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Far-right Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk is fresh from being overturned at the Supreme Court for trying to bring down the Food and Drug Administration's process for approving drugs. Now, he's looking at regulations on energy-efficient dishwashers and washing machines.

Reuters reported Friday that a conservative group in Texas is suing the Department of Energy for its standards involving the appliances, saying that President Joe Biden's "administration lacked authority to adopt the regulations."

Barely two days after House Republicans passed a criminal referral of Attorney General Merrick Garland to the Justice Department for contempt of Congress, the DOJ signaled it would be rejecting their demand for criminal prosecution.

The contempt referral was based on DOJ's refusal to hand over the raw footage of President Joe Biden's interview with special counsel Robert Hur in the classified documents investigation — even though the GOP already had the complete transcript of that interview. The Biden administration considered this demand a pretext to hunt for embarrassing footage to clip out of context for GOP campaigns, and invoked executive privilege over the tape.

The Department of Justice will not act on House Republicans' referral to criminally charge Attorney General Merrick Garland.

According to The Guardian's Hugo Lowell, DOJ "won't prosecute Garland for contempt of Congress, saying refusal to provide Biden audio wasn't a crime."

"The Apprentice" is not only the name of the hit reality show that featured Donald Trump during the 2000s — it is also the title of director Ali Abbasi's new movie about the former president's relationship with controversial attorney Roy Cohn, who served as counsel to the infamous Sen. Joseph McCarthy (R-WI) during the 1950s before representing a young Trump during the 1970s.

The New York Times' Michelle Goldberg discusses the film Friday, arguing that Trump and his allies are making a concerted effort to prevent U.S. audiences from seeing it.

Lawrence Summers, who served as the 71st Secretary of the Treasury under former President Bill Clinton, warned of “worldwide economic warfare” if Donald Trump implements his policy proposals, Bloomberg reports.

Summers spoke with Bloomberg Television’s Wall Street Week with David Westin on Friday, describing Trump’s policy ideas as “a prescription for the mother of all stagflations.”

According to Bloomberg, Summers’ comments came on the heels of Trump, in a meeting with Republicans on Capitol Hill Thursday, floating “using tariff hikes as a way to pay for some income tax cuts.”

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Trump in that meeting “also proposed a minimum 10 percent universal import levy and a punitive rate for China,” Bloomberg reports.

Speaking to Westin on Friday, Summers warned there’s never “been a more inflationary presidential economic policy platform in my lifetime,” comparing the proposal to “George McGovern in 1972.”

Though Summers conceded Trump could be following the time-honored tradition of presidential candidates “not [being] serious about the things they say,” the former Treasury secretary described Trump’s public policy platform as an “irresponsible set of proposals.”

NATO on Friday agreed to play a bigger role in coordinating weapon deliveries to Ukraine, as part of a Western push to ensure support continues whatever the results of November's US elections.

Faced with the looming spectre of a potential return to the White House for Donald Trump, Kyiv's backers are rushing to try to lock in commitments before aid from Washington might dry up.

Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) and Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) were compared unfavorably to one of their fellow Ohio Republicans by editorial staffers at one of the state's leading newspapers.

Four editors for Cleveland.com convened on the "Today in Ohio" podcast, where they highlighted Rep. Dave Joyce (R-OH) as the only GOP lawmaker to vote against holding U.S. attorney general Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress for refusing to turn over recordings from president Joe Biden's interview with special counsel Robert Hur.

Former President Donald Trump boomeranged between hurling F-bombs and cooing loving words in conversations with his top medical adviser during the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Anthony Fauci reportedly reveals in his new book.

Trump told Fauci he would win the 2020 election in a "f---ing landslide" no matter what "all these other f---ing people think." He added that Fauci had cost the U.S. economy “one trillion f---ing dollars," and that President Joe Biden was a "f---er" whose "a--" he was going to "kick," the Daily Beast's coverage on Fauci's new book reports.

Donald Trump met in Washington, D.C., with a gathering of top business leaders who were reportedly surprised by what they encountered.

The former president and presumptive Republican nominee spoke Thursday at Business Roundtable’s quarterly meeting, where he promised to cut taxes and roll back regulations if re-elected – and got laughed at for suggesting eliminating taxes on tips – but CNBC's Andrew Sorkin said some of the CEOs were alarmed by his behavior during the event.

As Donald Trump turns 78 on Friday, CNN is reporting that he is losing the battle for voters close to his age who are becoming more active about keeping him out of the Oval Office as the presidential election nears.

Case in point, Gussie Farris, 86, a retired school counselor from Grand Rapids, who told CNN's Jeff Zeleny that Trump's brash style may make him seem a lot younger than President Joe Biden.

However, she added that that is misleading.

“Because Trump is big and loud, he doesn’t come off as old as maybe Biden does, but he’s way less capable in the brain area,” she said before laughing.

“I have people that come up to me because they know I’m a Democrat and say, ‘What can I do? I have to do something, find me something to do.’ I’ve never had that happen before,” she elaborated. “They don’t want Trump. They don’t want him to be the president. And I think they’re scared. They’re worried about our democracy and what he would do.”

Naps, bankruptcies, business failures, impeachments, lawsuits, scandals, election losses and criminal charges: Former President Donald Trump has one such "accomplishment" for every year of his life, according to President Joe Biden.

And Biden should know — he counted.

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski hammered right-wing media for spreading misleading photos and video that falsely appear to show president Joe Biden wandering away from a group of world leaders.

A social media account managed by Donald Trump campaign shared a clip that appeared to show the president doddering off from the gathering at the G7 summit Thursday before the Italian prime minister alerts him to a group photo, and the New York Post and other outlets owned by Rupert Murdoch seized on the video to suggest Biden was too old and infirm to be re-elected.