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Sen. Alex Padilla (D-CA) on Thursday offered a blunt assessment of the Trump administration's immigration enforcement tactics.

Padilla was briefly detained by law enforcement last week while attending a news conference by Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. The senator was dragged out of the room, thrown to the ground, and handcuffed.

President Donald Trump is desperately looking for excuses to back down from his hostile position against Iran, former George W. Bush speechwriter David Frum told MSNBC's Alicia Menendez on Thursday, because although he loves wielding power, he is terrified of having to use it in situations like this — and cannot be trusted to use it for the public good.

The comments from Frum, a frequent critic of the administration, come as Trump has reportedly already signed off on an attack against Iran, but is holding off on giving the final order.

NPR reports the Trump administration is now canceling a program designed to help veterans behind on home loans get new, low-interest mortgages. And veterans are furious.

"My social media posts have not been nice to the director of the VA and have not been nice to Trump. And I voted for the guy!" said Jon Henry, who served in Iraq during the first Gulf War.

An abandoned airport in the middle of Florida's Everglades could soon become a facility to house undocumented immigrants.

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier said in a video posted on X that the 39-acre plot of land could house as many as 1,000 immigrants within the next two months. He dubbed the facility "alligator Alcatraz" because the abandoned airport is surrounded by alligators and pythons.

President Donald Trump released a statement through his press secretary on Thursday that he would have a plan for the Iran-Israel conflict in "two weeks." Former U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) quipped on MSNBC that Trump made the same comment with several policy promises.

Former George W. Bush speechwriter David Frum and McCaskill both recalled some of Trump's promises that were pledged to be fulfilled within "two weeks" but never came to fruition.

President Donald Trump's reluctance to pull the final trigger on a bombing campaign in Iran comes in part from skepticism of his own military experts, The Guardian reported on Thursday.

This week, Trump issued a number of direct threats to Iran and announced he would hold off on making a final decision to use military force against the country, allegedly to give them time to agree to dismantle their nuclear program.

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) revealed that House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-KY) will likely subpoena liberal billionaire George Soros at her urging.

During a Thursday interview on Newsmax, Luna said she had contacted Comer about issuing a subpoena.

Thousands of Americans die each year from asbestos-related diseases, including mesothelioma—a toll that prompted the Biden administration to ban the carcinogenic substance, long used in roofing materials and auto parts. Now, President Donald Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency is moving to reconsider that ban, despite years of advocacy aimed at preventing such deaths.

In the five months that Trump has been in office, ”his administration’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has been on a deregulation spree,” Fast Company reports. “So far, the agency’s leaders have expressed interest in rolling back regulations around ‘forever chemicals,’ or PFAS; reversing a cornerstone finding that greenhouse gases are dangerous for public health; and weakening enforcement of coal ash regulations.”

Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said it is "unreasonable" for some NATO countries to meet U.S. President Donald Trump's demands that they increase their defense spending to 5% of GDP, comments that could derail an international summit intended to appease the American president.

Sanchez's comments come about one week before NATO allies are scheduled to meet in The Hague to discuss American support for its European allies. Trump has previously said he won't protect NATO countries that don't spend at least 5% of their GDP on defense, even though the NATO constitution requires collective defense of countries when they are attacked.

Jewish Rep. Max Miller (R-OH) posted a video to X saying he was run off the road while in a car by someone waving a Palestinian flag.

"Let's make something abundantly clear to anyone who needs to see this, which apparently is a lot of people," Miller began in the video. "If you have an issue with a legislator, your city councilman, your mayor, anyone like that, the appropriate thing to do is to reach out to them for a phone call to set up a meeting at one of our district offices."

Former U.S. Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) encouraged Congress to take back its war powers from the president.

Speaking to CNN International's Christiane Amanpour, Flake urged the president to work with lawmakers.