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House Speaker Mike Johnson on Friday brushed off domestic abuse allegations leveled against Rep. Max Miller (R-Ohio) by the congressman's ex-wife, telling reporters the two-term lawmaker would have to sort it out on his own.

"I don't get involved in the personal lives of members and those things. You know, he's refuted some of these allegations, and he's got to work that out," Johnson said when asked by NBC News about the accusations.

President Donald Trump accused New York Times reporter David Sanger of treason, following Sanger's question about the war with Iran.

During a Friday press gaggle aboard Air Force One, Trump claimed to have achieved a "total military victory," alleging the U.S. destroyed Iran's navy, air force, radar systems, and leadership across multiple command levels.

Gov. Jared Polis (D-CO) finally did what he has been hinting he would do for months, and commuted the sentence of convicted MAGA election tampering county clerk Tina Peters — cutting her sentence from 9 years to 4.5 years, which would make her eligible for parole in less than a month. This comes after Peters issued a statement apologizing for her crimes, which was one of the conditions Polis put on considering clemency.

Democratic officials in Colorado had warned Polis for months to stop considering clemency for Peters, whose release has been an obsession of President Donald Trump and his followers for years — and with this decision, the dam broke on social media.

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis granted clemency to jailed election-denying former county clerk Tina Peters, reported CNN on Friday, cutting her sentence from 9 years to 4 1/2 years.

The move would make her eligible for parole in just under a month from now, due to the time she has already spent behind bars.

Newly unearthed 2009 court records reveal an Epstein survivor accused President Donald Trump of having "knowledge of finances and [Epstein's] sexual desire for minor girls," wrote veteran journalist Alisa Valdés-Rodríguez.

In her Substack, Valdés-Rodríguez explained that the accusation appeared in written legal responses filed in a Palm Beach County circuit court lawsuit brought by a woman who claimed abuse by Epstein between 2002 and 2005. When asked to list persons with knowledge concerning the lawsuit, the woman's attorneys listed over 50 names, with Trump ranked fifth and explicitly described as having knowledge of Epstein's financial dealings and sexual interest in minors.

President Donald Trump is threatening to fracture his party by deliberately trying to set up a succession rivalry within his own Cabinet, longtime GOP analyst and focus group expert Frank Luntz told CNN's Brianna Keilar on Friday.

Keilar played a clip of Trump — who at least for now seems to have abandoned his dreams of an illegal third term — playing up the idea of a 2028 presidential ticket that features both Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, but leaving open who would lead the ticket and who would be the running mate.

Mark McCloskey, the St. Louis lawyer who became a conservative folk hero after brandishing a gun at Black Lives Matter protesters, told his Jan. 6 clients he's back in the fight, just weeks after quietly withdrawing from their cases citing "personal reasons."

The reason for that withdrawal: A serious medical diagnosis.