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A former head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA, issued a dire warning Friday over the Trump administration's plans to effectively gut the agency, Politico reported on Friday.

The plan, outlined by the Office of Management and Budget under Russ Vought, calls for shutting down the primary research arm of NOAA altogether and redirecting its mission to promote fossil fuels.

The North Carolina Supreme Court issued a partial ruling Friday on a judge's effort to toss 65,000 ballots from the 2024 election, according to a report.

The court said that the largest group of challenged voters could not have their ballots discarded because registration issues were not due to voter misconduct, but rather errors from the State Board of Elections. However, the ruling left open the possibility for thousands of other votes to be invalidated under certain conditions.

Military contractors pitched a novel way to facilitate mass deportations — simply designate part of a Central American maximum security prison as U.S. territory, Politico reported Friday afternoon.

Former Blackwater CEO Erik Prince and a group of defense contractors unveiled their plan to Donald Trump's White House on how they could help greatly expand deportations to El Salvador, according to the report.

A federal immigration judge’s ruling on Friday that allowed the Trump administration to move forward with the deportation of former Columbia University student Mahmoud Khalil was roundly criticized by legal observers stunned by the decision.

The ruling greenlighting the deportation of the 30-year-old legal U.S. resident came at the end of a hearing in Louisiana as Immigration Judge Jamee E. Comans concluded that the government “established by clear and convincing evidence that he is removable,” according to The Associated Press.

MSNBC host Stephanie Ruhle said she thinks the markets have been topsy-turvy all week because, in the past, the underlying economy was "a disaster." What's happening now, however, is "completely self-made."

Speaking to Nicolle Wallace on Friday, Ruhle said, "It's why the market this week has been up and down and up and down, because investors are hoping and begging and praying that Trump just scratches this thing. Because if he does, we actually have a good economy. But if he doesn't, he has us on a collision course for disaster."

The Trump administration's Secretary of Transportation, Sean Duffy, took a barely-concealed swipe at tech billionaire Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency task force while addressing the public about the latest string of air disasters that have unfolded since the new administration took office.

These incidents have included the devastating crash of American Eagle Flight 5342 over the Potomac River in Washington, D.C., the first fatal commercial air accident on U.S. soil in 15 years, as well as a number of other smaller incidents, including the crash of a small aircraft in Boca Raton, Florida, on Friday morning.

An order from Department of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's office demanded a purge of books disparaging racism while keeping those that defend white power, a new report said.

New York Times reporter Glenn Thrush wrote Friday that the Maya Angelou memoir that details her life of racism and trauma has been removed from the U.S. Naval Academy’s library.

A federal immigration judge on Friday greenlighted the deportation of Columbia University student Mahmoud Khalil, citing concerns that the man arrested last month as part of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown could pose a national security risk, according to media reports.

The Friday ruling came a month after Khalil’s arrest as Trump administration officials continue to allege that he expressed sympathy to the terrorist group Hamas during protests on the campus.

Doctors have had to remove the pig kidney implanted in an American woman after her body rejected it, but her four months living with the animal's organ set a record, the hospital that performed the operation said Friday.

Towana Looney, a woman in her fifties from the southern state of Alabama, had received the genetically modified pig kidney on November 25 in New York.

The Trump administration, pursuing its deeply skeptical approach to climate change, wants to severely cut back the research arm of a government agency that plays a pivotal role in global climate science, US media reported Friday.

The administration plans to ask Congress, which sets the budgets for federal agencies, to cut funding for research labs and offices overseeing climate studies in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), according to an internal White House document consulted by CNN and the journal Science.

Lawyers for Luigi Mangione, who allegedly gunned down an American health care CEO in a brazen attack, have pushed back against the Trump administration's pursuit of the death penalty in the case, court filings showed Friday.

Attorney General Pam Bondi asked federal prosecutors to seek the death penalty earlier this month in the case of the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, which brought to the surface deep public frustration with the lucrative US commercial health care system.

The Trump administration Justice Department is terminating a landmark consent decree established under the Biden administration with Lowndes County, Alabama, over accusations of racially discriminatory sanitation policies, reported The New York Times' Glenn Thrush on Friday.

"DOJ just terminated consent decree with Lowndes County, Alabama to address documented, wrenching disparities in the quality of drinking water and sewer systems for Black and white residents," wrote Thrush on X. "We're talking kids playing in backyard sewage pools, folks."