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Former MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan on Thursday slammed conservative host Piers Morgan on his own show, according to Mediaite, during a conversation about President-elect Donald Trump's lawsuits against news organizations like CBS and ABC.

The MAGA leader sued ABC News last year after the network's George Stephanopoulos said on air: "Judges and two separate juries have found [Trump] liable for rape and for defaming the victim of that rape."

South Korea's presidential security chief said Friday there must be no bloodshed if another arrest warrant for impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol is executed by investigators over his failed martial law bid.

Yoon has refused questioning and last week resisted arrest in a tense stand-off between his guards and investigators after his short-lived power grab plunged South Korea into its worst political crisis in decades.

From laptops to EVs, lithium-ion batteries have fueled phenomenal growth in the 21st century, but businesses struggle with a significant downside: increased fire risk.

At this year's Consumer Electronics Show (CES), companies unveiled a next-generation garbage truck designed to detect these highly flammable batteries.

Chief Justice John Roberts was decisive in the Supreme Court's refusal to delay or block sentencing in President-elect Donald Trump's Manhattan criminal hush money conviction, former federal prosecutor Andrew Weissmann told MSNBC's Joy Reid on Thursday.

The decision, which comes after the right-wing bloc of justices issued several other rulings favorable to Trump, including preventing states from disqualifying him from the ballot under the Fourteenth Amendment and granting him a presumption of criminal immunity for official acts, clears the way for Trump to be sentenced on Friday morning — although Judge Juan Merchan is expected not to issue jail time and may simply offer Trump conditional discharge.

Political observers wasted no time taking to social media Thursday evening after news hit that the Supreme Court would not rescue President-elect Donald Trump on the eve of his sentencing hearing.

Despite the Supreme Court’s conservative supermajority – cemented during Trump’s first term with his appointment of three justices – the high court in a divided ruling denied the incoming president’s emergency request to block his Friday sentencing in his New York hush-money case.

The US Supreme Court is to hear TikTok's appeal on Friday of a law that would force its Chinese owner to sell the wildly popular online video-sharing platform or shut it down.

The top court is holding oral arguments in the case nine days before TikTok faces a ban unless ByteDance divests from the popular app.

President-elect Donald Trump once again lashed out at the judge overseeing his New York hush-money case even as he thanked the Supreme Court — which on Thursday evening declined to delay his sentencing — for their "time and effort" in trying to "remedy the great injustice" he said was done to him.

Trump was dealt a pair of legal blows on Thursday evening, with the Supreme Court declining to delay his sentencing in Manhattan — meaning he'll return to the Oval Office as a convicted felon — and an appeals court rejecting an emergency request to block the release of special counsel Jack Smith's much-anticipated reported.

As the Supreme Court blocked President-elect Donald Trump's effort to delay his sentencing in his New York hush-money case, he and two MAGA allies were dealt another blow, as an appeals court rejected their request to block the release of special counsel Jack Smith's report.

The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals denied an emergency motion from Walt Nauta and Carlos De Oliveira to block Smith's report.

The mother of slain Jan. 6 rioter Ashli Babbitt says President-elect Donald Trump called her to offer his support to her family, and to the defendants in general, reported NBC News on Thursday.

Per the report, Micki Witthoeft "said at a nightly vigil outside of the D.C. jail in support of Jan. 6 defendants on Wednesday that Trump had called her when she was in the back of an Uber with two other supporters of Jan. 6 defendants, coming back from laying down flowers in honor of her daughter," and that he told her to “Tell them I love them, to keep their chins up.”

A mix of good-natured humor and horror took over social media Thursday after reports emerged that President-elect Donald Trump’s team has been on the hunt for a disease they can use as a springboard to seal the border.

The plan – revealed by The New York Times less than two weeks before Trump is inaugurated as the 47th president – involves the incoming president invoking Section 265 of Title 42 to declare a public health emergency and summarily expel migrants.

A divided Supreme Court has denied President-elect Donald Trump's request to block his looming sentencing hearing, scheduled for Friday in his New York hush-money case.

Four conservative justices on the court said they would have granted Trump's emergency request to block his sentencing, USA Today reported: Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch, and Brett Kavanaugh.

Florida's chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union is suing Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis for failing to call special elections for two empty state legislature seats.

The ACLU filed its lawsuit Thursday on behalf of voters in Brevard and Santa Rosa counties, according to the organization. The vacancies arose when state Rep. Joel Rudman and state Sen. Randy Fine announced their upcoming resignations on Nov. 25 and Nov. 26, respectively, to run in special congressional elections after Republicans Matt Gaetz and Mike Waltz were tapped for President-elect Donald Trump's Cabinet.

The man who became infamous for the armed storming of a pizzeria in Washington, D.C. over a conspiracy theory was killed by North Carolina police in a traffic stop, reported the Charlotte Observer on Thursday.

The incident occurred on Saturday as Edgar Maddison Welch sat in the passenger seat of a GMC SUV when an officer pulled it over, Kannapolis police said in a news release Thursday.