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A Republican strategist’s reaction during a live CNN broadcast drew laughter after he was pressed on a sharp conservative critique of President Donald Trump

During a segment on CNN Friday, host Kasie Hunt called attention to GOP strategist Brad Todd’s visible discomfort as the discussion turned to Trump’s growing tensions with Pope Leo XIV.

President Donald Trump and his sons are negotiating with the Internal Revenue Service to settle a $10 billion lawsuit without trial, according to a motion filed Friday with IRS consent.

Trump filed the lawsuit after taking office, claiming an IRS contractor leaked his tax information. Unlike most modern presidents, Trump has repeatedly refused to release his tax returns publicly.

Far-right conspiracy theorist webcaster Alex Jones took to X on Friday to accuse President Donald Trump of deliberately throwing the midterms on behalf of a foreign power.

"This is my response to the new attack President Trump launched on myself and other sane American patriots today. The evidence is overwhelming President Trump is committing political suicide on purpose, and has made a deal to sabotage the midterms," he wrote, accompanied by a 5-minute video manifesto. "America is now under the control of a foreign government."

Unnamed Republican sources told Salon columnist Brian Karem that President Donald Trump would likely be impeached, convicted, and removed from office if a secret ballot vote were taken today.

Sources with ties to Sen. John Thune's office acknowledged such a vote is not currently viable but did not rule out a future possibility.

President Donald Trump said in a phone interview Friday that Iran has “agreed to everything” in ongoing talks with the United States, including allowing the removal of its enriched uranium, according to CBS News.

Trump insisted the effort would not involve U.S. ground troops, but offered few specifics about how the materials would be secured.

President Donald Trump's Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention practices are so outside of what the law allows that even judges he appointed are freeing immigrants found to have committed serious crimes, and who sometimes have deportation orders against them, because they weren't detained lawfully.

This is on top of the much more public, and outrage-inspiring, cases in which the Trump administration is targeting U.S. citizens, lawful permanent residents, immigrants who otherwise were following the law, and even military veterans.

Trump administration officials are increasingly employing religious symbolism to justify the Iran war and other unpopular policies, according to New York Times correspondent Maggie Haberman.

President Donald Trump posted an image depicting himself as a Christlike healer, while Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has framed the conflict in explicitly religious terms and quoted Bible verses during press updates, though one quote was actually dialogue from a Quentin Tarantino film.

Trump's Commerce Secretary, Howard Lutnick, drew ridicule Friday when he promised America's growth rate would reach 6 percent under President Donald Trump's leadership.

Lutnick spoke at the Semafor World Economy Summit during a live session in which he acknowledged Trump's war in Iran created "fear and uncertainty." Despite stark warnings of economic catastrophe from chaos surrounding the Strait of Hormuz and Trump's tariffs, Lutnick maintained America's Golden Age is right around the corner.

President Donald Trump's confused reaction to the term "corner store" drew withering mockery and scrutiny from MS NOW's Katy Tur on Friday, who pulled it into a broader discussion of how Trump has lost his ability to look relatable to the common man.

"Donald Trump's had a remarkable ability in 2016 of making people believe he was like them," said Tur. "Ignore the private 747, the Fifth Avenue tower, the golf courses, the limousines, and all that gold. Donald Trump is just like us, they'd say. He gets us. He talks like us. He eats like us. He thinks like us. He's us if we were rich, and he's out there fighting for us, it worked so well. He has been coasting off that perception for more than a decade now, even making some truly hardscrabble working class politicians look like mealy-mouthed robots programmed with poll-tested talking points."

The new boss of CBS who claimed he was too swamped to face Congress was caught red-handed making time for something far more to his liking — a private dinner with the president whose goodwill he has chased.

Paramount Skydance chief David Ellison, who seized control of CBS last summer, ducked a Senate appearance Wednesday by citing a death in the family. Twenty-four hours later, he took the stage in front of a roomful of movie industry insiders at CinemaCon, the Daily Beast noted Friday.

A Phoenix-area high school pulled the plug on a planned on-campus appearance by Erika Kirk after a wave of student and parent complaints forced administrators to reconsider hosting the Turning Point USA chief during school hours, according to a new report.

Pinnacle High School principal Jeremy Richards sent families a notice Thursday announcing the event would be relocated off school grounds and pushed to after the final bell, saying the visit had the potential to create serious problems for the school day, The Daily Beast reported Friday.