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President Donald Trump has ordered the investigation of two of his former political appointees who turned into critics, and CNN's Elie Honig said that would be a major test for attorney general Pam Bondi.

The president targeted Chris Krebs, who ran Trump’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, and former senior Department of Homeland Security official Miles Taylor in an executive order stripping their security clearances and directing the Justice Department to open federal investigations of their tenures.

A teacher in Florida is being dismissed for referring to a transgender student by their preferred name, according to reporting.

The Washington Post reports that Brevard County teacher Melissa Calhoun has been dismissed for allegedly violating a state law that prohibits teachers from referring to students by anything but the name given by their parents without getting their parents' permission.

As the GOP shows signs of turning on President Trump, Democrats need to take advantage of the moment, opined New York Times columnist Josh Barro Thursday morning.

“The president’s economically destructive and unpopular policies could not be easier for Democrats to message against, and yet some of them can’t figure out how.”

President Donald Trump dispatched senior officials to meet with Hamas leaders, in a break with a long-standing policy against contacting a group the U.S. considers a terrorist organization.

Trump administration officials met three times with senior Hamas officials, according to sources who spoke to the New York Times, to discuss the release of the last living American Israeli hostage in Gaza, after the president has made clear he wants all hostages to be released.

While multiple critics of Donald Trump have characterized his decision to put his sweeping tariffs on pause for 90 days as "blinking" due to pressure from the billionaires who backed his 2024 presidential bid, a columnist for Salon suggested the turnabout goes deeper than that.

In a column published Thursday morning, longtime political observer Amanda Marcotte made the case that Trump's proclamation on Truth Social that he had a change of heart gave off a cult leader vibe that elicited a similar cultish response from his fans who praised it as a genius move.

President Donald Trump received a “one-two punch” which proved “there are, in fact, checks on his power: the markets and, if you squint, his own party,” according to Rachael Bade opined in her Thursday morning politico column.

Both the global tariffs, which plagued the stock market, and budget vote, which Trump was a large proponent of, came to a screeching halt by Wednesday afternoon. “Trump finally flinched after days of insisting that there would be no delays and that the world should hunker down for a long, nasty global trade war,” Bade wrote.

After canceling a Wednesday vote in the House on a compromise budget resolution because he couldn't get his caucus in line, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is in a for a "wild day" Thursday, according to Punchbowl News' Jake Sherman.

In his morning report, Sherman noted that Johnson has been trying to sway at least 12 hard-right members who are hard "no" because the resolution doesn't contain enough deep cuts which, at the end of the day, would not be approved by the more moderate Senate.

As Sherman wrote on X, "You can no longer paper over the massive gap between House and Senate Rs on spending cuts. It’s a massive issue that is going to define the next stage of passing Trump's agenda."

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Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) flagged a social media post by president Donald Trump as possible evidence of insider trading.

The president urged investors to buy as the stock market dipped Wednesday morning, saying "this is a great time to buy" on Truth Social at 9:37 a.m., but less than four hours later Trump announced a 90-day pause on nearly all of his tariffs, sending stocks soaring.

The Vatican on Thursday published a photograph of Pope Francis meeting King Charles III and his wife Queen Camilla the day before during the British monarch's state visit to Italy.

Wednesday's meeting was a surprise, as Buckingham palace had cancelled the planned audience due to the 88-year-old pope's poor health.

US-Russian citizen Ksenia Karelina was on a plane back to the United States on Thursday after being released in a prisoner exchange between Moscow and Washington, her lawyer and America's top diplomat said.

She spent more than a year in Russian prison after being charged with "treason" for donating to a pro-Ukrainian charity.

MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow suggested that a sudden wave of resignations inside the IRS is an obvious sign that massive turmoil is brewing within the agency.

Maddow drew the stark conclusion during her Wednesday night show, where she highlighted the startling number of high-level officials at the IRS leaving the agency over its deal with the MAGA administration to hand over sensitive tax data to immigration officials.

Tensions flared on CNN late Wednesday when a former MSNBC host accused a Republican strategist of hurling "personal insults" at her during a heated discussion over whether the Trump administration has a "colonizer's attitude."

Tiffany Cross, host of "The Cross Connection" on MSNBC for two years ending in 2022, sparred with conservative Scott Jennings on "NewsNight" with host Abby Phillip.

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders took a shot at CNN during a Wednesday night televised town hall on the same network, blasting news networks for failing to cover what he called "critical issues" and leading to people "losing faith in the American system."

During the hour-long town hall, Sanders was asked by a civil rights attorney about why people are turning away from the Democratic party.