to criticize the U.S. war against Iran, prompting Trump to attack the pope for being “weak on crime.”

Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is dealing with another political headache related to President Donald Trump.

The prime minister is scrambling to contain domestic political fallout after NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte described her country's support for U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran as "massive," which she says badly mischaracterizes Italy's actual role in the conflict, reported Politico.

A social media post by the wife of Donald Trump adviser Stephen Miller took center stage on MS NOW on Friday morning as part of a discussion over a controversial Supreme Court ruling on Thursday.

On “Morning Joe,” the panel was discussing the majority opinion from Justice Sam Alito, who wrote that he saw nothing racist in Trump’s outrageous comments about Somali and Haitian immigrants, which earned the conservative jurist a lecture from Justice Elena Kagan in her dissent.

Former National Park rangers are organizing a national pushback against an order from President Donald Trump that has stripped dozens of historical exhibits from federal land, launching a public education campaign just as the country prepares to mark its 250th anniversary.

The effort traces back to Elizabeth Kerwin, a former exhibit planner at West Virginia's Harpers Ferry National Historic Park, who spent years building a memorial highlighting hundreds of enslaved people connected to the site, best known for John Brown's 1859 raid on a federal armory, reported NPR.