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Former President Donald Trump is up to more of the same, a New York Times columnist wrote Thursday night: vowing to save the nation from "dire threats that exist only in his mind."

Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman addressed what he called Trump's latest viral "lie" that President Joe Biden is withholding federal aid from right-leaning states and communities.

A Republican congressman who was once kicked out of Michael Jackson’s molestation trial said Thursday night that his desire to “pay homage” to the pop star inspired him to don blackface for a Halloween party during his college days.

“I certainly understand why people would be upset or offended by it, and for that, I’m sorry,” Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) said Thursday on CNN. “There was no ill intent. There was no effort to malign or make fun of or disparage Black Americans. It was really an effort to pay homage to somebody who was a musical idol for me.”

Grievances related to the election — such as beliefs of rampant voter fraud — could lead domestic extremists toward violence in the weeks before and after the election, according to the FBI and Department of Homeland Security.

CNN reported Thursday that an intelligence bulletin from the agencies warned domestic violent extremists, or DVEs, “continue to create, exploit, and promote narratives about the election process or legal decisions involving political figures, and we are concerned that these grievances could motivate some DVEs to engage in violence, as we saw during the 2020 election cycle."

A former federal prosecutor said Thursday night that the special counsel in former President Donald Trump's election subversion case may have a key response to the MAGA leader's latest attempt to have some of the charges against him dismissed.

Trump is now trying to get obstruction charges tossed from his federal election conspiracy case, arguing that the Supreme Court's recent decision in Fischer v. United States, which erased obstruction charges for January 6 rioters, also applies to him.

Anderson Cooper had difficulty maintaining his composure Thursday night when he appeared to be astonished by Melania Trump’s unconventional black-and-white promo video for her new book for the first time, quipping: “Never seen that before.”

“Sorry, it’s the first time I’ve seen that – that's the weirdest promo I’ve ever seen – like the lighting,” Cooper said before shuddering and telling viewers, “Sorry, I’ve written four books, I’ve never seen a promo like that. Wow.”

One of America's most famous televised murder convictions is under review by the top prosecutor of Los Angeles County.

According to the Los Angeles Times, George Gascón, the district attorney, is re-investigating the decades-old case of Lyle and Erik Menendez, who were convicted of the 1989 killing their parents, Jose and Kitty, in their Beverly Hills home and subsequently given life in prison.

Far-right Idaho state Sen. Dan Foreman got into a heated argument with a Native American candidate during a forum this week that culminated with him shouting at her to "go back to where you came from," according to a report.

Trish Carter-Goodheart, a member of the Nez Perce tribe and candidate for House Seat A, said in a statement that the incident occurred at a "meet the candidates" gathering Tuesday in the northern Idaho town of Kendrick, where voters posed questions to Senate and House candidates in the area. The dispute began when Foreman categorically proclaimed discrimination did not exist in Idaho, reported Boise State Public Radio on Thursday.

Firebrand Georgia Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene on Thursday blamed America's evils on God's "punishment" for "murdering babies" and separately said she doesn't want to give the Federal Emergency Management Agency "a damn penny" despite the agency's desperate plea that it does not have enough funding to make it through this hurricane season.

FEMA is being stretched as it continues to respond to the aftermath of the deadly Hurricane Helene, delivering food, water, generators and other vital supplies, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas told reporters Wednesday, according to The Associated Press.

Comments by former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) alongside Vice President Kamala Harris on Thursday – particularly her choice of calling out Donald Trump's “depravity" and "cruelty” – left at least one Democratic strategist with chills.

“When she categorized Donald Trump as being someone who has depraved cruelty, that's the language that she used – depraved cruelty – I got chills,” activist and strategist Aisha Moodie-Mills said in an appearance on CNN. “I think it's very impactful to hear.”

A prominent pro-Trump Nevada politician was convicted on federal charges Thursday, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, including six counts of wire fraud and a count of conspiracy.

Michele Fiore, a former state representative and Las Vegas city councilwoman who ran unsuccessfully for state treasurer in 2022, was convicted in connection with a scheme in which she defrauded donors who believed they were contributing to a fund for a monument honoring fallen law enforcement officers, spending the money on gifts for herself and on her daughter's wedding.

A Washington Post analyst irked a former Trump aide Thursday evening when he shook his head on CNN and delivered a brutal fact check on the Republican over illegal immigration.

Marc Lotter, former strategic communications director for Donald Trump sparred with analyst Philip Bump on CNN's "OutFront" with Erin Burnett.

Donald Trump's refusal to accept the results of the 2020 election should be enough to disqualify the former president from ever again holding office, according to a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist who wondered, "What is wrong with us?"

In a new op-ed published Thursday in The Washington Post, opinion columnist Eugene Robinson argued that new revelations exposed Wednesday in special counsel Jack Smith’s legal filing gave voters “the perfect distillation of the myriad reasons Donald Trump must never against be president.”

Former Wyoming Republican Rep.Liz Cheney made the case for why the "party of [Abraham] Lincoln" should join her in casting their ballots this year for Vice President Kamala Harris over former President Donald Trump, as she scorched the former president over his "depravity" and threat to the republic.

Taking to the podium in Wisconsin, "Thank you, Liz" chants broke out in Ripon, Wisconsin, the birthplace of the party. Cheney shared that Wisconsin is special to her, because in 1966, a very young Dick and Lynne Cheney were graduate students, and she was born in Madison.