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Journalist Michael Wolff, who has written four books about President Donald Trump, revealed in an interview on Thursday that the lawsuit he filed against the First Lady could blow up in Trump's face.

Wolff sued First Lady Melania Trump on Wednesday, accusing her of trying to prevent him from reporting on her ties with disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein. Melania Trump previously threatened Wolff with a $1 billion lawsuit because of claims he made during an episode of "The Daily Beast Podcast."

President Donald Trump's press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, just committed her "biggest unforced error" yet, according to one Democratic analyst,.

Progressive YouTuber Brian Tyler Cohen said on Thursday during a new episode of his eponymous podcast that Leavitt made the error during her daily press briefing. In response to a question about other planned renovations at the White House, Leavitt claimed that the "ballroom is really the president's main priority."

A series of dark discoveries in the waters of the Caribbean prompted further questions about President Donald Trump's military strikes on boats alleged to be operated by drug traffickers.

"The first body washed ashore on Trinidad’s northeastern coast soon after the United States carried out its first strike in September on a boat in the Caribbean. Villagers said the corpse had burn marks on its face and was missing limbs, as if it had been mangled by an explosion," reported Simon Romero and Prior Beharry. "The tides deposited another corpse on a nearby beach days later, drawing a wake of vultures. Its face was similarly unrecognizable, and its right leg appeared to have been blown off."

Critics unloaded Thursday night over a New York Post report that the Trump administration wants Paramount Skydance to buy Warner Bros. Discovery, and that "rival bidders are likely to face stiff hurdles from US regulators in the blockbuster auction."

Paramount settled a lawsuit filed by Trump, and paid him $16 million in July over accusations CBS’s "60 Minutes" selectively edited its interview with then-Vice President Kamala Harris during the presidential campaign last year. Critics reamed Paramount over the decision, asserting that it caved to Trump because the administration could've derailed its merger negotiations with Skydance Media.

President Donald Trump is inflicting "terror" on communities all around the country with his masked Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents randomly kidnapping people, Democratic National Committee chair Ken Martin told MSNBC's Jason Johnson on Thursday evening — and it's driving a huge part of the backlash against his administration.

"One quick question," said Johnson. "Every single day, we're seeing viral videos of ICE agents breaking into homes, attacking people, threatening people, tear-gassing people who are American citizens. We have major elections in cities across America who are being threatened by ICE. Would the Democratic Party be willing to come out as aggressive against ICE as Republicans have against the Department of Education? Would the Democratic Party be willing to say, 'We will abolish ICE if we take control of the White House in 2028?' What is your position on ICE moving forward as the head of the DNC?"

A New York Times investigative reporter flagged what he described as a "very unusual" arrangement in President Donald Trump's latest pardon during an interview on Thursday on CNN.

Eric Lipton joined CNN's Anderson Cooper on "AC 360" on Thursday to discuss Trump's pardon of Changpeng Zhao, the former chief executive of Binance, who was convicted on money laundering charges. Binance paid a $4.3 billion settlement for financing terrorist activities for Hamas and Al-Qaeda. Zhao also pleaded guilty to the same charges as his company and paid a $50 million fine.

Lawyers for the Trump administration argued in court on Thursday that the administration has the authority to send migrants to military bases around the globe, according to a new report.

The New York Times reported on Thursday on an exchange between Judge Sparkle L. Sooknanan of the Federal District Court in Washington and August E. Flentje, a senior Justice Department lawyer. The two argued over whether the Trump administration could detain migrants abroad, a question that the American Civil Liberties Union has asked the court to resolve.

President Donald Trump announced a peace deal to end the war in Gaza earlier this month, to tremendous fanfare and praise — but now his administration is scrambling to prevent it from falling apart, while privately raging at how Israel is putting the whole thing in jeopardy.

This follows recent reporting that the administration was fearful the deal would fall apart altogether.