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President Donald Trump fired off at Fox News journalist Shannon Bream on Friday for apparently not defending his deportation record strongly enough, attacking her using a misspelled insult.

“The Average Daily Catch and Repatriation is, by far, the Highest under President Trump. No other president comes close,” Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social.

One of President Donald Trump’s key promises has been that, by deporting millions of migrants, new jobs would become available to American citizens, but according to a recent study, the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown has largely had the opposite effect.

“During the first nine months of 2025, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations led directly to at least 668,000 lost jobs across 86 U.S. metropolitan areas,” wrote Marcela Escobari, one of three authors of the study, in an op-ed published in The New York Times on Friday.

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) was seething with "anger" after Trump scrapped a housing bill Republicans were counting on as their midterm lifeline, a source told POLITICO.

President Donald Trump cancelled the signing of the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act on Wednesday morning — an hour before he was due at the Capitol. The bill had cleared Congress with a veto-proof majority: 358-32 in the House, 85-5 in the Senate.

Democrats hold a "secret weapon" heading into this fall's midterm elections, according to CNN's Harry Enten.

Health care costs have surged past gas prices, food and housing to become Americans' single biggest financial concern, Enten said, and Democrats hold a decisive advantage over Republicans on that topic.

With Donald Trump expected to meet with evangelical leaders on Friday, The Atlantic’s McKay Coppins claimed on MS NOW on Friday that they may already be looking past him since he's a “lame duck.”

Speaking with “Money Power Politics,” host Stephanie Ruhle, Coppins, who has written extensively on the intersection between religion and politics, claimed Trump’s “act” has been wearing thin within the Christian community.

John Bolton, who served as President Donald Trump's national security adviser during his first term before becoming one of his harshest critics, entered a guilty plea Friday to one federal charge of illegally retaining classified national defense information.

According to NBC News, Bolton appeared before Judge Theodore D. Chuang in Greenbelt, Maryland, for a re-arraignment hearing, where he admitted to the retention charge involving sensitive materials from his White House tenure.

Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner's secret resort deal on Albania's only island has sparked a mass revolt that now threatens to bring down the country's entire government.

Kushner's private equity firm, Affinity Partners, quietly secured rights to build a $1.6 billion luxury resort on Sazan Island — a protected Adriatic nature preserve — and a $4 billion coastal development on a nearby wildlife reserve.

A Republican lawmaker upended the rationale for President Donald Trump's legislative obsession.

The 80-year-old president is demanding congressional Republicans pass his SAVE America Act to prevent widespread election fraud, which he continues to insist cost him the presidency in 2020, but Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) called those claims absurd.

As President Donald Trump continues to face questions over the state of his physical and cognitive health, his own staff is reportedly “concerned” that the 80-year-old president “won’t survive” to see the end of his second term, columnist Brian Karem claimed in a report published Friday in Salon.

“Members on both sides of the aisle, and even members of Trump’s staff, are concerned that the president will roll over like a cockroach and start spouting gibberish (if he hasn’t done that already) or that he simply won’t survive his full term, which still has 940 days to go,” Karem wrote.

Donald Trump's single-minded obsession with getting the SAVE America Act passed when no one in Congress believes it will come within a stone's throw of getting 60 votes in the Senate has some GOP insiders wondering what is going on.

MS NOW's Hayes Brown captured Trump's destructive pattern, writing, "President Donald Trump has exactly two modes: unfocused and obsessed. Most things in this world activate the first mode. But there are a handful of exceptions that become deeply ingrained in his mind and nothing can shake them loose."

A little-known Donald Trump appointee with no prior diplomatic experience has emerged as a central figure in the administration's outreach to Central Asia — drawing scrutiny over what critics describe as a business-first approach to American diplomacy.

Sergio Gor, who serves simultaneously as U.S. ambassador to India and as the president's envoy to Central Asia, met with Turkmenistan's de facto ruler, Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov, and his son in Ashgabat roughly a month before the reclusive foreign leader's secretive February visit to South Florida, reported Politico.

A Florida judge ordered lawyers to stop filing briefs calling President Donald Trump's $1.776 billion IRS deal a fraud on the court, even as she praised their help.

U.S. District Judge Kathleen M. Williams of the Southern District of Florida issued the order Thursday, telling three separate groups of attorneys that the case was "sufficiently briefed" — while adding that she "greatly appreciates" what they had offered.

A new report from the Commerce Department on Friday delivered a decisive blow to what has been among President Donald Trump’s chief promises while on the campaign trail.

According to the report, the U.S. goods trade deficit had widened to its highest point in more than a year as of June, with U.S. exports shrinking by 5.4% when compared with May and imports rising by 3.6%.