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President Donald Trump was confronted on Thursday evening by ABC News senior correspondent Rachel Scott, who asked him to justify all the vanity projects he is engaged in all over Washington, D.C., like the renovation of the Reflecting Pool — and he lost his temper.

"Mr. President, we are here against the backdrop of a war in Iran," Scott said. "Why focus on all these projects as gas prices soar?"

President Donald Trump broke with FIFA this week, telling the New York Post he wouldn't pay the sky-high ticket prices for the 2026 World Cup — and hinted that his administration may take a closer look at the pricing.

In a brief phone call with the Post on Wednesday night, Trump expressed surprise at the cost of tickets for the U.S. men's team's opening game against Paraguay on June 12 in Los Angeles, where the cheapest seats are running around $1,000 on Ticketmaster.

The Wall Street Journal's editorial board couldn't hide its satisfaction on Thursday after a federal court struck down President Donald Trump's latest round of tariffs — calling it "rule of law 2, Trump's tariffs 0" and comparing him unfavorably to Joe Biden.

A 2-1 majority of the U.S. Court of International Trade ruled Trump's Section 122 tariffs unlawful, dealing the president his second major tariff defeat in three months. Trump had invoked Section 122 to reimpose border taxes after the Supreme Court struck down his emergency tariffs under a separate law in February.

President Donald Trump downplayed the risks of the hantavirus outbreak when asked about it by reporters.

Hantavirus is a virulent, slow-incubating infection spread by rodents; an estimated 38 percent of infected people who develop respiratory symptoms die, and up to 15 percent who develop hemorrhagic fever symptoms. The disease has flared up on a luxury cruise ship off the coast of Africa, leaving three people dead.

Inmates at a Texas federal prison were punished for speaking to reporters about Ghislaine Maxwell — including one who says the warden told her she had "ruined her weekend," according to a new CNN investigation.

Julie Howell, a former inmate at Federal Prison Camp Bryan in Texas, told CNN she was transferred to a higher-security federal detention center in Houston later that day after sharing her views about Maxwell's arrival at the minimum-security camp with a British reporter last August. Howell, who had recently begun serving a one-year sentence for financial crimes, said she consulted the prison handbook before speaking to the press and believed she was within her rights to do so.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio got a round of derision by MS NOW's "The Weeknight" panel on Thursday for his efforts to patch up the ongoing conflicts between President Donald Trump and Pope Leo XIV, whom the president has repeatedly attacked for condemning war with Iran.

Stephen Schneck, who heads the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, brought some needed perspective to the issue.

A federal judge ruled against President Donald Trump's Department of Government Efficiency on Thursday, finding that the group's mass cancellation of National Endowment for the Humanities grants was illegal — and that a key part of the process relied on ChatGPT.

DOGE, partly the brainchild of tech billionaire Elon Musk when he was advising the Trump administration, promised to find and reform government waste and make federal agencies run a leaner operation — something that the project failed to do in terms of federal spending.