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A never-Trump conservative thinks MAGA's recent division over immigrant visas is one of what he expects will be many rifts "coming down the pike" and took a shot at the movement, telling CNN on Friday night it would take a "heart of stone" not to laugh at the chaos.

The rift emerged between two factions. On one side, tech allies such as billionaires Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy — who have been tapped to slash trillions from the federal budget — are advocating for more visas to attract highly skilled foreign workers. On the other side is the MAGA base, which has opposed expanding H-1B visas, seeing it as a threat to American jobs.

Trump ally Stephen Miller's far-right legal group is threatening California officials with possible prison time if they continue with "sanctuary" policies, reported CalMatters on Friday.

The letter, sent out by America First Legal two days before Christmas, is directed specifically at the San Diego County Board of Supervisors.

President Joe Biden can no longer sell off unused border wall parts before the next administration takes office, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced late Friday.

The far-right attorney general secured the new legal victory against Biden after reports surfaced earlier this month that the outgoing administration sold off unused parts of the U.S.-Mexico border. That prompted Paxton, a staunch ally of President-elect Donald Trump, to take his complaints to federal court with the filing of a motion seeking to enforce a permanent injunction.

A 93-year-old retired priest who pleaded guilty to raping and kidnapping a teen boy in the 1970s died less than two weeks after he began serving a life sentence in prison.

Lawrence Hecker pleaded guilty earlier this month to state charges in Louisiana and was sentenced on Dec. 18. Hecker was sent to a Louisiana prison known as Elayn Hunt where he died early Thursday of natural causes, officials told The Guardian.

Consumers shopping for a new car in 2025 are being warned to buckle up for higher prices once President-elect Donald Trump takes office next month as potential impacts from his trade policies are beginning to come into focus.

Trump has vowed to slap heavy tariffs on all foreign-made goods once he returns to the White House next month, and auto analysts and dealerships are weighing in on how new taxes on foreign car companies would affect a buyer’s bottom line.

A freak Christmas dinner injury sidelined the world's top golfer from the PGA tour, CNN reported Friday evening.

“On Christmas Day while preparing dinner, Scottie [Scheffler] sustained a puncture wound to the palm of his right hand from a broken glass,” said Blake Smith, the manager for Scheffler, in a statement. “Small glass fragments remained in the palm which required surgery.”

A liberal Fox News host took a victory lap Friday afternoon on social media after an Indian immigrant investor and self-described technopreneur openly questioned his support for the Republican Party as he and his community face "persistent and dehumanizing attacks."

X user @Cloudwatch199, who goes by Sidarth, bemoaned on the app the treatment he and other immigrants have faced amid a divide in the MAGA movement over H-1B visas.

Outgoing Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen issued a dire warning that "extraordinary measures" will need to be taken to avoid a default on U.S. debt if Congress does not act to raise the debt ceiling soon, The New York Times reported Friday.

Yellen's warning, notes the report, comes "at a fractious political moment. Republicans are set to take control of Washington next month ... The debt limit was suspended in June 2023 after a contentious negotiation over federal spending, work requirements for receiving government benefits and funding for the Internal Revenue Service. That suspension is scheduled to expire on Jan. 2, forcing Treasury to begin using so-called extraordinary measures to allow the federal government to keep paying its bills."

A Michigan Democrat took a shot at supporters of TikTok as President-elect Donald Trump tries to block a looming ban set to take effect next month.

Trump on Friday asked the Supreme Court to hit the brakes on a law that could ban the popular social media site nationwide starting Jan. 19 if its owner, who is Chinese, doesn’t sell it to an American company.

Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) took to X on Friday to try to drum up public support for his plan to repeal a recently enacted law intended to crack down on money laundering and the finance of terrorism.

"I’ve got a bill — the Saving Privacy Act — that would repeal the Corporate Transparency Act," wrote Lee, quoting a post from several months ago by Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) railing against the law. "Do you agree that the CTA is unduly intrusive and needs to be repealed?"

One high-ranking senator wants his party's most dedicated activists to make fundamental changes to how they approach voters in the next election cycle.

In a wide-ranging interview with Politico columnist Jonathan Martin, Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) lamented that Democrats don't just have a deficit in information "infrastructure," but that Democrats don't take advantage of their limited opportunities to use plain language that ordinary Americans can relate to. The Senate's chief deputy minority whip emphasized that this isn't just a problem among the progressive wing of the party, but among centrists as well. He opined that Vice President Kamala Harris frequently used language on the campaign stump that was more common in academia than among more typical voters.

An activist group of shareholders backed by a right-wing think tank are trying to pressure the bulk wholesaler club store Costco into dropping its diversity, equity and inclusion policies — but the company is pushing back — hard, reported CNN on Friday.

According to the report, Costco's board of directors "unanimously recommended that its shareholders vote against a proposal brought by a conservative think tank, the National Center for Public Policy Research, that would require Costco to evaluate and issue a report on the financial risks of maintaining its diversity and inclusion goals. The group criticized Costco for possible 'illegal discrimination' against employees who are 'white, Asian, male or straight.'"