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EJ Antoni, President Donald Trump's controversial nominee to head the Bureau of Labor Statistics, was among the insurrectionist mob that stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, NBC News revealed Wednesday.

Video footage archived from the right-wing social media site Parler and posted online by a Republican-led congressional subcommittee shows Antoni among the crowd about half an hour before the MAGA mob began breaching barricades, attacking police, and swarming the Capitol. He is also seen walking away from the crowd.

President Donald Trump randomly told the Norwegian minister of finance on a phone call that he wants a Nobel Peace Prize, The Guardian reported on Thursday.

"The Norwegian outlet Dagens Næringsliv, citing unnamed sources, reported: 'Out of the blue, while finance minister Jens Stoltenberg was walking down the street in Oslo, Donald Trump called … He wanted the Nobel prize – and to discuss tariffs,'" reported Maya Yang. "The outlet added that it was not the first time that Trump had raised the question of a Nobel peace prize nomination to Stoltenberg."

There was a huge show of force outside of a political event in Los Angeles on Thursday, prompting questions about the politicization of Customs and Border Patrol and immigration agents.

Just a few weeks ago, Democrats were hesitant about redistricting California to eliminate GOP seats, while Texas was attempting to eliminate Democratic seats. That appears to have changed, as local, state, and federal officials, along with labor leaders and activists, stood behind Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) as he issued a shot across the bow of the gerrymandering battle.

In a video featuring rap music, the Department of Homeland Security debuted new vehicles that included President Donald Trump's name in gold.

The video, posted on the department's official X account on Thursday, featured the song "TOES" by DaBaby.

Democrats cheered Thursday as Gavin Newsom delivered a fiery attack on the GOP's redistricting efforts.

Newsom announced during a press conference that California would move forward with a special legislative session to redraw its electoral maps to counter the efforts of Texas Republicans. California voters would decide on new electoral maps during the Nov. 4 special election.

As Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) held an event in Los Angeles to announce California's planned vote on a redistricting push to retaliate against Texas Republicans' attempt to disenfranchise Democratic voters in up to five districts, the Border Patrol sprang into action and made arrests outside of the area.

Fox News, which had Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem on air at the time, asked her to weigh in while playing footage of the arrests.

President Donald Trump heads to Alaska on Friday to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin, but the goals of the "summit" appear to be completely different, depending on which leader is speaking.

Trump addressed reporters in the Oval Office on Thursday afternoon, stating that the goal is to reach a ceasefire, or at the very least, hold a preliminary meeting to facilitate a ceasefire.

Families of students across the United States are facing significantly higher prices for basic supplies as the new school year begins, a cost burden that a new analysis blames on President Donald Trump's sweeping tariffs and the massive Republican budget package he signed into law last month.

The analysis, conducted by The Century Foundation (TCF) and Groundwork Collaborative, estimates that prices for supplies such as index cards have surged by more than 40% this year.

Federal agents and the National Guard rolled into Washington, D.C. this week and began their operation to occupy the streets, arrest residents, and hassle anyone they view as suspicious. Meanwhile, on Thursday, Mayor Muriel Bowser "left town" for Martha's Vineyard.

Huffington Post Jennifer Bendery cited NBC Washington that Bowser will only be out of the city for a day, but it was on the day that the National Guard begins rounding up the homeless population.

The pro-Trump attorney of Pinal County, Arizona, is not backing down from his illegal efforts to criminally investigate a state senator from another county who posted the locations of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials — but his arguments aren't being well-received.

Last week, Brad Miller, who represents a largely rural and exurban area southeast of Phoenix, stated in a radio interview that he wanted the GOP-controlled state legislature to appoint him a special prosecutor to investigate Sen. Analise Ortiz, even though reporting on the locations of ICE agents isn't illegal.

President Donald Trump will fly to Alaska on Friday, where he will meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in person to "feel him out" over whether a ceasefire with Ukraine is possible. But CNN anchors called Trump's plan "amorphous."

Trump took questions in the Oval Office about his meeting and made it clear he has no plan. At one point, a reporter asked whether there could be any success that comes from the meeting on Friday if a ceasefire doesn't happen.

MSNBC host Jonathan Capehart was stunned Thursday following an incident in California this week where a 15-year-old student with disabilities was mistakenly detained at gunpoint by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers.

On Monday, the Los Angeles Unified School District held a news conference announcing the expansion of student "safe zones" to further protect its student body from immigration raids, during which Superintendent Alberto Cervalho revealed that earlier that same day, ICE agents had detained a teen student at gunpoint and placed them in handcuffs in a case “mistaken identity.”

The Justice Department press office clashed with a reporter after she refused to print a statement that didn't address her question.

‪Jessica Huseman, editorial director for VoteBeat, the nonpartisan voting watchdog news site, reached out to the DOJ asking, "Does the DOJ have a response to widespread concern that requests for voter rolls violate the Privacy Act of 1974?" She posted the full exchange, saying, "I want you to see how they are talking about truth."