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President Donald Trump's plan to bail out and effectively nationalize Spirit Airlines could be facilitated by a 1950 law passed to secure national defense during the Korean War.

According to CBS News, "The Trump administration is exploring using the Defense Production Act as part of a strategy to save the beleaguered Spirit Airlines, according to U.S. officials familiar with the discussions ... Spirit has declared bankruptcy twice in the past two years, after the Department of Justice blocked a merger with JetBlue during the Biden administration. The Iran war has been driving up jet fuel costs for all airlines and earlier this month, creditors expressed serious doubts Spirit could remain viable."

President Donald Trump complained on his Truth Social platform Friday afternoon that the Supreme Court should have let his administration keep all the billions of dollars they illegally collected from his "reciprocal tariff" scheme.

"People and Companies that have taken advantage of our Country for decades, because of the horrible and ridiculous United States Supreme Court decision on Tariffs, are now supposed to be given back 159 Billion Dollars," wrote Trump. "All they had to do was one little half sentence, 'that the United States does not have to pay back monies that were already paid' — and our Country would be 159 Billion Dollars richer."

Once again, MAGA Republicans are spreading claims that ballots were found in a "dumpster" and that this is proof of widespread election fraud — but this isn't the case, Kate Starbird wrote for her Sensemaking Distortion Substack on Friday.

This time, the ballots in question were for an election in Washington State.

Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) was accused of wanting to "bring back lynching" after he called to legalize public hangings as a form of capital punishment.

Burchett made the remarks on Friday after the Department of Justice announced that it was expanding execution methods to include firing squads.

Minnesota Republican Senate candidate Royce White was found liable by a judge for abusing his ex-wife and their son and ordered to have no contact with them.

According to The Minnesota Star Tribune, "Judge Kristen Marttila issued the order in February and wrote that White’s ex-wife — who divorced him in 2015 and lived with him from 2022 until August of last year — is 'utterly at a loss for how else to gain peace from him.' This is the third order for protection that White’s ex-wife has obtained against him, but the first time he has been ordered to stay away from his son. They also share a daughter together, who he is allowed to continue seeing."

The White House took swift action after Australian flags were placed on the streets of Washington, D.C., to mark the arrival of King Charles III of Britain.

On Friday, Photos shared on social media showed Australian flags lining 17th Street. Freelance reporter Andrew Leyden shared several of the photos on X.