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Fox News host Griff Jenkins fact-checked Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche to his face after officials at the Department of Homeland Security alleged that 37-year-old slain nurse Alex Pretti was a domestic terrorist.

"Here's a quote from [Fox's] reporting saying there is extreme internal frustration with DHS officials going on television and putting out statements to describe Alex Pretti as a domestic terrorist who was there to inflict maximum damage on federal agents or conduct a massacre even after multiple videos emerged," Jenkins explained on Monday, "to show that these claims appear to be inaccurate."

Mega podcaster Joe Rogan speculated that President Donald Trump was using Immigration and Customs Enforcement tactics to drown out the coverage of the Department of Justice's refusal to comply with a law requiring the release of files related to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

During an interview with comedian Ehsan Ahmad this week, Rogan asked whether the DOJ had recently released more Epstein materials after the December deadline.

U.S. Border Patrol chief Gregory Bovino boasted about detaining a 5-year-old boy in conditions that he insisted don't get "any better."

During a press conference on Friday, a reporter asked about the boy and his father, who were detained in Minnesota.

Rep. Greg Steube (R-FL) admitted that he would "love to see" the U.S. military at war with the French Armed Forces over the right to own Greenland.

"It looks like America is firmly in control and empire-building again," MAGA influencer Benny Johnson told Steube in a Friday interview. "It's kind of awesome."

As the leadership of the Washington Post hobnobbed with the elite at the World Economic Forum in Davos, there is panic within the newsroom over looming cuts and owner Jeff Bezos' disappearing acts as troubles mount at the venerable paper.

According to Status reporter Natalie Korach, there is an "erosion of morale" at the Post where things have deteriorated significantly during Chief Executive and Publisher Will Lewis's two-year tenure. Lewis has struggled to address declining newsroom morale and readership, prompting looming and devastating organizational restructuring to reduce staff.

President Donald Trump said that his so-called Board of Peace "might" replace the United Nations.

During a Tuesday press conference, Trump was asked about the future of his new project.

President Donald Trump floated the idea of renaming the former Gulf of Mexico after himself.

While recounting the victories of the first year of his second term, Trump recalled renaming the body of water the "Gulf of America."

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins doubled down after claiming meals in the United States cost $3 each.

According to the secretary, she asked a team of economists to estimate the cost of a meal.

Rep. Keith Self (R-TX) compared peaceful protesters who showed up to demonstrate against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) at a church in Minnesota to the deadly Oct. 7 Hamas attacks on Israel.

During a Tuesday Newsmax interview, Self was asked about the decision to interrupt church services over the weekend because the pastor was thought to work for ICE.

Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) lashed out at world leaders who were groveling to President Donald Trump at the World Economic Forum in Davos.

During a Tuesday interview with Sky News, Newsom faced a question about how world leaders should handle Trump's effort to acquire Greenland.

Bishop William Barber vowed to "overcome" the Trump administration in his Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day speech in New York City.

During his MLK Day speech on Monday, Barber tied the fight against Trump to the song "We Shall Overcome."

Department of Justice senior adviser Alina Habba insisted that federal prosecutors would "come down hard" on Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey (D) after he danced with a Somali flag, allegedly creating hostility against Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers.

During a Monday interview on Fox News, host Brian Kilmeade noted that Attorney General Pam Bondi had vowed to investigate Frey and Gov. Tim Walz (D).

Frequent CNN analyst Julie Roginsky unloaded on the network for allowing Scott Jennings, it's in-house pro-Trump conservative commentator, to be rude to his opponents while engaging in bad-faith arguments during his appearances.

Along the way, Roginsky noted that his abusive treatment of women without penalty has given rise to a belief among some outside female analysts that they have been blackballed for criticizing him.