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MSNBC host Stephanie Ruhle said she thinks the markets have been topsy-turvy all week because, in the past, the underlying economy was "a disaster." What's happening now, however, is "completely self-made."

Speaking to Nicolle Wallace on Friday, Ruhle said, "It's why the market this week has been up and down and up and down, because investors are hoping and begging and praying that Trump just scratches this thing. Because if he does, we actually have a good economy. But if he doesn't, he has us on a collision course for disaster."

The Trump administration's Secretary of Transportation, Sean Duffy, took a barely-concealed swipe at tech billionaire Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency task force while addressing the public about the latest string of air disasters that have unfolded since the new administration took office.

These incidents have included the devastating crash of American Eagle Flight 5342 over the Potomac River in Washington, D.C., the first fatal commercial air accident on U.S. soil in 15 years, as well as a number of other smaller incidents, including the crash of a small aircraft in Boca Raton, Florida, on Friday morning.

An order from Department of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's office demanded a purge of books disparaging racism while keeping those that defend white power, a new report said.

New York Times reporter Glenn Thrush wrote Friday that the Maya Angelou memoir that details her life of racism and trauma has been removed from the U.S. Naval Academy’s library.

A federal immigration judge on Friday greenlighted the deportation of Columbia University student Mahmoud Khalil, citing concerns that the man arrested last month as part of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown could pose a national security risk, according to media reports.

The Friday ruling came a month after Khalil’s arrest as Trump administration officials continue to allege that he expressed sympathy to the terrorist group Hamas during protests on the campus.

The Trump administration Justice Department is terminating a landmark consent decree established under the Biden administration with Lowndes County, Alabama, over accusations of racially discriminatory sanitation policies, reported The New York Times' Glenn Thrush on Friday.

"DOJ just terminated consent decree with Lowndes County, Alabama to address documented, wrenching disparities in the quality of drinking water and sewer systems for Black and white residents," wrote Thrush on X. "We're talking kids playing in backyard sewage pools, folks."

Bill Reinsch, the senior advisor for the economics program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, thinks that President Donald Trump's ongoing trade war will likely cause product shortages.

This week, Trump eased many tariffs on countries around the world, except for China, which still has 125% tariffs being implemented.

Friday's White House press briefing took a bizarre turn when Cara Castronuova, a right-wing former boxing champion, asked press secretary Karoline Leavitt about why President Donald Trump purportedly looks so attractive all of a sudden — spawning mockery and revulsion from commenters on social media.

"President Trump looks healthier than ever before," said Castronuova. "I'm sure everybody in this room could agree. Is he working out with Bobby Kennedy and is he eating less McDonald's?" To which Leavitt replied, "I can confirm the president is in very good shape."

Visiting the FDA on Friday, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. had several “off -the-cuff” remarks which stunned many staffers present, according to a POLITICO report.

The outlet obtained a transcript and audio of the speech where Kennedy claimed, “The Deep State is real. And it’s not, you know, just George Soros and Bill Gates and a bunch of nefarious individuals sitting together in a room and plotting the, you know, the destruction of humanity.”

U.S. District Court Judge Paula Xinis held a hearing on Friday in which the Justice Department was told to deliver information about a man they admitted they had wrongfully deported.

During the hearing, Judge Xinis demanded that the DOJ offer information on the whereabouts of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was sent to a prison in El Salvador earlier this year.

A new report from Politico claims members of the State Department are to tattle on each other for engaging in “anti-Christian bias.”

The move is a part of an executive order which was signed in February. It requires “federal agencies to root out 'anti-Christian bias' from the government.”