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A major supporter of Donald Trump's tariffs, who was appointed this year as executive director of the Office of Trade Relations at Customs and Border Protection, has been banished after a picture of him attending the wedding of one the president's critics was circulated this week.

According to a report from the Washington Post, George E. Bogden was reportedly pink-slipped because he attended the wedding of former Trump administration official Miles Taylor who wrote the notorious 2018 New York Times opinion piece critical of Trump under the name "Anonymous."

Former Rep. George Santos (R-NY) was sentenced to more than seven years in prison on Friday after he pleaded guilty to wire fraud and aggravated identity theft.

Santos confessed to a number of schemes, which included lying to Congress, money laundering and fraudulently receiving unemployment benefits.

Staffers for Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency are constructing a "deportation machine" using the sensitive data they've scooped up across the federal government, according to a new report.

Sources familiar with the plans told CNN that DOGE employees intend to create a centralized repository of data from the Internal Revenue Service, the Social Security Administration, Health and Human Services and other agencies, and the data analytics company Palantir is involved with building out the database.

FBI director Kash Patel deleted a tweet that announced the arrest a Wisconsin judge accused of trying to help an undocumented migrant avoid arrest.

"Just NOW, the FBI arrested Judge Hannah Dugan out of Milwaukee, Wisconsin on charges of obstruction — after evidence of Judge Dugan obstructing an immigration arrest operation last week," Patel posted on X. "We believe Judge Dugan intentionally misdirected federal agents away from the subject to be arrested in her courthouse, Eduardo Flores Ruiz, allowing the subject — an illegal alien — to evade arrest."

Former Rep. George Santos (R-NY) was sentenced to more than seven years in prison on Friday after he pleaded guilty to wire fraud and aggravated identity theft.

Santos confessed to a number of schemes, which included lying to Congress, money laundering and fraudulently receiving unemployment benefits.

The Trump administration suddenly backed down on its effort to revoke the visas of thousands of foreign students, according to reports.

The administration announced Friday in court that it would return the students to active status after terminating their records in a federal database earlier this month, reported WUSA-TV.

Reacting to Donald Trump's plunging approval numbers reported by Fox News earlier in the week, National Review editor-in-chief Rich Lowry suggested the embattled president need only look in the mirror if he's looking for the culprit who is crippling his administration.

In a column on Friday for the conservative NRO, Lowry took a dark view of Trump's disruptive trade war which, he claimed, has led to an "economic dislocation" that appears to be the main administration misstep that has turned voters against him.

Safety for first responders is paramount at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH). Which is why its employees, and the first responders who rely on their research and data, are shocked by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s cuts, according to a new POLITICO report.

“[The research has] all been put on pause,” Hannah Echt, a union steward at NIOSH, told the outlet. “We haven’t been able to travel since the end of January, and now… there’s no one to do the traveling.”

“America is pissed,” Rick Wilson said in his latest “elephant in the room” segment.

The conservative went through the latest polling numbers, calling them “a systemic collapse happening across every public and private poll.”