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White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles launched an X account on Tuesday night to share occasional updates about the Trump administration’s work. Wiles, who has yet to choose a profile picture, racked up over a quarter of a million followers in the first 15 hours of the account’s existence. “I’m joining X to share occasional updates about the work we do at the White House. We are relentlessly focusing on advancing President Trump’s agenda and delivering on promises to the American people,” she wrote. “I welcome different viewpoints. Follow along for insights and information.” The move comes as White House…

Tuesday on CNN’s “The Lead,” network senior legal analyst Elie Honig said the indictment of two felony charges related to an Instagram post from former FBI Director James Comey was “deeply flawed.” Host Jake Tapper asked, “How valid are these charges?” Honig said, “This indictment is deeply flawed. I think it’s probably fatally flawed, and here’s why. The law that Justice Department prosecutors have chosen to charge here requires an intent to kill or physically injure the president of the United States. I think if you look at this communication, these seashells, it’s just way too ambiguous. What does 86 mean?…

Former Attorney General Pam Bondi will appear May 29 for a deposition before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, a panel spokesperson said Wednesday. The announcement came after committee Democrats said they would pursue contempt charges against Bondi after she failed to appear for an earlier deposition as part of Oversight’s investigation into Jeffrey Epstein and the Department of Justice’s handling of the federal inquiry into the late convicted sex offender. In a sign of Republican efforts to quickly preempt Democrats’ action, ranking member Robert Garcia of California was taken by surprise by the development during a news conference…

A poll released on Tuesday found that incumbent President of Brazil Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva would trail his top challenger, Senator Flavio Bolsonaro, by 0.3 percent in a runoff between them, without enough support in the first round of voting to prevent a runoff. The polling indicates that Brazil’s 2026 presidential election results could strongly resemble those of 2022, when Lula narrowly defeated the senator’s father, former President Jair Bolsonaro. Conservative Bolsonaro’s supporters decried that election as unfair, even if free, as the nation’s top electoral court frequently meddled in what journalists could report and barred the publication of…

Orders for core business equipment posted their largest monthly increase since the summer of 2020, the Commerce Department reported Wednesday, driven by surging demand for computers and electronic products as companies continue to pour money into artificial intelligence. The value of orders for nondefense capital goods excluding aircraft — the closely watched proxy for business spending on equipment — jumped 3.3 percent in March, far exceeding the 0.5 percent gain economists had forecast. February’s figure was revised sharply higher, to a 1.6 percent advance from the initially reported 0.6 percent, meaning businesses have now ramped up capital spending in back-to-back…

Tuesday on MS NOW’s “Deadline,” Gov. JB Pritzker (D-IL) said President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement is turning the United States of America into a “banana republic.” Pritzker said, “I’m so proud of the people of Illinois who really wrote the playbook. They’re the ones who went out and bought whistles and people in neighborhoods all across the state, because it wasn’t just Chicago. They attacked all across the state. People came out of their homes when they saw these unmarked vehicles, these masked men jumping out of cars, attacking people. He added, “They didn’t even know if they were U.S. citizens…

Bahrain, ruled by a Sunni dynasty, has long been wary of Iranian support for its Shiite majority Bahrain has revoked the citizenship of 69 people for “expressing sympathy” with Iranian retaliatory strikes on the Gulf state, the Interior Ministry has announced. The monarchy, ruled by a Sunni dynasty, has for years been wary of potential Iranian influence on the Shiite majority.In a statement on Monday, the ministry said the revocation applied to those who “glorified Iran’s sinful, hostile acts” as well as their families by dependency. It described all 69 people as being of “non-Bahraini origin,” adding that the authorities…

International Man: Iran is already turning the Strait of Hormuz into a geopolitical toll booth—restricting traffic, charging transit fees, and shutting out the US and its allies. If this continues, what happens to oil, trade, and the global economy, and is there anything the US military can do about it? Doug Casey: I did a bit of research. Definitions are important; poorly defined words can only confuse issues. A “strait” is a narrow, naturally occurring body of water that joins two larger ones. They’re traditionally considered international waters. Hormuz is the best known at the moment. The Strait of Malacca between Indonesia…

On Tuesday’s broadcast of MS NOW’s “The Briefing,” host Jen Psaki claimed that “what I hear over and over again is Democrats saying, please tone it down, please tone down the rhetoric, that’s not what we stand for. And we have seen, frankly, from the other side, from Trump and others, elevated rhetoric.” And that’s why she’s frustrated when Democrats get criticized for their rhetoric. Psaki said, “It’s so infuriating, I think, probably to a lot of people watching, when an act of political violence happens or attempted political violence, and, all of a sudden, the Democrats are blamed all…

We’ll find out Wednesday if Speaker Mike Johnson can cross off something—anything—from his long to-do list this week. The House meets Wednesday morning to vote on a procedural step to advance three legislative priorities: government spy powers that expire Thursday, the farm bill, and a budget resolution for immigration enforcement funding. But after a weekslong standoff over how to proceed on reauthorizing Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, the sweeping agricultural policy bill and the budget framework, House Republican leadership doesn’t appear to have the votes to advance anything. And some House and Senate Republicans want President Donald…