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CNN conservative Scott Jennings found himself at the center of a primetime pile-on that erupted after he suggested that a veteran outraged over DOGE-inspired mass firings was part of a “liberal mob” that shouted a Republican down at a chaotic town hall.

The moment unfolded Thursday on CNN’s “NewsNight” as the panel discussed the increasingly volatile town halls that have played out across the country in response to the Trump administration’s dismantling of the federal workforce. That includes Rep. Chuck Edwards (R-NC), who became the latest Republican lawmaker berated by angry constituents demanding answers for the president’s controversial moves.

A Top Democrat warned Thursday that "catastrophic consequences" will follow after the financially strapped U.S. Postal Service struck a deal with Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency.

Louis DeJoy, the postmaster general and Republican megadonor, told lawmakers in a letter Thursday he came to an agreement with Musk's team to help in "identifying and achieving further efficiencies," The New York Times reported.

by Sara HUSSEIN

Rules for the emerging deep-sea mining sector should take a "precautionary approach" that protects the environment, the head of the body drafting regulations for the practice told AFP Friday.

by Romain FONSEGRIVES

Construction worker Maoro has lived happily in Colorado for almost four decades, but for the last month he has hardly left his house, afraid that US immigration officials will swoop and deport him.

Photos and videos of American Airlines passengers standing on the wings of a burning plane at Denver International Airport floored a CNN aviation expert, who called the ordeal "harrowing."

Kaitlan Collins, host of "The Source," showed multiple videos late Thursday of the plane sitting on the tarmac of the airport and thick dark smoke billowing out as a passengers lined up on the wings.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s strategy for fighting back against the Trump administration was subjected to a thorough grilling from MSNBC’s Chris Hayes, who didn’t hide his feelings on the Democratic leader's performance so far.

The exchange unfolded Thursday night on Hayes’ eponymous show, “All In With Chris Hayes,” just as the New York lawmaker announced that he would not seek to block a GOP-led continuing resolution to restore government funding. The move will likely help House Republicans advance their funding bill and avoid a government shutdown Saturday.

MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow devoured with glee the latest legal blow to the Trump administration’s dismantling of the federal workforce on Thursday, before following the judge’s lead and delivering a tongue-lashing of her own.

Maddow devoted the opening minutes of her primetime show to the courtroom spectacle that unfolded Thursday, when U.S. District Judge William Alsup eviscerated Trump administration attorneys who attempted to justify the mass firings of employees in their probationary period.

Vice President JD Vance recently got an icy reception at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts after attendees spotted him sitting down in a VIP box with Second Lady Usha Vance.

Guardian reporter Andrew Roth tweeted a video of the second couple entering the concert hall with their Secret Service detail on Thursday night, observing that there were mostly "boos for JD Vance as he enters tonight's concert at the Kennedy Center." Attendees could be heard booing loudly after noticing Vance, with the boos increasing in intensity as more concert-goers noticed him.

Rep. Chuck Edwards (R-NC) became the latest in a long string of GOP representatives this year to face angry questions about Trump from constituents at a town hall on Thursday — and one constituent in particular demanded he answer for the president's controversial foreign policy moves.

"Do you support the annexation of Canada and/or Greenland?" asked the constituent. "And this is a yes or no question. I don't want you to wander off into the woods, I don't want to hear about your latest week in your office ... so I'm trying to get your opinion on this as a yes or no. Do you support Trump on annexing Canada or Greenland, and do you like the way he treats the premier or the president of Canada, calling him 'governor'? Is that the way you'd do as a diplomat? Is that, is that the way the United States should act to our closest neighbors?"

by Chris Lefkow

President Donald Trump took his contentious bid to end birthright citizenship in the United States to the Supreme Court on Thursday.

Panama's government said Thursday it would remain "firm" in defending its sovereignty and the Panama Canal, after a report suggesting that US President Donald Trump is considering options aimed at "reclaiming" the strategic waterway.

NBC News, citing two unnamed US officials, said the White House has asked the military to "draw up options for increasing the American troop presence in Panama" -- everything from more US-Panama security cooperation to an actual seizure.

The prestigious Johns Hopkins University said Thursday it is being forced to lay off more than 2,000 employees in the aftermath of the Trump administration's massive reduction in foreign aid funding.

"This is a difficult day for our entire community. The termination of more than $800 million in USAID funding is now forcing us to wind down critical work here in Baltimore and internationally," the school, a leading institution of scientific research, said in a statement.

Progressive Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) laid into her Senate counterparts for failing to heed her warning just hours before on CNN.

Ocasio-Cortez begged Democrats to reject the House GOP's stopgap funding bill, calling it a "bad idea" and a "mistake" if Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) votes for cloture.