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President Donald Trump is touting his new trade deal with the United Kingdom as a major breakthrough in his push to secure fair trade arrangements for the United States. But New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman is skeptical that it's really what he's making it out to be, and thinks it was more of a message to other countries than any meaningful progress for world trade.

Already, the plan has come under criticism from other observers, who have noted that Trump effectively cut a big break to luxury Rolls-Royce automobile imports while forcing toy manufacturers to hike prices on dolls for children.

New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman said President Donald Trump’s praise for newly elected Pope Leo XIV is a sign he’s trying to tamp down his constant brawling.

Speaking to CNN’s Jake Tapper on Thursday, Haberman said Trump’s warm compliments for the new pope in a Truth Social post – where he said it was “a Great Honor for our Country” to have the first American pope, who he said he looks forward to meeting – was a shift in his previous tone toward the Vatican.

President Donald Trump's acting U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia was spat on by an irate woman while on air giving an interview to Newsmax, and right-wing commentators threw an immediate fit.

Ed Martin, a far-right legal activist, has repeatedly stirred up outrage and chaos as D.C.'s top federal prosecutor, including sending intimidation letters to a number of organizations Trump was annoyed with. After he publicly praised a Nazi-sympathizing Jan. 6 rioter who dressed up as Hitler, Senate Republicans pressured Trump into withdrawing his nomination to serve in the role permanently. He is now reportedly considering Fox News personality and former New York judge Jeanine Pirro for the role instead.

President Donald Trump held an Oval Office event with U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer on speaker phone Thursday morning to discuss what Trump painted as a new trade deal, which he said he negotiated.

But the purported "deal" led two writers at The Bulwark to crack up laughing.

Former Rep. George Santos (R-NY) joined Piers Morgan for a teary-eyed interview after learning he would be sent to prison for over seven years.

In an interview on Piers Morgan Uncensored on YouTube, Santos said he hadn't considered a pardon from President Donald Trump yet because he was unsure what his sentence would be.

MAGA influencer Jack Posobiec warned supporters of President Donald Trump that the new Pope did not "bode well" for them.

Following the election of Pope Leo XIV on Thursday, Posobiec shared his thoughts in a broadcast from Rome on Real America's Voice.

Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) pressed FBI Director Kash Patel about why he refused to investigate agencies violating the U.S. Constitution by denying due process to migrants.

During a Thursday Senate Appropriations Committee hearing, Merkley asked Patel if he was familiar with the Fifth Amendment.

Former President Joe Biden spoke to "The View" on Thursday, where he went on the attack against current President Donald Trump.

At the top of the show, Biden trashed Trump as a "dictator" and estimated that the reason Trump hates him so much is because "I beat him" in 2020.

President Donald Trump suggested he would pull the nomination for Ed Marton, acting U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia.

Trump made the statement Thursday after at least one key U.S. senator said he would vote against Martin. At a press conference, Trump was asked if he had a "backup plan" for Martin.

Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA) grilled FBI Director Kash Patel after his agency purportedly violated the law by failing to provide a timely budget.

"As ranking member Van Hollen noted earlier, this hearing is being held without the FBI's fiscal year 2025 spend plan and a full budget request for fiscal year 2026," Murray told Patel at a Thursday hearing. "The spend plan is required by law. It was due to Congress over a week ago. We have not yet seen it. That is really absurd."

CNN's Sara Sidner reacted to the "strong words" her colleague and former Department of Transportation inspector general Mary Schiavo had for transportation secretary Sean Duffy about the air traffic control crisis.

Duffy has pledged to transform and remodel the outdated air traffic control system after a major failure last week at Newark Liberty International Airport left thousands of travelers stranded for days, and Schiavo said president Donald Trump's transportation secretary faced a major test where failure is not an option.

President Donald Trump has been hyping a "major" trade deal with the United Kingdom, but officials and experts alike have been cautioning that it will fall well short of the "full and comprehensive" pact he's teasing.

The president invited reporters to an Oval Office announcement Thursday morning, and hours ahead of that event he teased new details about the deal, but British officials told the Wall Street Journal they were surprised by his plans and say the deal is not comprehensive, which was also confirmed by CNN's Alayna Treene.