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President Donald Trump reportedly ousted his acting IRS commissioner after just a few days in the role as a "power struggle" unfolded between a Cabinet member and Elon Musk.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent complained to Trump that, as the head of the department, he should hire the commissioner of the IRS. Instead, Trump appointed Gary Shapley after a recommendation from Musk, bypassing Bessent.

Adversaries targeting the United States through covert cybersecurity campaigns aimed at amplifying political discourse have been given more freedom to conduct their missions thanks to President Donald Trump’s dismantling of the country's disinformation campaign.

That’s according to a new report in The New York Times, which detailed Friday how efforts to combat disinformation by U.S. cybersecurity agencies have come to a screeching halt under President Donald Trump’s administration.

Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) tried to dispel notions Friday that he and Kilmar Ábrego García — the Maryland man mistakenly deported to a notorious Salvadoran megaprison — were drinking margaritas during their meeting earlier in the week.

Van Hollen landed at Dulles International Airport on Friday after a two-day trip to El Salvador, where he asked to see Ábrego García. The U.S. government has previously admitted he was wrongfully deported to the Terrorism Confinement Center in El Salvador.

A former Republican National Committee chair tore into Vice President JD Vance over his ongoing demonization of a Maryland father mistakenly deported to El Salvador and trapped in the infamous CECOT megaprison — and for his dismissal of the very concept of due process rights.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia has never been convicted of any crime, and the basis of the allegation that he was a member of the criminal MS-13 gang was the word of one police informant. Moreover, he had a protective order in place requiring that if he was deported, it couldn't be to El Salvador. Trump administration attorneys have acknowledged the deportation was an "administrative error."

Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) delivered a speech at Dulles International Airport on Friday, detailing his experience traveling to El Salvador to track down the wrongfully deported Maryland family man, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, whom he finally managed to get into contact with on Thursday evening after days of getting the run-around from government officials.

"We need to end the illegal abduction of Kilmar Abrego Garcia and bring him home," said Van Hollen, who has previously accused the Trump administration of misinformation on the case.

Col. Nicole Malachowski was celebrated for being the first woman selected to fly Thunderbird #3 with the USAF Air Demonstration Squadron and the first woman to fly on any Department of Defense military jet demonstration team. But all articles about her were yanked from websites in accordance with President Donald Trump's directive to remove all diversity, equity and inclusion content from government sites.

The Air Force later told CNN in a statement that the content was being restored. When CNN looked at the stories, they are now headlined saying, "DEI_A Life in flight for the first woman 'Thunderbirds' pilot."

Federal workers on Friday were put on notice by Donald Trump that their jobs could be in jeopardy if they don’t fall in line with the president’s MAGA agenda.

Trump escalated his attacks against civil servants after his administration moved forward earlier in the day with a new rule known as “Schedule F” that effectively strips about 50,000 people, or 2% of the federal workforce, of their civil service protections, according to media reports.

Employees at one federal agency were reportedly kept up for more than a day and a half straight due to the demands of a staffer from South African centibillionaire's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

That's according to a Friday article from CNN, which reported on DOGE staffer Gavin Kliger's alleged treatment of workers at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). The allegations stem from a sworn declaration a CFPB employee made in U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson's court anonymously out of fear of retaliation.

A federal judge brought up the arrest in Leon County of Juan Carlos Lopez-Gomez, a U.S. citizen born in Georgia, during a hearing Friday in which she extended her block of the new Florida immigration law until April 29.

U.S. District Court Judge Kathleen Williams expressed frustration about the arrests of Lopez-Gomez and others, said an attorney representing the immigrants and groups suing the state.

The Trump White House is coming under fire for what appears to be an attempt to mock the U.S. Supreme Court, the facts in the case of a Maryland man wrongly deported to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador, and The New York Times.

The White House’s official account on the social media platform X posted a “corrected” version of a New York Times story—corrections that have drawn concern and scorn from the legal community and political commentators.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio "split" with President Donald Trump over the ceasefire between Ukraine and Russia, The Daily Beast reported Friday.

Speaking to the press, Rubio lamented the lack of progress in negotiations and said that the United States could “move on” from the talks in “a matter of days" if no agreement can be reached.