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Former Vice President Kamala Harris called Anderson Cooper a "motherf-----" to her colleagues following a tense interview last year, Fox News reported on Friday, citing a new book by CNN anchor Jake Tapper and Axios reporter Alex Thompson.

Harris's reported remark came in the wake of then-President Joe Biden's disastrous debate performance against then-candidate Donald Trump. At the time, Harris said, "This motherf----- doesn't treat me like the damn vice president of the United States," the book said, according to the report "I thought we were better than that."

President Donald Trump's efforts to push cryptocurrency as an asset for the U.S. government to hold smells rotten, Trump-favoring CNN commentator Doug Heye conceded in a CNN panel on Friday evening.

This comes as Trump hosts a dinner for the top people holding a meme coin from which he personally profits — and as the Senate considers a "stablecoin" bill known as the GENIUS Act that stands to potentially benefit a crypto company partially held by Trump's family.

A federal judge accused the president of enacting an executive order he declared an "unconstitutional abuse of Donald Trump's power." One of the lawyers targeted in the order is celebrating the ruling, saying he "loves" the judge's smackdown.

Speaking to MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace on Friday as the news broke, former partner Andrew Weissmann smiled as he spoke about the judge's decision to stop the Trump order targeting the law firm Jenner & Block. Weissmann worked for the firm until 2011. More recently, Weissmann worked as one of the prosecutors on special counsel Robert Mueller's team investigating Trump and Russian meddling in the 2016 campaign.

U.S. District Judge John D. Bates, a Republican appointee, permanently blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order targeting the law firm Jenner & Block, finding the retribution unconstitutional.

The order, issued Friday afternoon, alleged that Trump was trying “to chill legal representation the administration doesn’t like, thereby insulating the Executive Branch from the judicial check fundamental to the separation of powers."

A Wisconsin man is begging President Donald Trump to intercede on his behalf as he files a complaint against a former employer who fired him for discriminatory behavior against LGBTQ people, Fox News reported on Friday.

Spencer Wimmer, who was terminated by the generator company Generac after what he calls five years of exemplary service, is represented by the right-wing advocacy group Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty.

One of President Donald Trump's top staffers is costing American taxpayers around $1 million a month, according to a reporter.

Tom Homan, whose official title is White House Executive Associate Director of Enforcement and Removal Operations, is referred to by Trump as his "border czar" and is breaking the bank on security costs.

On Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court gave a temporary stay to a lower court's demand for a top Trump administration official to testify in court.

In a lawsuit from the Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, a district court ordered the "alleged acting administrator of DOGE" to testify in court, said Lawfare's Anna Bower on Bluesky.

Farmers are starting to turn on President Donald Trump, one reporter from rural Wisconsin warned Friday.

Speaking to MSNBC, The Nation's national affairs correspondent, John Nichols, said that most of the folks he grew up with were farmers or in a business related to farming.

The Supreme Court handed President Donald Trump a controversial win this week with a "shadow docket" ruling that allows him, at least for the time being, to terminate key officials at the National Labor Relations Board and Merit Systems Protection Board. But in their decision, they hinted at a "line in the sand" they are afraid Trump might cross in his crusade to bring the federal government to heel, that they need to lay down before it becomes a risk, court analyst Ian Millhiser wrote for Vox.

The ruling has disturbed legal experts, who have warned that the practical effect is to undermine Humphrey's Executor v. United States, the 90-year-old landmark legal case that established Congress can protect certain independent agency heads from being fired without cause.

As part of his ongoing attack on Harvard University, President Donald Trump attacked students admitted to the Ivy League school, saying that students there "can't add."

While signing an executive order on an unrelated matter, Trump criticized "billions of dollars" given to Harvard by the government. The U.S. funds medical research and more. Last week, the U.S. National Science Foundation listed 193 grants worth nearly $150 million that were being terminated. There are also 56 grants from the U.S. Department of Defense worth $105 million that were canceled.