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Jimmy Fallon spent a second straight night ribbing President Donald Trump's new Great American State Fair on Thursday, saving his sharpest jab for a petting zoo bit aimed squarely at the president's cognitive fitness.

The "Tonight Show" host took aim at the fair, which opened to the public on Thursday on the National Mall as part of America's 250th anniversary celebrations, rattling off a list of fictional attractions inspired by Trump.

A new book from two New York Times reporters has exposed a number of President Donald Trump’s secrets, though one claim in particular has the president especially enraged, a senior Trump official revealed Friday.

Published earlier this week, “Regime Change” was written by Times reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan, and had already rattled the White House before its release, with officials fearful that the book’s authors had acquired audio recordings from within the White House Situation Room, arguably the most secure area of the complex where top officials discuss matters of crises and national security.

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has built much of his public health platform around exposing what he calls regulatory failures in the American food system, but that crusade appears to be running into an unexpected complication.

Among his targets is the "generally recognized as safe" (GRAS) designation, a mechanism that allows food manufacturers to introduce new ingredients without review by the Food and Drug Administration simply by self-declaring them safe. Kennedy has called this loophole a "scandal," NOTUS reported, but that loophole he wants to close for processed foods is deeply embedded in the dietary supplement industry he champions.

Natalie Harp, President Donald Trump's 34-year-old executive assistant whose closeness to the president unsettled the White House, was revealed Thursday to have become estranged from multiple family members after proposing to lie about her father's death, her "secret brother" told the Daily Mail.

“She doesn't call me. I've accepted that's the way it is,” Harp’s paternal grandmother, Dolores ‘Dee Dee’ Harp, told the Daily Mail, speaking of her granddaughter, who was described as Trump's "right-hand woman."

Reports that embattled CBS News head Bari Weiss is searching for a sympathetic ear among journalists for an interview to clear her name have some in the executive suites in a bit of a panic.

According to media watchdog Status, Weiss is eager to launch a media counter-offensive. She's been in talks with the New York Times' Michael Barbaro about appearing on "The Daily" podcast—a choice that reveals her strategy: find a friendly interviewer willing to let her explain away the wreckage.

A conservative commentator yelped with delight over the U.S. Supreme Court decision upholding the federal government's policy of turning back asylum seekers before they can reach the border, and a fellow CNN panelist calmly dismantled his argument.

The justices ruled 6-3 that a policy adopted in response to a surge of Haitian immigrants did not violate a federal law permitting noncitizens to apply for asylum upon arrival in the U.S., and the majority and dissenting opinions addressed the racial animus in the policy – but from completely different vantage points.

A prominent Republican House member was left "scared" after getting a first look at a new technology during a recent “closed-door demonstration,” Punchbowl News reported Friday — technology that the lawmaker warned most of their colleagues failed to comprehend the ramifications of.

That technology was Claude Mythos, the latest large language model developed by Anthropic using generative artificial intelligence, the capabilities of which were so great that the Trump administration suspended its use by foreign nationals, effectively blocking its public release for the immediate future.

The first day of President Donald Trump's "Great American State Fair" did not go to plan, after a power outage knocked out the food hall on the National Mall, according to The Daily Beast.

The Thursday blackout left dessert vendors watching their stock melt, Fox 5 DC reporter Homa Bash reported on X, writing that the hall still had food but that all of its ice cream had melted. Stuffed pretzel rolls priced between $12.48 and $24.96 were also affected, USA Today reported, with workers saying it took about 30 minutes to reheat them once power returned.

Comments made by Vice President JD Vance at the Richard Nixon Library on Thursday earned him a thrashing on MS NOW after he blamed Nixon’s Watergate scandal on the “deep state.”

As “Morning Joe” co-host bluntly observed, Nixon's use of the FBI, CIA and Washington insiders — which brought down his presidency — was the very definition of the ”deep state.”

A 37-year CBS News veteran is preparing to torch his former employer in a tell-all memoir, and CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss is squarely in his crosshairs.

Bill Owens, the longtime executive producer of "60 Minutes" who quit the program last April over what he described as corporate interference, calls CBS "the worst-run media company in the history of America" in a 22-page book proposal obtained by Breaker and reported by The Daily Beast on Friday.