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Longtime District of Columbia congressional delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton was scammed out of $4,000 at her home, NBC4 Washington reported on Friday — and a police report on the incident indicated that the 88-year-old lawmaker is showing signs of the "early stages of dementia."

The scammers, who were posing as heating, ventilation, and air conditioning maintenance workers, "said they were part of a cleaning crew, her office told News4. The suspects charged almost $4,400 to her credit card for work they did not perform," the report said. "An internal police report obtained by News4 details how suspects were able to enter Norton’s home on Thursday and access her credit card before someone, whom her office called a house manager and friend, was able to put a stop to it."

President Donald Trump's deputy chief of staff didn't discount the idea of sending American soldiers to fight on the ground in Venezuela.

Speaking to the press on Friday, Stephen Miller was asked, "Would the administration consider putting troops on the ground in any capacity in Venezuela?"

President Donald Trump's new Time magazine cover has drawn a "chilling" similarity to a historic Nazi image, according to a report.

The portrait of Trump, released online Friday ahead of the print version, shows Trump behind his Oval Office desk, leaning forward with his hands under his chin in "a power pose that obscures his often bruised right hand and his loose neck skin," according to The Daily Beast. A headline above reads "TRUMP'S WORLD." Steven Voss, a Washington-based photographer, shot the photo.

President Donald Trump will likely name his giant gold ballroom after himself, an ABC News reporter posted Friday on X.

The move prompted swift backlash from those who are already furious to see Trump take a bulldozer to the most well-known building in America.

Critics raged Friday after Justice Department officials moved to rush the deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Liberia — seven months after his case gained widespread condemnation when he was wrongfully deported to his native El Salvador in violation of an immigration judge's order.

This time, Justice Department lawyers told a federal judge that the government wants Abrego Garcia deported to the African nation by Oct. 31 — over his strong objections — and that rushed timing was flagged by critics as no accident.

President Donald Trump will "likely" name his massive ballroom after himself, a senior administration official told Katherine Faulders, ABC News' Washington managing editor covering politics.

According to the official, the staff is already calling it "The President Donald J. Trump Ballroom."

New Hampshire Republicans' plans for mid-decade gerrymandering in a key state appear to be dead in the water.

According to Politico, New Hampshire state Sen. Dan Innis "has yanked his own bill that would have kicked off a mid-decade redraw of the state’s two congressional districts in the face of resistance from GOP Gov. Kelly Ayotte." Innis told Politico, “The governor wasn’t that supportive of it since it’s in the middle of the normal redistricting cycle. Rather than create a difficult situation in my own house, the New Hampshire State House, I thought it made sense to save this for another time.”

Federal immigration agents were seen deploying teargas during operations in Lakeview, a wealthy Chicago neighborhood.

A video circulating on social media on Friday afternoon showed an agent rolling a teargas canister out of a vehicle window as it backed away from onlookers.

In the past, lawmakers have approved conditions for government shutdowns, ensuring that national security and the military are still paid despite the closure. That didn't happen during this government shutdown. So, President Donald Trump came up with a ploy to dodge Congress's decision not to approve military and national security funding.

The Government Employee Fair Treatment Act of 2019 ensured retroactive pay for federal employees affected by any appropriations lapses beginning on or after Dec. 22, 2018. It leaves them hanging in the interim, however.

New Hampshire Republican Senate candidate John E. Sununu is already facing his first controversy, immediately after declaring his candidacy this week.

Sununu previously served as New Hampshire's senator until Democrat Jeanne Shaheen unseated him in 2008. With Shaheen retiring next year, her seat is open once more, and Sununu hopes to reclaim his old seat against the likely Democratic nominee, Rep. Chris Pappas.

The Department of Justice was slammed Friday for its continued efforts to again deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia — ignoring Garcia's pleas of innocence and his request to be granted refugee status in his native El Salvador.

This time, it's asking a federal judge to send him against his will to Liberia. Garcia's attorney issued this angry response, according to The Hill: