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FBI Director Kash Patel used a government plane to fly to Italy and planned to watch the Winter Olympics, according to a report.

According to CBS News, "Public flight data reviewed by CBS News showed the FBI director took off on a government plane Thursday morning for an Air Force base in Italy, after a brief flight from Manassas, Virginia, to Joint Base Andrews, in Maryland Wednesday. Sources also confirmed to CBS News that Patel was en route to Milan, where he is planning to watch the Men's USA Olympic hockey team compete in the medal rounds."

President Donald Trump's "offensively disgusting" joke about the Congressional Medal of Honor on Thursday rankled political analysts and observers.

Trump traveled to Rome, Georgia, to speak to a crowd at the Coosa Steel Corporation. During his speech, Trump said he was considering giving himself the Congressional Medal of Honor, which is reserved for military members who exhibit acts of valor. Trump, who never served in the military, made a similar remark back in 2019, according to reports.

A new set of numbers on U.S. trade could be yet another blow to President Donald Trump's odds of getting a good ruling from the Supreme Court on his tariff regime, The Washington Post editorial board wrote on Thursday.

The fundamental problem, wrote the board, is that Trump has partly sold his aggressive "reciprocal tariffs" as a means to balance the U.S. trade deficit, but it isn't doing that.

In a bonkers Truth Social post sure to send conspiracy theorists into overdrive, President Donald Trump announced Thursday that he's ordering the Pentagon and other government agencies to begin identifying and releasing classified files on extraterrestrial life and UFOs.

"Based on the tremendous interest shown, I will be directing the Secretary of War, and other relevant Departments and Agencies, to begin the process of identifying and releasing Government files related to alien and extraterrestrial life, unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), and unidentified flying objects (UFOs), and any and all other information connected to these highly complex, but extremely interesting and important, matters," Trump posted.

Observers mocked a lawyer's threat to "kill" his client during a deposition that was picked up on a hot mic on Thursday.

On Wednesday, Leslie Wexner was deposed by the House Oversight Committee over his ties to disgraced financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. A video of the nearly five-hour deposition was released on Thursday, and it included a moment where Wexner's lawyer leaned over and threatened to kill him if he continued giving long-winded answers.

Internet observers on Thursday mocked a bizarre Fox News meltdown in which a panel of co-hosts complained that Hollywood decided to portray Jack Nicholson's character in "A Few Good Men" as the antagonist.

Nicholson's Colonel Nathan Jessup is the main antagonist in the film, serving as a commanding officer at Guantanamo Bay whose order leads to a Marine's death, triggering the central court-martial plot. Jessup dominates key scenes, including an iconic courtroom outburst in which Nicholson blurts out, "You can't handle the truth!"

Things got heated during the deposition of an associate of the disgraced financier and convicted sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein, according to a newly released video.

Leslie Wexner, the former CEO of Victoria's Secret, was deposed by the House Oversight Committee on Wednesday for almost five hours over his ties to the late Epstein. The committee released video of the deposition on Thursday, which included an instance where Wexner's lawyer made a wild threat toward his client.

The conservative Wall Street Journal editorial board was outraged after one of President Donald Trump's top economic advisers appeared to threaten punishment against Federal Reserve economists for publishing a study that showed Trump's tariffs are costing Americans billions of dollars.

"The paper is an embarrassment. It's, I think, the worst paper I've ever seen in the history of the Federal Reserve System," Hassett told a CNBC anchor. "The people associated with this paper should presumably be disciplined, because what they've done is they've put out a conclusion that has created a lot of news, that's highly partisan, based on analysis that wouldn't be accepted in a first-semester econ class."

President Donald Trump was bashed by a survivor of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein's crimes on Thursday for making "dismissive" comments about the case during a press conference earlier in the day.

Danielle Bensky joined CNN's Brianna Keilar on "Erin Burnett OutFront" on Thursday to discuss the arrest of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, formerly Prince Andrew, and the president's response. During a press gaggle on Air Force One, Trump said the arrest is "bad for the Royal Family."

A Texas Republican congressman's primary campaign took a dark and dramatic turn this week, "jolting" what had been a closely watched race into a major political story just weeks before voters head to the polls.

On Monday, Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-TX) received an official endorsement from President Donald Trump, who called him "terrific" ahead of the March 3 primary election. By Tuesday, the political landscape shifted dramatically, noted Steve Benin, a producer at MS NOW.

President Donald Trump may have a problem on his hands after spurning his health secretary's Make America Healthy Again movement, according to a report.

On Wednesday night, Trump signed an executive order to boost the domestic production of the weed killer glyphosate, a move that some in the MAHA movement found detestable. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. tried to smooth things over between the president and MAHA on Thursday by saying the move would increase U.S. "defense readiness and our food supply."

In a damning incident flagged by Slate legal experts Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern, a prosecutor working in one of President Donald Trump's U.S. Attorney's offices was asked by a judge to count the number of times the office has violated court orders — and he came back with an astonishing figure.

Jordan Fox, a DOJ official assigned to handle the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of New Jersey after Trump's ally Alina Habba was forced to resign by federal courts, was ordered to provide this assessment by U.S. District Judge Michael Farbiarz. This came after the judge issued an order prohibiting Immigration and Customs Enforcement from moving a detainee out of state, only for ICE to do so five days later.

President Donald Trump appeared to tell on himself during a press gaggle on Air Force One on Thursday, according to observers.

Trump was asked by Peter Doocy of Fox News whether other associates of disgraced former financier Jeffrey Epstein should be arrested. The question came after Prince Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor was arrested for his involvement in Epstein's schemes.