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According to a report from the Wall Street Journal, Donald Trump has recently taken to complaining to dinner companions at his Mar-a-Lago resort that things are not going as well as he thought they would in his return to the presidency.

Now that he is over 100 days into his second term, the president in recent weeks has expressed growing dissatisfaction that he hasn't been able to deliver on his promise to end the war in Ukraine and has even taken to wondering if Russian President Vladimir Putin has been stringing him along.

US President Donald Trump heads for Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates on Monday, eyeing big business deals even as accords on the Middle East's hotspots will be harder to seal.

While Israel's war in Gaza and Iran's nuclear program will loom large over Trump's first major foreign trip of his second term, the White House said he looked forward to a "historic return" to the region.

A new op-ed published Friday suggested that the election of Pope Leo XIV – the first American pope – could pose challenges for U.S. politicians like Vice President JD Vance, who have aligned themselves with Catholic ideology.

That’s according to Commonweal editor-at-large Mollie Wilson O’Reilly, who argued Friday that Pope Leo’s American roots and fluency in English remove longtime language barriers between the Vatican and American elected officials. Unlike his predecessors, she told readers, the new pope is expected to speak directly to American Catholics.

Ras Baraka, the Democratic mayor of Newark, New Jersey, didn’t waste any time defending himself after his arrest outside an ICE facility sparked a chaotic scene that included protesters and several members of Congress who were on site.

“It was really humiliating and painful,” Baraka, who said he's now facing a federal trespassing charge, told CNN’s Kaitlan Collins on Friday.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) finally settled weeks of speculation by taking her name out of consideration for Senate, in a lengthy post that railed against Republican lawmakers and insisted she could win the race but wouldn't be able to accomplish anything because her GOP colleagues would just roll over for Democrats anyway.

The announcement, which followed Gov. Brian Kemp also declining to run, was met with widespread mockery on social media, as observers said they knew for all her bravado, there was no way she could actually win.

Retired U.S. District Judge Shira Scheindlin didn’t hold back Friday as she tore into White House adviser Stephen Miller’s suggestion that the Trump administration could unilaterally suspend migrants’ rights to challenge their detention in court.

Speaking to CNN’s Anderson Cooper hours after Miller made the eyebrow-raising comments, Scheindlin said flatly the suggestion is “ridiculous.”

President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown is about more than just immigrants, legal analyst Leah Litman told MSNBC's Chris Hayes on Friday evening — it's about laying the groundwork to create a police state that can be mobilized against Trump's political opponents.

This follows the incident in New Jersey in which ICE arrested the mayor of Newark during a protest of a private detention facility.

President Donald Trump repeated threats to revoke tax-exempt status from ideological enemies – including Harvard University and Wikipedia – could come back to haunt conservatives, Republican lawyer and historian Joshua Claybourn warned Friday.

In a sharply worded New York Times op-ed, Claybourn took aim at Trump’s escalated threats against his perceived political enemies, writing that while many on the right have cheered the moves as overdue pushback against liberals, the administration is playing with fire.

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San Francisco's main public transport system abruptly shut down Friday morning, stopping all trains in the Bay Area and throwing the morning commute into chaos.

"Due to a computer networking problem BART service is suspended system wide until further notice," said a message on the Bay Area Rapid Transit website.

US authorities said the overstretched airport of Newark, one of three serving the New York metropolitan area, suffered a new 90-second outage early on Friday.

Delays and flight cancellations had already followed an April 28 incident at Newark Liberty International Airport, in which traffic controllers stationed in nearby Philadelphia were unable to communicate with planes.

Louis Prevost is still reckoning with what just happened in his family.

His little brother, Robert Francis Prevost, is now Pope Leo XIV, the first American pope in the Catholic Church's history, an incredible fate for a boy from Chicago who dreamt of becoming a priest.