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'Reckless' Trump hid Iran invasion plans from Kristi Noem's DHS: former official

Prior to Donald Trump's attack on Iran, which has grown into a war with no end in sight, there is no indication that the White House alerted the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which, since its founding, has been tasked with preventing retaliatory attacks in the US.

Appearing on MS NOW with host Anna Cabrera, former DHS chief of staff Miles Taylor claimed that, from what he has heard from staffers at the agency under now-fired DHS head Kristi Noem, they all were kept in the dark.

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'Antichrist ideology': GOP lawmaker attacks 'demonic' Texas Dem in unhinged broadcast

Rep. Riley Moore (R-WV) suggested that James Talarico, a Democrat running for U.S. Senate in Texas, was possessed by demons.

The West Virginia Republican attacked the Texas hopeful during a Friday interview with MAGA influencer Benny Johnson.

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Pro-Trump network busted for misleading viewers about jobs report: 'Wrong in the script'

Newsmax was seemingly busted for providing false coverage of President Donald Trump's economic record.

Labor Department data released Friday showed the U.S. economy lost 92,000 jobs in February, nudging the unemployment rate up to 4.4 percent, but "Wake Up America" co-host Sharla McBride was apparently supposed to tell viewers the economy added those jobs.

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Fox Business host grills labor secretary: 'It doesn't look good for the Trump economy'

Fox Business host Stuart Varney pressed Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer on a poor jobs report that "doesn't look good for the Trump economy."

Before Varney's interview with Chavez-DeRemer on Friday, Fox Business correspondent Connor Hansen noted that the economy lost 92,000 jobs in February instead of the expected gain of 59,000.

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Trump signals new war is coming as he brings it up to CNN reporter 'without being asked'

President Donald Trump changed the topic from his war in Iran to preview a possible invasion of another country during a phone call with CNN's Dana Bash.

The broadcaster phoned in to her colleagues on "CNN News Central" moments after hanging up with the 79-year-old president Friday morning to give an overview of their call, and she said Trump seems to be considering additional military conflicts.

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'Shocked' Fox News hosts debate 'masculinity' after Trump is given pink soccer jersey

Fox News hosts Lawrence Jones, Ainsley Earhardt, and Brian Kilmeade called masculinity into question after President Donald Trump received soccer legend Lionel Messi's pink soccer jersey.

On Friday, the trio of co-hosts reflected on an event Trump had with Messi the day before.

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'Economic earthquake' batters Trump in new brutal jobs report: MS NOW

The Donald Trump administration suffered a fresh embarrassment on Friday morning with the new jobs report revealing what was supposed to show a substantial job increase and instead revealed the country lost jobs.

With the country reeling from newly increased fuel prices since the president launched a war on Iran, creating chaos in the Middle East, the administration had been looking for some good news which failed to materialize.

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'Hothead' GOP senator replacing Kristi Noem dragged on CNN: 'Do you know how sad that is?'

President Donald Trump finally fired his long-embattled Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, and panelists on "CNN This Morning" chewed over his nominee to replace her.

The 79-year-old president tapped Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK), who is probably best known for challenging Teamsters President Sean O'Brien to a fight during a Senate hearing, to lead DHS after firing Noem, and the panelists argued over the Oklahoma Republican's qualifications for the cabinet role.

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'A deep embarrassment': White House sparks outrage with latest Iran 'propaganda' video

Political analysts and observers were outraged on Thursday after the White House posted its most recent "propaganda" video about the Iran war.

The White House published a montage of strikes against Iranian targets interspersed with clips from popular action movies and television shows. The video was captioned, "JUSTICE THE AMERICAN WAY," on X.

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CNN host delivers brutal fact-check on Trump's 'regime change' in Iran: 'Let's be honest!'

CNN's Abby Phillip delivered a brutal fact-check on Thursday over President Donald Trump's "regime change" ambitions in Iran.

Trump gave an exclusive interview to Axios on Thursday, where he claimed that he should play a role in picking Iran's next leader. Those comments seem to follow in line with one of his stated ambitions for striking Iran in the first place, which he said was to create the conditions for the Iranian people to rise up and take over their government.

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Expert flags 'bigger risk' Trump just created by firing Kristi Noem

A former GOP speechwriter flagged a "bigger risk" that President Donald Trump just created after he fired Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.

On Thursday morning, Trump posted on Truth Social that he was replacing Noem with Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK), effective on March 31. Noem was given another position, Special Envoy for The Shield of the Americas, for an initiative that Trump said he will announce more details on later.

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Gov dangling clemency for imprisoned Trump ally even if she fakes remorse: reporter

Democratic Gov. Jared Polis appears to be dangling clemency for an ally of President Donald Trump's who is currently serving a nine-year prison sentence for election-related crimes.

Polis said on Wednesday that Tina Peters, a convicted felon and former Colorado county clerk, must show "contrition and apologize for her actions" if he is going to commute her sentence, journalist Kyle Clark with 9News reported. That led Clark to question whether Peters could have her sentence commuted if she faked an apology, and it appears that the answer is yes, he said on Thursday.

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MS NOW's Jen Psaki reveals chilling quotes from Trump's DHS pick that show what's to come

With President Donald Trump firing Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, his new replacement, Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK), will be in the spotlight.

MS NOW's Jen Psaki explored some of the things Mullin has said and done in the Trump era — and why it is a sign not much may change.

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