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President Donald Trump's Justice Department has been pressuring an acting U.S. attorney to indict Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA) even though she hasn't been able to make a legitimate case for it, according to a report.

Writing for MSNBC.com on Thursday, Carol Leonnig, Vaughn Hillyard, Ken Dilanian, and Lisa Rubin collaborated on a report revealing that Kelly O. Hayes, a career prosecutor in Maryland, was specifically pressured by Ed Martin, who is running the "weaponization task force" investigations.

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) took a swipe at CNN during an interview with anchor Jake Tapper because the network hosted a town hall with two progressive lawmakers, whom Johnson described as "socialist."

On Wednesday, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) hosted a live town hall on CNN, where the duo heaped criticism on Johnson and the Republican caucus for the government shutdown.

President Donald Trump suffered a legal blow on Thursday, after a three-judge panel of the Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit refused to lift a lower court order that prohibited him from sending in the National Guard to Chicago. Judges Ilana Rovner, David Hamilton, and Amy St. Eve — appointed respectively by Presidents George H. W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Trump — found the district court had not erred in disputing that Trump was actually combating a rebellion, as the law allows for.

"The district court provided substantial and specific reasons for crediting the plaintiffs’ declarations over the administration’s, and the record includes ample support for that decision. Given the record support, the findings are not clearly erroneous," said the opinion.

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made several bizarre claims during a press conference on Thursday announcing the Trump administration's plan to expand fertility treatment coverage.

The Trump administration announced on Thursday that it plans to expand access to in vitro fertilization by getting companies like Germany's Merck that manufacture fertility medicines to slash their prices. Trump announced on Thursday that EMD Serono, a subsidiary of Merck, made a deal with the administration to lower the cost of its fertility medicines.

Former national security advisor for Donald Trump, John Bolton, was indicted on Thursday, prompting a warning from another former administration official.

Miles Taylor, the former chief of staff at the Department of Homeland Security, explained that no American is safe because the administration is accessing information about anyone it wants.

A top military commander who oversaw U.S. operations in South and Central America resigned on Thursday, less than a year into his tenure, and at least one insider speculates that the Pentagon's strikes on drug boats off the coast of Venezuela may have played a part in his decision, according to a new report.

The New York Times reported on Thursday that Admiral Alvin Holsey, who leads U.S. Southern Command, departed after a 37-year career in the military. His resignation comes at a time when the Pentagon has amassed nearly 10,000 troops in the region as part of a "counterterrorism" operation, according to the report.

U.S. Attorney for D.C. Jeanine Pirro's office failed to secure a misdemeanor conviction against a woman after also failing three attempts to have grand juries indict her on felony assault charges.

In July, Pirro's office accused Sydney Lori Reid, 44, of assaulting FBI agent Eugenia Bates while she was assisting ICE officer Vincent Liang, who was waiting to arrest two people outside of DC Jail. Liang grabbed Reid as she was filming and pushed her against a wall.

President Donald Trump's former National Security Adviser, John Bolton, was indicted by a federal grand jury on Thursday afternoon, CNN's Katelyn Polantz reported on air.

This came after reporting of a lengthy investigation, spanning both the Trump and Joe Biden administrations, into Bolton's handling of classified information, and specifically his use of an AOL account to record information related to his work.

President Donald Trump slammed the International Maritime Organization, a United Nations agency that oversees shipping safety, in a new Truth Social post on Wednesday after it adopted a global carbon tax.

"I am outraged that the International Maritime Organization is voting in London this week to pass a global Carbon Tax," Trump's post reads in part. "The United States will NOT stand for this Global Green New Scam Tax on Shipping, and will not adhere to it in any way, shape, or form."

Yet another legal battle flared up on Thursday in the fight over Utah's congressional map.

Utah Republicans have filed a "petition to the legislature," to repeal Utah's anti-gerrymandering constitutional mechanism known as Proposition 4 — which would let the GOP-dominated state legislature continue passing rigged congressional maps that chop up the Salt Lake City area to deny any representation to Democrats.