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One of President Donald Trump's top staffers is costing American taxpayers around $1 million a month, according to a reporter.

Tom Homan, whose official title is White House Executive Associate Director of Enforcement and Removal Operations, is referred to by Trump as his "border czar" and is breaking the bank on security costs.

On Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court gave a temporary stay to a lower court's demand for a top Trump administration official to testify in court.

In a lawsuit from the Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, a district court ordered the "alleged acting administrator of DOGE" to testify in court, said Lawfare's Anna Bower on Bluesky.

Farmers are starting to turn on President Donald Trump, one reporter from rural Wisconsin warned Friday.

Speaking to MSNBC, The Nation's national affairs correspondent, John Nichols, said that most of the folks he grew up with were farmers or in a business related to farming.

The Supreme Court handed President Donald Trump a controversial win this week with a "shadow docket" ruling that allows him, at least for the time being, to terminate key officials at the National Labor Relations Board and Merit Systems Protection Board. But in their decision, they hinted at a "line in the sand" they are afraid Trump might cross in his crusade to bring the federal government to heel, that they need to lay down before it becomes a risk, court analyst Ian Millhiser wrote for Vox.

The ruling has disturbed legal experts, who have warned that the practical effect is to undermine Humphrey's Executor v. United States, the 90-year-old landmark legal case that established Congress can protect certain independent agency heads from being fired without cause.

by Maggy DONALDSON

Pop great Billy Joel cancelled a series of global tour dates after being diagnosed with a brain condition that worsened because of recent performances, he announced Friday.

As part of his ongoing attack on Harvard University, President Donald Trump attacked students admitted to the Ivy League school, saying that students there "can't add."

While signing an executive order on an unrelated matter, Trump criticized "billions of dollars" given to Harvard by the government. The U.S. funds medical research and more. Last week, the U.S. National Science Foundation listed 193 grants worth nearly $150 million that were being terminated. There are also 56 grants from the U.S. Department of Defense worth $105 million that were canceled.

Former Harvard University President Lawrence Summers delivered sharp criticism of President Donald Trump and his administration for barring the nation’s oldest university from admitting foreign students—part of the President’s ongoing feud with several Ivy League institutions.

Harvard quickly sued the Trump administration. A federal judge issued a temporary restraining order against Trump’s efforts to revoke Harvard’s ability to admit foreign students, which comprise about one-quarter of the school’s total enrolled population.

Rep. Randy Fine (R-FL) proclaimed on a Fox News interview this week that his colleague, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), one of the first Muslim women ever elected to Congress, secretly wanted and benefited from the shootings of two Israeli embassy staffers in Washington, D.C.

"I stay as far away from her as I can," Fine said. "Frankly, she endorses and supports Muslim terror. I think what happened a couple nights ago for her is probably considered a good thing, not a bad one."

President Donald Trump has been ramping up pressure on Apple CEO Tim Cook to build the company's iPhones in the U.S.

The president last week said he had "a little problem" with the tech mogul and threatened Friday to slap 25-percent tariffs on the phones unless they were built in the U.S., but analysts say Trump's demand is logistically daunting and economically unfeasible, reported CNBC.

The US Senate undermined California’s ability to set its own standards governing air pollution from automobiles on Thursday, according to a Vox report.

According to the outlet, the Senate voted along party lines, 51-44, “to revoke a waiver the Environmental Protection Agency approved allowing the Golden State to implement and enforce a de facto ban on the sale of gasoline-powered cars by 2035.”