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US President Donald Trump said Friday that Chicago is the next city in his crosshairs for the kind of federal invasion and occupation currently underway in Washington, DC—a threat that sparked defiant pushback from officials in the Windy City and beyond.

"After we do this, we'll go to another location, and we'll make it safe also," Trump told reporters in the Oval Office, referring to his federalization of Washington's Metropolitan Police Department and deployment of National Guard troops from the district and five Republican-controlled states.

Hours after FBI Director gave the go-ahead to his agents to raid the home and office of John Bolton, Vice President J.D. Vance was well prepared and ready to discuss it with NBC’s Kristin Welker during an extensive interview to be released in full on Sunday.

During an interview on Saturday on MSNBC, one former official from Donald Trump’s first term questioned the extent of VP’s involvement in a matter that should be outside his purview.

President Donald Trump’s latest attempt to move past the Jeffrey Epstein scandal in releasing interview transcripts of Epstein-associate Ghislaine Maxwell will likely only fan the flames of the controversy, one journalist argued Saturday morning on CNN.

“If anything, they've sort of started another firestorm,” said Errol Louis, journalist and host of “The Big Deal with Errol Louis” on Spectrum News, speaking with CNN Saturday.

Despite disavowals from Donald Trump that he was not aware of a planned raid on the home of John Bolton, White House insiders claim he had been obsessed with his former national security adviser for the past few weeks.

Questioned about the raid afterward, the president told reporters he was out of the loop and knew nothing about it, however, in interviews with the Washington Post, insiders said he not only was focusing on Bolton but that he dropped hints in the days before the raid.

The FBI raid on President Donald Trump's former National Security Adviser John Bolton appears primarily to be payback against him for years of criticism — but there might be some even more sinister motives at play here, wrote Shane Harris for The Atlantic on Friday.

Specifically, he argued, it could also be a ploy to scare the broader intelligence community out of ever defying him — and if so, it might already be working.

Ghislaine Maxwell, convicted accomplice of Jeffrey Epstein, dropped explosive testimony on Friday that Epstein may have gone on a date with Princess Diana.

Maxwell, 63, testified in an interview with the Justice Department last month while serving her sentence for sex trafficking and other offenses. She agreed to participate as part of a DOJ investigation and to address mounting public pressure regarding documents and information about the Epstein case. Maxwell was subsequently transferred to a minimum security prison, unheard of for people convicted of such serious crimes.

The FBI raid on the home of President Donald Trump's former National Security Adviser John Bolton is yet another alarming escalation to an authoritarian state, the conservative Wall Street Journal editorial board wrote on Friday.

Bolton, a frequent critic of Trump since leaving office, appeared undeterred, posting criticisms of Trump to X as the agents searched his home — but that does little to make the situation less alarming, the board wrote.

The release of Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche's interview with convicted Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell only proves what a dishonest and self-serving exercise all of this was for the Trump administration, former federal prosecutor Kristy Greenberg told MSNBC's "The Weeknight" panel on Friday evening.

"You can't escape the obvious here," said anchor Michael Steele. "When all the documents, if they ever do come out, whatever, we'll get to what's in the house, what they receive today when all of this stuff starts to flesh out and Donald Trump's name is on every other frickin page at that point, [they] so poisoned the well with, with trivial crap like this. Where does that leave us? Where does this all go?"

The audio and transcript of a two-day meeting between President Donald Trump's Justice Department and Jeffrey Epstein's accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell, didn't pass the smell test for a former FBI official.

Andrew McCabe, who served as the deputy director of the FBI from 2016 to 2018, joined "OutFront" with anchor Erin Burnett on Friday evening for a discussion on Maxwell's interview with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche.

The Trump administration's Justice Department has declared it believes a decades-old Hispanic college grant program is unconstitutional and will not defend it from a legal challenge brought by the state of Tennessee.

According to The Associated Press, the DOJ announced its intentions not to defend the Hispanic-Serving Institution program in a memo to Congress. The program, created in 1998 to address disparities in Hispanic college admittance and graduation rates, provides grants to colleges and universities with an undergraduate Hispanic proportion of 25 percent or more.

Five people were killed in a tour bus crash on Friday in upstate New York, officials said at a news conference.

A bus carrying 52 passengers, mostly of Indian, Chinese, and Filipino descent, crashed on Interstate 90 near Pembroke in upstate New York. The bus was traveling back to New York City from Niagara Falls when it lost control, rolled over, and crashed into a ditch.

The Trump administration is planning once again to deport Salvadoran immigrant Kilmar Abrego Garcia — this time, to Africa.

According to a new memo submitted by the Justice Department to Abrego Garcia's counsel, "Pursuant to the court order issued in the District Court of Maryland on July 23, 2025, Civil Action No. 8:25-cv-00951-PX, please let this email serve as notice that DHS may remove your client, Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, to Uganda no earlier than 72 hours from now (absent weekends)."