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Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem abruptly shut down a news conference Friday after being pressed about reports that Border Patrol officials may have mistakenly targeted party balloons with a high-energy laser, triggering a brief airspace shutdown over El Paso, Texas.

The moment came during a press conference in Phoenix, where a reporter asked Noem to clarify why the Federal Aviation Administration had abruptly closed the airspace over El Paso earlier this week – a decision that was reversed just eight hours later with little explanation.

President Donald Trump vowed to bomb "the dust" remaining at Iran's nuclear sites if he attacks the country again.

During a Friday gaggle, one reporter pointed out that Trump had previously claimed the nuclear sites had been "obliterated" before threatening another strike.

President Donald Trump's Immigration and Customs Enforcement leadership has finally identified a line they crossed that is a bridge too far.

The news broke on Friday, as ICE Director Todd Lyons admitted that two agents lied that a Minneapolis shooting incident in January was carried out in self-defense, and said they could face prosecution.

Author Michael Wolfe has concluded that first lady Melania Trump isn't living in Florida or Washington, D.C., but is instead pursuing personal business opportunities away from her husband.

The writer told The Daily Beast's "Inside Trump's Head" podcast that the 55-year-old's relationship with President Donald Trump is “remote at best," and he has discovered, while trying to serve her with a lawsuit, that she most likely lives in New York City.

The campaign of Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) is accusing one of his primary rivals, Wesley Hunt, of committing voter fraud in 2016 by lying to election officials so he could take a provisional ballot he was ineligible for.

Hunt, along with Attorney General Ken Paxton, is locked in a close contest with Cornyn for the nomination. Most polls show Paxton at least slightly ahead of Cornyn, and Hunt placing third, with both candidates keen to reduce Hunt's numbers in the hope his voters will go to them.

A Boston federal judge has handed down a stern rebuke to the Trump administration, ordering officials to bring back a 20-year-old Honduran college student who was deported in flagrant violation of a court order.

U.S. District Judge Richard Stearns gave the administration just two weeks to facilitate the return of Any Lucia Lopez Belloza, a Babson College freshman who was yanked from Boston's Logan Airport and flown to Honduras in November despite her lawyer securing a protection order the day before, Reuters reported.

President Donald Trump's administration continues to deceive courts, Harvard academic James Sample warned MS NOW's Katy Tur — and they're using it to bypass the rights of political enemies they want to put behind bars.

This comes as the Justice Department files highly controversial charges against former CNN journalist Don Lemon for allegedly intimidating churchgoers during an anti-ICE protest at a congregation where a pastor was doing work for federal immigration officials. Lemon, who has denied any wrongdoing and said he was there to cover the event, pleaded not guilty on Friday.

Todd Lyons, acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, admitted that two agents made "untruthful" statements following the shooting of Julio Sosa Celis in Minnesota.

Earlier this week, prosecutors asked a federal judge to dismiss charges against Sosa and Alfredo Aljorna. An FBI agent had claimed to the court that the men took part in an attack on ICE officers with a shovel and a broom handle before Sosa was shot.

More Supreme Court watchers buzzed Friday that a conservative Supreme Court justice may have telegraphed his plans to step down.

Justice Samuel Alito may be quietly plotting his retirement before the 2026 midterms, legal experts Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern wrote Friday for Slate. They joined another prominent legal expert in pointing to clues piling up.

Convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell, an accomplice of Jeffrey Epstein, has been implicated in alleged fraud on her U.S. citizenship application.

Migrant Insider first reported that court documents recently released by the Department of Justice indicated that Maxwell likely lied on her U.S. citizenship application.