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Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) just fired a warning shot at President-elect Donald Trump's nominees, a Republican strategist opined on CNN late Friday.

McConnell has taken swipes at President-elect Donald Trump in recent days, and Friday, blasted an aide to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has pushed to revoke approval for the polio vaccine.

President-elect Donald Trump’s idea of naming Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis as a potential backup pick to lead the Department of Defense reportedly fell apart because nobody in his inner circle got behind the idea, New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman said.

And a call from former Fox News host Pete Hegseth persuaded Trump to allow him to make the case for his defense secretary nomination in the media and on Capitol Hill as allegations of public drunkenness and sexual assault piled up – and produced negative headlines that angered the incoming president, Haberman added.

President-elect Donald Trump came out on Truth Social demanding an end to Daylight Saving Time on Friday, saying, “The Republican Party will use its best efforts to eliminate Daylight Saving Time, which has a small but strong constituency, but shouldn’t! Daylight Saving Time is inconvenient, and very costly to our Nation.”

The issue of Daylight Saving Time and whether the clocks should be fixed permanently comes up yearly and the debate stretches back decades. In fact, the U.S. tried making Daylight Saving Time permanent in the 1970s as an energy-saving policy but reversed it quickly after public backlash.

Just as Donald Trump is set to retake the White House next month, his former Washington D.C. hotel could be resurrected as Trump International Hotel, according to the New York Post.

Trump, who sold his lease two years ago for a reported $375 million, is said to be exploring scenarios that involve the Trump Organization either buying back the lease for the historic hotel — housed in the U.S. Capitol’s Old Post Office, which is owned by the federal government — or a possible licensing deal, sources told the Post.

Video-sharing social network TikTok was dealt a new blow on Friday, as a federal appeals court declined to temporarily block the law that could result in its ban in the United States, reported CNN.

The block sets up the Supreme Court to have the final word on whether the law can stand, at least while the legal challenges to the law move forward.

A Washington Post columnist on Friday evening called the public's reaction to the assassination of a health insurance CEO "chilling" — and decried what she called "public bloodlust for destruction and retribution."

Luigi Mangione, a 26-year-old Ivy League graduate, has been charged with murder in the brazen slaying of Brian Thompson, the CEO of UnitedHealthcare who was gunned down last week outside a Manhattan hotel. Mangione was arrested at a McDonald's in Altoona, Pennsylvania, following a massive five-day manhunt.

Far-right Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued a New York doctor on Friday that he accused of unlawfully providing a Texas woman abortion pills in violation of the conservative state’s strict abortion laws.

The state’s three-term Republican attorney general claimed in the lawsuit filed Friday that physician Margaret Daley Carpenter violated a Texas law banning a physician from mailing or prescribing online any abortion-inducing drugs to state residents, according to media reports.

Outgoing Senate Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) on Friday condemned Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s aide Aaron Siri for his efforts to abolish the polio vaccine, The New York Times reported.

Kennedy, an outspoken anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist who has also attacked medical consensus on issues ranging from municipal water fluoridation to 5G cell service, is Trump's pick to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, where he already has a number of plans to shake up food approval and the management of Medicare.

Left-leaning documentary filmmaker Michael Moore doesn't support the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson — but he feels the public anger this crime brought to the surface about the health insurance industry is "1,000 percent justified," reported The Independent.

Moore is well known for his 2007 documentary "Sicko," in which he explored how the U.S. health care system exploits and neglects vulnerable people. The accused killer of Thompson, Luigi Mangione, cited "Sicko" himself, saying it "illuminated the corruption and greed" of insurers.

President Joe Biden's mass clemency has faced backlash as it included a judge in the infamous "kids-for-cash" scandal. And a new report Friday evening said the White House did so without considering the specifics of the case.

The outgoing president on Thursday said he commuted the sentences of nearly 1,500 people and pardoned 39 others. The White House called it the largest single-day act of clemency in American history.

A tit-for-tat between the Canadian prime minister and President-elect Donald Trump is brewing – and Fox News hosts didn’t waste time weighing in on the international back and forth.

Canadian Prime Minister Justice Trudeau made waves in MAGA world after he declared earlier this week that he is “and always will be a proud feminist,” Fox News Digital reported. The remarks came during a speech in Ottawa where he grumbled about the United States’ failure to elect a female president for a second time, according to the network.

In today's politically polarized United States, food choices are among the many things that can become part of identity politics. Healthy eating is viewed with suspicion in some MAGA circles.

But in an article published on December 13, NOTUS reporters Evan McMorris-Santoro and Ben T.N. Mause describe a trend of "granola conservatives" or "granola Republicans" who, they say, are growing in numbers.

President-elect Donald Trump weighed in on the drone sightings Friday — arguing they ought to be shot down — after several days of reporting sightings in New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, and, as of Thursday night, parts of Maryland.

When writing about them on TruthSocial, however, he seemed to have trouble on his first pass — deleting the first post and reposting a revised version — leading some to ask if something was wrong.