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The Justice Department admitted Thursday that it yanked a file from the tranche of Jeffrey Epstein's emails that contains a photo of Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick alongside the convicted sex offender on the late financier's notorious Caribbean island.

The photograph was discovered by jmail, a tech-run site maintaining a searchable Epstein Gmail archive, The Daily Beast reported. The photo shows the pair on Little St. James island with the DOJ file number EFTA01230639. However, a search of that number yields no results on the official Epstein database, suggesting deliberate removal.

The far-right website The Federalist furiously reported on Thursday that the Senate had time to pass a resolution marking a dog parade, but not President Donald Trump's voter restriction bill.

"The Republican-controlled Senate passed a resolution on Feb. 12 so that Sen. Thom Tillis could have a dog parade but cannot find time to pass critical voting legislation," said the report. "Tillis’ resolution, which he submitted to the Senate earlier this month, allowed the 'use of the atrium in the Philip A. Hart Senate office building for a Bipawtisan Doggi Gras Pawrade' on Wednesday, Feb. 25. The resolution passed by unanimous consent."

Eight officials in the Bureau of Prisons face civil contempt charges after they made a stunning threat to a trans inmate who is suing President Donald Trump's administration.

On Thursday, federal Judge Royce Lamberth in Washington, D.C., ordered the government to show cause in a case where trans inmate Grace Pinson faced retaliation from prison officials after suing the Trump administration. The inmate claimed she was subjected to a body cavity search in front of several male officers, had her personal and legal paperwork tossed in a cell covered in feces, and had her stay in segregation extended even after she was approved to return to the general population.

Lawyers in President Donald Trump's Department of Justice made some "significant" admissions in court on Thursday that could doom its prosecution of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, according to one expert.

The Trump administration has been in an intense legal fight with Abrego Garcia's lawyers since he was deported to El Salvador last year. Courts ruled that the deportation was illegal and ordered Abrego Garcia to be returned to the U.S. Once he returned, the Trump administration charged him with human trafficking. Abrego Garcia's lawyers have argued that the charges are a "vindictive prosecution."

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) dealt a blow to one of the Texas GOP's most embattled incumbent congressmen, Rep. Dan Crenshaw, by endorsing his primary challenger — and according to CNN, it's the culmination of years of escalating bad blood between the two that saw Crenshaw help sink one of Cruz's signature pieces of legislation.

Crenshaw is facing one of his hardest elections yet, against a hardliner GOP Texas state legislator, megachurch pastor Steve Toth. President Donald Trump and Gov. Greg Abbott went out of their way not to make an endorsement in the race, with Trump conspicuous as he endorsed in every single other race.

The Federal Reserve is hitting back at the Trump administration as U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro wages a legal battle to force the central bank to hand over documents related to her criminal investigation into Chair Jerome Powell, according to a new report.

Pirro's dubious probe centers around whether Powell lied to Congress about renovation cost overruns at the Fed's historic buildings. It comes amid a broader retributive campaign from Trump that targets perceived foes.

President Donald Trump's niece didn't hold back in an interview on Thursday when discussing the administration's handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files.

Mary Trump, a psychologist and author, has often criticized her uncle's administration and the president himself. During an interview with CNN's Erin Burnett on Thursday, Mary Trump said her uncle's statements about the Epstein files, and the Trump Department of Justice's efforts to obfuscate the files that have been released, show that Trump "has been acting like a guilty man."

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem sang the praises of tech billionaire Elon Musk after she claimed he helped expose spyware on her devices planted by her own staff.

Noem dropped the explosive claims during an hour-long podcast appearance with MAGA personality Patrick Bet-David released Thursday. The clip was flagged by The Daily Beast.

Aliya Rahman, a disabled woman with autism from Minneapolis who was severely injured by President Donald Trump's immigration forces in January, claimed on Thursday that she was targeted for removal from the president's State of the Union address.

Rahman attended the address as a guest of Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), who claimed Rahman was "aggressively handled" while she was escorted out of the House chambers. Rahman was later charged with "unlawful conduct" for allegedly standing in silent protest during the speech, a claim she denied during an interview with CNN's Jake Tapper on Thursday.

President Donald Trump's Justice Department is suing the state of Oklahoma for refusing to turn over confidential information from its voter rolls.

According to KOSU, "Earlier this month, State Election Board Secretary Paul Ziriax wrote in a letter first obtained by Oklahoma News 4 that he could not legally share voter data with the DOJ. The Trump administration disagrees with Ziriax’s interpretation. Oklahoma was among five states sued Thursday by the DOJ."

A Minnesota judge threatened the Trump administration with criminal contempt on Thursday over repeated ignoring of court orders.

Judge Patrick Schiltz issued a scathing order Thursday, warning that he may pursue criminal contempt charges against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement after finding a pattern of defiance he called unprecedented in American history. The order was flagged on Bluesky by Law Dork's Chris Geidner.

A damning report about the relationship between Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and her right-hand man, Corey Lewandowski, and its impact on the agency sparked outrage among political analysts and observers.

On Thursday, The Atlantic published a report, citing a forthcoming book by NBC News reporter Julia Ainsley about Trump's deportation regime, which found that Noem and Lewandowski's relationship has "warped the agency" into a fiefdom and has caused tensions between DHS and members of the Trump White House. The report included details about how Lewandowski has embedded himself within the agency, and how Noem's seemingly "sociopathic" nature has won her the adoration of President Donald Trump.

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court this week, urging the justices to strike down President Donald Trump's executive order dismantling the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee of birthright citizenship.

Trump's order would require anyone born in the United States to have U.S. citizen parentage to qualify for citizenship — a dramatic departure from the Constitution, which says that "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States."