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Attorney General Pam Bondi broke the law this week, one legal expert said Friday.

Bondi appeared on a panel discussion with President Donald Trump and Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem this week, where she admitted the existence of a grand jury, which is unlawful.

Right-wing influencer Laura Loomer launched into an online tirade Friday after learning she had been named in a probe into the recent shooting of a Chicago woman by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.

Homeland Security officials initially claimed that 30-year-old Marimar Marínez was in a vehicle that rammed into federal agents and that one of its occupants brandished a semi-automatic weapon, prompting agents to open fire and strike her five times. Marinez’s lawyer has refuted DHS’s account of the incident, however, with body-cam footage appearing to contradict the agency’s version of events.

The Social Security Administration on Friday announced a 2.8% cost-of-living adjustment for beneficiaries, a small increase that advocates said would be mostly or entirely offset by surging healthcare premiums and other price hikes fueled by President Donald Trump’s erratic tariff policies and Republican legislation passed earlier this year.

The 2.8% raise—the second-smallest since 2021—will amount to just over $50 extra per month for the average Social Security recipient. The projected 11.6% increase in Medicare Part B premiums next year would wipe out around 40% of the COLA increase for seniors.

There have been 10 known U.S. strikes on boats off the coast of North America, killing nearly four dozen people, and one Reuters reporter noted that the "Pentagon has released little evidence of what the vessels were allegedly carrying and why they couldn’t simply be interdicted."

Now, some Republicans are growing angry.

The United States has deployed an aircraft carrier strike group to the Caribbean as tensions between the Trump administration and Venezuela continue to escalate, a spokesperson for the Defense Department said Friday.

“The enhanced U.S. force presence in the [U.S. Southern Command area of responsibility] will bolster U.S. capacity to detect, monitor, and disrupt illicit actors and activities that compromise the safety and prosperity of the United States homeland and our security in the Western Hemisphere,” wrote Sean Parnell, DOD spokesperson, in a statement shared on social media Friday.

A Florida-based drone company backed by Donald Trump Jr. has reportedly won its largest-ever contract from the Pentagon.

The Financial Times reported on Friday that Unusual Machines had been awarded a contract to manufacture 3,500 drone motors and other parts for the U.S. Army. The company said it expected the U.S. military to order an additional 20,000 parts next year.

President Donald Trump has spent the past several weeks patting himself on the back for saving the American economy, but CNN fact-checker Daniel Dale said that the new economic numbers fly in the face of those Trump claims.

"Trump last week: 'We fixed inflation, prices are way down,'" Dale quoted the president saying on X. "Trump Wednesday: 'Prices are way down in our country.' Friday: CPI shows prices up 0.3% from Aug. to Sept. and just over 3% since last Sept., the highest year-over-year figure since May 2024."

President Donald Trump appears likely to target his hometown for vengeance if the results of New York City's mayoral race don't go the way he wants, and a Watergate prosecutor urged officials and candidates alike to start getting ready now.

The president has already threatened to withhold billions in federal funds from the city and send in troops to crack down on immigration if self-described Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani wins the mayoral election, as he seems poised to do, and former special prosecutor Nick Akerman urged him in a column for MSNBC to start strategizing now for his coming legal battles.