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A federal court in Washington, D.C. has blocked President Donald Trump's plan to expand an expedited deportation process to immigrants who have been in the country longer than two years.

In the ruling released on Friday, U.S. District Judge Jia Cobb slammed the Trump administration's apparent lack of care for due process, warning that under these new rules, basically anyone could be deported without an adequate chance to defend themselves.

A Texas state lawmaker who blocked a Democratic attempt to filibuster in the state Senate once suggested "shoot, shovel and shut up" to deal with immigration, according to a new report.

Last week, state Sen. Charles Perry, a Republican from Lubbock, moved to block Democratic Sen. Carol Alvarado’s filibuster regarding the state's new Trump-backed congressional redistricting map. He cited a campaign fundraising email from Alvarado that promoted the filibuster, arguing this was unethical and a misuse of Senate resources.

Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst's decision not to seek re-election was met with a triumphant reaction on MSNBC Friday evening by one of her main opposition hopefuls, Democratic state Sen. Zach Wahls.

"Let me ask you first," said anchor Jen Psaki. "I mean, when you saw the news today that Ernst is planning to drop out of the race, what was your first reaction?"

Republicans in the Texas House of Representatives on Thursday night advanced another anti-abortion bounty hunter bill, this one taking aim at medications mailed from states that support reproductive freedom so Texans can choose to end pregnancies.

House Bill 7 passed 82-48 along party lines during Texas' second special legislative session of the year. The proposal from state Rep. Jeff Leach (R-67) still needs approval from the Senate—which previously passed similar legislation—before it heads to the desk of Republican Gov. Greg Abbott. He has signed various attacks on reproductive rights, including Senate Bill 8, a 2021 state law that entices vigilantes with $10,000 bounties to enforce a six-week abortion ban.

Eric Trump's eye-popping prediction for Bitcoin floored CNN anchor Erin Burnett on Friday evening, who warned if it comes true, President Donald Trump's wealth will "explode."

Eric Trump predicted Bitcoin would reach $1 million during his speech at the Bitcoin Asia 2025 conference in Hong Kong.

The conservative Wall Street Journal editorial board laid into Trump's history of failed industrial policy decisions on Friday — using as an example his intervention on behalf of an auto plant in Lordstown, Ohio, that his first administration "supposedly saved."

The Lordstown plant has been a long string of failed and broken promises for the president ever since the whole sequence of events got set in motion in 2019, when General Motors moved to close the facility, endangering the northeast Ohio area that has more broadly seen a massive decline in the manufacturing sector over the last several decades.

Unions and progressive organizations are planning nearly 1,000 "Workers Over Billionaires" demonstrations across the United States this Labor Day to protest President Donald Trump's assault on workers' rights.

The day of national action has been organized by the May Day Strong coalition, which includes labor organizations like the AFL-CIO, American Federation of Teachers, and National Union of Healthcare Workers, as well as advocacy groups like Americans for Tax Fairness, Indivisible, Our Revolution, and Public Citizen.

The Trump administration said Friday that Secretary of State Marco Rubio "is denying and revoking visas from members of the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Palestinian Authority" ahead of next month's United Nations General Assembly in New York.

The US State Department said Friday that "the Trump administration has been clear: It is in our national security interests to hold the PLO and PA accountable for not complying with their commitments, and for undermining the prospects for peace."

President Donald Trump's tariff battle suffered a major defeat Friday when a federal appeals court ruled that his most extensive tariffs were illegal, saying he overstepped his authority. And Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman expressed "shock."

The court found that the law Trump used to hand down steep tariffs did not grant him the power to enforce them. The ruling's implementation was suspended until Oct. 14, however, to allow the administration to appeal to the Supreme Court.

Vice President JD Vance just said the "quiet part out loud" when it comes to President Donald Trump's attack on the Federal Reserve.

Trump has repeatedly attacked the Fed, including unprecedented moves such as firing Fed Governor Lisa Cook over unproven allegations of mortgage fraud and urging Chair Jerome Powell to resign for refusing to cut interest rates.

Democracy defenders on Friday blasted elected Texas Republicans, including Gov. Greg Abbott, after he signed a new congressional map gerrymandered for the GOP at the request of President Donald Trump—and Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe, for launching a copycat effort.

"Gov. Abbott would rather do Trump's dirty work than help the people of Texas," said Brett Edkins, managing director of policy and political affairs at the progressive advocacy group Stand Up America, in a statement.

President Donald Trump released a furious rant on his Truth Social platform after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit upheld a lower court ruling that his tariff policies are illegal.

The ruling held that the president does not have authority under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act to enact the type of global tariffs he has claimed authority for.

An incident occurred on the Washington, D.C. Metro on Friday, when a passenger on a train tried to take the weapon of a National Guard soldier deployed as part of President Donald Trump's seizure of the city, CNN's Brian Todd reported.

Trump's D.C. deployment, ostensibly to combat crime even as the crime rate has dropped dramatically in the capital in recent years, has provoked rising tensions with residents.