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Ousted Attorney General Pam Bondi passed the buck in her closed-door House Oversight Committee hearing on Friday by pinning problems with the Jeffrey Epstein files on the man who took her job.

Based upon the release of her opening statement to the committee, a bemused MS NOW correspondent Ken Dilanian claimed the fired AG did not do acting-Attorney General Todd Blanche any favors.

Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) was ridiculed for posting a classic fable warning against placing trust in unworthy individuals after his Republican primary loss.

President Donald Trump extended a last-minute endorsement to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton that tipped this week's runoff election away from Cornyn, who had courted the president's favor during the campaign and even proposed naming a U.S. highway after him.

Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) left critics dumbfounded on Friday after suggesting that James Talarico, the Democratic nominee for Senate from Texas, would engage in religious child sacrifice.

The official social media account on X for the Democratic Party promoted Talarico’s candidacy this week with a simple message: “James Talarico is the only candidate who will put you first.” Lee, known for his controversial online remarks, issued a response just hours later.

Republican lawmakers already on the defensive over Donald Trump’s $1.8 billion “slush fund” and his controversial IRS deal approved by acting-Attorney General Todd Blanche have a new “headache,” reported The Hill Friday.

The report noted that the GOP faces a new crisis with prominent conservatives publicly condemning the Trump Justice Department's investigation of E. Jean Carroll on possible perjury charges — calling it a politically motivated prosecution that demands immediate GOP intervention.

Stephen Colbert's replacement was hit by a withering review comparing his late-night comedy program to an informercial Friday.

CBS canceled "The Late Show," that had been long hosted by Colbert, and turned over the 11:30 p.m. slot to Byron Allen's "Comics Unleashed" — who is paying CBS $15 million a year for the half-hour segment. The Guardian's Andrew Lawrence dragged the poorly rated replacement program from start to finish.

A federal judge has slammed the brakes on President Donald Trump's massive compensation fund for allies who believe they were wrongly targeted by President Joe Biden's government.

Virginia-based U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema temporarily blocked the administration from moving forward with plans to establish a $1.776 billion "Anti-Weaponization Fund," including transferring taxpayer dollars from the Department of Treasury or considering any claims to the fund, reported CNN.

Federal agents have been interviewing current and former election officials in Milwaukee about the 2020 presidential election, intensifying a nationwide review of voting in swing states that President Donald Trump lost six years ago.

The FBI's Milwaukee field office has visited the homes of former election officials in recent weeks and is planning to interview police officers who worked on election night, people familiar with the matter told The Washington Post. Agents have also spoken with the deputy administrator of Wisconsin's elections commission and the director of Milwaukee's elections commission.

A foreign national arrested after “illegal biological lab” was discovered in one of their managed properties in Nevada had the charges dropped this week in what Zeteo described as a “remarkable situation,” one in which President Donald Trump was labeled an "active participant."

That foreign national is 55-year-old Ori Solomon, an Israeli citizen and property manager who was in the United States on a non-immigrant visa. Law enforcement was tipped off in January after a cleaner hired to work at one of Solomon's Las Vegas properties fell "deathly ill" upon entering the garage, where "glass beakers with reddish liquid inside” and a “biological safety cabinet” they believed was a “centrifuge," was found, ABC News reported.

Fox News' Brian Kilmeade appeared to admit Friday that President Donald Trump's apparent sleeping spells during meetings were real — but mounted a personal defense of the president's frequent snoozing while pleading with viewers to "please stop" drawing attention to it.

“I've been accused of a lot of things but not cognitive decline — anyone who's with me on Friday or Saturday, or sometimes around 2 o’clock on the train, I will fall asleep!” Kilmeade said on “Fox & Friends.” “That's what happens when you sleep four hours a day, and for his case, you have the weight of the country on your shoulders. Sometimes you fall asleep, let alone being 80 years old!”

MS NOW host Mika Brzezinski asked her guest, Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ), to take over for her as she grew tearful talking about horrific conditions ICE detainees are being subjected to in Department of Homeland Security facilities the "Morning Joe" co-host called "concentration camps."

A discussion with co-host Jonthan Lemire about threats new DHS head Markwayne Mullin has been aiming at the nation’s airports, set Brzezinski off, as she lambasted Donald Trump’s administration with her voice breaking and her eyes filling with tears.

The mood inside the "60 Minutes" newsroom on Manhattan's 57th Street was one of devastation Thursday after CBS News head Bari Weiss purged the program's leadership — ousting beloved executives and announcing an inexperienced tech journalist as the new executive producer, despite the show finishing its season with a massive rating increase.

According to more than a half-dozen current and former staffers speaking with media watchdog Status, the firings triggered an emotional crisis inside the iconic newsmagazine.

Another performer has pulled out of the "Freedom 250" festival following widespread backlash over its association with President Donald Trump.

Rocker Bret Michaels, of Poison fame, announced on social media Friday morning that the event celebrating the anniversary of America's founding has become politically toxic and had subjected him to a wave of violent threats, so he became the fifth of nine announced acts to pull out.