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The Trump Justice Department's suspected arrangement with New York City Mayor Eric Adams to drop the public corruption charges is completely illegal, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) told CNN's Erin Burnett on Friday — and goes completely against how federal prosecutors are meant to behave.

"Congressman, so [DOJ official Emil] Bove finally got what he wanted, he got someone to file the dismissal of the case," said Burnett. "One of the people was himself, and the other was someone who was nearing retirement, and there was a third. But ... I'm sure you read the resignation by Mr. Scotten today saying only a fool or coward would do such a thing, and as I mentioned he had clerked for Roberts, he had clerked for Kavanaugh. What do you make about how all this went down?"

Reports that President Donald Trump is eyeing a makeover of the White House’s iconic Rose Garden to make room for a Mar-a-Lago-like patio space sent political observers into a tailspin Friday night.

The latest controversy ignited as the president closes his third full week in office, with the New York Times reporting that Trump discussed with associates his desire to tear up the grass in the Rose Garden and cover it up with a solid surface.

A former Defense Secretary was stunned by Vice President J.D. Vance's visit abroad this week, telling CNN on Friday evening he found it "difficult" to imagine himself encouraging European nations to allow "extremism" — likening it to a European leader urging the U.S. to improve its relationship with the Ku Klux Klan.

Leon Panetta, who served in the Obama administration, joined CNN's "OutFront" with anchor Erin Burnett to discuss Vance's meeting with leaders of the fringe far-right Alternative für Deutschland, or AfD, party in Germany.

The Trump administration's purge of workers at the Indian Health Service may violate longstanding federal treaties with tribal nations, Rep. Greg Stanton (D-AZ) warned Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

The layoffs, which are part of a vastly broader push by the new administration to reduce headcount throughout the federal government, apply to some 850 "probationary" employees at IHS, who have been only recently hired and are not subject to the same civil service protections as most federal employees.

President Donald Trump’s series of executive actions since returning to the White House last month – from pardons of violent insurrectionists to mass firings of federal law enforcement personnel – fits an alarming pattern of "criminality."

That’s according to former Obama White House ethics counsel Norm Eisen, who told former CNN anchor Jim Acosta on Friday that Trump’s “latest scandal” is “the kind of thing that happens in a dictatorship, not a democracy.”

Faulty instruments and communication problems may have caused a passenger jet and army helicopter to collide in the worst US air disaster in two decades, flight safety investigators said Friday.

The airliner was coming in to land at Reagan National Airport -- just a few miles from the White House -- when it collided with a Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk on a training mission, killing 67 people.

Mudslides blocked roads around Los Angeles on Friday after heavy rain pounded areas burned by last month's wildfires, sending denuded hillsides tumbling.

Parts of Los Angeles got as much as 2.8 inches (7 centimeters) of rain in a day, leaving areas flooded and burn scars in Pacific Palisades and Altadena strewn with fire debris and rubble.

President Donald Trump suffered yet another setback in court on Friday, as a federal judge pumped the brakes on his move to tear down the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, reported Politico.

According to the report, U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson "blocked the CFPB from terminating additional employees after the Trump administration this week fired dozens of agency workers, including an entire team of people scrutinizing Big Tech companies’ financial products. The order blocks the CFPB from terminating any employee," unless such employees engage in demonstrable poor performance or misconduct. The order also doesn't extend to "starting the process to lay off career agency employees."

President Donald Trump's Justice Department sent a "rotten message" this week which left the conservative Wall Street Journal asking, "Really?"

The board weighed in Friday afternoon on what has been called by legal experts a "cascading scandal" after acting deputy attorney general Emil Bove clashed with prosecutors at the U.S. Attorney’s office for the Southern District of New York.

Newly released financial disclosures from Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) show that she bought numerous blue chip tech industry stocks, including Alphabet, Amazon, Meta (parent company of Facebook and Instagram) and Tesla.

Greene's purchase of Tesla stock is particularly noteworthy, as she was recently named chair of the House Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) subcommittee. Forbes investigative reporter Zach Everson combed through Greene's disclosure forms and found that she purchased between $4,000 and $60,000 of Tesla stock on January 8 (financial disclosure forms only require ranges, rather than exact amounts).

Paramount executives are concerned they could face bribery accusations if they agree to settle a liability lawsuit with President Donald Trump.

Paramount has mulled over the idea of settling a lawsuit Trump filed against CBS News over a "60 Minutes" interview, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday.

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The sackings come as Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency pushes to downsize the federal government and as newly-confirmed Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr vows to overhaul the nation's health agencies.

Republican lawmakers are beginning to ramp up pressure on President Donald Trump to ease off the drastic cuts, spending freezes, and layoffs in the federal government that directly impact their own states, Politico reported Friday.

The news, which follows similar reporting by The New York Times, comes as Trump and his tech billionaire benefactor Elon Musk, through the Department of Government Efficiency task force, are simultaneously fighting a new flurry of litigation from terminated federal employees and other people affected by the cuts.