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'We have receipts': Fuming Maria Bartiromo team erupts over Fox News firing reports

Maria Bartiromo's attorney has disputed reports that Fox News fired the longtime anchor, insisting the network's characterization of her exit is entirely wrong.

Attorney Bryan Freedman, in a statement to the Daily Mail, called coverage describing Bartiromo as fired or no longer employed by Fox "absolutely and unequivocally false," and said the broadcaster and her legal team were willing and able to prove it.

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Trump gets stark warning about ticking clock from veteran columnist: 'Literally drooling'

Three critical voting blocs are about to hand President Donald Trump and Republicans a bruising defeat in the November midterms, a veteran political columnist argued Friday.

The New Republic's Michael Tomasky admitted he was picking up on some vibes from 1998, when the conventional wisdom held former President Bill Clinton’s Democrats would suffer from his sexual relationship with intern Monica Lewinsky — even as polling correctly predicted voters were angrier at House Speaker Newt Gingrich and his morality police.

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Humiliation as Trump contradicts VP with raging Truth Social admission

President Donald Trump, in a raging social media post, directly contradicted a controversial claim made by Vice President JD Vance just the day before

“The Radical Left Lunatics, Dumocrats, and Communists would rather have us LOSE the War in Iran, than have President Donald J. Trump WIN the War for America,” Trump wrote Friday on his Truth Social platform. “In other words, they’d rather have us LOSE than have us WIN!”

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Epstein survivors join Rosie O’Donnell in defiant showing amid Trump admin stonewalling

Amid the Trump administration’s ongoing refusal to release its remaining trove of Jeffrey Epstein-related files, comedian Rosie O’Donnell joined with several survivors for a defiant performance.

O’Donnell released video of the performance in a social media post on Instagram Thursday.

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Trump admin slams brakes on Elon Musk's Teslas with no brake

Billionaire Elon Musk's roll-out of driverless Teslas has had to hit the brakes after federal regulators raised alarms that the cars had no brakes, according to a new report.

Well, it's a brake pedal, but still.

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'Groom them like dolls': Epstein survivors sue celebrity stylist over disturbing demand

Celebrity hairstylist Frédéric Fekkai is facing a new lawsuit alleging he helped facilitate Jeffrey Epstein's sex trafficking operation for years.

Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) accused Fekkai of being among the “perpetrators” of the notorious sex trafficker's crimes on the House floor Monday as he pushed for the DOJ to release millions of additional files, and seven women who say they were abused by Epstein sued the hairstylist Tuesday for allegedly helping to “groom” women for abuse, CNN reported Friday.

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Supreme Court dumped Trump arch on DC with ballroom 'mandate': DOJ

The Justice Department told a federal judge that the Supreme Court's ballroom ruling requires her to throw out a lawsuit against President Donald Trump's planned triumphal arch.

The argument came in a five-page notice filed Thursday with U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan, who is deciding whether to dismiss a suit brought by three Vietnam War veterans and an architectural historian.

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Epstein associate inadvertently makes telling admission in bid to halt probe: analysis

Billionaire Leon Black launched a legal battle Thursday against a House committee’s ongoing probe into Jeffrey Epstein, but in doing so, made a telling admission on his own past behavior, famed journalist Julie K. Brown argued Friday in a new analysis.

Black filed a lawsuit Thursday against the House Oversight Committee and its ongoing probe into Epstein and potential co-conspirators, claiming that the lawmakers were outside their authority in demanding copies of non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) Black had signed with women.

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Epic humiliation as Trump's own wife snubs his big party

Not even Melania Trump wants to attend her husband's GOP Convention.

The first lady is reportedly begging off from appearing with President Donald Trump at the major Republican event, meant to boost party morale and her husband's sagging approval ratings with voters.

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Trump suck-up said to learn 'final lesson' after getting burned — again — by president

Venezuelan Opposition Leader Maria Machado broke with President Donald Trump on Thursday regarding the White House’s unprecedented Venezuela oil deal, and critics were quick to ridicule her given her history of showering the president with praise.

“Her strategy of cheerleading Trump's aggression in Venezuela and appeasing him was wrongheaded,” argued independent journalist Aaron Rupar in a social media post on X Thursday night.

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'Be thankful': Trump quietly confirms darkest fears about ballroom bunker

President Donald Trump quietly confirmed the possibility of a nightmare scenario conjured up by critics of his massive White House ballroom.

The 80-year-old president gave a personal tour of the construction site where the East Wing once stood to New York Magazine reporter Ben Terris, and he touched on some of the political concerns about the legally contested ballroom.

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'Ridiculous montage of lies': Mike Johnson humiliated over repeated 'historic' boast

House Speaker Mike Johnson’s insistent claims that he has presided over one of the most “successful” congressional sessions in history were swiftly dismissed on MS NOW Friday morning.

Host Stephanie Ruhle shared a montage of clips of the Louisiana Republican boasting about GOP achievements while he also disparaged skeptical reporters for questioning him.

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'You can't laugh it off': Dems declare war on 'far-fetched' Trump election threats

Democratic officials, attorneys and voting-rights groups are quietly rehearsing for midterm election scenarios so extreme that, in another political era, raising them would have sounded crazy.

In early August, more than three dozen people — including former Attorney General Eric Holder, legal experts, elected officials and labor and pro-democracy leaders — met privately for a war-gaming session convened by Hillary Clinton, who opened the meeting and then largely observed as two teams worked through hypothetical election-chaos scenarios, reported NBC News.

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