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Attorney General Pam Bondi had nearly a decade to prosecute disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein during her tenure as Florida Attorney General between 2011 and 2019, but ultimately didn’t, a law professor told USA Today Saturday.

“The federal government and the state government, of course, are two different political entities, and both have the power to try the same person for the same crime, using their respective laws," said Robert Jarvis, Nova Southeastern University law professor. "Thus, Pam Bondi could have tried Epstein."

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's decision Friday to eliminate its scientific research arm drew horrified responses from public health experts and climate advocates, who warned that the Trump administration is targeting the foundation of the department's work to shield Americans from hazardous chemicals, toxic pollution, and drinking water contaminants.

"This is grim news," said Adam Gaffney, an ICU doctor at the Cambridge Health Alliance. "For decades, the EPA's Office of Research and Development has produced the science that underlies the regulations and technologies that protect us from innumerable hazards."

Former prosecutor and legal analyst Shanlon Wu said President Donald Trump may end up regretting his $10 billion lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal over its bombshell report as the president may be forced to divulge more details about his personal relationship with the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.

“He is the one with the burden of proof, he has to sit through the depositions, (and) he'll have to sit there and talk about his relationship with Epstein,” Wu said, speaking on CNN Saturday. “I would kind of doubt he wants to go through that.”

President Donald Trump's legal team made several grave errors in their new $10 billion lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal, NewsCorp and Rupert Murdoch, according to an attorney who specializes in First Amendment law.

In a thread posted to his X account Friday, Atlanta, Georgia-based lawyer Andrew Fleischman predicted that Trump's lawsuit will be promptly thrown out due to multiple glaring issues. Chiefly, Trump filed the lawsuit in federal court in the Southern District of Florida. While he may have done so as a means of drawing U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon — the Trump appointee who officially scuttled former DOJ Special Counsel Jack Smith's classified documents case against Trump last July — Fleischman pointed out that Florida has an anti-SLAPP statute [Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation] that will doom Trump's litigation.

The California construction industry is in crisis as raids by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement under the Trump administration have decimated the workforce, reported CBS News on Friday evening.

"About 41% of construction workers in California are foreign-born, according to a 2023 analysis from the National Association of Home Builders, a trade group for the housing construction industry," said the report. This comes after a report from the UCLA Anderson Forecast issued a warning about the impact of the deportations on the industry, saying, "For single-family and smaller (non-high rise) multi-family development, the loss of workers installing drywall, flooring, roofing and finishing will directly diminish the level of production."

More than 50 congressional Democrats on Friday condemned U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio's decision to withhold and destroy nearly 500 metric tons of emergency food aid for Afghanistan and Pakistan—a move that came a month after the Trump administration's State Department abolished all overseas positions at the United States Agency for International Development.

The USAID emergency food aid—which has been stored in a warehouse in Dubai for months and will expire before the end of July—is enough to feed around 1.5 million children for a week. The aid consists of high energy biscuits that are used primarily to satisfy the immediate nutritional needs of children enduring food crises. It is now set to be incinerated.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said Friday that it will reduce its workforce by more than 3,700 and abolish its stand-alone science branch, moves that one group of former EPA officials warned will "gut" research and enforcement and "leave communities unprotected."

The EPA said the personnel cuts—which will be achieved via layoffs, voluntary early retirements, and other measures—will deliver $748.8 million in savings.

Attorney General Pam Bondi could be on the chopping block as President Donald Trump and his inner circle scramble for any way to contain the fallout of their base's revolt over their delay and obfuscation in turning over the Jeffrey Epstein case files — but it won't be enough, former Rep. Denver Riggleman (R-VA) told MSNBC on Friday evening.

"Here's the thing. You know what they say, far-right conspiracy theorists: nothing to hide, nothing to fear," said Riggleman, a frequent critic of the MAGA movement. "So right now my question is, why don't they — why didn't Congress, just like, you know, Comer did with Hunter Biden, why wouldn't they want to call [Epstein associate Ghislaine] Maxwell to actually talk about the 50th birthday? Why wouldn't Congress want to have her to come there? I mean, you want the facts out, right, Mike? That's what we want to do, right?"

A U.S. father who moved to Russia in a bid to protect his kids from LGBTQ "indoctrination" is feeling buyer's remorse after he was reportedly sent to the front lines in the invasion of Ukraine despite assurances he wouldn't see combat.

Derek Huffman is a 46-year-old Texas expatriate and vlogger. He moved his wife and three kids to Russia this year seeking more "traditional values." Huffman sought Russian citizenship and joined the country's military with the expectation of non-combat work such as welding.

A former Fox News anchor just put President Donald Trump on notice in his new war on her old employer.

Gretchen Carlson, a former "Fox and Friends" host who in 2016 made headlines by filing a high-profile sexual harassment lawsuit against then-Fox News chairman Roger Ailes, joined CNN on Friday evening to discuss the president's newly released lawsuit against her former employer.

Troops in the California National Guard are speaking out to The New York Times about their loss of confidence in the mission President Donald Trump called them up for.

Trump deployed the Guard to Los Angeles to crack down on protests against ICE deportation sweeps in the city, and later deployed the Marines as well. A federal judge initially blocked the move after the California government sued, but an appeals court allowed it to move forward.