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A CNN anchor politely interjected as a Republican strategist bemoaned that Democrats are pre-writing "dystopian fan fiction" about President-elect Donald Trump's incoming pick to lead the FBI.

Trump nominated Kash Patel to be his next FBI director. Patel has vowed to “come after” the media and the so-called "deep state."

A federal judge on Friday sentenced a former leader of the Oath Keepers militia group to three years of probation in exchange for the Army combat veteran’s extensive cooperation with prosecutors investigating the violent MAGA-inspired attack on the Capitol, according to media reports.

But the road to redemption for Joshua James came with a catch: he was required to hand over the Purple Heart he earned in 2007 – once considered to be “his proudest achievement” – after sustaining injuries in an explosive attack in Baghdad, Politico reported.

A California official abruptly resigned Friday fearing for her safety.

Nora Vargas serves as chairwoman of the San Diego County Board of Supervisors, where she has represented District 1 since 2021. Vargas made history that year when she became the first Latina, first immigrant and first woman of color in the board's history.

Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) warned CNN's Jim Sciutto that Republicans could very well slash critical programs like Social Security and Medicare in the next Congress — but Sciutto wanted to know what exactly Democrats plan to do about it.

"So let's talk about what comes next, because Republicans in their private meeting, they made a handshake agreement to cut $2.5 trillion in spending next year when they presumably hope to raise the debt limit to get to that figure," said Sciutto. "It strikes me and a lot of others that entitlements could be endangered. Does this mean that Republicans, despite what they say, are going to propose cuts to Medicare and Social Security, perhaps Medicaid?"

Tech billionaire Elon Musk’s increasing influence – not just in the United States as a close ally of the incoming president – but around the world is helping to fuel Russia’s war on democracy and mirrors tactics pulled from Vladimir Putin’s playbook, foreign policy researcher Olga Lautman warned Friday.

Using a “strategy of strategic chaos,” and armed with his “immense wealth” and ownership of the social media platform X, Musk has morphed into “an active agent of influence” that he uses “to undermine Western unity and destabilize democratic institutions,” Lautman wrote on her Substack page.

A MAGA Republican was none too pleased with his party on Friday night and accused the GOP-led House — which passed a temporary funding bill Friday evening following a week of chaotic negotiations — of shirking its responsibility to "bring down spending."

Rep. Andy Harris, Maryland's only Republican in Congress, backed Louisiana’s Mike Johnson for House speaker last year, but fired a warning shot after the House passed a stopgap spending bill to avert a holiday shutdown.

After days of upheaval following tech billionaire Elon Musk strong-arming the House GOP into killing a bipartisan budget agreement and setting the stage for a government shutdown, a compromise was salvaged at the last minute with the passage of a slightly pared-down spending agreement — with the backing of House Democrats.

But the GOP's troubles are far from over, columnist Megan McArdle wrote for The Washington Post.

A Biden administration move that would complicate Donald Trump's agenda on issues involving transgender athletes and student debt cancellation is drawing fresh scrutiny from incoming White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt.

President Joe Biden is pulling back on efforts he’s undertaken to provide protections for transgender student-athletes and to erase student loan debt for more than 38 million Americans, The Associated Press reported. That includes the White House scrapping unfinished rules across multiple agencies if they cannot be finalized in enough time before Trump enters the White House, the publication added.

President Joe Biden surpassed President-elect Donald Trump's judicial nominee record on Friday, leading to a chorus of cheers from Democrats in Congress — and a forceful boo from at least one firebrand Republican.

The Democratic-led Senate confirmed Biden's 235th nomination for a federal judge, NBC News reported. He's set to depart office after appointing one Supreme Court justice, 45 appeals court judges, 187 district court judges and a pair of International Trade Court judges, according to the report.

Dozens of convicted murderers set to be executed by the federal government could see their sentences commuted by President Joe Biden, according to a report.

People familiar with the matter told the Wall Street Journal that Biden is mulling over commuting most, if not all, of the 40 men facing execution. If commuted, the men would be resentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. The move would disrupt President-elect Donald Trump's ability to resume swift executions.

One of President-elect Donald Trump's longtime confidants is calling on him to inflict "pain" on the wealthiest Americans and corporations in the form of higher taxes during his second term in the White House.

In a wide-ranging Friday interview with Semafor reporter David Weigel, Steve Bannon — who was Trump's former chief White House strategist — indicated he wanted the incoming Republican trifecta to be "populist nationalists." Bannon defined populism as an "anti-elite" sentiment along with economic policies "that make the citizen the actual focus of the government," and suggested that partisan labels were quickly becoming outdated.