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JD Vance was barred from a British pub after furious staff threatened to walk out if its management told them to serve the vice president.

Vance, who has been vacationing in the Cotswolds — a rural part of England — planned to enjoy a meal at The Bull in Charlbury — a 16th-century pub boasting a coveted Michelin Bib Gourmand award.

President Donald Trump's policies are doing more damage to the economy than his administration is letting on, a CNN panel argued on Thursday.

According to the latest inflation data, producer prices increased by 3.3% over the last year. That means businesses are paying more for the materials they use to make products for consumers. Hiring has also slowed considerably, the figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics suggest.

The panel on CNN's "NewsNight with Abby Phillip" erupted after a self-proclaimed "MAGA lefty" defended federal agents patrolling outside of the California governor's press event on Thursday.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, held a press conference where he announced the state legislature would enter a special session to adopt new election maps. The move came in response to Texas Republicans working to redraw their election maps ahead of the 2026 midterms. Border Patrol agents were seen conducting immigration checks outside of the event, according to media reports.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom hit back at the Trump administration after federal officials were spotted outside of his press conference in downtown Los Angeles.

Newsom announced on Thursday that the California legislature would enter a special session to approve new electoral maps unless Texas and other Republican states stop their redistricting efforts. Outside the event, federal Border Patrol agents conducted an operation.

President Donald Trump's tariff policy could soon create political headaches for the administration, according to a new op-ed.

On Thursday, economic data was released showing producer prices increased 3.3% over the last year, marking a three-year high. This happened at a time when the Trump administration is eager to convince Americans that its trade policies are working, which could help it distract from its mishandling of the Jeffrey Epstein files. Producer price increases eventually trickle down to consumer prices, the editorial noted.

MSNBC primetime anchor Jen Psaki shredded Republicans on her show Thursday night, hurling their own statements back at them from a decade ago when they "fanned the flames" of right-wing conspiracy theorists who believed the military was going to complete a hostile takeover of Texas.

Psaki opened her show, "The Briefing," recounting a "wild and crazy" conspiracy theory from 2015 that then-President Barack Obama and Democrats were plotting to declare martial law. The theory came from the U.S. military's eight-week training exercise called "Jade Helm," which took place in Texas, New Mexico, California, and other southwestern states.

Rep. Kevin Kiley (R-CA) told MSNBC's Antonia Hylton on Thursday evening that congressional leaders, including House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), need to step up and end the Trump-driven push for a mid-decade gerrymandering war.

In response to Texas Republicans proposing a map that would add more GOP voters to five Democratic districts, California Gov. Gavin Newsom is unveiling a plan that could knock out up to five Republican districts in retaliation, including Kiley's district along the state's eastern border with Nevada.

A national security analyst and former FBI special agent smacked down a Trump administration official who tried to downplay criticisms that the Department of Homeland Security has shared "nazi propaganda" on its social media channels.

Juliette Kayyem, a former assistant secretary at DHS and current senior national security analyst for CNN, joined Anderson Cooper on Thursday night along with former FBI agent Asha Rangappa.

President Donald Trump's loyalists are already planning for a second round of reconciliation cuts and spending, as a sequel to Trump's "Big, Beautiful Bill" that cemented trillions in tax cuts on the rich while slashing money from Medicaid and food stamps.

But Wall Street Journal editorial board member Kimberley Strassel has no confidence that this will be anything good, writing Thursday, "All fear the growing prospect of a small, ugly sequel."

The ACLU and a local branch of one of the nation's largest labor unions were among those who condemned Thursday's order by Washington, DC's police chief authorizing greater cooperation with federal forces sent by President Donald Trump to target and arrest undocumented immigrants in the sanctuary city.

Metropolitan Police Department Chief Pamela Smith issued an executive order directing MPD officers to assist federal forces including Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in sharing information about people in situations including traffic stops. The directive does not apply to people already in MPD custody. The order also allows MPD to provide transportation for federal immigration agencies and people they've detained.

A conservative columnist warned Thursday that the United States has effectively rebuilt an odious institution from its past.

David Brooks, columnist for The New York Times, argued in a new column that the U.S. has effectively recreated the Jim Crow era. However, the division lines are class-based in the new institution compared to the race-based lines of yore. To make his point, Brooks cites data showing the academic gap between the affluent and the less wealthy is larger today than it was during the Jim Crow era.

Firebrand Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) blasted Sen. Lindsey Graham’s (R-SC) comments about Israel, arguing the United States should stop funding and fighting for foreign countries and instead focus on solving America’s debt, inflation, and middle-class decline.

Graham and Greene have clashed recently over foreign policy, including over the U.S.'s role in the Israel-Iran conflict and wider MAGA movement divisions.

Former Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) tore into President Donald Trump's move to federalize law enforcement in Washington, D.C. as a stunt — and accused him of tearing down everything that actually helps law enforcement stop crime.

"Okay, so one, this idea that if it works in Washington, D.C., then let's see where else we can do it," said anchor Alicia Menendez. "This normalization of using military force in American cities. And to clear this argument ... we've been spending all of our military resources abroad, what we really need to be doing is spending them at home. It's absurd. And it's not what Americans voted for."