Has the president made a public statement about the missing airman in Iran?

An expansive inquiry by the DHS inspector general into the handling of contracts under Kristi Noem is scrutinizing Corey Lewandowski's interactions with companies seeking federal business. The inquiry comes as officials field complaints from companies about their dealings with Lewandowski.

Amazon is adding a 3.5% "fuel and logistics-related surcharge" to fees it collects from third-party sellers who use its fulfillment services, as the war in Iran drives up oil prices.

Breaking Reuters: Chief U.S. District Judge James Boasberg just stood by his prior decision to block subpoenas issued in the criminal investigation into Fed Chair Jerome Powell — setting up a likely appeal that could further delay Trump's effort to install a compliant central bank head.

New on MS NOW: Pam Bondi's portrait has already been taken down at the Justice Department. tinyurl.com/568u4dtz

Theo Von slams Trump's stated rationale of the Iran war as fighting terrorism. "You're the fucking terrorists! If you wanna stop them, fucking stand in front of the fucking mirror and start there."

Joe Rogan on Trump and Iran: "One thing, in the past, that leaders have used to cover up problems at home is a fucking war." "I can't believe we went to this war. When we started bombing Iran, I was like, 'This can't be true.'"

CNBC: United Airlines hiked its checked bag fee by $10, becoming the second U.S. carrier in less than a week to raise the fee in the wake of surging fuel costs due to Trump's war with Iran.

More than 10,000 veterans lost their homes to foreclosure since May of last year, when the Trump admin shut down a key safety net in the VA home loan program, according to the latest industry data. That is the highest pace of foreclosures for VA loans in a decade.

Breaking: WASHINGTON (AP) — Hegseth asks the Army's top uniformed officer to step down, the Pentagon says, as US wages war against Iran.

House Oversight Ranking Member Robert Garcia on Pam Bondi: "She will not escape accountability and remains legally obligated to appear before our Committee under oath. She must answer for her mishandling of the Epstein files and the special treatment she has given Ghislaine Maxwell."

Trump says Bondi is going to a "job in the private sector."

BREAKING on MS NOW: A White House official has confirmed that Pam Bondi has been removed from her role as attorney general and that Todd Blanche is now acting interim attorney general.

Breaking on MS NOW: Trump is expected to oust Bondi from her role "imminently."

New reporting on MS NOW: Trump has told Pam Bondi she will soon be removed from her position.

Pam Bondi and Todd Blanche have stepped up efforts to investigate Trump targets — including Dem fundraising group ActBlue and John Brennan. They have also pushed prosecutors to investigate Cassidy Hutchinson, who testified before the Jan. 6 Committee about Trump's election subversion efforts.

The Trump DOJ quietly closed more than 23,000 criminal cases in the first six months of Trump's second term — abandoning hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime, drugs and other offenses as it shifted resources to immigration cases, according to an analysis by ProPublica.

Real quote from Trump: "We can't take care of daycare. We're a big country. We have 50 states. We have all these other people. We're fighting wars, we can't take care of daycare. You got to let a state take care of daycare, and they should pay for it, too. They should pay."

Democrats have sued to block Trump's dubious executive order restricting mail voting — arguing that the U.S. Constitution empowers states and Congress, not the president, to determine who is eligible to vote by mail.

CNBC: Stock futures fall after Trump says Iran war will continue for weeks

Trump says Iran has been "completely decimated" and yet he says the war must continue for "two to three weeks" — a vague timeline Trump often uses.

Alex Jones on Trump: "He does look sick. He does babble and sound like the brain's not doing too hot. And so, we just cut bait on Trump, and we just mobilize against the Democrats."

BREAKING NYT: Trump has discussed firing Pam Bondi in recent days as he grows frustrated with her leadership at the Justice Department and her handling of the Epstein files, according to four people familiar with the conversations.

Chief Justice John Roberts presses Trump Solicitor General John Sauer on how common "birth tourism" is. Sauer says "no one knows for sure" but cites some media reports. He adds, "It's a new world now." Roberts responds, "It's a new world; it's the same Constitution."

Pam Bondi has quietly authorized Dan Bishop, a U.S. attorney in North Carolina, to pursue election-related probes across the country. Bishop, a former congressman, voted against certifying Biden's 2020 win. He will also examine voter-roll data DOJ has been collecting from states.

British Prime Minister Kier Starmer says people "worry that the UK will be dragged into this" war with Iran. "We won't." "This is not our war," he adds. "We will not be drawn into the conflict."

Trump's approval for handling the economy has fallen to a new career low of 31%, according to a new CNN-SSRS poll. Just 27% approve of Trump's handling of inflation. Trump's overall approval is only at 35%.

Trump tells The Telegraph that he's strongly considering pulling out of NATO after it refused to join him in his war of choice with Iran.

JetBlue Airways is raising bag fees at least $4 as jet fuel prices soar amid Trump's Iran war.

Three fired FBI agents are suing to try to get their jobs back — saying in a class action lawsuit that they were illegally punished for their participation in the investigation into Trump's efforts to overturn his 2020 defeat.

Breaking: Trump is attempting — again — to exert control over American elections, signing an executive order that aims to create federal lists of citizens and ask the U.S. Postal Service to transmit mail ballots to only those people.

Breaking: NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The Army says crews of two helicopters that hovered near Kid Rock's Nashville home are suspended pending a review.

Reuters: U.S. JUDGE ISSUES ORDER HALTING TRUMP'S WHITE HOUSE BALLROOM PROJECT FOR NOW - COURT FILING

Breaking: WASHINGTON (AP) — Judge blocks Trump administration order to end funding for National Public Radio and the Public Broadcasting Service.

A golden toilet statue on the National Mall is paying faux tribute to Trump's costly White House renovations: This toilet — spray-painted gold and set on a faux-marble pedestal — has a plaque on each side of the structure that reads: A Throne Fit for a King.

Rep. Ro Khanna is requesting a meeting with King Charles III and Epstein survivors ahead of his visit to the U.S. next month. tinyurl.com/3tnu9dan

Reuters: U.S. SUPREME COURT RULES AGAINST COLORADO LAW BANNING 'CONVERSION THERAPY' THAT AIMS TO CHANGE A MINOR'S SEXUAL ORIENTATION OR GENDER IDENTITY

Breaking: NEW YORK (AP) — Gas prices soar past $4 on average for a gallon of regular in the US, the highest since 2022.

Breaking WaPo: Attorneys for Rep. Eric Swalwell are demanding in a letter to FBI Director Kash Patel that the bureau refrain from releasing decade-old investigative files involving purported ties to a suspected Chinese intelligence operative.

Trump told a lengthy story last week about negotiating over the price of Sharpie pens. The company says it has no record of any such conversation. "We don't have any information about the conversation described."

NEW: Democrats have officially claimed a second upset in Florida's recent special elections. The AP just declared Brian Nathan, an electrical workers union leader, to be the winner of a tight state senate contest in reliably Republican West Tampa.

MS NOW confirms: Kash Patel has ordered the FBI to gather up the decade old case file on Rep. Eric Swalwell's interactions with a suspected Chinese spy. Swalwell was not accused of wrongdoing. There is grave concern among career officials about a possible effort to smear him.

At least 8 million people turned out at more than 3,300 'No Kings' protests across all 50 states Saturday, according to the No Kings Coalition.
 Organizers say protests Saturday were the largest single-day nationwide demonstrations in U.S. history.

The ongoing DHS shutdown is now the longest partial government shutdown in U.S. history — 44 days and counting.

MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell not only just lost his latest motion to overturn a defamation verdict related to the 2020 election — the judge also said lawyers for the media company he founded must explain why they shouldn't be fined and referred to their state bars for disciplinary proceedings.

Organizers expect today's No Kings Day rallies — with more than 3,000 events planned across all 50 states — to be the largest single-day protest in American history.

Post reporters called the White House. Their phones showed 'Epstein Island.'
 Someone messed with Google's widely cited databases of business listings.

House Republicans just rejected the Senate deal to fund the Department of Homeland Security — which left out funding for ICE and CBP — meaning TSA workers remain unpaid.

Reuters: Iran-linked hackers are claiming they had accessed FBI Director Kash Patel's personal email inbox — publishing photographs of the ‌director and other documents to the internet.

An "activist" who pushed 2020 election fraud claims has been convicted of election fraud: A jury convicted Wisconsin man Harry Wait of election fraud and identity theft for requesting the ballots of Republican state Assembly Speaker Vos and Democratic Racine Mayor Mason without their consent.