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Chief Justice John Roberts just threw President Trump's controversial White House ballroom project a lifeline, temporarily freezing a lower court order that would have halted construction entirely.

Roberts issued the stay Friday, CBS News reported, hours before a district court injunction was set to take effect at midnight. The pause buys the Supreme Court more time to weigh the Trump administration's emergency request to block that injunction while litigation continues over the massive 90,000-square-foot addition to the White House grounds.

Journalist and biographer Michael Wolff dropped a “bombshell claim” regarding President Donald Trump’s campaign staff and Natalie Harp, the president’s 35-year-old female aide whose unusually close relationship with Trump has unsettled the White House and earned her the nickname human "binky.”

Appearing on an episode of “Inside Trump’s Head Podcast,” Wolff, a longtime Trump biographer, recalled supposed “X-rated” discussions, The Daily Beast reported Friday, that Trump’s 2024 campaign staff would have regarding Harp.

Victor Marx, the Republican gubernatorial nominee in Colorado, has made wild claims about doing battle against supernatural creatures and other foes as part of his "high-risk missionary" work.

The Marine Corps has built his public persona on a series of extraordinary personal claims, ranging from single-handedly defeating more than 10 armed soldiers in the Myanmar jungle to witnessing people physically transform during alleged demonic encounters, according to his 2024 book "The Dangerous Gentleman," and reported by Talking Points Memo.

President Donald Trump’s unusually close relationship with his 35-year-old female aide Natalie Harp saw a new development Friday after a resurfaced video showed that the White House appointments secretary’s “devotion” to the commander in chief was evident years before joining the administration, The Daily Beast reported.

“The video unearthed by the Daily Beast was published online in 2018, although it appears to have been recorded the year before,” the Beast’s report reads. “It shows how deep Harp’s devotion to the president ran two years before she said she first entered his orbit.”

A quacking duck ringtone interrupted Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. mid-sentence during an autism safety speech.

Kennedy was speaking Friday in Rochester, Minnesota, at an event announcing a new federal initiative to protect autistic individuals who wander from safe settings.

A federal judge has issued Attorney General Todd Blanche a deadline of next Thursday to explain why it failed to fork over a trove of foreign-language documents related to Jeffrey Epstein, Punchbowl News’ Scott MacFarlane reported Friday.

The order came amid a lawsuit filed against Blanche in April by former MSNBC host and attorney Katie Phang, who in June won a preliminary injunction ordering the Justice Department (DOJ) to unredact key Epstein-related documents. The DOJ has stonewalled the case, however, with one DOJ attorney “turning red” and “stammering” last week when confronted by Judge Emmet Sullivan on why his agency had failed to comply with his orders.

Reports that President Donald Trump’s ever-present aide Natalie Harp refused to fill out paperwork to get a national security clearance has astonished a former West Wing official.

Appearing on MS NOW on Friday afternoon, Jim Messina, who served in the White House under President Barack Obama, first explained that he once oversaw the processing of key inner-circle employees and the treatment of Harp is baffling to him.

When the Veterans Affairs Department's inspector general was slated to relocate offices last year, the move stalled for months — by an en-suite bathroom.

Three people familiar with the matter told NOTUS Friday that inspector general Cheryl Mason wanted her own private bathroom, citing security concerns for a role in which, she said, "people are at their most vulnerable moment."

Top Trump administration officials boasted Thursday about thwarting an alleged terrorist plot to attack New York state lawmakers at the state’s Capitol, but one rebel Republican lawmaker is crying foul and accusing the Justice Department of manufacturing a conspiracy.

On Wednesday, a 35-year-old woman and resident of Albany was arrested by the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force on a charge for providing material support to a terrorist organization. News of the arrest was made public on Thursday, with her federal criminal complaint revealing details of the supposed terror plot.

Ohio Republican gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy spent hundreds of thousands of dollars of campaign funds leasing a private jet from a company he owns, records show.

Of nearly $690,000 that his campaign spent on private jets, nearly $560,000 of that went to V Leasing LLC — a company whose listed address is a house Ramaswamy owns — according to the Ohio Capital Journal. Ramaswamy has loaned his campaign more than $25 million, the report said.

In a surprise reversal, a Texas court has sided with Infowars founder Alex Jones over comments he made about the Sandy Hook shooting, a new report shows.

A Texas court has slashed the $50 million judgment to $1.5 million against Infowars founder Alex Jones over falsely calling the 2012 school shooting a hoax, the Associated Press is reporting.

A plugged-in journalist highlighted an unusual detail about letters written to President Donald Trump by his close personal aide Natalie Harp.

The 80-year-old president's relationship with his 35-year-old staffer has undergone intense scrutiny this week after Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) mentioned her name in a speech last weekend, and The Daily Beast published intimate letters Harp wrote to her boss that were leaked to author Michael Wolff.

President Donald Trump showed his bruise-covered hand when forced immigration officers to equip themselves with electric-shock gloves, a columnist argued Friday.

Salon's Amanda Marcotte slapped back at the president's disturbing decision to arm Immigration Control and Enforcement officers with the "Orwellian" weapon that cops love because it leaves no scar.