November 17, 2025 at 5:37 PM EST
'Same look of confusion': Trump's niece says his memory 'deteriorating' like his father's

Mary Trump on Monday escalated her accusations that her uncle, President Donald Trump, is suffering from dementia, sighting the "same look of confusion" she witnessed in her grandfather. As Trump took to the 2024 campaign trail and eventually returned to the White House, scrutiny of his potentially deteriorating mental state came to the foreground, with critics noting things like his often slurred speech, difficulty pronouncing certain words, and tendency to ramble during speeches. Some highlighted the fact that his father, Fred Trump Sr., suffered from dementia when he was roughly the same age as the president, suggesting a likelihood that his son might be grappling with the same condition.

November 17, 2025 at 5:07 PM EST
'Weak and pathetic': Trump rails against top Republican in deep-red state

President Donald Trump has publicly singled out one of the most senior Republican lawmakers in Indiana for failing to win over enough votes to support Trump's mid-decade redistricting proposal. In a Monday post to his Truth Social platform, Trump called Indiana Senate president pro tempore Rodric D. Bray "a Complete and Total RINO [Republican in Name Only]" for his recent statement that "there are not enough votes" to redraw U.S. House of Representatives districts ahead of the next Census. He wrote in a subsequent post that he would support a primary challenger against Bray and anyone who supported him.

November 17, 2025 at 3:55 PM EST
'Be quiet': Ex-CIA official warns Trump is 'undermining' foreign policy with 'overt action'

The Trump administration's moves to push for a regime change in Venezuela have been far from discreet, and one former CIA official warns that this approach and the overall operation are liable to blow up in the president's face. Since taking office in January, President Donald Trump and his administration have pushed heavily for a regime change in Venezuela, pressuring President Nicola's Maduro to resign from office. This push has involved a heavy increase in military and defense posturing, including the authorization of covert operations in the South American nation, the buildup of aircraft carriers off of its northern shore and the prospect of ground deployments in the near future.

November 17, 2025 at 12:08 PM EST
Judge issues 'scathing' rebuke of Trump prosecutor's 'misconduct and negligence'

A magistrate judge overseeing grand jury material related to the appointment of Lindsey Halligan as interim U.S.Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia says in a "scathing" rebuke that the government must hand over all grand jury materials by 3 p.m. Monday to the defense team of former FBI Director James Comey, reports MS NOW's legal affairs reporter Fallon Gallagher. The materials include audio of the grand jury proceedings presented Halligan presented by herself.

November 17, 2025 at 11:32 AM EST
Trump aims treason allegation at his former FBI director in new online attack

President Donald Trump is targeting his former FBI Director in a series of social media posts, including a repost that accused Christopher Wray of treason. Trump reposted a post on Monday that placed Wray among sixteen people -- including several former FBI officials -- and labeled them as "Obama's Russia HOAX Treason Club."

November 17, 2025 at 11:05 AM EST
'No legitimate justification' for FBI director's girlfriend's SWAT detail: ex-senior agent

MS NOW's Ken Dilanian and Carol Leonnig report that FBI Director Kash Patel's girlfriend's government security detail is "prompting concerns" and could hinder response to other incidents. They report that Alexis Wilkins, Patel's girlfriend, has "a security detail made up of elite FBI agents usually assigned to a SWAT team in the FBI field office in Nashville, where Wilkins spends time for her work."

November 17, 2025 at 10:53 AM EST
Trump 'cares a lot' about Epstein and flip-flopped because he 'recognized defeat'

Conservative Bill Kristol writes in The Bulwark that President Donald Trump cares very much about the scandal surrounding him and late convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, but that his recent change of tune is a temporary reaction to Trump recognizing his defeat. Trump, Kristol says, "has attacked those who called for the files' release" and tried to pressure Republicans to rescind their offers to sign the discharge petition to forc e a floor vote mandating their release.

November 17, 2025 at 9:28 AM EST
Why the Supreme Court made a 'horrendous' mistake giving Trump absolute power

Policy expert and journalist William S. Becker writes in The Hill that the Supreme Court made a "horrendous mistake" giving President Donald Trump absolute power and says the court's conservative majority must correct this error. "Their decision in Trump v. United States was naïve at best," Becker writes. "More likely, the court bought into the right wing's confusion about the difference between a unitary president and a dictator."

November 17, 2025 at 6:14 AM EST
These 25 Republicans could demolish a GOP scheme to save themselves

Republicans are obsessed with taking your health care away. This spring, they cut $1 trillion from Medicaid, all to give massive tax handouts to billionaires. For the last month and a half they shut down the government rather than prevent premiums from doubling on average for 24 million people in the Affordable Care Act marketplace. And they "won." The number of uninsured Americans is about to skyrocket, which is exactly what Republicans want. It is what they fight for every day: to steal your health care.

November 17, 2025 at 6:07 AM EST
Inside the scandal that could finally bring Trump down

In yesterday's edition, I said I would get back to some of the content that was found in the 23,000 emails released by the House Oversight Committee that were obtained from the estate of Jeffrey Epstein. Here, I'm going to go straight to the authority, Julie K Brown. She's the reporter for the Miami Herald who wrote that blockbuster series revealing that Epstein got a sweetheart deal from federal prosecutors. It's because of her that any of us knows the name of Jeffrey Epstein.

November 17, 2025 at 5:51 AM EST
Republicans sound out of touch with reality

Trump claimed last week on social media that "Our economy is BOOMING, and Costs are coming way down," and that "grocery prices are way down. Rubbish.

November 16, 2025 at 3:49 PM EST
Top Republican says Trump's new Epstein demand is a 'big smokescreen'

Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY), a leading, bipartisan advocate in the U.S. House of Representatives for forcing the Department of Justice to release all of its unredacted files related to late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, says that President Donald Trump's push to investigate Democrats allegedly involved with Epstein is one big ruse, Politico reports. Speaking to ABC's Jonathan Karl on "This Week" on Sunday, Massie says the Justice Department's investigation into Epstein's ties to notable Democrats coming from Trump after the release of explosive emails and documents mentioning him is "a last-ditch effort to prevent the release of the Epstein files."