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President Donald Trump is setting his sights on Washington, D.C.’s public golf courses, with a particular focus on East Potomac Golf Links – situated on a prime stretch of riverfront real estate – according to an exclusive Wall Street Journal report.

The push grew out of an unusual logistical problem: what to do with the dirt generated by Trump’s demolition of the White House’s East Wing. While aides floated dumping it on the Ellipse, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum pitched a more strategic idea – hauling the soil to East Potomac, the public golf complex Trump hoped to renovate, which sits on low ground and would need fill to rise above the Potomac River floodplain for any major redesign.

Top Republicans and Democrats on Capitol Hill came together this week to praise a prominent law firm and government watchdog group – even as the firm remains locked in a bitter legal fight with President Donald Trump’s administration.

According to a new report in Politico, lawmakers from both parties attended a bipartisan event celebrating the release of “When Congress Comes Calling,” a newly updated handbook on congressional investigations published by Jenner & Block in partnership with the Project on Government Oversight.

A federal judge on Friday ordered the Justice Department to return files that had been illegally seized from former FBI Director James Comey's ex-legal adviser Daniel Richman, All Rise News' Adam Klasfeld reported.

The files were taken as part of the criminal indictment against Comey for false statements and obstruction, which has now been dismissed.

President Donald Trump has already discussed the idea of preemptively pardoning key aides and officials who could face criminal investigations under a future Democratic administration, according to a new report in Zeteo.

Sources with knowledge of the discussions say the conversations have been sporadic and preliminary, and have included Trump, his senior aides, federal appointees, and Republicans close to the White House. Any sweeping preemptive pardon, the sources told Zeteo, would likely occur shortly before the inauguration of a Democratic president-elect, though it is unclear how long the potential presidential list might run.

A Border Patrol agent who allegedly threatened to shoot a bystander during an arrest in Chicago has been exposed for a history of extreme, racist and hate-filled online posts, reported The Daily Beast on Friday.

"Timothy Donohue, 38, was a member of lead commander Gregory Bovino’s maurauding so-called 'Green Army' during 'Operation Midway Blitz' in Illinois, part of President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown," reported Tom Latchem. "Donahue was cited — though not by name — in a blistering opinion by U.S. District Judge Sara L. Ellis after he was filmed threatening someone watching an arrest in Evanston." Footage apparently of Donohue appeared to show him saying, “Step back or I’m going to shoot you,” to a bystander.

Chaos is mounting inside the Department of Homeland Security as rising tensions over Trump’s deportation agenda have sparked internal finger-pointing and threatened to derail top leadership, with officials even fearing their emails and messages are being monitored, according to a new NBC News exclusive.

DHS Secretary Kristi Noem and her top advisor, Corey Lewandowski, have reportedly pinned blame on subordinates for falling short of White House deportation goals. Acting ICE Director Todd Lloyd and Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Rodney Scott have found themselves at the center of criticism, with Scott expressing concern to colleagues that Lewandowski may be monitoring his emails.

Former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have been threatened with contempt proceedings by Rep. James Comer (R-KY) over the duo's failure to appear to testify in the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking investigation.

Comer, chair of the House Oversight Committee, issued the sternly worded threat on Friday ahead of planned depositions scheduled for Wednesday.

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth proclaimed President Donald Trump to be the true heir of former President Ronald Reagan while speaking at the Reagan Library this week — but the conservative Wall Street Journal editorial board begged to differ.

“Most who invoke Ronald Reagan’s name today, especially self-styled Republican hawks, are not much like Ronald Reagan,” said Hegseth, who is at the center of a firestorm of controversy for seemingly illegal "double-tap" strikes on shipwreck survivors. “Donald Trump is the true and rightful heir of Ronald Reagan.”

Indiana Gov. Mike Braun drew the ire of the Wall Street Journal on Friday after threatening political payback against Republicans who torpedoed a Trump-backed plan to redraw congressional maps mid-decade.

“Political principle has been out of fashion, but it had a good day in Indiana on Thursday,” the Journal wrote in an editorial that praised Hoosier Republicans who rejected the proposal before criticizing Braun.

CNN anchor Erin Burnett tapped her pen on her desk and took a brief pause on her show before reading about the contents of a new photo dump from House Democrats on the Jeffrey Epstein files: an image of Donald Trump-themed condoms.

Burnett opened her show, "OutFront" on Friday, sharing that reporters received dozens of new photos from the Epstein estate as part of a larger trove of 95,000 images. Some of these photos served as the newest evidence of Trump's long relationship with Epstein, Burnett noted.