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An insane video is going viral right now of a man appearing to chomp on a cigarette live on television during a news report on President Trump's Ohio visit.

Watch the video ... a man smoking a cigarette creeps up behind a reporter during a news segment. He's all smiles as he appears to flip the cigarette around, place the lit end in his mouth and chew!

We're not sure who's the butt of the joke here, but this guy immediately became an internet sensation.

One X user wrote, "And a legend is born.

Another added, "Florida man's got nothing on Ohio man."

Some seemed to have seen this type of stunt before ... “He doesn’t eat it bro. We use to flick cigarettes in our mouth and back out with our tongue when we were young. I did it a bunch of times. Saliva protects from the initial burn and you have time to take it out,” one commenter posted.

Tucker Carlson says the CIA read his text messages with people in Iran and claims the agency is trying to get him charged as a foreign agent.

The conservative commentator made the allegation in a video posted to X Saturday, saying the CIA is preparing a criminal referral to the Department of Justice tied to conversations he had before the recent conflict with Iran.

"The CIA is preparing some kind of criminal referral against me," Carlson said. "What's the crime? Talking to people in Iran before the war. They read my texts."

A member of Jasmine Crockett's congressional security detail was shot to death by police during a standoff in Texas, according to CBS News.

The violent encounter unfolded in Dallas Wednesday night, when Mike King reportedly ran inside a hospital parking garage and then barricaded himself inside a vehicle while being pursued by SWAT officers.

CBS reports the cops then tear-gassed King, prompting him to jump out of the vehicle and pull a gun before he was fatally shot by police.    

Law enforcement sources told CBS ... King was wanted for impersonating law enforcement while running a platform online, Off Duty Police Services, which finds off-duty gigs for North Texas cops. 

Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett's bodyguard -- who was killed in a standoff with police this week -- reportedly had a checkered past.

The bodyguard went by Mike King ... but CBS News is now reporting that was an alias -- and his real name was Diamon-Mazairre Robinson.

The outlet reports Robinson was using aliases while running a business that put cops in off-duty security jobs ... and, he reportedly found himself in the crosshairs of a federal investigation for allegedly impersonating an officer.

Donald Trump went full "City Slickers" in the Oval Office ... when he slipped on a super pricey cowboy hat in front of some rodeo pros.

POTUS played host to the 2025 World Champions of the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association and the Women’s Professional Rodeo Association Friday afternoon ... and they presented him with a keepsake accessory.

The real cowboys gave the prez a $10,000 Resistol 1776 hat -- a limited edition hat celebrating the United States' 250th anniversary.

Donald Trump's hotel in Chicago failed a recent food inspection ... TMZ has confirmed.

The Trump International Hotel & Tower Chicago's main kitchen, room service and Terrace 16 restaurant failed food inspections by the Chicago Department of Public Health on December 17, 2025 ... according to records obtained by TMZ.

PEOPLE reports the inspection found small insects in the bar area and the dish area ... plus a dish machine that was not properly sanitizing, and a sink in the prep area that drained wastewater onto the floor.

Kyrsten Sinema says she did in fact sleep with her bodyguard while he was still married ... admitting as much in legal docs -- though she says his estranged wife shouldn't be allowed to sue her in North Carolina for it.

The former Arizona senator filed a motion to dismiss a lawsuit in which she's being sued by her lover's estranged wife in North Carolina on Thursday. In the papers, she admits she and Matthew Ammel began an affair about five months before he separated from his wife, Heather Ammel. The filing was first reported on by an Arizona reporter named Brian Anderson.

Sinema says she and Ammel became "romantic and intimate" in late May 2024 ... engaging in physical intimacy for the first time on May 27 in Sonoma, California ... adding that they were also physically intimate in New York City, Washington, D.C., Aspen and Phoenix in subsequent months.

A prison guard working the night Jeffrey Epstein died by suicide has been called to testify before the Congressional House Oversight Committee.

The committee sent Tova Noel -- the guard who was fired from the Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC) in New York City after Epstein was found dead in his cell -- a letter requesting her to testify on March 26 at 10 AM ET.

The House Oversight Committee has members who believe Noel has "information that will assist in its investigation" into Epstein's shocking death.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is daring Iran’s new Supreme Leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, to show his face ... accusing him of hiding amid claims he's been disfigured, instead of speaking publicly.

Hegseth ripped into Khamenei after the 56-year-old’s first message since taking power aired on Iranian state TV ... a written statement calling for unity that was read aloud by a presenter.

In a Friday briefing, the Pentagon chief questioned why Khamenei didn’t appear on camera himself ... suggesting he’s scared, injured, or on the run after the recent strikes that killed his father.

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Former Miss California Carrie Prejean Boller is going scorched earth on President Donald Trump after getting booted from a White House religious post ... saying the "witch hunt" against her tramples the very free speech he once defended on her behalf.

The ex-beauty queen was fired from the Justice Department’s Religious Liberty Commission after clashing with Jewish witnesses during a hearing on rising antisemitism after the October 7, 2023, attack on Israel by Hamas.

The Department of War has a bone to pick with how the media’s covering the U.S. conflict with Iran ... and Pete Hegseth let it fly during a Pentagon press briefing.

Speaking Friday, the Secretary of War accused some reporters of missing the point ... adding he knows how the game works -- since the former Fox News anchor used to be in the business -- saying headlines are often written with misleading intention.

Things are getting so tense in the U.S.-Iran conflict, even Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent got yanked mid-interview to speak to President Trump!

The whole thing played out on camera -- Bessent was chatting with Sky News' Wilfred Frost for "The Master Investor Podcast" Thursday inside the Treasury Department’s Cash Room ... when an aide suddenly stepped in and summoned him to the White House Situation Room.

It quickly turned into a drop-everything moment -- his mic getting pulled off his jacket as he rushed out -- while Frost sat there looking stunned, insisting it was no problem. Not that it mattered either way.

Donald Trump is ramping up his threats against Iran ... calling its leaders “deranged scumbags” and warning them to brace for what's coming today.

Trump fired off the message in the early hours of Friday morning ... declaring the U.S. is "totally destroying the terrorist regime of Iran" -- militarily, economically, and more.

He touts, "Iran’s Navy is gone, their Air Force is no longer, missiles, drones and everything else are being decimated," and brags the country's leaders have been "wiped from the face of the earth."

President Trump got himself some new hardware on Thursday during a White House event honoring women, courtesy of a U.S. Olympic bobsledder ... and while it may not be a Nobel Prize, it's an awesome honor!

The scene unfolded at a POTUS-thrown Women's History Month celebration at 1600 Penn. Avenue, attended by Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, Press Sec. Karoline Leavitt, Attorney General Pam Bondi, Second Lady Usha Vance, and others.

U.S. Olympian Kaillie Humphries, a 6x medalist, was also in the building, and didn't squander the moment when she stepped to the mic, gifting 45/47 one of her medals.

Not one of those medals ... no gold, silver, or bronze here. Instead, Humphries gave Trump something that's arguably more special.

It looks like the White House is treating the war with Iran like a video game ... at least based on how they're presenting military footage on social media.

Check out this X post from the official White House account ... it's a mashup of Wii sports and Iran bombings.

We've seen some of this same footage before, with no games being played ... but now the White House look like they're ready to poke fun at war.

Other White House social media posts on the war have drawn ire from actors and singers, like Ben Stiller and Kesha, for using snippets of movies and music.