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MS NOW's Symone Sanders-Townsend kicked off Friday night's edition of "The Weeknight" by contrasting America's economic malaise with President Donald Trump's obsession with lavish spending on renovations in Washington, D.C.

Many of these renovations appear to have shady details under the hood, including Trump steering the contract to redo the Reflecting Pool to a business tied to Trump properties.

White House chief of staff Susie Wiles was forced onto social media Thursday to reassure the tech industry after her own National Economic Council director went off-script and publicly floated FDA-style government approval requirements for new AI models — touching off nearly a day of anxiety across the sector, according to Politico.

Kevin Hassett, director of the National Economic Council, had suggested the administration was considering a vetting process for new AI models similar to the FDA's drug approval system. The comments sent the tech sector into a panic, forcing Wiles to step in, tweeting that the administration was pushing a strategy that "empowers America's great innovators, not bureaucracy."

Former Homeland Security Chief of Staff Miles Taylor warned Friday that President Donald Trump may invoke a secret "Doomsday Book" containing pre-drafted executive orders hidden in a secure White House location.

Created under the Eisenhower administration to maintain government continuity following a nuclear attack, the book grants presidential powers to censor the press, detain civilians, suspend communications, and enact martial law.

President Donald Trump's Washington, D.C. prosecutor Jeanine Pirro made a massive blunder in the White House Correspondents' Dinner shooting case, former federal prosecutor Elie Honig told CNN's Jake Tapper on Friday — and it could cause huge problems down the road.

Specifically, she is not going to recuse herself from the case, despite having described herself as a victim, since she was at the dinner when the shooting happened.

A New Jersey man was body slammed and arrested at a packed township meeting this week after speaking out against a proposed AI data center — part of a growing national backlash against Trump's $500 billion push to build AI infrastructure across the country.

The confrontation unfolded Thursday at an Andover Township Committee meeting in Sussex County, where hundreds of residents turned out to oppose plans for a data center by developer National Land Developers LLC. The project is part of a wave of similar developments accelerating under Trump's Stargate initiative, a joint venture with OpenAI, SoftBank, and Oracle that the president has called "the largest AI infrastructure project in history."

Emmanuel Saez, the UC Berkeley economist who designed California's proposed billionaire wealth tax, accused the Washington Post and owner Jeff Bezos of publishing "misinformation" about the measure.

Saez criticized a Post editorial board piece arguing the tax would cost California billions in lost revenue due to a billionaire exodus, claiming the analysis contains "glaring falsehoods" and omits key details.

Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) thinks she's cracked the case on extraterrestrial life — and the answer, she says, is in scripture.

As President Donald Trump released his long-teased "UFO Files" on Friday, the firebrand Republican offered her own theory on what the government may actually be tracking: fallen angels.

Alabama officials have filed an emergency motion to the Supreme Court, asking for it to lift a federal court order that prohibits the state from redistricting until the next scheduled Census.

The motion goes specifically to Justice Clarence Thomas, a far-right jurist who oversees such requests when they come from within the 11th Circuit.

A grand jury in Oklahoma uncovered evidence that Gov. Kevin Stitt pulled strings behind the scenes to get a political donor released early from prison, KOSU reported on Friday.

"In 2023, Sara Polston was driving in Norman with a blood alcohol level nearly twice the legal limit. While traveling 66 miles per hour in a 25 mph zone, she crashed into another car, grievously injuring a 20-year-old woman," said the report. "Late last year, Polston was sentenced to eight years in prison and seven years on probation. But after just 73 days in prison, she was released as part of an electronic monitoring program that uses GPS to track offenders."