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The attorney for a Wisconsin county judge accused of helping an immigrant evade federal authorities issued a dire plea to jurors hearing the "unprecedented trial," urging them to act as a check on government "overreach" — and warning it goes "all the way to the top."

Hannah Dugan, a Milwaukee County Circuit Court judge, faces federal charges stemming from an April incident at the Milwaukee County Courthouse. She was indicted on two counts, including felony obstruction of proceedings before a U.S. agency and misdemeanor unlawful concealment of an individual subject to arrest. Authorities said she helped an undocumented immigrant evade agents of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement by directing him and his attorney through a private courtroom exit while agents waited in the hallway.

FBI Director Kash Patel has said some genuinely strange stuff in the past, but some of his most "baffling" work occurred during a recent podcast interview, according to one columnist.

Patel and his girlfriend, 27-year-old country music singer Alexis Wilkins, appeared on "The Katie Miller Podcast" on Wednesday, a show hosted by the wife of President Donald Trump's deputy chief of staff, Stephen Miller. During the interview, Miller tossed Patel several softball questions about criticism he's received to help him "dress down the haters and losers," Luke Winkie, a staff writer for Slate, argued in a new column.

Republican Party insiders on Thursday offered the press a starkly different assessment of President Donald Trump's primetime address to the nation than they gave the president, according to a new report.

Politico reported on Thursday that people close to the president told him that he did "great" after the cameras stopped rolling on Wednesday night. However, once he left the room, they were "far less ebullient about the president’s attempt to improve his dismal numbers on the economy," according to the report.

President Donald Trump's chief of staff Susie Wiles did more than embarrass the White House with her broad-ranging Vanity Fair interview, MS NOW's Nicolle Wallace argued to the reporter who broke the story, Chris Whipple, on Thursday. In fact, she exposed herself to subpoenas from the people Trump ordered indicted by the Justice Department, as they pursue vindictive prosecution complaints.

"What did she — what was the spirit of the conversation when she describes Donald Trump's personality as a, quote, 'alcoholic's personality'?" asked Wallace.

President Donald Trump delivered a forceful insult to the military on Wednesday during his address to the nation, and a new column argued that the insult will be measured in "empty billets and early graves."

During his speech on Wednesday, Trump announced that his administration is sending 1.45 million enlisted military members a $1,776 check that they're calling a "Warrior Dividend" before Christmas. Trump claimed that the dividend was funded by revenue from his tariffs. However, Politico later reported that the funds were moved from a federal account that helps servicemembers find affordable housing.

The board president of The Kennedy Center lashed out at the niece of the center's namesake in a social media post on Thursday after she criticized President Donald Trump.

Maria Shriver, who's the niece of President John F. Kennedy, criticized the Kennedy Center's board for agreeing to rename it the Trump-Kennedy Center in a post on X. She said the decision was "beyond comprehension" and "beyond wild."

President Donald Trump's National Economic Council chair Kevin Hassett went on MS NOW on Thursday to try to defend the president's meandering, lie-filled speech the previous night — but the excuse he came up with had Nicolle Wallace and former Republican congressman turned Florida Democratic governor candidate David Jolly shaking their heads in disbelief.

"You know, I'd have to go back and look at the specific language," said Hassett. "But ... the president, in order to make sure that everybody understood the facts and the facts were documented, spent a lot of time with us, with our team, preparing slides that that showed the data for what he was talking about in the speech and in some networks while he was speaking, they showed the slides and in some networks they didn't. And I just thought that was kind of unusual. I was expecting, when I was flipping around, to just see the slides everywhere. Gosh, we spent so much time, more time on them. But, you know, I think that the president had documentation for the facts that he was saying they were in the slides."

President Donald Trump is millions of tons short of meeting a key promise he made to American farmers before starting his trade war with China, according to one analyst.

In October, China agreed to end its boycott of American soybeans, which ended a months-long trade war between the two countries. As part of the deal, China agreed to buy 12 million metric tons of soybeans by the end of 2025. However, reporting from CNBC in early December showed that the country would likely miss its target.