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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.”

Attorneys working at a law firm that just cut a deal with President Donald Trump are reportedly in open revolt.

The Bulwark's Sam Stein reports that more than 500 associate attorneys and staff at Allen Overy Shearman Sterling US LLP signed a letter imploring the firm not to take an offer from Trump to do pro bono work on behalf of his administration in exchange for him not revoking security clearances.

The U.S. Department of Justice is warring with U.S. District Court Judge Paula Xinis after the U.S. Supreme Court intervened in the case involving a man the government admitted they wrongfully deported.

The DOJ was told to issue details by noon on a deported Maryland man named Kilmar Abrego Garcia. The DOJ response came in nearly an hour late, and it appeared to be issuing a startling response, according to legal analysts.

A decision by MAGA-friendly Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) to challenge Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) for the seat he has held since 2002, has the GOP leadership concerned Donald Trump may stick his nose in that race and others.

According to a report from Politico, senior Republicans are publicly voicing their dismay over a possible internal civil war that could disrupt their election prospects if incumbents are forced to fend off Trump favorites in primaries, only to lose in the general election.

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President Donald Trump announced agreements with four top law firms he had targeted for punishment.

The president started going after some of the nation's leading firms last month by issuing financially punitive executive orders that judges have found are most likely unconstitutional, but some of them have agreed to terms with Trump to avoid costly showdowns with the executive branch, and he confirmed four new agreements Friday afternoon on Truth Social.

New York University Stern School of Business Professor Scott Galloway blasted President Donald Trump's ongoing tariff changes and attacked him as "stupid."

Co-host Whoopi Goldberg bashed Trump, saying he has "wreaked havoc on the global economy since his so-called liberation day last week with massive tariffs." She noted that Trump has now mostly walked them back, leaving a 10% tariff on all goods and 125% tariff on China.

The United States Department of Justice said on Friday that it will not comply with an order from Judge Paula Xinis to reveal information on the whereabouts and status of deported immigrant Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

As reported by Politico's Kyle Cheney on BlueSky, the DOJ information Judge Xinis that it would not be able to provide the information she requested on Garcia because the court set an "impracticable" deadline to do so.

As President Donald Trump threatened and then delayed the global tariffs (except for China) Big Tech CEOs were hard at work… lobbying, according to a report from WIRED.

With the exception of Elon Musk, a Trump ally who openly disagreed with POTUS on the tariffs, Jeff Bezos, Tim Cook, Sundar Pichai, and Mark Zuckerberg, all stayed silent in the public eye on the topic.

A beekeeper who voted for president Donald Trump every chance he got expressed regret over his choice in the most recent election.

North Carolina farmer Jim Hartman, who operates Secret Garden Bees, told CNN that he voted for Trump all three times, but he's not sure he would have made the same decision in November if he knew what the president's tariffs and funding cuts would do to his honey business, reported The Daily Beast.

Consumer sentiment over the last month plunged to levels not seen since the Great Recession more than 15 years ago.

As reported by the Wall Street Journal, "a closely watched index of consumer sentiment nosedived to 50.8 in April from 57 last month, continuing a recent downward trend stoked by concerns about trade, jobs and inflation."

President Donald Trump’s tariff turnaround rocked the global economy but it’s his “game show-like approach to ‘governance’” which could be more damaging to America than we realize, according to a column in Salon.

While the BBC called the spectacle “a high-stakes game of chicken, with the world's economy hanging in the balance,” columnist Chauncey DeVega believes there is something more subtle happening.