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The super-rich have discovered that the new Donald Trump administration is happy to speak to lobbyists, including those fighting for pardons or clemency for those in prison.

NOTUS reported Friday that there are at least a dozen searching for freedom from the big house, using lobbyists to get to the president.

President Donald Trump took to social media Friday to brag about the refurbished bathroom at the White House, sharing photos of the new renovations that include a marble floor and walls and golden bathroom fixtures and trash can.

“The Refurbished Lincoln Bathroom in the White House – Highly polished, Statuary marble!” Trump proudly boasted on his social media platform Truth Social.

President Donald Trump has reportedly decided to order attacks on Venezuela's military installations.

Sources told the Miami Herald that the strikes could come at any moment. The Trump administration has suggested that it is opposing the Sóles drug cartel.

Senior law enforcement officials are peeved at FBI Director Kash Patel for jumping the gun on announcing the arrests of several suspects in an alleged Michigan terrorism plot.

Patel announced the arrests Friday in a post on his X account but provided scant details about the case, saying "the FBI thwarted a potential terrorist attack and arrested multiple subjects in Michigan who were allegedly plotting a violent attack over Halloween weekend," but sources told NBC News that others in the bureau and Department of Justice weren't happy with his statement.

Citizens and immigrants have no option if Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents demand that they be scanned with a mobile phone-based facial recognition app, according to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

DHS documents obtained by 404 Media stated that images captured by the app will be stored by the department for 15 years — even if the person is a U.S. citizen.

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) scrambled to clarify a comment made by Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins Friday during a press conference, but in doing so, may lead to Rollins’ comments causing a “total backfire” against Republicans, political analyst and journalist Jason Easley wrote Friday.

Rollins, who was tapped by President Donald Trump to head the Department of Agriculture last November, declared during the presser, addressing the American people, that “your government is failing you right now,” and that “we have failed you.”

The brother of Jeffrey Epstein's most well known victim, Virginia Giuffre, called for President Donald Trump to be held accountable for his ties to the late sex criminal.

Giuffre's brother Sky Roberts told Sky News that King Charles had "set a precedent to the rest of the world" by stripping his brother Andrew of his royal titles due to his past relationship with the late Epstein, and he called on him to pressure the U.S. president to release evidence in the sex trafficking case.

Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) issued Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem a stinging suggestion Friday as to what she should wear this Halloween.

“For Halloween Kristi Noem should dress up as the Secretary of Homeland Security and do her job,” Swalwell wrote in a social media post on X.

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) has desperately sought new ways to blame Democrats for the shutdown, despite Republicans holding every branch of government and both houses of Congress. On Friday, during his morning press conference, he took a new approach.

Speaking to reporters, Johnson accused Democrats of leaving Washington, D.C., after being there for the past several weeks.

Vice President JD Vance confirmed Friday that he hopes to convert his wife, Usha, from Hinduism to Christianity.

In a social media post on Friday, Vance lashed out at critics who pointed out that he admitted the desire for the second lady to give up her religion at a Turning Point USA event this week.

Recent comments by House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) revealed that the Donald Trump administration had let slip its intention to starve tens of millions of Americans who rely on federal food assistance, columnist Peter Rothpletz argued Friday in an analysis on Zeteo.

Federal food assistance under the Supplemental Nutrition Food Assistance Program, or SNAP, is set to be halted on Saturday for around 42 million Americans who rely on the program amid the ongoing government shutdown, and despite there being a trove of around $6 billion in emergency funds specifically earmarked for such occasions.

In her new book, legal scholar Lisa Graves walks through all the ways that Chief Justice John Roberts "betrayed" Americans and "delegitimized the once-trusted institution" — all for President Donald Trump.

Speaking to Chauncey DeVega at Salon for a piece on Friday, Graves noted Roberts and those in his crew have "undermined the U.S. Constitution" as part of changing the United States into an authoritarian regime.

Federal prosecutors expanded their investigation of Jeffrey Epstein's alleged sex trafficking network to examine whether the disgraced financier was engaged in money laundering, according to a new review of his personal email account.

Bloomberg reviewed documents and emails from Epstein’s personal Yahoo account that show lead prosecutor Marie Villafaña, then assistant U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Florida, requested grand jury subpoenas in 2007 for "every financial transaction" he had engaged in for the previous four years. Sources say prosecutors also subpoenaed major banks for records about his accounts and financial activity.