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Former Palm Beach County State Attorney Dave Aronberg suggested Melania Trump's surprise address denying Epstein connections was an attempt to preempt damaging revelations.

Speaking on MS NOW, Aronberg identified journalist Michael Wolff as the key figure linking Melania to Epstein through photographs with Trump, Epstein, and Ghislaine Maxwell. Aronberg theorized that Melania's statement was timed to get ahead of litigation involving Wolff, who allegedly possesses recordings featuring Epstein's voice.

President Donald Trump said Friday he supported his wife speaking out about rumors linking her to Jeffrey Epstein – although he might not have handled it the same way and admitted: “I didn’t recommend it.”

The president said in an interview with the New York Times that he knew first lady Melania Trump had wanted to address the speculation for a long time and said that he believed “she had a right to talk about it.”

Donald Trump launched his Iran war alone — and now, according to a scathing new analysis, every American is about to pay the price.

Political analyst and former Republican strategist Steve Schmidt argued in a new Substack column Friday that Trump's decision to attack Iran will wallop the economy, and America got nothing in return for it.

Since reporting emerged on Friday that multiple women have accused Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) of sexual misconduct, and one has accused him of assault while she was intoxicated, prominent figures who have endorsed his campaign for governor of California have bailed out one by one — and his own campaign has taken down its endorsements webpage.

According to California political analyst Rob Pyers, the website's page now returns a 404 error.

Political analyst Bernard Goldberg suggested Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth may be the next administration official fired by President Donald Trump, following the recent dismissals of the Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and Attorney General Pam Bondi.

Writing for the Hill, Goldberg suggests that, while Hegseth enthusiastically supported Trump's Iran war, leaked reports indicate he was "caught off guard" by Iran's intense military response.

A suspect was arrested in San Francisco Friday after being accused of throwing a Molotov cocktail at the home of Sam Altman, the CEO of the artificial intelligence firm OpenAI.

The 20-year-old man was found at the OpenAI headquarters about three miles away from Altman’s home, where he was threatening to burn down the building, San Francisco police said.

Layoffs continued Friday at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts as the nation’s premier arts institution prepares for a two-year shutdown tied to President Donald Trump’s MAGA-fied overhaul – which included a rebrand as the “Trump-Kennedy Center.”

Multiple people familiar with the cuts told the Washington Post that the programming department has been hit especially hard, with staff either terminated or reassigned as the center pivots away from traditional productions.

The New Hampshire House of Representatives has moved toward "disciplinary proceedings" against GOP Rep. Travis Corcoran over social media posts he made that appeared to attack colleagues using language from the Holocaust.

According to New Hampshire Public Radio, "At issue for Corcoran — who maintains a busy schedule of social media traffic — are recent posts on X, in which he called for a 'final solution' in response to a karaoke night invitation from a Jewish lawmaker, and another in which he talked of deporting a fellow lawmaker who was born in the Philippines: 'She has to go back,' he wrote."

An eye-popping detail buried in a new Bloomberg report may explain why the Justice Department keeps getting caught making errors in federal court: Pam Bondi told her lawyers to treat the president as their client — and now they're afraid to push back on anything.

A February 2025 memo from Bondi directed DOJ attorneys to "vigorously" defend Trump's policies and referred to them as "his" counsel, according to a former Justice Department attorney who spoke anonymously to Bloomberg. The result, sources say, is a culture where lawyers are wary of pressing federal agencies about the accuracy of information they receive, because challenging it feels like challenging the boss.

Tucker Carlson's independent media outlet suggested that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu may be using blackmail to pressure President Donald Trump into continuing and escalating the Iran war.

The newsletter drew parallels to alleged 1998 incidents when Netanyahu allegedly used recordings of former President Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky to pressure Clinton into releasing Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard.

President Donald Trump unveiled his team's new plan for a 250-foot triumphal arch in Washington, D.C., to be constructed in honor of America's 250th anniversary later this year, on Friday.

Many people on social media, however, reacted to the arch with anger.

The Wall Street Journal's editorial board poked a seething Donald Trump on Friday after he raged at the editors, essentially telling the president, "We told you so."

After Trump melted down at the Journal on Thursday night for saying he declared "premature victory" in Iran, calling the board "one of the worst and most inaccurate editorial boards in the world" and promising they'd "eat their words," the board responded Friday with barely concealed delight, pointing to Trump's own Truth Social posts.