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Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency is facing a new round of questioning after a failed fraud crackdown created even more chaos at the Social Security Administration — and found little to no fraud.

Already reeling from office closures, staff shortages and service cuts, the struggling agency is now reportedly being slowed down even further by an anti-fraud tool that barely caught any fraud while dramatically slowing down the system.

The Trump administration is preparing to sell off the longtime home of Voice of America, marking the latest push to downsize the federal government and shut down the international news agency, according to a new report in Bloomberg.

The Wilbur J. Cohen Federal Building, which houses VOA, its parent agency, the Agency for Global Media, and the Department of Health and Human Services, sits just south of the National Mall and two blocks from the Capitol. The historic, million-square-foot facility is now among several high-profile government-owned properties listed for “accelerated disposal,” Bloomberg reported Thursday.

Top White House adviser Stephen Miller recently suggested President Donald Trump is actively considering suspending the writ of habeas corpus to “take care of the illegal immigration problem.”

"The Constitution is clear … that the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus can be suspended in a time of invasion,” Miller said. “So that’s an option we’re actively looking at. Look, a lot of it depends on whether the courts do the right thing or not.”

Law professor and former Justice Department official Andrew Weissmann took issue with two Supreme Court justices while listening to oral arguments on Thursday.

Before the court was a nationwide injunction from a lower court that paused President Donald Trump's executive order, which redefined who qualifies for birthright citizenship in the United States.

Former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), now a star at the far-right One America News Network, took the lead with a delegation of mostly Republican lawmakers to visit an infamous megaprison in El Salvador that President Donald Trump is using as part of a deal with that country's autocratic President Nayib Bukele to house large numbers of deportees the administration accuses of being gang members.

But the narrative he and some other outlets have pushed about what the cameras saw when they visited the wing for U.S. deportees at the Terrorism Confinement Center, or CECOT, is completely false, one immigration expert wrote.

During a rally-style appearance before uniformed U.S. troops in Qatar on Thursday, President Donald Trump—serving as their commander-in-chief—floated the idea of a “fourth” term and falsely claimed victory in the 2020 election he lost. The appearance drew swift criticism for blurring the line between military service and political theater.

“As you know, we won three elections, okay?” Trump told the largely silent troops (video below). “And some people want us to do a fourth. I don’t know—I’ll have to think about that.”

President Donald Trump's former acting deputy secretary at the Department of Homeland Security was asked about the oral arguments at the Supreme Court on Thursday concerning birthright citizenship.

Upon entering office, Trump issued an executive order that eliminates some birthright citizenship for babies born to migrants.

The much-hyped reconciliation bill, pitched by President Donald Trump as his “big, beautiful bill,” is facing mounting skepticism from congressional Republicans, who are threatening to derail it from moving forward.

According to the New York Times, a growing number of conservatives on the House Budget Committee are raising concerns surrounding the cost of the massive piece of legislation. The new reporting comes as Rep. Josh Brecheen (R-OK) became the third committee member to publicly break ranks with a key component of Trump’s MAGA agenda, writing Thursday that it was “clear we don’t know the true cost of this bill or whether it adheres to the Budget blueprint.”

A Swiss billionaire who owns wineries across California and has become a power player in Democratic donor circles has been accused of sexual harassment in an explosive new lawsuit, the San Francisco Chronicle reported on Thursday.

According to the report, "Madison Busby claims that Hansjorg Wyss, owner of Halter Ranch winery in Paso Robles, repeatedly propositioned her, exposed himself to her, groped her and told her stories about his sexual exploits, then retaliated against her when she did not return his advances." Busby is 30 and Wyss is 89.

Alina Habba, interim U.S. attorney for New Jersey, was booed as she appeared for Newark Mayor Ras Baraka's first court appearance after being arrested for allegedly trespassing at a federal immigration detention facility.

Onlookers could be heard booing and chanting "Shame! Shame!" as Habba walked into the federal courthouse in Newark on Thursday.

Walmart has issued a stark warning about the impact of President Donald Trump’s tariffs, cautioning that their “magnitude” will directly lead to higher prices for consumers. The nation’s largest retailer made clear it will have no choice but to pass on the increased costs. President Trump, by contrast, recently claimed that Chinese manufacturers—key suppliers for Walmart and many other retailers—would probably “eat” the tariffs.

“We will do our best to keep our prices as low as possible, but given the magnitude of the tariffs, even at the reduced levels announced this week, we aren’t able to absorb all the pressure given the reality of narrow retail margins,” Walmart CEO Doug McMillon said in a press release, according to Yahoo Finance.