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CNN anchor Abby Phillip repeatedly sparred Friday night with a conservative podcast host during a tense debate over presidential tariff powers following the White House’s devastating Supreme Court loss.

The argument ignited when Anthony Esposito, who co-hosts the “Policy & Profits” podcast, dismissed the court’s conclusion that tariffs function as taxes.

The Justice Department said Friday that a newly appointed interim U.S. attorney in Virginia was fired just hours after federal judges selected him to lead the influential office, triggering a fresh clash between the judiciary and the Trump administration.

According to CNN, judges in the Eastern District of Virginia unanimously appointed veteran defense attorney James Hundley to serve as interim U.S. attorney after Trump loyalist Lindsey Halligan was forced out last month.

President Donald Trump's meltdown at his own appointed Supreme Court justices following their decision to block his ability to impose tariffs under emergency powers law is unbecoming of his office, Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D-IL) told MS NOW's Jen Psaki on Friday.

Pritzker said the outburst points to ongoing cognitive decline.

The Trump-Kennedy Center was hit by what officials described as a “calculated, malicious attack” Friday after a toxic substance was poured across its outdoor ice rink, forcing the cancellation of a scheduled performance, according to Fox News.

A center official said a dark brown-black substance was deliberately spread across the ice surface, severely damaging the outdoor rink. Images from the scene show a large section of the ice covered with the substance, and a plastic gallon-size jug left behind.

Far-right North Carolina Senate candidate Michele Morrow made an embarrassing mix-up that sent her candidacy paperwork to the completely wrong election agency.

According to Carolina Forward, Morrow tried to file her paperwork with the North Carolina State Board of Elections, which would be the correct agency if she were running for a state office like governor or state representative, but is not the right agency for a federal office like U.S. Senate.

A legal scholar on Friday zeroed in on Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s dissent in the Supreme Court’s sweeping tariff ruling, saying it stood out not just for its shaky legal footing but for how closely it mirrored the government’s arguments.

In an interview on CNN, NYU law professor Ryan Goodman said he was struck by Kavanaugh’s role in the three-justice dissent – and by how the majority responded to it.

The husband of President Donald Trump's Secretary of Labor will not face federal charges for the allegations against him of sexual assault.

"Scoop: Feds won't charge Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer's husband after a DC police probe was launched into alleged sex assaults of female staffers — one of which was captured on a department security camera," reported Josh Christienson of the New York Post. "A spokesperson for DC US Attorney Jeanine Pirro tells The Post, 'Based upon the evidence presented to this office in relation to the video, there is no indication of a crime.'"

German soccer powerhouse Werder Bremen is pulling the plug on its summer trip to Minnesota, citing violence and chaos stemming from the Trump administration's aggressive immigration crackdown.

“Playing in a city where there’s unrest and people have been shot, that does not fit with our values here at Werder Bremen,” Christoph Pieper, the club’s head of communications, told Politico in a Friday statement. “Furthermore, it was unclear for us which players could be able to enter the United States due to the stricter entry requirements.”

A legal scholar and former Pentagon official warned Friday that President Donald Trump’s attacks on the Supreme Court following his tariff defeat could send a troubling signal across the court system.

Appearing on CNN, NYU professor Ryan Goodman, a former Department of Defense special counsel, said Trump’s rhetoric toward the justices in the aftermath of his sweeping loss at the high court was “very disturbing and unfair.”

An irate President Donald Trump wasn't finished blasting the Supreme Court over his tariff loss, unleashing yet another fiery tirade on Truth Social, expressing his fury at two of his own Supreme Court appointees for what he characterized as a courtroom betrayal.

Trump took direct aim at right-wing Justices Neil Gorsuch and Amy Coney Barrett, claiming they sided against Republicans in a decision he views as catastrophic.

A controversial Texas Republican called a prominent fact-checking site a liar for saying he called for deporting Native Americans from the United States — but observers quickly hit him with the receipts.

Bo French, the fiery former chairman of the Republican Party of Tarrant County, is running for the Texas Railroad Commission, one of a number of GOP candidates challenging incumbent Chairman Jim Wright. The Texas Railroad Commission is a body that regulates the oil and gas industry throughout the state, and therefore has far-reaching impacts on energy and environmental policy.

The Wall Street Journal's editorial board delivered a blistering rebuke to President Donald Trump following his fiery outburst earlier in the day to the Supreme Court's 6-3 decision striking down his signature emergency tariff policy.

In a stinging opinion piece, the conservative publication argued that Trump owes an apology to both the individual justices he attacked and the institution itself. The editors admitted that's unlikely to happen.

President Donald Trump lashed out again Friday evening at members of the Supreme Court who voted against his tariff policy, calling their decision "ridiculous" and vowing to work around the loss.

The Supreme Court struck down Trump’s sweeping emergency tariffs in a 6–3 decision authored by conservative Chief Justice John Roberts. The justices held that the underlying statute does not clearly authorize such broad unilateral tariff powers, marking a major rebuke of a signature second-term economic policy.