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Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) issued an “extraordinary rebuke” of members of his own party this week amid a wave of recent inner-party “chaos” sparked by President Donald Trump, Punchbowl News reported on Friday.

Thune, according to Punchbowl News’ Andrew Desiderio, Laura Weiss and John Bresnahan, has had “just about the worst luck over the past couple months” as Trump’s agenda has increasingly placed the Senate GOP leader in difficult positions – from derailing the entire GOP agenda this week by “canceling” a Senate confirmation hearing, to pushing the SAVE Act, his controversial voting ID bill that analysts say has no path forward in Congress.

The Alaska Division of Elections took action to disqualify a man named Dan Sullivan from running on the ballot against the incumbent Republican senator of the same name — but a lawyer advising the state legislature is now warning this was probably illegal.

According to Alaska Public Media, "Andrew Dunmire, an attorney with the nonpartisan Legislative Affairs Agency, wrote a nearly five-page memo on the controversy." According to the report, the other Sullivan, who lives in Petersburg, "appears to meet the three qualifications the U.S. Constitution requires of senators, Dunmire said: He’s over 30, a U.S. citizen for nine years or more, and a state resident."

President Donald Trump's Immigration and Customs Enforcement has quietly started to "abandon" one of its big projects, The New York Times reported on Thursday — and one legal expert is gobsmacked at the reversal.

Specifically, after ICE spent around $1 billion to buy up nearly a dozen mega-warehouses that it planned to convert into detention centers, they are now trying to offload seven of them, either to other federal agencies or to private buyers.

The actions of President Donald Trump's prosecutors in a high-profile case have opened a "Pandora's box" that could unravel the Trump Department of Justice's ambitions, according to one legal analyst.

Liz Dye, host of the "LegalEagle" podcast, said during a new episode on Thursday that the damage Trump DOJ's actions have caused in the so-called Broadview Six case could be "hard to contain." Trump prosecutors were caught lying to grand jury members and attempting to withhold evidence of their misdoings captured in the grand jury transcripts. The prosecutors later dropped the case to prevent the transcripts from being released to the judge.

President Donald Trump got yet another piece of humiliation about the conclusion of the Iran war — and it came in its entry on Wikipedia.

As of press time, the Wikipedia page for "2026 Iran War" states that the outcome of the war was "Iranian victory."

CNN correspondent Kara Scannell was left flummoxed after accused UnitedHealthcare CEO shooter Luigi Mangione's legal team moved to withdraw their plan for a psychiatric legal defense on Thursday — just a day after having submitted it to the court in the first place.

"This is like 24 hours. It's a reversal," said anchor Phil Mattingly. "Explain what's happening here."