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President Donald Trump's administration is about to meet a "reckoning" for its international boat strikes, according to one expert.

Over the last several months, the Trump administration has conducted multiple bombing campaigns against boats in the Caribbean, operations that have killed at least 154 people. Now, the administration is expected to defend the legality of the boat strikes during a hearing on Friday with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, a Guatemala-based international organization that is part of the Organization of American States, which the U.S. helped create in 1948.

With the dust barely settled from a horrific shooting attack at a synagogue in West Bloomfield, Michigan, a pair of notorious pro-Trump firebrands are in open war against each other as one blames the other for the attack.

Laura Loomer, a Jewish far-right activist who has routinely had a direct line of communication to President Donald Trump, made a furious post to X on Thursday assigning blame for the attack to former Fox News host Tucker Carlson, an outspoken critic of Israel.

A House Republican who helped kill a bill to release the records of sexual harassment allegations against lawmakers will lead the ethics probe of another House Republican who has been accused of sexually harassing his former aide, according to a press release.

The House Ethics Committee announced on Thursday that Rep. Michael Guest (R-MI) will lead theinvestigation into Rep. Tony Gonzalez (R-TX). Gonzalez has been accused of harassing his former aide, Regina Santos-Aviles, who later killed herself by self-immolation, according to reports.

President Donald Trump is forcing his allies in the Senate to undermine the GOP for the sake of his demands to hold a vote on a long-shot bill to impose aggressive voter suppression, MS NOW's Nicolle Wallace argued on Thursday.

"At a time when 70 percent of Americans say the economy sucks, 64 percent of Americans disapprove of the job he's doing, and that is a number from before the war in Iran began, his most prominent media allies, Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly and Joe Rogan, are a big thumbs down on the war in Iran. His political coalition is blowing up sort of in full view," said Wallace, talking to The New York Times' Nick Corasaniti.

FBI Director Kash Patel was roasted by political analysts and observers on Thursday after he revealed his latest training gimmick for FBI agents.

Variety reported that the FBI is teaming up with the Ultimate Fighting Championship to train new agents at the bureau's headquarters in Quantico, Virginia. The report quotes a press release from the UFC that says fighters will train agents on "specific techniques and tactics, offering a unique perspective to the students as they prepare to enter the field office."

A former staffer at Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, raised eyebrows on Thursday after analysts viewed his "arrogant" deposition tape.

Nathan Cavanaugh, an ex-DOGE staffer, was deposed as part of a lawsuit filed by the American Council of Learned Societies, the American Historical Association, and the Modern Language Association challenging the agency's use of ChatGPT to identify and cancel grants supporting Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, or DEI, programs.

A CNN host threw President Donald Trump's words in a Republican's face on Thursday as he tried to defend the president's decision to coordinate a bombing campaign against Iran.

CNN's Kasie Hunt and Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) got into a heated exchange on "The Arena" while discussing the recent bombing strikes in Iran. Jordan argued that the strikes were necessary because the Iranian regime had killed American military troops as well as Iranian citizens. He also argued thatTrump was trying to ensure that Iran would never develop a nuclear weapon, even though Trump claimed last year that the U.S. had "completely obliterated" Iran's nuclear facilities in a different series of strikes.

The executive of Harris County, Texas, has claimed she was "manhandled" by staff at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo, posting audio of the event in which she can be heard complaining and staff ordering her to leave.

But Judge Lina Hidalgo's account of what happened has been disputed by the event officials, who put out a statement on Thursday saying she ignored clear rules to try to crash an event she had no access to, and no excessive force was used against her.

President Donald Trump complained that he couldn't say the word "beautiful" at an event honoring Women's History Month on Thursday.

"We love women," Trump announced. "Women are the whole deal, okay? And today is very special because we celebrate Women's History Month. That's what it's about every year."