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Miami New Times reporter Naomi Feinstein on Friday mapped out the last known whereabouts of Melania Trump after photos and videos surfaced of Donald Trump embracing far-right conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer — with the former first lady nowhere to be found.

In an article entitled, “Laura Loomer and Trump Sitting in a Tree, K I S S I N G,” Feinstein noted “the former first lady has been largely absent” as her husband hits the campaign trail for the third time as the Republican candidate for president.

“When Trump and his entourage arrived in Philadelphia for the presidential debate, Melania was nowhere to be seen,” Feinstein reported, noting Loomer, “Florida's own far-right provocateur and one-time Republican congressional candidate,” was by the former president’s side instead.

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A Supreme Court justice revealed on CNN she might have given up her career in law to help raise her daughter, who has autism, had she received an earlier diagnosis.

Ketanji Brown Jackson became the first Black woman and the first former federal public defender to serve on the Supreme Court when she was nominated by President Joe Biden in February 2022 and confirmed by the Senate two months later.

Donald Trump is on his fourth day of promoting his false claim that 20,000 undocumented Haitian migrants were dumped on Springfield, Ohio and have destroyed the townsfolk’s way of life, including by stealing people’s pet cats and dogs and eating them. Now, one U.S. Senator is suggesting the Republican presidential nominee is using “stochastic terrorism” to help his flailing presidential campaign.

A bomb threat and another, unspecified threat forced several Springfield elementary schools and one middle school to evacuate or not open Thursday and Friday. On Thursday, the Springfield city hall was evacuated and shut down, as were some state motor vehicle offices.

Right-wing cable news network Newsmax wants to take a chance on going to trial for voting equipment company Smartmatic's defamation suit — and it is unlikely to end well for them, a former federal prosecutor said Friday.

The trial is set to begin Sept. 30, unless the parties agree to settle beforehand.

A prominent New York Times reporter disagreed with Pete Buttigieg on Friday after the transportation secretary theorized a day earlier that former President Donald Trump's repeated false claim that Haitian migrants are eating pets was a strategy to distract people from Trump's record.

Buttigieg told CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins on Thursday night that there's "even more to it than demonizing immigrants" for Trump.

The woman who appears to have inadvertently sparked a viral far-right hoax that Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio, are kidnapping and eating people's cats and dogs has come forward to say she regrets that her social media post caused so much confusion.

Former President Donald Trump even promoted the claim at the presidential debate on Tuesday, and had to be shut down by moderators. Meanwhile, schools in the area have had to be evacuated for bomb threats, including one that specifically mentioned the false claims.

A Georgia state official accused of being a “fake elector” in 2020 will not face criminal charges, a special prosecutor said Friday.

Georgia Lt. Gov. Burt Jones was one of 16 Republicans who were so-called "fake electors" who signed an unofficial election certificate at Georgia's state capital in 2020 in an attempt to overturn the 2020 election in favor of former President Donald Trump.'

The vice president of a North Carolina county chapter of Moms for Liberty has been arrested on charges related to the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.

According to court documents, Justina Guardino was arrested in Wilmington, North Carolina, on charges including entering a restricted building, disorderly conduct, and unlawful picketing in a Capitol building. A PACER entry confirmed the arrest warrant, which was under seal until recently.

Former President Donald Trump threatened Nasdaq and the S.E.C. on Friday afternoon as he floated another baseless conspiracy theory that the two were in cahoots in twice halting trading activity for his Trump Media stock.

Shares of the stock rocketed up Friday in the minutes after majority owner Trump insisted he has no plans to sell his stake, CNBC reported. Trump Media shares rose as high as 25 percent and ended the day up more than 11 percent.

The subject of a subpoena issued by House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan hit back at the Trump ally on Friday and accused him of abusing his power.

Jordan (R-OH) is trying to subpoena information out of Mike Nellis, the founder of the digital agency Authentic. For months, the GOP has sought to investigate the agency due to its previous work with the daughter of New York Judge Juan Merchan, who presided over former President Donald Trump's criminal trial. In that case, Trump was convicted of falsifying business records.

Former President Donald Trump's economic agenda, particularly his proposal to replace income taxes with massive tariffs on foreign goods, has been widely criticized by economists as deeply inflationary and a tax cut for the rich. But it's worse than that, wrote Peter Coy for The New York Times — his plans are about taking the federal government down an authoritarian path.

At the debate on Tuesday, wrote Coy, Trump added "fresh details to an economic agenda that would concentrate more power in the hands of the president."

Former President Donald Trump on Friday tried to distance himself from a conspiratorial white-nationalist ally who flew in his plane ahead of the debate with Vice President Kamala Harris, and who has been photographed cozying up to him in recent days.

The far-right activist Laura Loomer has promoted several controversial and unfounded claims, including that the Sept. 11 attacks were an "inside job" orchestrated by the U.S. Government, that her 2020 and 2022 elections were "stolen" from her and promoted the racist conspiracy theory that Haitian migrants are abducting and eating pets in Springfield, Ohio.

An MSNBC host jabbed Donald Trump's former office of personnel management leader on Friday afternoon after he posted a video on TikTok seeking the women who Vice President Kamala Harris claimed at the debate were "bleeding out in parking lots."

Harris was attacking Trump on reproductive freedom and his claims that he would make it safe for those who have a medical need. Yet, when Harris and debate moderators asked if he would veto a federal ban, Trump dodged his question.