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President Donald Trump's administration came closer to suspending habeas corpus — the constitutional right that lets a detained person challenge their imprisonment in court — than was previously known, according to a Slate analysis of recent reporting.

Writing in Slate's "Executive Dysfunction" newsletter, Shirin Ali described the idea as what would have been "perhaps the most aggressive and terrifying attack on the rule of law yet." The right has been formally suspended only a handful of times in U.S. history, all during wartime.

President Donald Trump's director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons is firing back after a Democratic lawmaker accused the administration of giving luxury treatment to Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell.

Maxwell, who authorities said helped run Epstein's child trafficking operation for years, was controversially moved from a facility in Florida to an amenity-filled "prison camp" in Bryan, Texas generally reserved for low-level offenders, breaking the rules that usually would prohibit sex offenders from such a facility — right around the time the administration was trying to get her testimony to turn down the temperature on public outrage over the Epstein case files.

Reacting to remarks Donald Trump made at a press conference in France on Wednesday that he could easily start bombing Iran again just before signing a peace deal with the war-torn country, left MS NOW’s Mika Brzezinski baffled and appalled.

MS NOW’s “Morning Joe” began with a clip of the president standing between Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, with Trump remarking, “It's a memorandum of understanding. If it doesn't get done in 60 days, that's all right. We go back to bombing. You know, I don't want to do that because it's so good, but we might have to because we're never going to let them have a nuclear weapon. But they've agreed not to and you'll see that very clearly in the agreement.”

There's a new occupational hazard wafting through the upper ranks of the Trump administration, and it's not policy disputes — it's the lingering scent of fermented cabbage, according to a new report.

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy and Vice President JD Vance have all bought into a sauerkraut-and-kimchi-heavy diet pushed by physician Dr. Sean O'Mara, who promises weight loss and a healthier gut microbiome in exchange for daily helpings of fermented food and a steady diet of grass-fed steak, reported the Wall Street Journal.

President Donald Trump's years-long crusade against election fraud is sparking fears inside his own party that he's about to sabotage their chances of hanging on to the Senate.

The 80-year-old president has been on a tear, demanding the so-called SAVE America Act get rammed through Congress by whatever means necessary, even if it means torching the Senate filibuster or firing the chamber's parliamentarian to get there, reported Politico.

A column in the British newspaper The i Paper delivered a withering verdict on President Donald Trump's memorandum of understanding with Iran, arguing the agreement reads less like a triumph than a surrender.

"There is no hiding that this is the kind of deal you sign when you've lost a war and just want to get out," wrote James Ball, political editor at The New World.

Republicans are at a "boiling point" over tensions between President Donald Trump and Senate GOP leadership, Punchbowl News reported on Thursday morning.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) has been "bearing the brunt of the fallout from Trump’s erratic behavior, expressing his frustrations with the president in an intentional but very reserved manner," said the report.

After a full day of criticism of his Iran peace deal, President Donald Trump finally had enough and went off on Truth Social in the wee hours of the morning.

As Republicans and Democrats alike have lined up against him, with Nikki Haley, Trump’s former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, writing on X, “If this is true, Iran wins,” after details were released, the president labeled his critics “fools.”

President Donald Trump got his chosen candidate in the U.S. Senate race in Georgia, where Rep. Mike Collins clinched the nomination last night — and he plans to go all in on supporting him.

In the same post where the president trashed incumbent Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff and came up with an obscene nickname for him, Trump vowed that he will be holding campaign rallies in the state to help Collins, saying, "I’ll be doing Big TRUMP Rallies for Mike in Georgia!"