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As stories and rumors about what the U.S. government knows about UFOs and aliens are once again going viral, Lara Trump revealed during a podcast what she has heard about her father-in-law, Donald Trump's official plans regarding "extraterrestrial life."Lara Trump, the wife of Eric Trump and one-time co-chair of the Republican National Committee, on Wednesday made an appearance on the New York Post's "Pod Force One" podcast, where host Miranda Devine pressed her about what the president has said

President Donald Trump’s Justice Department is repeatedly losing key legal cases such as its attempted prosecution of six Democratic legislators and veterans who criticized him. Now, according to a conservative commentator, this means Trump himself is unraveling.“It is embarrassing for our Department of Justice to sink resources into such obviously frivolous cases, and this only further contributes to the general sense that President Donald Trump's administration has the wrong priorities,” wrote Dace Potas, a columnist with USA T

The investor and one-time employer of trafficker Jeffrey Epstein will appear behind closed doors on Wednesday to talk about how, after knowing him for over a decade, he had no idea what was going on behind closed doors. Axios reported Wednesday that 88-year-old Les Wexner was "personally, professionally and financially tied to convicted sex offender Epstein for decades."According to Wexner, Epstein misappropriated $46 million in 2007, and at that point, he cut ties. While Wexner was ordered to Washington to testify, he's now meeting with lawmakers in Ohio. One controversy is that Wexner's

Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin, often named as one of Donald Trump's most loyal defenders, is leaving her office later this month, with an analysis from The Bulwark finding that she leaves behind a pattern of "heinous lies" made in the face of "horrifying tragedies."McLaughlin is set to leave her position on Feb. 27, with various reports noting that her exit comes as her boss, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem is facing increasingly bipartisan heat over h

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) was rocked by a major bombshell when, on Tuesday morning, February 17, the news broke that DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin — an aggressive defender of Trump and DHS Secretary Kristi Noem's U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids — was leaving the agency. McLaughlin's departure comes at a time when Noem is facing rumors that she could be fired, although Trump praised her job performance d

The White House hosted a meeting with key members of Congress, President Donald Trump's Cabinet members, and his chief of staff to address the 2026 midterm elections. While Politico reported on the dinner, 2WAY founder Mark Halperin said he got the inside scoop from someone in the room. Writing on X, Halperin said that pollster and top Trump strategist Tony Fabrizio had about 25 slides in a presentation on which issues voters care about, their demographics, and which messages are working. Unsurprisingly, the economy will be the top issue in 2026. It's a conclusion every other pollster has

During the 2024 presidential election, Donald Trump won 20 percent of the Black vote, compared to only 10 percent in the 2020 election and eight percent in the 2016 election. Now a new report reveals Trump’s Black support is plummeting to such a low that any hope of a permanent Black shift toward Republicanism is evaporating."Black supporters sought prosperity and governance, but the Trump administration has mostly delivered chaos,”

Conservative Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt was recently getting ready to start a press conference when, according to Wall Street Journal reporter Ken Thomas, he got a phone call from someone he didn't want to hear from: President Donald Trump.Trump, Thomas reports, was angry because fellow Republican Stitt — who chairs the National Governors Association — had defended two Democratic governors Trump wanted to ban from an upcoming White House event.An irate Trump,

Polling shows that Americans want to abolish U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement following the murders of two American citizens in Minnesota amid a violent surge to round up immigrants as part of President Donald Trump’s mass deportation agenda, but Arizona Republicans want to require ICE officers to be stationed at polling places this year.This week, the Arizona Senate will take up a proposal to force all 15 of the state’s counties to sign an agreement with ICE “to provide for a federal immigration law enforcement presence at each location within th

Author and long-time Trump reporter Michael Wolff said that the first lady's legal battle against him has left the president in a damaging situation, and all because of his own "screwup."During the latest episode of his Daily Beast podcast, "Inside Trump's Head," Wolff argued that Trump's recent fixation on his own past association with deceased sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein shows that his actions are bothering the president and getting to him. As part of the process for writing his 2018 book, Fire & Fury, about Donald Trump's tumultuous first te