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OK Magazine reports President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer and senior advisor to Attorney General Pam Bondi, has officially divorced her second husband, millionaire businessman Gregg Reuben, and relocated to Palm Beach, Fla., near the president's Mar-a-Lago Club.The split and move, reported by Daily Mail, follow her resignation as the acting U.S. Attorney for New Jersey in December 2025, after a New Jersey j

George Conway, the ex-husband of President Donald Trump’s first term senior counselor Kellyanne Conway (now Fitzpatrick), posted on the social media platform X that members of Congress need to show “courage” against the Republican agenda.“The spirit of liberty requires moral courage among the people who are elected to Congress — who take the oath to serve as members of Congress under the Constitution, to uphold the constitutional laws of the United States,” Conway said in a video posted to X on Wednesday. “But it also requires all of us. It requires us to speak out without fear. It requires us to tell others unpleasant truths that they do not want to

President Donald Trump has repeatedly claimed the BRICS economic bloc (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) is anti-American, yet an expert on Indian politics argued on Wednesday that it has actually been quite ineffective in standing up to America.“The current war in Iran suggests that U.S. concerns about Brics are overblown,” India and South Asia expert Sadanand Dhume wrote for The Wall Street Journal in a Wednesday editorial. “The group has shown itself to be utterly ineffectual, unable to come up with a unified response to an international crisis.”

Mark Joseph Stern tells Slate that former interim U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia Ed Martin had to look hard, but somehow, he managed to find the “dumbest possible rake” to step on. Now the former Trump appointee is in even more trouble than he was.“On Tuesday, the disciplinary counsel for the D.C. bar announced a formal complaint against Martin for professional misconduct,” said Stern. “The charges accuse him of violating his oath to the Constitution, th

President Donald Trump is trying to win his war in Iran using geopolitical tactics not employed since World War I, according to a foreign policy expert.“Mr. Trump, however, operates from an older playbook” than the one used in the prevailing geopolitical order, “one in which tariffs, embargoes and the application of economic power were far more common,” Josh Lipsky, chairman of international economics at the Atlantic Council and senior director of the council’s GeoEconomics Center, wrote for The Wall Street Journal on Wednesday. These tools include using the U.S. International Developmen

President Donald Trump keeps threatening to use the military to prevent Democrats from taking one or both houses of Congress in the 2026 midterm elections — and a commentator argued Wednesday that Democrats are correct in suing in response.“There’s a new lawsuit that might sound dramatic at first, but the question at the center of it is actually pretty simple,” wrote NewsNation and The Hill contributor Lindsey Granger. “Are armed federal agents going to show up at polling places in the next election? Yes or no?”Granger explained that the Democratic National Committee is suing the Trump administration because, de

Louisiana crawfish processors say it’s the height of spring season, but the Acadiana Advocate reports their crawfish processing tables are empty and money is vanishing out the door due to harsh new policies enacted by President Donald Trump.“It’s a s——show,” said Charlie Johnson, owner of a crawfish processing plant in Breaux Bridge, Louisiana. "We'd like to be processing. We prepped all offseason to make this work, but you can't do anything because you don’t have labor. And then also having to tell your farmers that you can't move their product."“Nearly all of Louisiana’s 20 crawfish processors are unable t

President Donald Trump may insist that he is winning the war in Iran, but a number of prominent commentators within his own party beg to differ — including one who advised the last Republican president to lead America into a Middle Eastern quagmire.“Trust is a rare commodity in our wretched times,” wrote Steve Schmidt, a Republican strategist and former adviser to President George W. Bush, in a Wednesday Substack post. “These are the days of corruption, self-dealing, incompetence and faithlessness to the Constitution.”Schmidt used the epithet “tiny men and women” to refer to Trump, Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, then claime

Thanks to weather, rising inflation and the damage of tariffs, U.S. farmers were already faring badly under President Donald Trump. But after voting for him en mass in the 2024 election, single-family farmers are now eyeing the door as Trump’s new war inflicts itself upon fertilizer prices.“It’s not just gas. The price of fertilizer is also climbing amid the us war with Iran, driving up costs for American farmers just before spring planting season, when fertilizer is needed most,” said MS NOW anchor Katy Tur, who then fo

Over the past two weeks, the Trump administration has given no shortage of justifications for waging war on Iran, asserting everything from regime change to preventing the country from obtaining nuclear weapons to religious righteousness. According to renowned historian Timothy Snyder, Trump may have another reason we should worry about. “A purpose of the war on Iran might well be to provoke a terrorist attack inside the United States,