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A new poll shows US voters’ approval of President Donald Trump’s handling of the economy has hit an all-time low, even as the president and his officials insist the economy is the best in the world.

The latest Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll released Thursday found that only 31% of voters approve of Trump’s handling of the economy, the lowest figure in that survey throughout either of his two terms in office. Overall, 68% of voters said that the current state of the economy was “poor.”

Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE) delivered a dire warning for his party in conversation with CNN's Manu Raju on Thursday: if they can't do anything to fix the impending health care cliff, they're going to get slaughtered in the midterms.

Bacon, a relatively moderate GOP member who is retiring from his Democratic-leaning Omaha district, gave this warning as the Senate failed to advance both the Democratic and Republican health care proposals, all but guaranteeing millions of people will see their health insurance premiums spike when the Affordable Care Act expanded subsidies expire at the end of the year.

A top FBI official struggled on Thursday to answer basic questions about antifa, a loosely organized collective of anti-fascist activists that he labeled the top terrorist threat facing the US.

Michael Glasheen, operations director of the FBI’s National Security Branch, testified before the US House Committee on Homeland Security that antifa was “the most immediate violent threat” facing Americans today when it comes to domestic terrorism.

Border Patrol chief Gregory Bovino declared that he would "love the honor" of handcuffing Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN).

In a video posted on Thursday, Bovino appeared to play along as conservative influencer Nick Sortor noted that White House border czar Tom Homan said he was investigating Omar for immigration fraud.

In a post to Truth Social, the president accused Rupert Murdoch's newspaper of writing "another ridiculous story."

According to the Journal, "U.S. investors are plowing money into Chinese companies involved in artificial intelligence, despite growing competition between Washington and Beijing over the technology."

President Donald Trump's Justice Department suffered yet another humiliating setback on Thursday, as a grand jury in Virginia refused to return a fraud indictment against New York Attorney General Letitia James — the second time this has happened since the original case against her was thrown out.

According to ABC News, "Federal prosecutors on Thursday failed to convince a majority of grand jurors to approve charges that James misled a bank to obtain favorable loan terms on a home mortgage, according to sources. The charges were presented to a grand jury in the Eastern District of Virginia's Alexandria branch after a grand jury in Norfolk, Virginia, last week rejected the charges."

Fans of President Donald Trump struggled to name the wars he had claimed to have stopped in a recent interview with Daily Show correspondent Jordan Klepper.

"I keep hearing Trump is ending wars," Klepper noted in a video posted on Thursday, "although the exact number is up for debate."