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by Sofiane Alsaar

U.S. President Donald Trump's plan to take over Gaza will imperil attempts to forge landmark ties between Saudi Arabia and Israel and fuel anti-American sentiment in the oil-rich kingdom, analysts said.

Hong Kong will file a complaint with the World Trade Organization in response to heightened US tariffs on its goods, a government spokesperson said Friday, days after Beijing announced a similar move.

US President Donald Trump over the weekend launched the opening salvo in an escalating trade war with China, imposing a 10 percent tariff hike on goods coming from mainland Chinese and Hong Kong.

by Barbara WOJAZER

Tracey, an American fighting in Ukraine, got angry at social media posts from his friends back home calling for Washington to cut its support to Kyiv.

A CNN segment revolving around reports that the Trump administration is preparing to let go thousands of government health workers led to an on-air smackdown Thursday night when a prominent physician repeatedly clashed with a former Republican National Committee spokesperson.

The tense TV moment unfolded when Dr. Chris T. Pernell, a fellow and regent-at-large for the American College of Preventive Medicine, launched into her experience battling the COVID-19 pandemic with President Donald Trump in the White House.

Rachel Maddow on her primetime show Thursday night connected tanking Tesla sales overseas to its billionaire CEO’s own plummeting polling numbers in the United States – and the MSNBC host relished in the new developments.

The moment came Thursday during the opening monologue of Maddow’s primetime show – now on five nights a week for the first few months of the Trump administration – when she highlighted car sales in France falling last month.

The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), President Donald Trump’s special commission tasked with slashing federal spending, continues to disrupt Washington and the federal bureaucracy. According to published reports, its teams are dropping into federal agencies with a practically unlimited mandate to reform the federal government in accordance with recent executive orders.

A right-wing film critic who lauded a dubious film about sex trafficking — calling it a "call to action" — was arrested and charged with molesting a child, court records showed.

Aaron Craig Gleason, 39, of Estero, Florida, was arrested last week and jailed in the state on a charge of lewd and lascivious behavior: molestation of a victim less than 12 years of age by an offender 18 years of age or older. He was released on $75,000 bond.

President Donald Trump's new attorney general is shutting down a longstanding FBI enforcement policy to safeguard U.S. elections from foreign interference campaigns, NBC News reported on Thursday.

The order, tucked into one of the more than a dozen policy memos Pam Bondi sent out after taking office, "disbands the FBI’s Foreign Influence Task Force and pares back enforcement of the Foreign Agents Registration Act, despite years of warnings by U.S. intelligence agencies that foreign malign influence operations involving disinformation were a growing and dangerous threat."

CNN’s Anderson Cooper on Thursday struggled to get through the entirety of President Donald Trump’s recent social media post where he doubled down on his lofty vision for remaking the Gaza Strip into a world-class destination.

But it was a task Cooper undertook on his primetime show, “Anderson Cooper Live” – though he sprinkled annotations into his recital of the Truth Social post while ripping Trump's words apart.

Republican legislators in Arizona are advancing a piece of legislation that would effectively make it impossible to prosecute county supervisors who block the certification of election results, according to the Arizona Capitol Times.

"Legislation awaiting a full House vote would legally bar [Attorney General] Kris Mayes – and whoever succeeds her – to bring criminal or civil charges against any county supervisors who refuse to vote for the formal canvass based on a 'good faith belief' there are issues that 'materially affect the integrity or accuracy of the election results,'" said the report.

Reactions poured in Thursday night as the Senate confirmed Project 2025 architect Russ Vought, President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the White House budget office.

Vought passed by a vote of 53-47 despite Democrats holding an all-nighter in protest of his nomination as director of the Office of Management and Budget, which some fear could be used to take Congress' so-called "power of the purse."

Federal employees on Thursday were put on notice by the Trump administration that workers with less than stellar performance reviews would face immediate termination as the focus shifts from offering resignation buyouts to poor performers, according to media reports.

The new development comes as the president and his billionaire ally at the Department of Government Efficiency Elon Musk increase their bullying tactics to fulfill their vow of upending the federal workforce. So far, the so-called “buyout” program has received more than 50,000 takers across federal agencies, Bloomberg reported Thursday.

A Brown University professor and former Doctors Without Borders board member tore into Secretary of State Marco Rubio over disparaging claims that employees at the U.S. Agency for International Development have a "rank insubordination" problem.

USAID, which is responsible for the United States' foreign aid programs and is tasked with everything from stabilizing democracies abroad to fighting pandemics, has been systematically dismantled by President Donald Trump and tech billionaire Elon Musk over the last two weeks, with its staff locked out of their jobs and control of the agency transferred to Rubio, potentially in violation of the law.