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A decision by Donald Trump to launch an assault on Iran with the help of Israel has set off a firestorm among longtime supporters who helped propel him to a second term based, in part, on his promise of no foreign military interventions.

In the wee hours of the night in the US, jets pounded Tehran, with smoke being seen near the presidential palace.

President Donald Trump issued a late-night demand for arrests, claiming a dramatic rise in Minnesota autism payments amounts to a ‘GIANT SCAM.”

“Minnesota Autism Payments have gone from $1,099,946 in 2017, to $343,176,474 in 2024, an increase of 34,000% in just a few years,” Trump wrote Friday night on his Truth Social platform.

House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer attempted to use Bill Clinton's statement to shield President Trump from congressional testimony. Comer told reporters that Clinton said Trump "has never said anything to me to make me think he was involved" with Epstein. However, Rep. Robert García disputed Comer's characterization of Clinton's remarks. MSNBC's Ali Vitali noted Comer was trying to preemptively counter Democratic arguments that Trump, mentioned hundreds of times in the Epstein files, should testify. Vitali highlighted a major flaw in the strategy: if the committee questions spouses without direct knowledge, like Hillary Clinton regarding Bill, it creates a double standard for refusing to question Melania Trump, who appears in Epstein files and corresponds with Ghislaine Maxwell. The approach exposes both Trump and Melania to accusations of partisan double standards.

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The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has filed what legal analysts are calling a blistering Supreme Court brief urging the justices to strike down President Donald Trump’s executive order abolishing birthright citizenship for many immigrants’ children.

The conference – which frequently backs conservative positions at the high court – delivered what Slate described as a “searing, full-throated rebuke” of the president’s order.

Radiohead issued a statement on Friday demanding that the Department of Homeland Security remove their song "Let Down" (1997) from an ICE promotional video. The track was used without permission or rights. The band called out DHS, "amateurs in control of the ICE social media account," stating how the song, "means a lot to us and other people" and cannot be appropriated without opposition. The incident reflects a broader pattern of Republican misuse of musicians' work. Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood previously demanded the removal of his "Phantom Thread" composition from the Melania Trump documentary, with producer Marc Beckman claiming other rock artists were eager to participate but unable to name examples. Kenny Loggins similarly objected to unauthorized use of "Danger Zone." Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the U.S.A.", a critique of the Vietnam War, has been repeatedly misappropriated by Republicans for decades as well.

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A former Trump administration AI policy adviser is blasting Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth over what he calls a “psychotic power grab” amid an escalating dispute between the Pentagon and artificial intelligence firm Anthropic.

The clash intensified after President Donald Trump insisted on his Truth Social platform Friday that the firm will no longer be allowed to do business with the federal government, and blasted it as a “Radical Left AI company.” The company has reportedly resisted Pentagon demands to remove safeguards preventing its AI models from approving the use of deadly force without human input.

President Donald Trump and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem have repeatedly bragged that the Trump administration is allowing "zero" unauthorized immigrants to cross the border into the United States. But a new scoop from the conservative Washington Examiner reveals that's not true — and some immigrants are indeed being released into the country after being apprehended.

"Although the number of border crossers let into the interior of the country is significantly smaller than it was during the Biden administration, that some illegal immigrants have been released into the U.S. at all appears to contradict President Donald Trump’s claim during the State of the Union address, as well as numerous statements by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, that no one had been let in since early last summer," reported Anna Giaritelli.

Former Justice Department attorney Kim Wehle cautioned against complacency following the Supreme Court's 6-3 ruling against Trump's tariffs, arguing the decision does not signal a meaningful check on presidential power expansion. While the Court struck down the tariffs in Learning Resources, Inc. v. Trump, Wehle warned the ruling represents "a check—but not a constitutional reset." She cited three concerns: the decision was not unanimous, it benefited "the very rich," and the Court has yet to meaningfully constrain Trump's authority. Wehle emphasized that the rule of law depends on sustained judicial fidelity to principle, not isolated opinions. She called for holding justices accountable by praising constitutional adherence and persistently criticizing betrayals of law. Wehle stressed vigilance is necessary to determine whether the majority is guided by the Constitution or politics.

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Israel's ambassador to the U.S. unleashed a blistering attack on Tucker Carlson Friday, blasting the former Fox News host's rhetoric as offensive and deeply troubling.

Carlson has repeatedly suggested that Benjamin Netanyahu, the prime minister of Israel, is pulling the strings on Trump's intense Iran pressure campaign — a claim Leiter flatly rejected.

A former Trump strategist expressed confusion Friday over House Republicans’ decision to subpoena former President Bill Clinton, questioning what lawmakers hoped to accomplish.

Appearing on Anderson Cooper 360, GOP strategist David Urban suggested the effort produced few results.

The Wall Street Journal editorial board sharply condemned President Donald Trump on Friday for ordering the federal government to blackball Anthropic, an artificial intelligence firm that had refused to relax its safety rules to let the Defense Department deploy automated surveillance and military strikes.

Trump proclaimed in a Truth Social rant earlier in the day that the "Leftwing nut job" firm, which operates the Claude AI model, was forcing the Pentagon to "obey their Terms of Service instead of our Constitution" and vowed that all federal contracts with the company would be phased out.

Two federal judges are raising concerns about Attorney General Pam Bondi’s use of social media to publicize a string of arrests tied to the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement surge in Minnesota.

In a recent order, U.S. Magistrate Judge Dulce Foster said Bondi’s posts on X – which included names and, in many cases, photographs of defendants shortly after their arrests – “violated a court order” sealing the cases, Politico reported Friday. The criticism came in connection with the prosecution of Nitzana Flores, who is accused of attacking two Border Patrol agents during a scuffle.