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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Friday appeared on Joe Rogan's show to lob bitter complaints at President Joe Biden's outgoing administration, as well as to heap praise on the incoming Trump administration.

During his appearance, Zuckerberg said that Biden's team would "scream" at him for not doing enough to crack down on viral misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines.

Politico has acquired an early list from Republican lawmakers that shows the programs they're considering slashing from the federal government.

It includes things like welfare, funds for climate programs, and the Affordable Care Act. It also states Republicans are looking at "changes" to Medicare — something Donald Trump and many Republicans promised they wouldn't touch.

Republicans are trying to force through a new immigration crackdown bill, termed the Laken Riley Act after a Georgia nursing student believed to have been murdered by an immigrant. The bill is sold as requiring immediate detention of any unauthorized immigrants who commit crimes. Dozens of Democrats backed it in the House and a couple appear open to be supportive of it in the Senate — but passing it would be a disastrous mistake, warned court watcher Mark Joseph Stern for Slate.

Indeed, he noted, "It is baffling that so many Democrats would sign on to such a cruel and constitutionally dubious scheme."

Embattled Clark Mayor Sal Bonaccorso stepped down Friday as part of a plea agreement that required his resignation following criminal charges and a racism scandal.

Bonaccorso, 64, pleaded guilty in Superior Court in Union County to conspiracy to commit official misconduct in the third degree, and forgery in the fourth degree. As part of his plea agreement, Bonaccorso will have to pay a $15,000 fine over the course of three years and will be sentenced in February to probation.

Republicans' capture of unified control of Congress could cost them, wrote conservative analyst George Will for The Washington Post — because aside from their vulnerable position in the 2026 midterms, Congress Republicans won't have a lot of power with President-elect Donald Trump back in charge.

Will, a frequent critic of the modern MAGA movement, reminded Republicans just how much power the executive branch has claimed for its own over recent decades — and how dysfunctional Congress has become by comparison, a trend that isn't likely to reverse with the infighting erupting even before the GOP took control.

Although President-elect Donald Trump is acting invincible ahead of his second term, progressive writer Brian Beutler believes that overconfidence masks an "unusually weak" political position that he believes Democrats would be foolish to ignore.

Writing on his Off Message website, Beutler argues that corporate CEOs such as Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos are needlessly groveling before the president-elect when the reality is that his position is highly unlikely to grow stronger in the coming months.

MAGA Republicans, including President-elect Donald Trump, have been blaming California Gov. Gavin Newsom for the LA fire crisis, which has killed at least 10 people and is wreaking havoc across huge parts of the city.

And Fox News' Laura Ingraham has claimed that diversity is making it harder for firefighters to combat the wildfires.

Donald Trump’s devotees are furious at Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett, accusing the conservative of betraying the next president by allowing his criminal sentencing to go ahead.

Barrett — who was put on the bench by Trump — joined Chief Justice John Roberts and the court’s three liberal justices to deny his request to halt sentencing after his conviction for business fraud involving hush money payments.

President-elect Donald Trump, set to move back to Washington in ten days after he is sworn in as the nation's 47th President, is reportedly in talks to buy back his former D.C. hotel, a source of constitutional concern during his first term, where foreign governments and dignitaries could spend lavishly. Some legal experts warned of possible violations of the Emoluments Clause.

"Donald Trump’s real-estate company is in talks to reclaim its former Washington, D.C., hotel, a move that could offer an early test of how the president-elect will handle potential conflicts of interest," The Wall Street Journal reports. "Eric Trump this week met at his family’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida with an executive from merchant bank BDT & MSD Partners, which controls the long-term lease on the hotel, according to people familiar with the matter."

Elon Musk's constant stream of false and misleading posts from his X social media account have been putting lives at risk as wildfires rage in southern California, according to officials.

The tech mogul and Donald Trump's "first buddy" has been amplifying far-right and racist narratives to his 212 million followers blaming the devastating fires on Democrats and diversity initiatives, downplaying the role of climate change and instead singling out individual women firefighters – specifically women of color or lesbian firefighters – by sharing their faces and names, reported the Washington Post.

Federal prosecutors want former Sen. Bob Menendez sentenced to at least 15 years behind bars, saying he deserves substantial prison time for a “historically unique” and long-running bribery and foreign influence scheme that implicated national security.

Prosecutors also urged Judge Sidney H. Stein to sentence businessmen Wael Hana and Fred Daibes, who were convicted in July alongside the ex-senator, to 10 years and 9 years, respectively, and order the three men to pay fines of over $5.8 million, combined.

MSNBC legal analyst Joyce Vance on Friday hammered Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito for taking a phone call from President-elect Donald Trump shortly before he was due to issue a ruling on Trump's criminal sentencing in the Manhattan hush-money case.

Appearing on Andrea Mitchell's show, Vance was asked about Trump talking with Alito on Tuesday to purportedly ask him about a former law clerk as a prospective candidate to work in his administration.

Tiffany Williams Brewer, the CEO of the State Commission of Investigation, announced her resignation Friday just five days after being appointed to the position, after a media report raised questions about her residency.

Williams Brewer, named CEO on Monday, had helmed the commission in an acting capacity since July, when its previous CEO, Chadd Lackey, died in a Hamilton car accident. But Williams Brewer said the controversy about her residency — first reported Thursday by the Asbury Park Press — had become a distraction that threatened to undermine the agency’s crime-fighting mission.