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President Donald Trump has put up multiple excuses for not being able to attend his eldest son Donald Trump Jr.'s wedding in the Bahamas — and the explanation he settled on was that it is "not good timing" with all his responsibilities and with Memorial Day coming up.

But according to an analysis by The Daily Beast, Trump has taken time to golf extensively during similarly busy and high-stakes moments of his presidency.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis appeared to run away Friday when reporters asked about President Donald Trump's $1.776 billion "Anti-Weaponization Fund."

DeSantis broke into a sprint up stairs to exit onto the street.

A series of explosions tore through a barge at a Staten Island shipyard Friday afternoon, killing one person and injuring 34 firefighters and emergency medical workers in a chaotic emergency that Mayor Zohran Mamdani called "complex" and "fast-developing."

The initial blast struck the barge at 3:25 p.m. in Arlington, an industrial neighborhood along Staten Island's northern coast, triggering a massive FDNY response, The New York Times reported. Crews arrived to thick smoke and were told two workers were unaccounted for inside the vessel. Less than an hour later, the barge erupted again, this time with firefighters positioned in, on top of, and beside it as they searched for the missing workers and battled the flames. The 4:19 p.m. blast wounded dozens.

President Donald Trump is dragging the Republican Party down at a moment when it could cost them everything, the conservative-leaning Wall Street Journal editorial board wrote in an analysis published on Friday evening.

"Republicans don’t want to say this publicly, but privately they do," wrote the board, an increasingly frequent critic of the president's policies despite sharing many of his political beliefs. "President Trump’s personal political obsessions are hurting his Presidency, harming the chances for further policy gains the rest of this year, and putting control of the House and Senate in jeopardy."

Virginia Lt. Gov. Ghazala Hashmi published an op-ed in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Friday criticizing Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-GA) for xenophobic and anti-Muslim remarks targeting Virginia state Sen. Saddam Salim, an immigrant from Bangladesh who authored gun violence prevention legislation.

Clyde's social media post called for denaturalizing and deporting Salim, claiming immigrants with beliefs incompatible with the Constitution endanger the country.

A judge has dismissed Donald Trump biographer Michael Wolff's lawsuit against first lady Melania Trump, accusing him of employing "gamesmanship" and "forum-shopping" tactics.

According to TMZ, "Wolff — the longtime Trump biographer behind books like 'Fire and Fury' — sued after Melania's lawyers threatened him with a $1 Billion defamation lawsuit tied to comments he made linking her to late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein."

An Iraqi terrorist with ties to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps allegedly pledged to kill Ivanka Trump in retaliation for her father's 2020 assassination of Iranian military chief Qasem Soleimani, and had a blueprint of her Florida home to prove he was serious, the New York Post reported Friday.

Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood Al-Saadi, a senior commander within the Iran-backed militia Kata'ib Hizballah, was arrested in Turkey on May 15 and moved to the United States, where he now faces six terrorism-related counts in Manhattan federal court. The Justice Department said he directed or coordinated nearly 20 attacks across Europe and North America since March, including an explosives attack on a Bank of New York Mellon branch in Amsterdam, a stabbing of two Jewish men in London, and a shooting at the U.S. consulate in Toronto.

The Trump administration is ordering federal agencies to install the White House's new app on the government-issued phones of millions of employees in a move IT experts are calling "dangerous" and unprecedented, according to a report from Government Executive published Friday.

The app, launched in March, promises users "unfiltered" access to the administration's priorities and includes a feed of presidential social media posts, policy announcements, and even a button that lets users send a pre-written text reading "Greatest President Ever!" to Trump.

Tulsi Gabbard resigned as Director of National Intelligence on Friday after months of pressure from President Donald Trump, with her last day set for June 30.

In her resignation letter, published by Fox News, Gabbard cited her husband Abraham's recent diagnosis with a rare form of bone cancer, stating she could not ask him to face the battle alone and maintain the demanding position. However, the departure follows months of reports indicating Trump wanted her gone due to internal friction.