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U.S. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan spoke out Thursday against President Donald Trump's criticism of judges at a conference in Monterey, California.

Speaking to the crowd of lawyers and judges, Kagan said they should ignore the criticism and simply follow the law.

A tense exchange unfolded Thursday on CNN when Brianna Keilar pressed Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA) on the political risks associated with efforts to compel the Justice Department to release files on Jeffrey Epstein, the convicted sex offender who died in 2019 awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges.

House Democrats succeeded Wednesday in adopting a measure to subpoena the DOJ for files on Epstein in the House Oversight Subcommittee, and to compel Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell to testify, with the support of a few House Republicans. On Thursday, Garcia sent a letter to Rep. James Comer (R-KY), chair of the House Oversight Committee, urging him to support the measure further.

A Canadian man is accusing the United States Coast Guard of capsizing his boat and illegally detaining him on bogus claims that he was fishing in American waters.

CTV News reported Wednesday that 60-year-old Edouard Lallemand of Quebec says he was fishing near Venise-en-Québec, which is a little less than 10 miles from the U.S. border when a U.S. Coast Guard boat approached him and asked him to turn off his boat's engine.

The internet lit up Thursday afternoon as Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell gave President Donald Trump a stunning fact-check during a tour of the renovated Federal Reserve headquarters.

Trump insisted that the project's total cost had soared from $2.7 billion to $3.1 billion, a figure that Powell said he "didn't hear from anyone at the Fed." Trump then handed Powell a piece of paper that supposedly showed where the cost overruns occurred, to which Powell scoffed and told Trump his figures include a renovation project that ended five years ago.

President Donald Trump attempted to claim that the Federal Reserve had ballooned its renovation to over $3 billion. But Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell fact-checked him in real time on national television.

During a Thursday tour of the building, Trump claimed that the cost was $3.1 billion, and Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC), standing to Trump's right, could be overheard claiming some reports say $3.2 billion.

CNN's Alayna Treene tried to keep up in response to President Donald Trump's heated press conference alongside Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, after his apparent attempt to demonize the U.S. central banker over agency building renovations blew up in his face in a moment fellow correspondent Kaitlan Collins deemed "remarkable."

"I think it's worth noting, by the way, that the markets are closed, because they do not really like it when Donald Trump suggests that perhaps he's going to throw Jerome Powell out of a job, but there you have it," said anchor Kasie Hunt. "What do you make of what we just saw, and what has your reporting been?"

In a tense and somewhat awkward meeting with Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on Thursday, President Donald Trump made another plea for the Fed chair to lower interest rates, shortly after getting fact-checked by Powell on the supposed cost of renovations to Fed office buildings.

“Mr. President, are there things the chairman can say to you today that would make you back off some of the earlier criticisms?” asked a reporter during the meeting.

Paul Rieckhoff, the founder of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, blasted Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth over the Signal scandal that won't die.

A new report from The Washington Post on Wednesday revealed that the document Hegseth copied into a Signal chat was marked "SECRET." It refutes his ongoing claim that nothing in the chat, which included a journalist, contained any classified information. Hegseth has the power to declassify the information, but doing so would be an admission that it was classified in the first place.

Emil Bove, President Donald Trump’s controversial pick for the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals, admitted to meeting with a far-right, anti-LGBTQ legal group after his nomination – a disclosure that has raised ethical concerns among experts who question whether the relationship could affect his handling of an upcoming case if confirmed.

“The red flags on Emil Bove’s judicial nomination are piling up,” said Caroline Ciccone, president of the watchdog group Accountable US, speaking with HuffPost on Thursday.

President Donald Trump received a brutal fact-check from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on Thursday during a tour of the renovated Federal Reserve headquarters.

Trump claimed that the total cost of the project had soared from $2.7 billion to $3.1 billion, a figure that surprised Powell. Trump then handed Powell a paper that purported to show where the cost overrun occurred. In response, Powell told Trump that his numbers were wrong.

President Donald Trump was headed to the Federal Reserve building on Thursday afternoon with an avowed enemy.

Trump claimed that the Federal Reserve renovation budget, which was under $2.5 billion, has now increased to over $3.1 billion. He brought it up in a Truth Social post announcing that he was headed to tour the building, along with several lawmakers, including Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) and Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC).

The IRS is considering eliminating alternative-language options for tax filers in response to President Donald Trump's order designating English the official language of the United States, reported The Washington Post on Thursday.

That could mean that the IRS would no longer supply forms translated into Spanish or other languages, or provide free translators for people trying to work through issues with their tax filings.

A new Gallup poll shows that President Donald Trump has fallen to his lowest point in his second term. The group driving that decline is a key one that helped him win in 2024: independents.

"Six months into his second term, President Donald Trump’s job approval rating has dipped to 37%, the lowest of this term and just slightly higher than his all-time worst rating of 34% at the end of his first term," the report Thursday said.