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Prosecutors in New York are investigating an alleged case of election fraud that took place in a Republican city council primary in New York City.

According to The New York Times, "After a second day of hand recounting on Friday, George Sarantopoulos, a businessman, led Richie Barsamian, chairman of the Republican Party in Brooklyn, by a mere 16 votes in the GOP primary in District 47." This follows "the late discovery of 22 paper ballots that officials said were not scanned by the voting machines on election night," at least 21 of which had been cast for Barsamian.

After a second whistleblower came forward claiming that Emil Bove III instructed attorneys at the U.S. Department of Justice to ignore federal court orders, his critics on Friday renewed calls for the Senate to reject the DOJ official's appointment as an appellate judge.

"Evidence is growing that Emil Bove urged Department of Justice lawyers to ignore federal court orders. That alone should disqualify him from a lifetime appointment to one of the most powerful courts in our country," said Sean Eldridge, president and founder of the progressive advocacy group Stand Up America, in a statement.

President Donald Trump denied considering a pardon for convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell, telling reporters he "hasn't thought about it" while acknowledging he has the power to do so. But CNN anchor Erin Burnett fired back Friday evening on her show, highlighting a montage of Trump’s past comments echoing similar pardon sentiments — for people whom he later granted clemency.

Trump told reporters earlier in the day he hadn't considered pardoning Ghislaine Maxwell, who's serving a 20-year sentence in connection with Jeffrey Epstein's sex crimes.

Conservative attorney George Conway joined CNN on Friday afternoon to express astonishment at the latest "lie" from President Donald Trump.

Conway, a frequent critic of Trump, joined "The Lead" with CNN anchor Jake Tapper to discuss Trump's press conference in which the president insisted the Justice Department never briefed him that his name was included multiple times in its sealed Jeffrey Epstein files.

A legal expert told CNN viewers on Friday afternoon there are "definitely some worrisome similarities" between the cases of Bill Cosby and Ghislaine Maxwell.

Elie Honig joined "The Lead" with anchor Jake Tapper to discuss the latest in the Jeffrey Epstein controversy that has embroiled President Donald Trump. Maxwell is serving a 20-year prison sentence for sex trafficking. She just completed a rare series of interviews with U.S. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, in which she answered questions, including inquiries about roughly 100 people.

A novel Trump administration lawsuit against the state of Illinois, the city of Chicago, and Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker has been thrown out by a federal judge in Illinois.

Trump was seeking to void these jurisdictions' "sanctuary laws," a term for a broad group of policies that generally prohibit state and local law enforcement from assisting with federal immigration investigations without being compelled by a warrant. A number of states and cities around the country have similar laws and policies in place.

A right-wing media host's stunning defense of Ghislaine Maxwell as possibly a "victim" in the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking case earned fierce derision from CNN's Jake Tapper on Friday afternoon.

Tapper used his opening monologue on his show, "The Lead," to deliver a searing takedown of Newsmax host Greg Kelly. Kelly questioned the legitimacy of Maxwell's legal proceedings and suggested there may have been a "rush to judgment" regarding her conviction.

The nonprofit media watchdog group Media Matters is reportedly considering shutting down, the New York Times reported Friday, as the nonprofit scrambles to fend off “legal assaults” from allies of President Donald Trump.

“The group has slashed the size of its staff and scrambled to raise more cash from skittish donors, according to documents and interviews with 11 people familiar with the organization’s fight to survive,” reads a report published in the New York Times on Friday.

President Donald Trump's administration has denied a Venezuelan Little League team from coming into the United States to compete in the Senior League World Series.

Little League International confirmed to Newsweek on Friday that the Cacique Mara team, from Maracaibo, Venezuela, will not be given visas to compete after winning the Latin American championship in Mexico.

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche met for a second day with Jeffrey Epstein's accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell, and a long-time prosecutor and former general counsel at the FBI is warning it could all "blow up in their face."

MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace noted on her Friday show that she can't understand why Blanche would ignore the career prosecutors who have been steeped in the case for years and are aware of the details.

President Donald Trump got short with reporters while arriving in Scotland, when he was questioned about the ongoing Jeffrey Epstein files controversy, and demanded they talk about anything else.

"Mr. President, were you briefed on your name appearing in the files ever?" asked one reporter.

President Donald Trump says he is considering issuing rebate checks to consumers from the tariffs the federal government has collected. Rebates are a partial refund for the overpayment of taxes or if there is a surplus.

Trump made his remarks on Friday before heading to Scotland for a five-day trip to visit his golf courses. Both Trump and his administration have insisted that consumers do not pay the tariffs, but importers and retailers often end up passing most or all of the additional costs onto the end purchaser in the form of higher prices. Peter Navarro, Senior Counselor to the President for Trade and Manufacturing, has gone as far as to claim that tariffs are tax cuts.

Economist and public policy professor Justin Wolfers explained that President Donald Trump had one job when he toured the Federal Reserve. And he bungled it.

Speaking to MSNBC on Friday, the University of Michigan professor confessed, "One of the reasons I went to Harvard to study for a Ph.D is so I could answer the question, how many buildings does the Federal Reserve have? And yes, there are three of them."