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An officer from the Johnson County Sheriff's Office in Texas reportedly used a nationwide database to search for a woman who gave herself an abortion.

According to 404 Media, the officer conducted the search earlier this month using a database of license plate readers created by a company called Flock. The search included states where abortion was legal, like Washington and Illinois, the report said.

Social media users railed against Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt for saying the House spending bill, aka “the big, beautiful bill,” will not increase the nation's deficit.

Independent journalist Aaron Rupar was the first to flag the questionable remarks, uttered at an event Thursday.

Calling U.S. President Donald Trump's recent dinner with cryptocurrency investors "the latest in a bewildering gamut of schemes" aimed at making a profit off the presidency, Rep. Jamie Raskin is demanding the White House release the names of those who attended the event—warning that Americans currently don't know whether foreign governments, criminal enterprises, or other groups may have paid hundreds of millions of dollars for Trump's meme coin.

Trump held an "intimate private dinner" with the top 220 holders of his $TRUMP cryptocurrency memecoin, which has no underlying value but nonetheless reached $14 billion in market value after the president announced its release just before his inauguration.

A Florida Republican is demanding that Washington, D.C., name subway trains in its transit system after President Donald Trump and, If it doesn't, he says Congress will cut funding to the public system shared by the district as well as the states of Maryland and Virginia.

Fox5DC reported Thursday that Rep. Greg Steube (R-FL) will stop funding the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) unless it changes the whole agency's name to the Washington Metropolitan Authority for Greater Access (WMAGA) — and renames the metro system the "Trump Train."

Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-OH) went to X to post some of the triumphs that President Donald Trump had accomplished in just a few short months in office — the only problem is, almost none of what he advertised was actually true.

"Scorecard under @realDonaldTrump: ✅ Stock market up 10% ✅ Egg prices down 55% ✅ Inflation at 5 year low ✅ Gas prices down 20% ✅ $6 trillion+ in new US investment ✅ Consumer confidence highest in 4 yrs," wrote Moreno, who previously worked in the used car business before being elected in 2024. "That’s all in 4 months. Now Republicans in the Senate have to step up!"

White House correspondent Peter Doocy asked Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt why President Donald Trump did not ask Republicans in control of Congress to "make a new law" after a panel of judges struck down his ability to impose emergency tariffs.

"So many of the President's plans right now are being blocked by courts," Doocy noted during Thursday's White House briefing. "Does the President wish he would have just become a judge instead?"

A group of registered voters in Maryland are suing the state for the ability to vote in the primary elections, according to the Washington Post.

Dona Sauerburger was “disillusioned with America’s two-party system,” so 10 years ago she registered as an independent voter. She told the Post the move was “immediately disenfranchising.”

University of Michigan Law School Professor Leah Litman spoke to Mehdi Hasan on Thursday about her new book, which details the way that conservatives on the Supreme Court have "embraced" "unabashed lawlessness."

The book, Lawless: How the Supreme Court Runs on Conservative Grievance, Fringe Theories, and Bad Vibes, uses a lot of pop culture references to make complex legal matters more straightforward for non-lawyers.

An Iowa Republican was booed by constituents after claiming that God had saved president Donald Trump's life from an assassin's bullet.

Rep. Ashley Hinson (R-IA) faced significant pushback at the town hall in her home district and the boos and jeers started during her prepared remarks, when she spoke in favor of the president's "big beautiful bill," which would establish new eligibility requirements for Medicaid, among other changes, reported The New Republic.

FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino complained that he "gave up everything" — including his wife — to work for President Donald Trump.

During a Thursday appearance on Fox & Friends, Bongino became emotional as he talked about the conditions of his job.

A Federal judge has issued an unrelated injunction, blocking President Donald Trump from implementing his tariff plan.

“BREAKING: Judge Contreras has blocked Trump's tariffs as unlawful. This is a *separate* injunction by a federal judge in D.C., unrelated to the block issued yesterday by judges on the federal trade court.” Politico Senior legal affairs reporter Kyle Cheney said on X.

A far-right political activist was fired from a senior leadership role at the Kennedy Center just hours after CNN started asking about his past anti-gay statements and conspiracy theories about Barack Obama.

Floyd Brown, whose appointment to the role was never formally announced, previously called homosexuality “a punishment” against the U.S. and condemned the legality of gay sex, in addition to calling Obama a Muslim and questioning his birth certificate, and CNN's KFile reported that he was ousted after those past statements were publicized.