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Attorney General Todd Blanche deployed the Justice Department to defend President Donald Trump's embattled IRS settlement just one day after being sworn in.

The May settlement shielded Trump, his family, and businesses from IRS audits in exchange for dropping a $10 billion lawsuit against the agency.

A federal judge issued a blunt warning to Trump Justice Department lawyers this week, making clear his patience with stonewalling over the Epstein files is running thin.

Senior U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan didn't mince words during Thursday's public hearing, All Rise News reported — reminding the courtroom of his history of holding government attorneys in contempt during a previous high-profile corruption case involving the late Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK).

Historian Heather Cox Richardson says the MAGA movement is falling apart — and that a rattled Donald Trump is growing weaker by the day.

In her latest video, the author of the popular "Letters from an American" newsletter laid out what she called mounting signs the president's coalition is fracturing.

A federal judge warned Attorney General Todd Blanche that Justice Department lawyers could face contempt of court for defying orders to release Epstein files.

U.S. District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan delivered the warning Thursday at a status hearing in journalist Katie Phang's lawsuit against Blanche, which has now produced two court orders Blanche has defied.

Andrew Weissmann, a former prosecutor at the Department of Justice, was shocked to discover lawyers for Indian billionaire Gautam Adani offered the Department of Justice a $10 billion U.S. investment in exchange for dismissing criminal fraud charges.

Weissmann led the Department of Justice, or DOJ's, fraud section for two decades.

There's a storm brewing over an upcoming debate between MAGA heavyweights, according to a new report.

On Friday, MAGA personalities Candace Owens and Andrew Wilson will face off in a debate about Charlie Kirk's assassination, The Bulwark reported. Owens plans to present a case that there is a broader conspiracy at play, while Wilson plans to argue that Tyler Robinson, Kirk's accused killer, acted out of his own volition.

The mental health breakdown aboard the U.S.S. Lincoln as President Donald Trump's Iran war drags on is reaching the breaking point, Pentagon reporter Priya Sridhar told MS NOW's Katy Tur on Wednesday.

"Heartbreaking" reports have been flooding in about sailors jumping, or trying to jump, off the side of the vessel as their conditions and psyches deteriorate, she noted — and they "feel like there's no end in sight."

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt is resigning from her position, President Donald Trump announced on Truth Social Wednesday afternoon.

"Our wonderful White House Press Secretary, and one of my most trusted aides, Karoline Leavitt, will be departing her role at the end of the month so she can spend more time with her beautiful young children and family," Trump wrote.

Sen. Tommy Tuberville has found a way to pass the long drives across Alabama: chatting out loud with ChatGPT about major policy issues.

The Alabama Republican, now eyeing the governor's mansion, peppers the bot with questions about Medicare and Medicaid and listens as its voice answers back, according to The Washington Post.

The Kennedy Center board is moving once again to put President Donald Trump's name on the side of the performing arts center — defying court orders.

The Trump-loyal board voted Thursday to inscribe "Restored and Renovated by President Donald J. Trump" beneath the venue's main signage — a workaround to a federal law banning new memorials or plaques at the center, The New York Times reported. The move came shortly after the board also voted to move forward with shuttering the main building for two years of renovations, a plan Trump first floated in February, calling the historic venue "tired, broken and dilapidated."