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The bloc of Donald Trump voters that was vital to getting him over the election line in first place last November were asked just four months after his inauguration for their reactions.

Their answer was far from exuberant. “Ummmm,” said one.

President Donald Trump’s pick to serve as Washington, D.C.’s top federal prosecutor is facing fresh scrutiny after newly surfaced videos and podcasts appear to contradict his public apology for praising a Capitol riot defendant with known Nazi sympathies, the Washington Post reported Friday.

Interim U.S. Attorney for D.C. Ed Martin has apologized this week for defending Timothy Hale-Cusanelli, a white supremacist who once photographed himself posing as Adolf Hitler and has a documented history of anti-Semitic statements. Martin claimed he was unaware of Hale-Cussanelli’s extremist views when he publicly praised him.

MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow sharply criticized President Donald Trump on Friday, who she accused of turning his back on a life-saving drug that the host said has spared the lives of hundreds of thousands of Americans.

“It's not like we didn't know it was going to be terrible,” Maddow said in the opening minutes of her show. “And it is terrible,” she added as she laid into the litany of federal programs Trump has axed in his first three months after returning to the White House.

The CIA on Friday broke its silence over the death of Michael Gloss, the son of a senior national security official and an Iraq War veteran, who was killed last April while fighting with Russian forces in Ukraine – one of the few Americans known to have done so, the Washington Post reported.

While Gloss, 21, was killed in Donetsk on April 4, 2024, of “massive blood loss” in an artillery barrage, that he was killed on the battlefield in Ukraine fighting alongside the Russian army was not publicly revealed until Friday, according to the Post, which described Gloss as “a Dylan-loving peacenik who wanted to save the environment.”

A judge said a 2-year-old girl with U.S. citizenship appears to have been deported along with her mother to Honduras with "no meaningful process" — despite her father's efforts to keep her in the country.

According to Politico, "U.S. District Judge Terry Doughty, a Trump appointee, said the child — identified in court papers by the initials 'V.M.L.' — appeared to have been released in Honduras earlier Friday, along with her Honduran-born mother and sister, who had been detained by immigration officials earlier in the week."

The Education Department on Friday opened a probe into New York state education officials for threatening to cut funding to a local school district over its decades-old Native American mascot – an image depicting a man in a feathered headdress, according to a report in Politico.

The new investigation came days after Donald Trump used the power of the presidency to weigh in on the mascot feud embroiling the small Long Island community, and asked his education secretary to look into the matter he called “very important.”

A prominent accuser of Jeffrey Epstein has died by suicide, according to a report.

Virginia Giuffre became a leading figure in unearthing Epstein's trafficking network and shared detailed accounts of abuse and trafficking by Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. That included claims she was trafficked to high-profile figures, including Britain's Prince Andrew.

One of President Donald Trump's most controversial federal prosecutors is now waging a campaign of intimidation against Wikipedia.

According to The Free Press, Ed Martin, the acting U.S. attorney for Washington, D.C., sent a letter to the Wikimedia Foundation, the parent organization for the internet encyclopedia, accusing them of "engaging in a series of activities that could violate its obligations" as a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) nonprofit, and of “allowing foreign actors to manipulate information and spread propaganda to the American public.”

John Reid, the Republican nominee for Virginia lieutenant governor, defied calls Friday from Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R-VA) to drop out of the race after nude photos of men were shared on a social media account that Youngkin's team believes is linked to him.

“The Governor was made aware late Thursday of the disturbing online content,” Youngkin’s Spirit of Virginia PAC said in a statement Friday, according The Washington Post. “Friday morning, in a call with Mr. Reid, the Governor asked him to step down as the Lt. Governor nominee.”

Former Department of Defense special counsel Ryan Goodman was taken aback by Attorney General Pam Bondi’s public comments about the new criminal case involving Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Hannah Dugan.

Bondi on Friday sparked a firestorm of criticism from Democrats when she suggested the judge arrested by the FBI on charges of obstructing justice is “deranged” and implied she is “above the law.”

Republicans in Missouri saw their state's abortion ban overturned by a popular referendum last year, the latest in a long line of red states where voters rejected extreme prohibitions on the procedure. But Republicans are now resorting to an "absurd" ploy to pressure voters into voting on an amendment that would effectively reverse their previous decision — and it has insulting echoes of decades of extreme anti-women tactics by abortion restrictionists, wrote Mary Ziegler for Slate.

The new amendment the GOP is pushing, wrote Ziegler, "would allow for exceptions slightly broader than the ones in the ban that Amendment 3 repealed, including certain severe medical emergencies, fetal abnormalities, and rape and incest (for the latter, survivors would have access only for the first 12 weeks of pregnancy). The amendment would also ban gender-affirming care for minors, which Missouri law already prohibits."

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has dismissed members of several Pentagon advisory boards focused on defense policy and military technology, further shaking up the department during the former Fox News host’s time at the Pentagon, the Wall Street Journal reported.

In a memo outlining the removals from the Defense Policy Board, the Defense Science Board and other advisory panels, Hegseth said the Pentagon needs “fresh thinking to drive bold changes."