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An agitated President Donald Trump lashed out at two reporters during his White House “Saving College Sports” roundtable, complaining that the journalists failed to stay on topic.

The roundtable was focused on the future of college athletics, especially NIL, athlete compensation, and possible federal legislation. As Trump took questions, he seethed at reporters who failed to ask him about his plans.

Trump administration prosecutors in Miami are hunting for a pretext to charge government officials in Cuba with U.S. crimes, reported MS NOW's Carol Leonnig and Jake Traylor — a development that comes shortly after Trump suggested that there could soon be leadership changes in the Communist nation.

This working group has sparked fear among experts, as such an operation would be a "dramatic" breach of federal prosecution standards.

A war of words erupted Friday between Republican lawmakers after House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) insisted the United States is not at war following recent strikes in Iran.

Johnson made the comments a day after the House of Representatives blocked a war powers resolution that would have required congressional approval for additional military action in the Middle East. The House voted 212-219 against the measure after the Senate defeated a similar proposal, according to Newsweek.

Under Attorney General Pam Bondi, the "sloppy and dishonest" Justice Department has proposed a new rule that would effectively block state bars from investigating federal prosecutors they license to practice in their state — but there's already a massive flaw in the plan that will make it nearly impossible to enforce, legal analyst Mark Joseph Stern wrote for Slate on Friday.

"Under this rule ... Bondi could freeze state bars’ probes until the department has undertaken its own independent review of any allegations — a black-box process that could stretch on extensively," said the report. "Wielding this new power, Bondi could essentially quash any state investigations into ethics violations by DOJ lawyers, including accusations that these front-line attorneys lied in court, by allowing 'reviews' that might last indefinitely."

White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller raised eyebrows this week after telling Latin American military leaders they effectively have permission to ignore legal advice while confronting drug cartels.

Speaking Thursday at the Americas Counter-Cartel Conference, Miller argued that criminal justice tools alone cannot defeat powerful trafficking organizations and instead called for beefing up military force.

Far-right actor James Woods announced on X Friday that he is leaving the Republican Party — because Republicans in Congress aren't willing to be aggressive enough in support of President Donald Trump and his conspiracy theories.

The catalyst for Woods' anger appears to be a far-right account that posted a video from Lindell TV of Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) complaining that the House GOP refused to sign on to her subpoena to pursue racist conspiracy theories against Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN).

Fox News contributor Dagen McDowell attempted to spin higher gas prices caused by President Donald Trump's strikes on Iran by noting that Americans weren't yet experiencing "food rationing" as they did in World War II.

"According to AAA, the national average hit $3.22 today," Fox News host Martha MacCallum told McDowell on Friday. "That's a 30-cent increase since the strikes in the Middle East began."

In yet another shakeup of a closely-watched legislative race in North Carolina, a local elections chief in Rockingham County alleged a progressive activist illegally tried to interfere with voters going to get provisional ballots cured.

The election concerns the primary nomination for state Sen. Phil Berger, President Pro Tempore of the North Carolina Senate, and one of the most powerful Republicans in the state. As of now, he trails his primary challenger, Rockingham County Sheriff Sam Page, by just two votes, with a recount, ballot curing, and legal challenges likely to decide the outcome.

President Donald Trump's administration got bad news on Friday, with the release of a worse-than-expected jobs report showing 92,000 jobs lost and unemployment ticking up to 4.4 percent. But his top officials are scrambling to spin it away, reported The New Republic — blaming anything but Trump's policies and emphasizing, often with fuzzy math, that Trump is still in the black on jobs.

Kevin Hassett, Trump's director for the National Economic Council, led the tone of the rhetoric in an interview on CNBC.