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President Donald Trump's plan to lower sky-high beef prices before the midterms has triggered a rare rebellion from within his own party, with ranchers, senators, and even his health-food allies calling it a betrayal.

Trump announced Friday he'll remove duties on 300,000 metric tons of imported beef, claiming suppliers agreed to sell at a 25% discount that consumers will feel at checkout. The tariff relief lasts just 90 days, conveniently expiring right after November's midterm elections. A formal executive order is expected within two weeks.

Attorney General Todd Blanche's efforts to talk the Anti-Weaponization Fund to death without committing to it in writing have handed a federal court the tools to finish the job.

Allison Gill, a former Department of Veterans Affairs health specialist and co-host and co-founder of the Mueller, She Wrote podcast, filed a summary judgment motion Friday in San Diego federal court.

President Donald Trump is in no rush to hand the White House podium to Scott Jennings, and on Friday he made a point of dropping a new name into the mix.

Asked about his search for a press secretary to replace the departing Karoline Leavitt, Trump gave the CNN pundit a lukewarm nod before pivoting.

MAGA businessman Zach Lahn is out with a new TV spot hitting at his Democratic rival for governor of Iowa, state auditor Rob Sand. But a major detail of his ad was completely false.

"On our farm here in Belle Plain, we see it every day. Gas, groceries, everything's expensive. Iowa families are hurting," said Lahn. "But Rob Sand wants to raise your taxes by $7,500 a year. You can look it up. He is a billionaire. He doesn't get what regular folks go through."

When DHS officials got on a call with Nevada's election officials to discuss the Trump administration's claims of noncitizens on the state's voter rolls, the state's top elections official had a lot to push back on, including the mispronunciation of his state.

As a DHS official spoke, Nevada Deputy Secretary of State for Elections Mark Wlaschin cut in.

A pro-Trump right-wing activist pulled an undercover stunt to try to prove voter fraud vulnerability in Alaska — but it didn't go the way he hoped.

James O'Keefe, a provocateur best known for his operations to try to trick government officials or members of liberal organizations into embarrassing or compromising positions, showed up to an Alaska polling place, falsely identified himself as the brother of Sen. Lisa Murkowski, and filmed himself being allowed to cast a ballot without the required ID.

A federal appeals court has permanently banned President Donald Trump's chief prosecutor in New York from investigations targeting the attorney general who beat him in court, ruling his appointment "unlawful."

The Second Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 Friday that John A. Sarcone III, the acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of New York, was never lawfully in his post.

New York Times White House correspondent Maggie Haberman declined to render a clinical verdict this week on whether President Donald Trump is in cognitive decline, but she drew a pointed distinction between the president's age, which she said plainly shows, and the behavior critics call erratic, which she insisted is nothing new.

Haberman, co-author of the bestselling "Regime Change," sat down on The Jim Acosta Show, where Acosta asked point-blank: "Maggie, do you think that he's all there?"

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has made an abrupt pivot on a key development policy, pausing all data center projects in the state and ordering an audit.

Data centers have become a political flash point for both parties, with voters enraged about their use of resources and their powering of an increasingly distrusted AI industry. And for Abbott to respond this way to the fury as he seeks re-election, Semafor's David Weigel told MS NOW's Katy Tur, is truly remarkable.