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President Donald Trump appears to have made one key part of American society irrelevant, according to one historian.

Trump has repeatedly attacked American institutions like the judicial branch and Congress in an effort to impose his will. He has also called to nationalize America's election system to ensure "fairness" and used the Department of Justice as his personal law firm to launch investigations of his political enemies.

Baffled analysts piled on President Donald Trump after he issued his latest attempt to distract from releasing the rest of the Jeffrey Epstein files on Thursday.

Trump wrote on Truth Social that he has directed the Department of Defense to release all government files "related to alien and extraterrestrial life, unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), and unidentified flying objects (UFOs), and any and all other information connected to these highly complex, but extremely interesting and important, matters." Trump said he made the decision because of the "tremendous interest" shown by Americans.

The former wife of a MAGA Republican claims that his Jamaican accent has mysteriously vanished, according to a report.

Bissa Hall, who was married to Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) from 1999 to 2002, told The Daily Mail that Donalds once sported a Jamaican patois accent when they first met on campus at Florida A&M. She also said that their marriage was arranged for "financial reasons," and that they split after Donalds got his then-lover and current wife Erika pregnant, according to the report. Hall added that the two have not spoken in decades.

Rep. Randy Fine (R-FL), an extreme-right lawmaker known for his virulent anti-Muslim rhetoric, doubled down on Thursday after he came under bipartisan fire for claiming that Muslims should have fewer rights in America than dogs.

In a post to X, he announced what he called the "Protect Puppies From Sharia Act," which, in his reckoning, would bar federal funds from any state or city that bans dogs under Islamic Sharia law — something no jurisdiction in America is proposing, and that even Islamic scholars dispute is a real thing.

A California federal judge hit the Trump administration with a scathing order to notify thousands of detained immigrants nationwide that they can join a lawsuit demanding either a hearing or immediate release.

Judge Sunshine S. Sykes didn't hold back, accusing the government of widespread flouting of court orders and unleashing blistering language about the administration's immigration enforcement crackdown, The New York Times reported.

FBI Director Kash Patel used a government plane to fly to Italy and planned to watch the Winter Olympics, according to a report.

According to CBS News, "Public flight data reviewed by CBS News showed the FBI director took off on a government plane Thursday morning for an Air Force base in Italy, after a brief flight from Manassas, Virginia, to Joint Base Andrews, in Maryland Wednesday. Sources also confirmed to CBS News that Patel was en route to Milan, where he is planning to watch the Men's USA Olympic hockey team compete in the medal rounds."

President Donald Trump's "offensively disgusting" joke about the Congressional Medal of Honor on Thursday rankled political analysts and observers.

Trump traveled to Rome, Georgia, to speak to a crowd at the Coosa Steel Corporation. During his speech, Trump said he was considering giving himself the Congressional Medal of Honor, which is reserved for military members who exhibit acts of valor. Trump, who never served in the military, made a similar remark back in 2019, according to reports.

A new set of numbers on U.S. trade could be yet another blow to President Donald Trump's odds of getting a good ruling from the Supreme Court on his tariff regime, The Washington Post editorial board wrote on Thursday.

The fundamental problem, wrote the board, is that Trump has partly sold his aggressive "reciprocal tariffs" as a means to balance the U.S. trade deficit, but it isn't doing that.

In a bonkers Truth Social post sure to send conspiracy theorists into overdrive, President Donald Trump announced Thursday that he's ordering the Pentagon and other government agencies to begin identifying and releasing classified files on extraterrestrial life and UFOs.

"Based on the tremendous interest shown, I will be directing the Secretary of War, and other relevant Departments and Agencies, to begin the process of identifying and releasing Government files related to alien and extraterrestrial life, unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), and unidentified flying objects (UFOs), and any and all other information connected to these highly complex, but extremely interesting and important, matters," Trump posted.

Observers mocked a lawyer's threat to "kill" his client during a deposition that was picked up on a hot mic on Thursday.

On Wednesday, Leslie Wexner was deposed by the House Oversight Committee over his ties to disgraced financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. A video of the nearly five-hour deposition was released on Thursday, and it included a moment where Wexner's lawyer leaned over and threatened to kill him if he continued giving long-winded answers.