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With President Donald Trump firing Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, his new replacement, Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK), will be in the spotlight.

MS NOW's Jen Psaki explored some of the things Mullin has said and done in the Trump era — and why it is a sign not much may change.

Virginia Attorney General Jay Jones joined more than 20 Democratic-led states Thursday in suing President Donald Trump’s administration over a new round of sweeping tariffs, arguing the president is again attempting to impose taxes on Americans without congressional approval.

The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. Court of International Trade, challenges the administration’s decision to impose tariffs of up to 15% on most products worldwide under Section 122 of the Trade Act of 1974.

President Donald Trump appears to be trying to prove "naïve" economists wrong about how much a president can influence the price of goods, according to a new analysis.

Catherine Rampell, economics editor at The Bulwark, argued in a new article on Thursday that Trump's recent attacks in Iran are going to make his domestic issues much worse by raising the price of oil, something he has consistently bragged about lowering. Those strikes occurred at a time when Trump and the GOP are trying to tell voters that they will address the rising cost of living during the 2026 midterm election, Rampell noted.

President Donald Trump's escalating attacks on Iran are going to undermine much of the rest of his agenda, a Republican strategist told the Wall Street Journal on Thursday.

“The longer this goes on, the worse it is politically, full stop,” Matthew Bartlett, who previously served in the Trump administration's first-term State Department, told the Journal — because the more he focuses on international adventures, the more he will neglect domestic economic policy. “‘America first’ has now turned into America strikes first,” he added.

Sen. Steve Daines (R-MT) pulled off a sneaky maneuver on Wednesday that left Republicans fuming almost as much as Democrats.

In a perfectly choreographed five-minute window, the GOP senator orchestrated what critics described as a brazen power grab that trampled democratic norms and blindsided some in his own party, The New York Times reported Thursday.

President Donald Trump sparked outrage on Thursday after he offered a flippant response to a question about whether Americans should be worried about Iran striking the U.S. at home.

In an interview with Time Magazine, Trump was asked about Iran's strikes on the U.S. embassy in Kuwait, which killed six Americans, and whether Iran could strike on U.S. soil.

President Donald Trump made a stark admission on Thursday about potential retaliatory strikes by Iran, according to a report.

Time Magazine reported on Thursday that Trump admitted Americans should be worried about Iran striking the U.S. His comments come a few days after U.S. and Israeli troops coordinated strikes across more than 100 sites in Iran, which killed several top military and political leaders in the country.

A superior court judge in Indiana has blocked the state's near-total abortion ban from being enforced — because it isn't an absolute ban.

The case, resting on a novel legal theory, was brought in Marion Superior Court by the American Civil Liberties Union, seeking a religious exception from the abortion ban under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, which would effectively allow those who disagree with the law to not follow it.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's latest "quiet death" strike may amount to a war crime, according to one analysis.

This week, it was revealed that the U.S. torpedoed an Iranian warship called the "IRIS Dena" off the coast of Sri Lanka while it was returning home from planned military exercises with India. The torpedo killed more than 80 Iranian soldiers. It was the first time in 80 years that the U.S. had sunk an enemy warship in international waters, according to reports, and sparked outrage from Iranian officials like foreign minister Abbas Araghchi, who described it as an "atrocity."

Fans of President Donald Trump's MAGA movement mocked the president on Thursday after he edited one of his latest Truth Social rants.

On Thursday morning, Trump posted five policy items included in the SAVE America Act on Truth Social, which include major changes to the election system and culture war issues like prohibiting transgender athletes from competing against their female athletes and prohibiting "transgender mutilation surgery" for children "without the expressed written consent of the parents."

The Wall Street Journal editorial board lauded the dismissal of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem after a year of chaos and controversy at the department, grateful she is "finally" gone, and urged a "reboot" of the Trump administration's deportation policies.

"The Department of Homeland Security currently is operating in shutdown mode, without funding," wrote the board, referencing the standoff as Democrats demand reforms to Immigration and Customs Enforcement. "Ms. Noem’s testimony before the Senate on Tuesday could have been a chance to put Democrats on the spot for refusing to fund DHS at a time of heightened threats, as Mr. Trump bombards the terrorist regime in Iran. Instead the headlines were about Ms. Noem’s floundering, including under hard questions from Republican Senators."

Political analysts and observers were outraged on Thursday after an investigation determined that the U.S. was likely responsible for a Feb. 28 strike on a girls' school in Iran that killed 175 civilians, many of whom were children.

The New York Times reported on Thursday that the strike on the girls' school in Minab was "severely damaged" around the same time that U.S. forces were conducting an attack against an "adjacent naval base operated by the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps." The Times added that "official statements ... suggest they were most likely to have carried out the strike."

Sen. Markwayne Mullin's (R-OK) mouth may have created an issue for him.

President Donald Trump's MAGA pick to replace ousted Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem faces a potential confirmation nightmare after calling Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) "a freaking snake" and seemingly endorsing violence against him, noted Slate's senior politics writer Jim Newell on Thursday.