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A California Democrat scolded his colleagues on Friday evening, saying they're "tone deaf" over efforts to ban the popular social media app TikTok.

Rep. Ro Khanna, who represents the congressional district covering the heart of Silicon Valley, talked with CNN anchor Erin Burnett about the ban, which is set to take effect over the weekend after the Supreme Court ruled the ban — passed by lawmakers — can proceed.

Call it a belated Christmas gift.

A Donald Trump-inspired rap video featuring Roseanne Barr and Canadian rapper Tom MacDonald hit Friday – to the pleasure of social media users who greeted it with a mix of delight and dread.

A former state representative from central Florida has been arrested on federal fraud charges, reported the Orlando Sentinel.

Carolina Amesty "faces two counts of theft of government property related to COVID relief fraud, each of which carries a maximum of 10 years in federal prison," according to the report. Amesty stole $122,000 from federal pandemic programs by "fraudulently applying relief funds in the name of two businesses," federal prosecutors allege.

Americans will be hit by a "Trump tariffs tax" if the US president-elect increases customs duties on Canadian products, the Canadian foreign minister said Friday, pledging a hard-hitting response in any trade war.

Donald Trump, who returns to the White House next week, has said he plans to slap 25 percent tariffs on Canadian imports as part of his economic and foreign policy plans that also target Mexico, China and other trade partners.

The US Treasury Department will start taking "extraordinary measures" next week to avoid risking a default on government debt, Secretary Janet Yellen said Friday, days before President-elect Donald Trump takes office.

With the government reaching its borrowing limit, the department would start making the moves on Tuesday, the day after the inauguration, Yellen said in a letter to congressional leaders.

Republicans were reportedly resorting to "magical thinking" to push through an extension of President-elect Donald Trump's 2017 tax cuts, set to expire this year.

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, signed into law by Trump in December 2017, was the largest tax code overhaul in decades, making sweeping changes to individual and corporate income taxes.

A covert Russian-led disinformation campaign evaded Meta restrictions and got through more than 8,000 political ads on Facebook despite regulations in the United States and Europe barring companies from conducting business with the organization, a new report revealed.

The Russian IT firm, the Social Design Agency, which has been linked to the Kremlin’s propaganda campaigns, spent an estimated $338,000 in Facebook ads targeting European users, according to The New York Times, citing a report that came out Friday from three groups that track disinformation online.

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) thinks he knows how California firefighters should have contained the devastating fires that destroyed neighborhoods on the outskirts of Los Angeles: just suck up the Pacific Ocean and dump it on them.

Paul made the comments during a hearing with Gov. Kristi Noem (R-SD), who has been tapped as President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for secretary of Homeland Security.

President-elect Donald Trump's $10 billion lawsuit against CBS News for alleged "deceptive conduct" may end up with him raking in a significant sum of cash in exchange for the incoming administration green-lighting a proposed merger.

That's according to a Wall Street Journal article published Friday, which reported that executives at the network are mulling whether to offer a settlement to the president-elect as a gesture of goodwill. CBS parent company Paramount is reportedly hoping a settlement will lead to its potential merger with Skydance Media being approved by federal regulators.

A Democratic lawmaker warned people who bought hotel rooms and flights ahead of President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration to get their money back as "most tickets will only be souvenirs" at this point.

A polar vortex is descending on the nation's capital, which is set to send temperatures plunging into single digits Sunday into Monday. In response, Trump said Friday that his inauguration on Monday will be moved indoors due to expected frigid weather.

MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace was up close and personal with former Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK) when she worked for the late Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), and even she misses Palin over the likes of Gov. Kristi Noem (R-SD).

Wallace and her panel discussed Noem's confirmation hearing on Friday, focusing on what she called a "lack of competence" from Noem.

A key House Republican appears to be on a voting strike after being forced out of a powerful chairmanship, ostensibly at President-elect Donald Trump's insistence.

“Arkansas Republican Rick Crawford, the new chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, charged with overseeing the nation’s spy programs. House Speaker Mike Johnson ignited a firestorm unceremoniously stripping the intelligence gavel from Mike Turner,” Fox News reporter Chad Pergram said.

As thousands of Americans were still dying weekly from the COVID-19 pandemic, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to run the Department of Health and Human Services, made a formal request to the Food and Drug Administration in May 2021 demanding that officials halt all Covid vaccines, according to a new report.

And with Kennedy set to lead the country’s premier public health agency in the new Trump administration, health experts are sounding the alarm.