Donald Trump’s ‘Board Of Peace’ Fund Has Zero Dollars, But A Private Account Linked To It Is BrimmingA World Bank fund set up for President Donald Trump’s much-ballyhooed “Board of Peace” has precisely zero dollars in it, according to the Financial Times, which cited four people familiar with the matter.“Zero dollars have been deposited,” one of the people told FT.That’s not necessarily because world leaders who pledged upward of $1 billion to join haven’t followed through, but because the board has received donations via a separate account administered by JPMorgan.Unlike the World Bank account, which has mechanisms in place for transparency and accountability, the JPMorgan account has no such requirements. It’s through that account that the Board of Peace has been conducting business, like paying the salaries of a handful of officials tasked with overseeing the effort to rebuild Gaza.Read more at the Financial Times:Latest Live UpdatesTrump's DOJ Is Criminally Investigating E. Jean Carroll: ReportThe Justice Department is leading a criminal investigation into E. Jean Carroll -- the writer who won civil lawsuits accusing President Donald Trump of sexually abusing her and defamation -- people familiar with the matter told CNN on Wednesday.This would be the latest instance of Trump using the DOJ to target his political and personal enemies, something acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said he supports.The reported investigation concerns whether Carroll committed perjury during her testimony in her lawsuits. The sources said prosecutors are probing a 2022 deposition in which Carroll stated she had not received any outside funding for her lawsuit.Read more from CNN: Trump Funding D.C. Projects With National Park Entrance Fees: NYT AnalysisVisitors paying to enter national parks across the U.S. are funding President Donald Trump's various "beautification projects" around Washington, D.C., a New York Times analysis found. The National Park Service has used $67 million in park entrance fees to bankroll the projects, including investing $60 million in repairs to nine of the capital’s ornamental fountains and $7 million to renovate the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool (which is costing $13.1 million in total, the Times reported.)Meanwhile, officials at Zion National Park in Utah told the Times they've been working to secure funding to replace a sewer system that failed in the early 2020s, leading two of the park's public bathrooms to be replaced by port-a-potties. Read more from the Times: Angie Craig Drops Bid To Win Party’s Senate Endorsement, Says She Didn’t Want It AnywayRep. Angie Craig (D-Minn.) is withdrawing from the Minnesota Democratic Party's endorsement process, days before she was expected to lose badly to Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan at the party convention where delegates will vote on who to support for U.S. Senate.Instead of trying to win over her state's Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (DFL) delegates, Craig said she’ll focus on winning the Democratic primary in August."I’m a proud DFLer," she said in prepared remarks at a press conference. "But the DFL endorsement process just doesn’t reflect the full scope of the party that we are. And the purple state that we have become."In reality, Craig is just trying to save some face. Flanagan’s campaign has been asserting that they're on track to win the state party’s endorsement with 75% support from delegates. Both candidates have worked to win this endorsement for months, with Craig recently boasting of her team’s presence at 113 of 117 local unit conventions, where delegates are selected."No matter what she says about the process, Congresswoman Craig spent months aggressively competing for this endorsement because she understood how significant it is,” Flanagan campaign spokesperson Lexi Byler said in a statement.Whoever wins the primary will almost certainly go on to become Minnesota’s next U.S. senator, as the state hasn’t elected a Republican senator since 2002. Flanagan has been consistently leading in the polls, but Craig has a lot more money. Both are competing for the seat being vacated by retiring Sen. Tina Smith (D-Minn.).Profit Margin For Firm Doing Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool Is Whopping 20%: NYTThe firm repairing and painting the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool has secured a substantially inflated profit margin, adding at least $850,000 to the cost of the project, The New York Times reported Wednesday citing federal documents.The typical profit margin for federal construction contracts reportedly sits between 6% and 12%. In this case, though, the margin is 20%. The government has agreed to pay the firm doing the repairs $13.1 million, or seven times the amount that President Donald Trump initially said the repairs would cost.Read more at The New York Times:Democrats Lob An Exceptionally Mean 5-Word Tweet At Stephen Miller: 'Ugly F**k'The official X account for the Democratic National Committee hurled an insult back at Stephen Miller on Wednesday."shut up you ugly fuck," Democrats wrote on Wednesday in response to Miller, the White House deputy chief of staff.The post was in response to Miller's post, which attempted to insult Texas Senate nominee James Talarico in a transphobic post, calling him Texas's "first transgender senate candidate." Talarico is not transgender. Tony Blair Says U.K. Should Have Backed Trump In IranTony Blair, the former British prime minister, said Tuesday the U.K. should have supported President Donald Trump at the start of his war with Iran.In a criticism of current Prime Minister Keir Starmer hesitating to swing behind the U.S., Blair said America remains “indispensable” to Britain’s security and the country's leaders should “think long and hard before you refuse” to help.In March, Trump blasted Starmer for not letting the U.S. land its planes at the strategically important Diego Garcia air base, a facility in the Indian Ocean that the two countries share. “This is not Winston Churchill that we're dealing with,” Trump fumed.In an interview Tuesday, Blair argued that if the U.S. is “an indispensable part of our security, we should stand with them if we can.”“If they seriously considered taking Greenland or something, of course you wouldn’t have said yes to that,” Blair said. “But this is action in respect of Iran and we were being asked for support, not to be part of the military action.”Blair has in recent days weighed into the civil war engulfing the U.K's governing Labour Party, the party he dragged to the center ground in the 1990s and led to three general election victories.In a damning 5,700-word essay, he said Starmer had failed to produce a “coherent plan for the country.”But Blair warned Labour politicians are “playing with fire” by challenging him for the leadership of the party.Sir Tony Blair tells Times Radio that despite there being clear red lines, Britain must continue working closely with the US even under Donald Trump. pic.twitter.com/76bMTUrTYM— Times Radio (@TimesRadio) May 27, 2026Pete Hegseth Compares Iran War To Painting The Reflecting Pool BlueDefense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Wednesday hailed Donald Trump as the “one man” bold enough to do things differently as president, like unilaterally starting a war in Iran with no strategy — and painting a pool blue.“When you authorized ‘Operation Epic Fury,' just like you talked about with the Reflecting Pool, we didn’t do the same old thing the way we’ve done it in the past,” Hegseth gushed in a cabinet meeting of Trump officials taking turns lavishing the president with praise.Trump, who beamed as his defense secretary spoke, talked at length about the potentially illegal modifications he’s been making to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. A nonprofit, the Cultural Landscape Foundation, sued him this month for painting its basin blue without first going through a review process required for making changes to national historic sites.This new blue color “is more appropriate to a resort or theme park,” Charles Birnbaum, the group’s president and CEO, previously said in a statement. On Wednesday, though, Trump offered a different description of the bright blue paint he’s coated over the Reflecting Pool’s basin, which has had a signature gray color since it first opened in 1924.“It's called American Flag Blue,” Trump raved.James Talarico Cops To 'Cringy' Comments In PastIn his first national news interview since becoming Democrats' nominee in a monumental Texas Senate race, James Talarico admitted some of his past commentary about gender may have been a bit cringe. In an interviewed posted on Wednesday, CBSNews correspondent Ed O'Keefe asked Talarico about his 2021 remark that "God is nonbinary."Talarico said he's made statements he regrets, but added that his opponent, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, is just mining those regrettable statements to distract from his own scandal-plagued background, which includes state-level indictments and an impeachment. "There are statements that I've made where I've missed the mark. I'll be the first to admit that," Talarico said. "But Ken Paxton is intentionally clipping my cringy comments to distract from his career of corruption."As for whether God is nonbinary, Talarico suggested the statement is not necessarily wrong theologically. "The Apostle Paul, in his letter to the Galatians, says that in Christ there is neither male nor female," Talarico said. "I'm always going to stand up for Texans who are being picked on by the most powerful, most corrupt politicians in the country, and I'm going to continue doing that in this race, and hopefully in the U.S. Senate."Matthew Perry's Assistant Sentenced For Role In His Ketamine DeathMatthew Perry’s live-in personal assistant, who had a central role in the “Friends” star’s descent into ketamine addiction and injected him with the fatal dose of the drug, was sentenced Wednesday to three years and five months in prison.Judge Sherilyn Peace Garnett handed down the sentence to 60-year-old Kenneth Iwamasa in federal court in Los Angeles. He was also sentenced to two years of probation and a $10,000 fine.Read more, via the Associated Press:Gov. Jared Polis Attends Internal Democratic Party Call With Tape Over MouthA week after the Colorado Democratic Party censured him for commuting the sentence of Trump ally and election denier Tina Peters, Colorado Gov. Jared Polis (D) signed on to an internal party call with black tape over his mouth.Colorado Sun political reporter Jesse Paul obtained a screenshot of Polis’ gag and posted it on Bluesky, where it was roundly mocked.The stunt is arguably an improvement on Polis’ initial reaction to being censured by his own party, which was to chew a carrot into a hot mic.Polis said afterward he “Wasn’t buying time to think of an answer, I literally just didn’t want to be spitting carrot all over the place while I was answering.”See All Updates