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Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) fired off an angry letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Thursday, slamming the department's move to restore certain health grants to Planned Parenthood.

Hawley, a constitutional lawyer by training and one of the most virulently anti-abortion senators in office, demanded action to reverse this policy.

Attorney General Ken Paxton’s office is under scrutiny after agency employees reallocated taxpayer-funded hotel rooms to donors and other private citizens, some of whom failed to cover the cost of the stay until the state comptroller began auditing the agency’s finances earlier this year.

Two senior officials involved in the incident resigned soon after it was brought to agency leadership’s attention.

President Donald Trump may not be done shaking up his Cabinet after he gave Attorney General Pam Bondi the boot on Thursday, according to a new report.

One administration official "familiar with the dynamics" of the Trump White House told Politico that Trump has also expressed frustration with Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer, and that both could be removed from the administration imminently. Three people "with knowledge" of the president's thinking confirmed the rumors to Politico as well, according to the report.

The conservative Wall Street Journal editorial board had a blistering assessment of Attorney General Pam Bondi's record, now that President Donald Trump has given her the boot.

In short, the board argued, Bondi's fatal flaw in office is that "she was never good at saying no" to either Trump or his rabid base — even when what they were demanding of her was either impossible or completely contrary to the Justice Department's mission.

The Artemis II crew will include Victor Glover, second from left, the first Black astronaut to fly to the Moon. NASA/Frank Michaux Craig Fehrman, Indiana University

ACLU Executive Director Anthony Romero, who sat directly behind President Donald Trump during Supreme Court arguments on birthright citizenship, described the president as restless throughout the proceedings.

Romero stated Trump was initially seated at the courtroom's end but had Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick request that he be moved to a more central position directly in front of the ACLU delegation.

White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles is so worried that Donald Trump is being fed a rosy picture of his Iran war that she has privately urged his inner circle to stop telling the president what he wants to hear, and start telling him what he needs to hear, Time magazine reported Thursday.

Wiles, who is battling breast cancer while managing a chaotic West Wing, grew alarmed after Trump's own pollster Tony Fabrizio delivered a brutal reality check that the war cratered in public opinion as gas prices topped $4 a gallon and stock markets tumbled to multi-year lows. To boot, millions of Americans were preparing to protest.

Florida gubernatorial candidate James Fishback has been ordered by U.S. District Judge Mark Walker of Tallahassee to turn over personal financial records, or else swear they do not exist, according to the Tampa Bay Times.

Walker stopped just short of holding Fishback, a 31-year-old hedge fund founder mounting an outsider Republican campaign, in contempt of court in the case — but warned he will face the "wrath of the court" if he fails to comply.

Survivors of Jeffrey Epstein excoriated former Attorney General Pam Bondi after she was fired by President Donald Trump on Thursday.

Trump relieved Bondi of her duties in a post on Truth Social, ending weeks of speculation about which of Trump's Cabinet members would be excused from the administration following the departure of Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. Bondi had faced significant criticism for her handling of the release of the Epstein files.

President Donald Trump launched a personal attack on musician Bruce Springsteen minutes after Fox Business aired the rocker's criticism of the administration.

During a Minneapolis concert, Springsteen described Trump's administration as "corrupt, incompetent, racist, reckless, and treasonous."

President Donald Trump bragged on Thursday that his "magnificent" ballroom project had taken another step toward becoming a reality, even as he threatens to discontinue social programs like Medicare and Medicaid in order to provide more funding for the military.

Trump wrote a post on Truth Social thanking the "hardworking" members of the National Capital Planning Commission, who voted 8-1 to approve his ballroom project. Trump was especially tickled by Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) casting a vote in favor of the project.

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced a new policy on Thursday to allow active servicemembers to put in a request to carry their own personal firearms with them on military installations — proclaiming it to be a "God-given right."

"Our military installations have been turned into gun-free zones — leaving our service members vulnerable and exposed. That ends today," Hegseth wrote in a post to X accompanying a video detailing the announcement.