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A federal judge brought up the arrest in Leon County of Juan Carlos Lopez-Gomez, a U.S. citizen born in Georgia, during a hearing Friday in which she extended her block of the new Florida immigration law until April 29.

U.S. District Court Judge Kathleen Williams expressed frustration about the arrests of Lopez-Gomez and others, said an attorney representing the immigrants and groups suing the state.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio "split" with President Donald Trump over the ceasefire between Ukraine and Russia, The Daily Beast reported Friday.

Speaking to the press, Rubio lamented the lack of progress in negotiations and said that the United States could “move on” from the talks in “a matter of days" if no agreement can be reached.

President Donald Trump's escalating attacks on Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell pose a threat to the entire economy, Chris Hughes of the Economy Security Project warned in an analysis for The New York Times published on Friday.

Powell has publicly warned that the effect of Trump's tariffs will be rising prices and additional pressure against rate cuts at the Federal Reserve. Trump has responded by publicly slamming the Fed chair, whom he first appointed, and even threatening to fire him — something that has never been done.

President Donald Trump's adviser Stephen Miller doubled down Friday afternoon in the White House's clash with judges in a high-profile deportation case, insisting the Supreme Court has been "abundantly clear" and that the administration cannot return a Maryland father who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia was wrongfully deported to the country due to what the Trump administration called an administrative error. The Supreme Court issued a murky ruling that the Trump administration must "facilitate" his return, but kicked the case back to a lower court to clarify "effectuate." The U.S. government has maintained he is a threat due to alleged gang ties, though his family and legal team dispute the claims.

The White House posted a screenshot of a story in The New York Times with an altered headline — and a claim that the original had been fixed.

Now a former federal prosecutor is cautioning that that action could cause the Donald Trump administration problems in court.

President Donald Trump, infuriated at Harvard University's refusal to capitulate to his demands to crack down on protest, is now plotting the nuclear option — go after the school's tax-exempt status, which would wreck the ability of the school to fundraise.

But in doing so, he is opening up a Pandora's Box that his own party would live to regret, Conor Clarke warned in an analysis for The Atlantic published on Friday.

Wealthy investors are looking to “diversify away from the dollar,” according to a new NBC report.

The outlet claims these investors “believe [the dollar] will weaken even further under the weight of the soaring U.S. debt.”

“Let’s be clear: [the war in Ukraine] would end tomorrow if Russia just… you know…stopped firing. That’s not speculation — it’s fact," Adam Kinzinger penned in a new substack.

The former GOP Congressman added that Kyiv “has not only survived but is winning” the war.

Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) said Friday that one of his six children has died.

Biggs wrote on social media that his daughter Cosette "lost her battle with cancer."

President Donald Trump's niece, Dr. Mary Trump, Ph.D., wrote Friday that she fears her uncle's retribution could be coming her next.

She began by noting her uncle is "openly defying the courts and essentially rendering the rule of law inoperative."

The Wisconsin Supreme Court has ruled in favor of Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers' creative 2023 line-item veto that transformed a one-year school funding increase into a year-on-year increase for the next 400 years.

Evers' veto came in 2023, with a bill that increased school funding by $325 per student for the "2024-25" school year. He creatively crossed out the digits "20" and the hyphen, along with a few other words in the sentence, to rewrite the bill as increasing funding per student by that amount every year through the "2425" school year.