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Aileen Cannon, the federal judge appointed by President-elect Donald Trump, appears ready to again side with the MAGA leader, reportedly signaling Friday that she'll keep special counsel Jack Smith's report into his confidential documents case secret.

"Trump's judge does it again," CNN anchor Erin Burnett told viewers on her show, "OutFront."

Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro is raising eyebrows over a flurry of last-minute ship-naming decisions made in the waning days of President Joe Biden’s administration – which included two future aircraft carriers named for former Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush.

The ship-naming spurt includes 12 ships, four submarines and a new class of logistics ships, Politico reported Friday. But, as the publication noted, about half “are either not under contract or don’t have an approved design.”

A legal battle is brewing in West Virginia, as both Democrats and Republicans argue they have the legal right to fill a vacant state House seat.

According to the Journal-News, "The West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals set a deadline Friday for Gov. Patrick Morrisey and House Speaker Roger Hanshaw to respond to a writ of mandamus filed earlier this week by the state Democratic Party requesting that a Democrat be appointed to the House of Delegates seat forfeited by Joseph de Soto."

A California Democrat scolded his colleagues on Friday evening, saying they're "tone deaf" over efforts to ban the popular social media app TikTok.

Rep. Ro Khanna, who represents the congressional district covering the heart of Silicon Valley, talked with CNN anchor Erin Burnett about the ban, which is set to take effect over the weekend after the Supreme Court ruled the ban — passed by lawmakers — can proceed.

Call it a belated Christmas gift.

A Donald Trump-inspired rap video featuring Roseanne Barr and Canadian rapper Tom MacDonald hit Friday – to the pleasure of social media users who greeted it with a mix of delight and dread.

A former state representative from central Florida has been arrested on federal fraud charges, reported the Orlando Sentinel.

Carolina Amesty "faces two counts of theft of government property related to COVID relief fraud, each of which carries a maximum of 10 years in federal prison," according to the report. Amesty stole $122,000 from federal pandemic programs by "fraudulently applying relief funds in the name of two businesses," federal prosecutors allege.

Americans will be hit by a "Trump tariffs tax" if the US president-elect increases customs duties on Canadian products, the Canadian foreign minister said Friday, pledging a hard-hitting response in any trade war.

Donald Trump, who returns to the White House next week, has said he plans to slap 25 percent tariffs on Canadian imports as part of his economic and foreign policy plans that also target Mexico, China and other trade partners.

The US Treasury Department will start taking "extraordinary measures" next week to avoid risking a default on government debt, Secretary Janet Yellen said Friday, days before President-elect Donald Trump takes office.

With the government reaching its borrowing limit, the department would start making the moves on Tuesday, the day after the inauguration, Yellen said in a letter to congressional leaders.

Republicans were reportedly resorting to "magical thinking" to push through an extension of President-elect Donald Trump's 2017 tax cuts, set to expire this year.

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, signed into law by Trump in December 2017, was the largest tax code overhaul in decades, making sweeping changes to individual and corporate income taxes.

A covert Russian-led disinformation campaign evaded Meta restrictions and got through more than 8,000 political ads on Facebook despite regulations in the United States and Europe barring companies from conducting business with the organization, a new report revealed.

The Russian IT firm, the Social Design Agency, which has been linked to the Kremlin’s propaganda campaigns, spent an estimated $338,000 in Facebook ads targeting European users, according to The New York Times, citing a report that came out Friday from three groups that track disinformation online.

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) thinks he knows how California firefighters should have contained the devastating fires that destroyed neighborhoods on the outskirts of Los Angeles: just suck up the Pacific Ocean and dump it on them.

Paul made the comments during a hearing with Gov. Kristi Noem (R-SD), who has been tapped as President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for secretary of Homeland Security.

President-elect Donald Trump's $10 billion lawsuit against CBS News for alleged "deceptive conduct" may end up with him raking in a significant sum of cash in exchange for the incoming administration green-lighting a proposed merger.

That's according to a Wall Street Journal article published Friday, which reported that executives at the network are mulling whether to offer a settlement to the president-elect as a gesture of goodwill. CBS parent company Paramount is reportedly hoping a settlement will lead to its potential merger with Skydance Media being approved by federal regulators.

A Democratic lawmaker warned people who bought hotel rooms and flights ahead of President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration to get their money back as "most tickets will only be souvenirs" at this point.

A polar vortex is descending on the nation's capital, which is set to send temperatures plunging into single digits Sunday into Monday. In response, Trump said Friday that his inauguration on Monday will be moved indoors due to expected frigid weather.