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Former President Donald Trump is attempting to reinvent himself in the 2024 cycle by embracing economic populism. But Democrats are warning voters not to be taken in, pointing to his past record of empty promises.

According to a Semafor report Friday, Trump's promise to eliminate taxes on tips for workers in the service industry has raised eyebrows, with several Republican members of Congress indicating support for it.

Far-right Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk is fresh from being overturned at the Supreme Court for trying to bring down the Food and Drug Administration's process for approving drugs. Now, he's looking at regulations on energy-efficient dishwashers and washing machines.

Reuters reported Friday that a conservative group in Texas is suing the Department of Energy for its standards involving the appliances, saying that President Joe Biden's "administration lacked authority to adopt the regulations."

In a new review of Ramin Setoodeh's book "Apprentice in Wonderland," Washington Post critic Ron Charles describes Trump as something of an old woman wandering about life reliving the glory days.

Amid the old stories of seasons of "The Apprentice," perceived foes, great wins, and his own "genius," Trump is described as Miss Havisham from Charles Dickens' 1861 novel "Great Expectations."

Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) threw cold water on Republican Sen. Rick Scott's attempt to heat up his political campaign Friday when she took to X to share a simple fact.

"You can count on this grandpa to always protect IVF," Scott (R-FL) wrote above a cheerful campaign video.

Barely two days after House Republicans passed a criminal referral of Attorney General Merrick Garland to the Justice Department for contempt of Congress, the DOJ signaled it would be rejecting their demand for criminal prosecution.

The contempt referral was based on DOJ's refusal to hand over the raw footage of President Joe Biden's interview with special counsel Robert Hur in the classified documents investigation — even though the GOP already had the complete transcript of that interview. The Biden administration considered this demand a pretext to hunt for embarrassing footage to clip out of context for GOP campaigns, and invoked executive privilege over the tape.

During an interview with right-wing Fox News this week, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) offered some possible ways to "rein in" Jack Smith — the U.S. Department of Justice special counsel who is prosecuting two federal criminal cases against former President Donald Trump.

Johnson, a Trump loyalist, proposed using "the power of the purse" to defund Smith's office. And some Democrats have been arguing that when Johnson threatens to defund the DOJ, he is doing something that Republicans often accuse Democrats of: defunding the police.