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Elon Musk's ex, MAGA-defecting commentator Ashley St. Clair, says she turned down $40 million to stay quiet about the billionaire and chose to talk anyway.

St. Clair, who shares a young son with Musk, his 13th child, revealed at the Venice Film Festival on Tuesday that she rejected an alleged $40 million nondisclosure agreement so she could sit for an interview in "Musk," a nearly four-hour documentary from Oscar-winning director Alex Gibney. The film premiered at the festival's 83rd edition, according to Variety.

President Donald Trump's approval rating on inflation has fallen to levels never before recorded for a sitting president, according to CNN's Harry Enten.

The 80-year-old president's net approval on inflation — the share approving minus the share disapproving — has averaged roughly 50 points underwater for months, sinking 52 points underwater in May, 48 points in June, 50 points in July, and an average of 50 points in August, according to Reuters/Ipsos polling.

Amanda Ungaro, a former model who’s flown on Jeffrey Epstein’s private jet and has claimed to hold compromising information on President Donald Trump, spilled “some serious allegations” recently to a Brazilian media outlet, famed reporter Julie K. Brown reported Tuesday.

Ungaro is the ex-partner of Paolo Zampolli, Trump’s special envoy and longtime friend. According to The New York Times, Zampolli had successfully pushed the Trump administration in 2025 to deport Ungaro. Earlier this year, Ungaro threatened to “expose everything” she knew about the president and the first lady, threats that were later suspected to be motivation for Melania Trump’s surprise statement in April in which she denied ever having a relationship with Epstein.

House Speaker Mike Johnson has spent this year casting Republicans as the "party of grown-ups," but over Labor Day weekend, President Donald Trump took dynamite to that argument, according to an MS NOW analysis by Steve Benen.

Trump settled on a new priority eight weeks out from the midterms: renaming New Mexico.

President Donald Trump's homeland security secretary said 9/11 "isn't a day that I love to celebrate," three days before the 25th anniversary of the attacks that created his department.

Markwayne Mullin, who was confirmed in March to lead the Department of Homeland Security, made the comment Tuesday during an interview on Fox News.

Senate Republicans are privately warning that the chamber's bipartisan cryptocurrency measure, the CLARITY Act, is likely to fail when lawmakers return next week, Semafor reported Tuesday.

It would be only the latest embarrassment for a party that controls Washington yet keeps tripping over its own majority. Just last week, House Republican leaders nearly lost a routine floor vote when five conservatives revolted over a stopgap spending deal, and the rule survived 210-208 only because two Democrats, Jared Golden of Maine and Marie Gluesenkamp Perez of Washington, crossed the aisle to rescue Speaker Mike Johnson from a floor collapse. Leaders have since scrapped two of September's planned voting weeks, sending members home until after the midterms.

Veteran election handicapper Charlie Cook says the worst-case scenario he outlined for Republicans this cycle would have sounded absurd to him just six months ago — but he now considers it the most probable outcome of the midterms.

"If I read what I wrote six months ago, I would have thought I'd been on some kind of mushrooms or something," Cook told The New Republic's Greg Sargent. "It just didn't seem possible, didn't seem realistic. But we're seeing what we're seeing."

The far-right Alternative for Germany party thanked the world’s richest man, Elon Musk, after decisively winning a key regional election on Sunday, sparking alarm across Europe and around the globe.

Ulrich Siegmund, AfD’s lead candidate in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt, praised Musk—who has openly advocated for the far-right, xenophobic party—for his support and “clear and highly important perspective on the political developments of our time—including here in Germany.” Siegmund wrote that if AfD ends up leading the state government, the party “would very much welcome the opportunity for strong and constructive cooperation,” adding that “Germany would once again be a place worth investing in.”

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin, who’s been accused by Democrats of stolen valor, revealed on Fox News Tuesday that he had been rejected by the U.S. military three times, and called the military’s decision to turn him down “crazy.”

In the past, Mullin has given vague references to the “smell” and “taste” of “war,” comments that have led some critics to accuse Mullin of misrepresenting himself as having served in the military. Sen. Gary Peters (D-MI) aggressively questioned Mullin on the matter in March during a congressional hearing, asking him: “So where did you smell war, sir?”

Israeli opposition leaders demanded Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's removal from office Tuesday over a bombshell report that the United Arab Emirates had warned him of an impending Hamas attack roughly a week and a half before the Oct. 7, 2023, assault.

The report, excerpted from a forthcoming book by Haaretz journalists Shlomi Eldarand and Ruth Yuval, said UAE President Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan had personally warned Netanyahu that Hamas was preparing a major operation.

A video posted to President Donald Trump's X account touting a "strong economy" and bragging that he has "revitalized the American dream" raised eyebrows this week, and not for the reason his team hoped: the clip itself admits the president's voice is "AI generated."

"America was built one home at a time," the synthetic Trump voice declares over swelling music. "I believe that. Because the American dream was never just an idea, it was a front door. A set of keys. A place where families built their future."

A deepening trade war between the United States and Canada is straining not just cross-border commerce but personal relationships in communities along the northern border, according to interviews with business owners and local officials in three border states.

In the border town of Blaine, Washington, business owner Gurdeep Bains told the New York Times that President Donald Trump's trade war has frayed personal relationships and upended businesses.

President Donald Trump's social media blitz over the past several days has sparked concern among onlookers, but one post in particular ignited an international episode that led to the summoning of a U.S. ambassador, Reuters reported Tuesday.

Among Trump’s countless online posts published over the past few days was one that depicted all of North America — including Cuba, Mexico, Canada, Greenland and Iceland — as being part of the United States.