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Secretary of State Marco Rubio lost his cool at a G7 foreign ministers meeting Friday after the European Union's top diplomat publicly called him out over the Trump administration's failure to pressure Russia over Ukraine — then lied to reporters about it afterward, according to a report that cited sources who witnessed the exchange.

EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas, a prominent Russia hawk and former Estonian prime minister, turned to Rubio during a discussion of Ukraine and reminded him of a promise he had made at the same forum a year earlier that the U.S. would run out of patience and take stronger steps against Moscow if Russia obstructed peace efforts.

Washington Post reporters got an eyebrow-raising surprise when calling the White House this week: some phones labeled the number as “Epstein Island.”

“It was not a wrong number,” the outlet reported Friday. “That’s what the phone displayed when some Washington Post journalists called the White House switchboard.”

President Donald Trump made a wildly condescending admission about the sort of people he likes to surround himself with during an event in Miami shortly after the signing of his executive order to move money around to pay Transportation Security Administration officials in the absence of a congressional deal to reopen the Department of Homeland Security.

"I hang out with losers because it makes be feel better," said Trump. "I hate guys that are very, very successful and you have to listen to their success stories. I like people that like to listen to my success."

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Education is moving out of its Lyndon B. Johnson headquarters building, the department announced Thursday, in another step toward dismantling the agency.

The Education Department said its “chronically underutilized” building is roughly 70% vacant and estimated the relocation — slated for August — would save taxpayers approximately $4.8 million a year in operating costs.

The wife of Eric Trump is being raked over the coals for posting a picture with, and thanking, ICE agents, of herself at Newark Liberty International Airport, without a word about the TSA agents who are not being paid.

On X, Lara Trump paid tribute to the ICE agents, who have been criticized for getting paid to do nothing that helps alleviate the chaos at the nation’s airports due to a TSA worker shortage.

A key air traffic control facility serving the Washington, D.C. region was suddenly evacuated Friday, forcing the Federal Aviation Administration to halt flights to several major airports, according to CNN aviation correspondent Pete Muntean.

Muntean said on-air Friday that early information suggests smoke may have triggered the evacuation, though officials have not confirmed the cause.

The New York Times profiled a Wisconsin dairy farmer who has been a Republican for decades — but is disillusioned with his longtime party over President Donald Trump's war against the very migrant workers his farm and his community depends on.

"Immigrant workers are the lifeblood of the O’Harrow farm, a four-generation family enterprise with 1,600 cows in northeastern Wisconsin. But many of them will not travel to Mexico to see dying parents, or drive to nearby towns to visit siblings, or let journalists use their names in newspapers, because they are afraid of being swept up in the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown," wrote Sabrina Tavernise. "That they need to hide strikes the O’Harrow family as morally wrong, but also as potentially bad for the country: These workers oversee America’s milk."

Donald Trump’s rumored endorsement of Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) looks to be dead, leaving Texas Republicans to watch the incumbent to continue to slug it out with scandal-plagued Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.

According to Politico, the grassroots MAGA faction is "taking a victory lap" despite the serious risk of losing the Senate seat to Democrats in November — a trade-off they're willing to make to purge Washington establishment Republicans from their ranks.

The Wall Street Journal editorial board tore into President Donald Trump over his new stunt to try to get around the standoff over funding the Department of Homeland Security.

"Before adjourning for a two-week recess, the Senate very early Friday morning reached a deal to fund DHS except for Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection. Both agencies have enough supplemental funds from last year’s tax bill to keep operating, and Republicans hope to appropriate more for them in a reconciliation bill later this year," wrote the board, which despite its conservative lean has grown critical of Trump on a number of issues. "But House Republicans rejected the deal because they understandably don’t want to be jammed by the Senate and don’t like the precedent of partially funding agencies."

Ten American servicemembers were wounded Friday after an Iranian strike hit a key Saudi airbase, according to multiple U.S. and Arab officials.

At least one missile struck Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia, injuring 10 U.S. troops – including two who officials said were seriously wounded, The Wall Street Journal reported. The servicemembers were inside a building on the base at the time of the attack.

The White House is forcefully pushing back on a report that Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s acting director was hospitalized amid pressure from the Trump administration, calling the claims “inaccurate trash” – and even using profanity to blast the story.

According to Politico, ICE chief Todd Lyons was so stressed from carrying out President Donald Trump’s mass deportation agenda that he required hospitalization multiple times in recent months. The report published Friday also alleged that far-right adviser Stephen Miller contributed to the pressure through frequent and “aggressive” calls with officials.

A Republican lawmaker is calling for a change in Senate leadership amid escalating tensions on Capitol Hill over the ongoing government shutdown.

Rep. John Rose (R-TN) said Senate Majority Leader John Thune should step down, according to Newsmax’s Todd Starnes.