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Longtime President Donald Trump ally and far-right strategist Steve Bannon gave a fiery speech at this year's National Conservatism Conference in Washington, D.C. — but he did so to a crowd of mostly empty seats.

"Sparse turnout for Steve Bannon at his just-concluded speech at the National Conservatism conference," wrote conservative Washington Examiner correspondent Byron York, showing a picture of Bannon's speech, where a very small crowd was spread out through the auditorium.

A military analyst on Thursday slammed President Donald Trump's decision to bomb an alleged drug boat off the coast of Venezuela.

Lt. Gen. Mark Hertling, who led Army troops in Afghanistan in 2007 and 2008, joined The Bulwark's Tim Miller on a new episode of the outlet's podcast, "Bulwark Super Feed," to discuss the strike. Hertling argued that the Trump administration may have broken the law by striking the boat, even if it was being used to run drugs, as the administration has claimed.

Former speechwriter to President George W. Bush, David Frum, said that if the U.S. Supreme Court hands power to President Donald Trump to wage his trade war, then they're effectively killing the Constitution.

Speaking to MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace on Thursday, Frum called Trump's tariff actions "the most extreme thing that he's ever done in this way."

CNN anchor Kasie Hunt snapped at Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) on her show "The Arena" on Thursday over his comments about vaccines.

Mullin argued that vaccines are ineffective because Americans suffer from higher rates of chronic illnesses today than they did in the 1950s. He also suggested that the prevalence of autism can be linked to the increased number of vaccines children are asked to take to attend public school.

MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace and Dr. Jeremy Faust, assistant professor of emergency medicine at Harvard University, agreed that something isn't right with Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Kennedy appeared before the Senate on Thursday morning to address questions about his firing of top officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and removal of the entire vaccine advisory board.

Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) got an earful from CNN anchor Kasie Hunt on Thursday over his claims linking vaccines to the prevalence of autism.

Mullin joined Hunt on CNN's "The Arena" to discuss Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s Senate hearing on Thursday, where he made multiple false statements about the efficacy of vaccines. For instance, Kennedy said he was unsure whether the COVID-19 vaccine saved millions of lives. Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that it did.

President Donald Trump has shown no signs thus far of seriously considering the removal of Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., despite months of controversy and despite his increasing attacks on doctors, vaccines, and public health consensus — but veteran analyst Chuck Todd thinks it's just a matter of time before he's gone.

Todd made the bold prediction in a panel on CNN's "The Arena" Thursday afternoon, following a scorched-earth hearing on Capitol Hill where senators in both parties piled on Kennedy, much to the outrage of some figures in Trumpworld.

The New Republic reports that President Donald Trump’s administration keeps changing its story to justify an unprecedented military strike on an alleged Venezuelan cartel boat transporting drugs.

Department of Defense officials privately expressed concerns that the government had changed details of its story about the strike that killed 11 people, according to a Thursday report by the New York Times.

The Department of Homeland Security claimed a "huge victory" Thursday after an appeals court paused the shutdown of one of its most infamous detention centers.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit issued a temporary injunction against a lower court's ruling that required DHS to shut down "Alligator Alcatraz," a 5,000-bed detention facility in the Florida Everglades, within 60 days. The lower court ruled that the Trump administration had ignored environmental regulations, which allowed them to build the facility in eight days.

Speaker Mike Johnson told the Republican caucus this week not to support Rep. Tom Massie's (R-KY) legislation that makes it mandatory for the Justice Department to release all of the information related to the Jeffrey Epstein investigation.

Johnson urged GOP members to support a measure coming from the House Oversight and Reform Committee. However, Massie explained that it is a non-binding demand that is a toothless effort that the DOJ wouldn't have to follow.

President Donald Trump's administration is scrambling to get the Supreme Court to reverse the decisions of multiple lower courts that held his tariff scheme illegal and invalid — but in the rush to provide a defense, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent may have just blown a hole through one of Trump's biggest fabrications about his trade policy.

That's because, according to national security journalist Marcy "emptywheel" Wheeler, Bessent's statements to the court give a completely different number than Trump's repeated boasts that he's secured $15 trillion in foreign investment into the United States as part of his nebulous "trade deals" with other countries to reduce his tariffs.

Jeanine Pirro, U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, lashed out at Magistrate Judge Zia M. Faruqui after he blasted her office for "too many misfires."

In a hearing on Thursday, Faruqui said that the country was "past the point of constitutional crisis" as the government said it would drop the case against a man accused of threatening the life of President Donald Trump.