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President Donald Trump appeared at a tele-rally Thursday to support "the entire Virginia Republican ticket," in next Tuesday's much-watched general election, Fox News reported Friday. But there was a big asterisk.

It seems that Trump has never gotten around to endorsing the woman at the top of the ticket, state Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears, the GOP nominee facing off for governor against former Democratic Rep. Abigail Spanberger. A Roanoke College poll reported Thursday that Spanberger holds a commanding 51-to-41 advantage on the eve of the election — the same margin an Emerson College found earlier in October.

A U.S. citizen was seen being detained by Border Patrol agents in Chicago, a day after Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem claimed that her agency was not engaging in the practice.

In a video obtained by The Chicago Tribune on Friday, Border Patrol agents surround a Latino man in handcuffs.

The Justice Department was back in court on Friday as part of the ongoing court battle with Portland, Oregon, where federal agents and National Guard soldiers have been dispatched to carry out President Donald Trump's mass deportation efforts.

Lawyer-turned-journalist Julie DiCaro reported on Bluesky that the day began with a lot of problems.

White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett complained after U.S District Judge John McConnell ruled that the Trump administration could legally use a contingency fund to pay Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits while the federal government was facing a shutdown.

In Friday's ruling, just one day before the food benefits were set to lapse, McConnell ordered the Department of Agriculture to distribute money owed to recipients "as soon as possible."

A Trump-appointed federal judge has ordered Justice Department prosecutors to explain why they want the original sentencing memo for a pardoned Jan. 6 rioter to remain under seal.

In the court order, obtained by Lawfare's Roger Parloff, U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols wrote, "The government is to file a memo stating why document [155] should remain sealed and a response regarding Motion [142]."

President Donald Trump only has a few days left in his war powers declaration, which he's used to justify bombing boats that he claims are trafficking fentanyl from Venezuela.

On Sept. 4, Trump sent a letter to Congress informing them he carried out military strikes using a war powers resolution. Eleven people were killed in the strike. That started a 60-day clock that runs out on Monday, explained Just Security's Rebecca Ingber and Jessica Thibodeau.

When Donald Trump was running against Democrats in the United States' 2024 presidential race he focused on the economy relentlessly, especially inflation, and promised to lower prices "on Day 1."

But Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman, during that race, repeatedly warned that Trump was not sincere about helping the working class. Now, in a Friday column published on his Substack page, Krugman argued that the current partial shutdown of the United States' federal government is inspiring Republicans to show their "cruel intensions" much sooner than planned.

Several staff members of the Heritage Foundation took to X today to protest their own boss's defense of a recent softball interview by Tucker Carlson with avowed neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes.

Kevin Roberts, president of the foundation, has sparked widespread criticism for standing with Carlson while droves of conservatives attacked his controversial video.

In a rare break from President Donald Trump and Republican orthodoxy, one GOP congressman is acknowledging what many Americans already feel: times are tough.

“Our economy is not great,” U.S. Rep. Ryan Zinke (R-MT), who served as Secretary of the Interior during the first Trump administration, told Fox Business on Friday.