White House press secretary Katie Zacharia is “transitioning out” of her role after President Trump told reporters that he told her to “reconsider” the position amid a rocky start to the job this week, a White House official told The Hill.

“I said, ‘Honestly, if I were you, I’d reconsider,'” Trump told reporters Friday, referring to a conversation he said he had with Zacharia earlier. 

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• GOP senators press Pentagon over Ukraine’s loss of Starshield data 
  

   

• Scaramucci on Zacharia’s reported firing: ‘Records are made to be broken’
  
  

• Zacharia says results of bar exam were ‘inconsequential’

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As Democrats batten down the hatches for a harrowing election night, some are already tossing ideas around about what the first priorities would be in the event they win back the Senate majority. 

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The Trump administration is making its next move to rein in judges’ authority to block the president’s agenda. 

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Katie Zacharia is on her way to being a former White House press secretary, after President Trump told reporters he told her to “reconsider” the position and amid a rocky start to the job this week, a White House official told The Hill.

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Democrats are winning over Generation Z by a wide margin ahead of November’s midterms, a trend that sailed in the opposite direction when President Trump won in 2024 over former Vice President Kamala Harris.

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Tech mogul Elon Musk agreed to settle two lawsuits over his $1 million check handouts to battleground voters in the 2024 election, according to court filings published Thursday.

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Democrats running in competitive Senate races are raking in cash as they race to close the financial gap with Republicans, who have been buoyed in part by Elon Musk and his super PAC.

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Former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is no longer serving as the Trump administration’s special envoy to the “Shield of the Americas” coalition, the State Department confirmed.

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The White House is asserting executive privilege to block some records of President Trump’s communications from being shared in an ongoing lawsuit over the future of the Kennedy Center.

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