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War Powers Vote Is the Latest Embarrassment for House Speaker Mike Johnson
Johnson is seemingly incapable of standing up to the Trump administration, even when one of Congress' core responsibilities is at stake.
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Secret Service Takes Down Gunman Near White House
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The Secret Service shot and killed an armed suspect who opened fire at a security checkpoint outside the White House. The 21-year-old suspect was known to police and Secret Service with a history of mental health concerns, according to multiple senior law enforcement officials. A second person, who authorities believe to be a bystander, was injured in the shooting and that person’s condition is unclear. NBC’s Julie Tsirkin reports for Sunday TODAY.
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Platner’s online past gets raunchier with crude takes on ‘Latin American hookers,’ cheating abroad
Deleted Reddit posts show Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner discussing prostitution and defending men who cheat on spouses overseas.
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Stephen Colbert hosts Michigan public access broadcast with rocker Jack White — night after final ‘Late Show’ episode
Michigan native Jack White, who grew up in Detroit about 40 miles northeast of Monroe, joined Colbert as his “volunteer music director.”
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Suspect in White House shooting dead
The armed man who exchanged fire with Secret Service officers near the White House on Saturday was killed, according to the federal law enforcement agency. Anthony Guglielmi, the chief of communications for the agency, said Saturday that at shortly after 6 p.m. EDT, the man “pulled a weapon from his bag and began firing” in…
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Special Report: Secret Service kill man who opened fire outside of White House
The U.S. Secret Service shot amd killed a person who opened fire at a security checkpoint in an exchange of gunfire that briefly locked down the White House, officials said. NBC News correspondents have the latest on the shooting.
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Live coverage: Trump’s tentative Iran deal faces GOP criticism; Shooting at White House renews security fears
President Trump on Saturday said a deal with Iran to end the war is getting closer, but a number of Republicans and other conservatives said they feared the emerging agreement was not a good one for the United States. The emerging deal is likely to take center stage on the Sunday talk shows over Memorial…
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Trump enemy drops 'major, major' warning after taking president's cognitive test
A frequent target of Donald Trump took the same cognitive test that the president keeps bragging about, and came away from it with a major warning for the entire country.Jim Acosta, the former CNN reporter Trump repeatedly attacked from the White House podium, walked through the Montreal Cognitive Assessment on his show this week. He passed it. He also said no president should ever need to take it.The test, known as the MoCA, was administered by Dr. Rob Davidson of the Committee to Protect Healthcare. Acosta drew the cube, copied the clock, identified the lion, rhino, and camel, named the date, and worked through the serial seven subtraction. He needed a category cue to recall one word, but otherwise sailed through the screening.Then he turned to the camera and made his point."This is something that the president of the United States should not be administered," Acosta said. "The president of the United States should not be taking a cognitive test ever, because we should be electing people to the office of the president of the United States where this is not an issue."Acosta's larger point was about Trump's pattern. The president has bragged for years about acing the same test, with his repeated comments about identifying "the squirrel" becoming a running joke during his second term. According to Acosta, the fact that Trump keeps taking the test at all is the actual headline."If he is actually taking multiple cognitive tests, hello everybody, that is a story," Acosta said. "That is a major, major story."Acosta also took aim at Trump's habit of bragging about the results. The MoCA is designed to detect mild cognitive impairment, not measure intelligence, and Acosta compared the appropriate response to a passing score with the way Detroit Lions running back Barry Sanders used to handle touchdowns."Act like you've been there before," Acosta said. "If you take a cognitive test, you get a good score, and you just kind of go back to your day."The full episode is available on Acosta's YouTube channel.
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Lindsey Graham takes rare swipe at Trump over Iran framework: 'Hezbollah on steroids'
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Saturday issued a sharp warning about President Donald Trump's emerging Iran peace framework, saying it could "pour gasoline" on regional conflicts and supercharge Iranian-backed militant groups.The South Carolina Republican, who is normally one of Trump's most reliable allies on foreign policy issues, took to X to warn that the reported terms of the deal could be read as a strategic win for Tehran by other players in the region."If it is perceived in the region that a deal with Iran allows the regime to survive and become more powerful over time, we will have poured gasoline on the conflicts in Lebanon and Iraq," Graham wrote.He warned specifically about the impact on two Iranian-aligned forces."A deal that is perceived to allow Iran to survive and possess the ability to control the Strait in the future will put Hezbollah in Lebanon and the Shia militias in Iraq on steroids," Graham wrote.The senator's remarks land at a politically delicate moment for Trump, who announced earlier in the day from the Oval Office that an agreement involving the United States, Iran, and a coalition of Arab and Muslim nations had been "largely negotiated."Graham's pushback adds to a growing chorus of conservative voices, including former Trump Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and conservative commentator David Hookstead, raising alarms about what the reported framework would actually deliver.If it is perceived in the region that a deal with Iran allows the regime to survive and become more powerful over time, we will have poured gasoline on the conflicts in Lebanon and Iraq. A deal that is perceived to allow Iran to survive and possess the ability to control the…— Lindsey Graham (@LindseyGrahamSC) May 23, 2026
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