October 14, 2026 at 6:45 PM EDT
Shortest-serving Trump aide advises bumbling press secretary: be a 'better liar'

Shortest-serving Trump aide advises bumbling press secretary: be a 'better liar' President Donald Trump has been struggling with New York Republicans and former Republicans for a long time -- and one of them, his ex-communications director Anthony Scaramucci, opened up on the president during an interview on Wednesday. "Let me put it to you this way," Scaramucci told MS NOW anchor Katy Tur when discussing the widely-maligned performance of the new press secretary, Katie Zacharia. "If she was my family member, I would say take a powder on that job. It's not the right job for you. And the universe is sending you a message. You know, the good news for me is that the universe expunged me from Trump world nine years ago."

October 14, 2026 at 6:34 PM EDT
Firm nabs Trumpy $50K no-bid contract for 'urgent' work -- hanging chandeliers

Firm nabs Trumpy $50K no-bid contract for 'urgent' work -- hanging chandeliers The Washington Sun reports a small firm with big ties received a no-bid contract for nearly $50,000, with government officials citing "unusual and compelling urgency." That urgency: Great Gatsby-style light fixtures for President Donald Trump's birthday -- just four of them to be exact.

October 14, 2026 at 5:57 PM EDT
Trump brags on bribes: 'when you're given gifts you take them!'

Trump brags on bribes: 'when you're given gifts you take them!' President Donald Trump, faced with accusations of bribery for accepting a 747 jet as a gift from the Qatari government, openly bragged at an Arizona rally that he took the airplane because "when you're given gifts, you take them!" After quoting the legendary golfer Sam Snead to illustrate a point -- specifically, Snead's quote "you know, when they give you a putt, you say just two words: 'Thank you.' You bend down, you pick it up, and you walk to the next hole." -- Trump compared accepting a substitute Air Force One from royalty to being generous to an opposing golfer during a game.

October 14, 2026 at 5:48 PM EDT
Secret Service director interview tanks 60 Minutes ratings

Secret Service director interview tanks 60 Minutes ratings Despite dominating in ratings for decades, 60 Minutes is taking a hit. Mediate reports a recent episode featuring an interview with Secret Service director Sean M. Curry brought in even more mediocre viewership in comparison to other episodes. The episode drew in 6.061 million total viewers, with 767,000 viewers in the key 25-54 age demographic. Veteran 60 Minutes correspondent Lesley Stahl has allegedly considered leaving the show due to editing conflicts over her segment about Israeli settler harassment in the West Bank.

October 14, 2026 at 4:59 PM EDT
'You're right': Fox hammers squirming Trump official into confession over economy

'You're right': Fox hammers squirming Trump official into confession over economy On Wednesday, amid reports that inflation is rising with increasing speed, one of President Donald Trump's top officials was left squirming as a Fox News host held his feet to the fire about the state of the economy. In the end, National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett was forced to admit that the situation is "disappointing." "The market doesn't like this," said longtime Fox financial analyst Stuart Varney. "Interest rates are rising. It's the last report heading into the midterms, and it's not real great on inflation, is it?" As the New York Times explains, "The Consumer Price Index rose 3.7 percent in September from a year earlier, faster than a month earlier, as gas prices surged 34 percent." At the same time, interest rates have been pushed up due to inflation and the fast-mounting national debt, both of which were accelerated by Trump's decision to launch war with Iran, while the debt also jumped higher due to tax cuts passed by Republicans last year. As the prices of gas and diesel have climbed, so have the costs of everything else.

October 14, 2026 at 4:54 PM EDT
Former Ted Cruz aide has bad news for Republicans

Former Ted Cruz aide has bad news for Republicans A far right Republican political operative, Rick Tyler, has bad news for Texas Republicans, and as a former adviser to Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), Tyler knows a thing or two about Texas Republicans. "Rick Tyler, once a chief spokesperson for Sen. Ted Cruz's (R-TX) 2016 presidential campaign, delivered a grim forecast for the party ahead of the November midterm elections, warning that the GOP is headed for a 'bad night!'" reported Mediaite's Kathryn Wilkens on Wednesday. "Tyler joined Wednesday's edition of CNN News Central to discuss the competitive Texas Senate race between Republican Ken Paxton, the state's attorney general, and Democratic state Rep. James Talarico."

October 14, 2026 at 4:05 PM EDT
Lindsay Clancy holdout juror explains his controversial vote

Lindsay Clancy holdout juror explains his controversial vote The lone juror who refused to find Lindsay Clancy to not be criminally responsible for killing her children is explaining his controversial vote, one that has polarized America like few other mass murder cases. Lindsay Clancy is an accused family killer who did not dispute accusations that she killed her three children (ages five years, three years and eight months) by strangling them with exercise bands. During her first trial, Clancy defended herself by arguing she suffered from postpartum psychosis and killed her children after being commanded to do so by a voice. Eleven of the 12 jurors believed her story and voted to find her not guilty by reason of insanity, yet a lone holdout insisted she knew what she was doing. That juror, Michael Desronvil, later had his identity leaked. After the mistrial, Clancy's lawyer argued there wasn't enough evidence that she killed the children, even though in the first trial the defense didn't dispute it. A judge rejected that argument earlier this month.

October 14, 2026 at 3:59 PM EDT
Top Republican scoffs at 'manchild' Trump's tiger meme

Top Republican scoffs at 'manchild' Trump's tiger meme President Donald Trump spent a lot of time on social media Tuesday night as he was leaving a rally in Alaska. In his flurry of posts and doomscrolling the U.S. president popped up a tacky little number that mocked the death of a man who did nothing to him. Former child actor William Chapman was killed on October 10, 2026, after climbing a barrier into a Siberian tiger enclosure at Yorkshire Wildlife Park in northern England. His family claims he suffered from extreme mental illness.

October 13, 2026 at 7:51 PM EDT
Trump claims to 'not know' Guilfoyle -- revealing a disturbing pattern

Trump claims to 'not know' Guilfoyle -- revealing a disturbing pattern President Donald Trump disclaimed any meaningful connection to Kimberly Guilfoyle, the former US ambassador to Greece who resigned in disgrace on Tuesday for allegedly misusing her office for personal profit. Trump has given Guilfoyle the cold shoulder, including describing Guilfoyle's past engagement to his eldest son as "she, I guess, dated my son a long time ago, but she wasn't."

October 13, 2026 at 7:29 PM EDT
'Trump did all of it': Former aide spills on unprecedented month of offenses

'Trump did all of it': Former aide spills on unprecedented month of offenses President Donald Trump likes to compare himself to a Republican predecessor, Abraham Lincoln, who the incumbent perceives to be generally regarded as his superior. Yet according to one of Trump's former subordinated, the current president is special in one sense -- namely, that he is given a pass by the media for behavior that would be considered scandalizing from any of his predecessors.

October 13, 2026 at 7:21 PM EDT
Whoopi Goldberg tears Trump apart over raid

Whoopi Goldberg tears Trump apart over raid The View moderator Whoopi Goldberg is weighing in on the pre-dawn Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) raid at U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar's home, which was conducted as part of an ongoing criminal investigation into alleged immigration fraud. Goldberg and her co-hosts at the roundtable dissected the ordeal during the October 13 episode of the daytime talk show. Goldberg cut to a clip of President Donald Trump's response to Omar's statement that the raid was an orchestrated attack. In the clip, Trump says Omar is a "disaster" who is "from a country without laws, police, or military" and that she demands constitutional rights and wants to tell the administration how to run the country. Goldberg shot back at Trump's remarks, saying, "Well, somebody's gotta tell us what's in the Constitution because you don't seem to know."

October 13, 2026 at 7:16 PM EDT
Flummoxed Republicans investigate why DC juries don't trust Trump

Flummoxed Republicans investigate why DC juries don't trust Trump It can't be that President Donald Trump lies too much, or that his Department of Justice is a politicized weapon set upon his perceived enemies -- so there's got to be something turning DC jurors against the DOJ's cases. And the Washington Sun says the Republican House committee overseeing local D.C. affairs is going to get to the bottom of it. Committee Republicans launched an investigation into "politicized jury nullification initiatives by left-wing activist groups," Rep. James Comer (R-Kentucky) announced Tuesday.