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Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-FL) expressed concern that Senate Democratic Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) is walking his party into a Republican trap.

The New York Times reported on Friday that Democrats haven't been willing to shut down the government over budget negotiations in past years — but some are now demanding that change.

Coders this week exposed serious security issues with Elon Musk's official Department of Government Efficiency website and now Huffington Post reports that the website has published classified data.

According to the report, the DOGE website has posted "information about the size and staff of a U.S. intelligence agency on its new website," which the publication says is raising questions about just how much access to classified information Musk and his DOGE team have.

Department of Justice (DOJ) leadership “has put all Public Integrity Section lawyers into a room with one hour to decide who will dismiss” the indictment against New York City Mayor Eric Adams “or else all will be fired,” NBC legal analyst Barb McQuade reported Friday.

The move comes after Danielle Sassoon — who was named acting U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York last month — on Thursday resigned from her position after refusing an order from acting U.S. Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove to dismiss the Adams indictment.

As Reuters reports, five senior Justice Department officials followed suit, resigning "rather than comply with an order to dismiss corruption charges" against Adams.

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According to the DOJ website, the Public Integrity Section (PIN) “oversees the investigation and prosecution of all federal crimes affecting government integrity, including bribery of public officials, election crimes, and other related offenses.”

In her post detailing the hour deadline, McQuade, a former US attorney, sent the PIN lawyers “strength to stand by their oath, which is to support the Constitution, not the president’s political agenda.”

Vice President J.D. Vance didn't get the warmest of receptions at the Munich Security Conference when he entered into a speech attacking the governance of the European Union.

According to Politico, Vance delivered a "U.S.-style MAGA, red meat speech that eschewed detailed discussion of defense and security," focusing in particular on criticism of European countries' migrant policy and free speech protections.

"The View" began Friday with commentary on Sen. Mitch McConnell's (R-KY) opposition to some of President Donald Trump's Cabinet appointees.

Trump attacked McConnell from the Oval Office Thursday, alleging that the senator's votes against Cabinet picks weren't about the nominees, but rather McConnell's personal animus toward him.

House Speaker Mike Johnson's decision to cater to the desires to the far-right wing members of his caucus is creating a whole new set of problems for the Louisiana Republican.

According to a report from Politico, Rep. Rob Bresnahan (R-PA) has served notice to the speaker that he can't vote for a budget proposal that currently includes major cuts to entitlements because it could cripple his re-election hopes.

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A growing measles outbreak in west Texas has infected 48 people, according to official state data released Friday -- the latest sign that the once-vanquished childhood disease is making a comeback as vaccination rates decline.

Multiple government officials are telling ABC News that America is now facing a "national security crisis" because President Donald Trump's administration has fired hundreds of National Nuclear Security Administration employees.

Sources tell ABC News that all of the agency's core functions are being impacted by the firings, including maintaining the security of America's nuclear weapons stockpile, responding to nuclear disasters around the world, and tracking nuclear devices being held by the United States' enemies.

Switzerland will consider legalizing recreational cannabis use, after a parliamentary commission on Friday proposed a law that would allow regulated sale and access.

The draft proposal adopted by the lower house of parliament's health commission, with 14 votes in favour, nine against and two abstentions, called for adults to be "accorded a strictly regulated access to cannabis".

Brazil's President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva on Friday vowed "reciprocity" in response to a 25-percent levy on steel imports announced by US President Donald Trump.

"There is no doubt, there will be reciprocity" from Brazil -- the second-largest exporter of steel to the United States after Canada, Lula told Radio Clube do Para.

Paris is naming part of an avenue after Alexei Navalny, the late Russian opposition leader who died in an Arctic prison colony in murky circumstances, the city council has said.

The Avenue de Pologne in the wealthy 16th district of the capital will have one side -- with odd house numbers -- named "Alexei Navalny", city hall said after a Wednesday's vote.

Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) characterized the Justice Department scandal over the prosecutor of New York City Mayor Eric Adams as nothing more than a "drug deal" and championed conservative prosecutors unwilling to take part in it.

A former assistant U.S. attorney from the Southern District of New York publicly resigned on Thursday, calling the Department of Justice's primary justification for dismissing the case against Adams a quid pro quo over immigration raids. That began a domino effect, with staff in the DOJ's public integrity section resigning Thursday night and another lawyer at SDNY quitting on Friday.

The New York Times is reporting that Acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove on Friday ramped up a pressure campaign on career Department of Justice officials in his attempts to get them to go along with dismissing charges against New York Mayor Eric Adams.

According to the Times' sources, Bove "held a group discussion with the entire public integrity section, roughly two dozen lawyers after Thursday’s resignations, looking for someone to sign a court document seeking dismissal of the charges against Adams."