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Rep. Michael Baumgartner (R-WA) took to social media Friday night to complain about having to work late and miss his child’s basketball game – and was subsequently dogpiled by a swath of MAGA supporters.

The House worked late Friday night to pass its own version of a bill funding the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which has remained unfunded since February after Democratic lawmakers declined to support it without major reforms to immigration enforcement agencies within DHS.

A past statement released by former Attorney General Bill Barr came under new scrutiny Friday after famed Jeffrey Epstein reporter Julie K. Brown flagged a series of overlooked remarks from two jail guards who were tasked with monitoring Epstein the night he died.

On August 10, 2019, the day Epstein was found dead in his New York jail cell, then-Attorney General Bill Barr released a statement on the disgraced financier’s death. Epstein’s death was ruled a suicide by hanging.

A considerable uproar from President Donald Trump’s most loyal supporters forced the president to “quietly” back off an endorsement plan in a key Senate race, The Washington Post reported on Saturday, with MAGA already claiming responsibility for successfully browbeating the president.

In Texas, Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) is vying for a fifth term in the Senate, but is being challenged by the state's Republican attorney general, Ken Paxton, a controversial figure who’s been accused of fraud and infidelity but is beloved by MAGA supporters.

The House on Friday narrowly passed a Republican-led plan to fund the Department of Homeland Security, setting up a standoff with the Senate, where the measure is expected to stall.

In a 213-203 vote, Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) and House Republicans approved a short-term bill that would fund DHS for eight weeks, including border and immigration provisions left out of a bipartisan Senate deal, CNN reported.

President Donald Trump is facing mockery after floating the idea of renaming the Strait of Hormuz, one of the world’s most important shipping lanes, after himself – or the United States.

At an investor forum in Miami Friday night, Trump referred to the waterway as the “Strait of Trump” before correcting himself and insisting the remark was intentional.

Justice Department lawyers admitted in court this week that a key defense used to justify immigration arrests was based on false information, stunning legal analysts and raising the possibility of serious consequences.

According to Slate’s Amicus podcast, DOJ attorneys acknowledged they had made a “material mistake” while defending Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrests of migrants outside immigration courts.

A new analysis warns that once-controlled childhood diseases could come roaring back if vaccine access declines – including diphtheria, a historic killer known as the “strangling angel.”

Researchers modeled what could happen over 25 years if vaccines for polio, measles, rubella, and diphtheria became unavailable, according to ProPublica. While measles cases are already “teetering on the brink of an explosion,” the report highlights diphtheria as a particularly deadly threat.

Republicans in Georgia have been getting blown out in the counties that make up the Atlanta metropolitan area — so they have a new idea to try to stop it, reported the Associated Press: eliminate party labels for local elections there.

"The Republican-majority Georgia House on Friday gave final passage to a bill that would require nonpartisan elections in the five most populous counties in metro Atlanta. Among officials affected would be Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, whom Republicans have repeatedly targeted because of her prosecution of Republican President Donald Trump after he pushed to overturn Democrat Joe Biden’s key win in Georgia in 2020."

In an exceedingly rare split over guns, the Florida Prosecuting Attorneys Association filed a court brief Friday opposing Attorney General James Uthmeier’s new push to arm non-dangerous felons, the Florida Phoenix has learned.

The organization accused Uthmeier of using strained logic to justify his election-year decision to try to reverse a long-standing state law that denies gun ownership to anyone convicted of a felony.