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An author who has written four books about President Donald Trump said on Thursday that he's struggling to serve a subpoena to first lady Melania Trump in connection with a lawsuit he filed against her.

Journalist Michael Wolff sued Melania Trump in October after she filed a $1 billion lawsuit against him for “false, defamatory, disparaging, misleading, and inflammatory statements” he made about her connection to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein. Wolff said on Thursday's episode of "Inside Trump's Head," a podcast he co-hosts with Joana Coles of The Daily Beast, that he has struggled to serve Melania Trump a subpoena.

A federal judge appointed by President Donald Trump is threatening officials at the Department of Homeland Security with contempt after they refused to turn over photos of conditions in an allegedly "putrid and cramped" Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility on Long Island.

According to Courthouse News Service, "U.S. District Judge Gary Brown ... suggested Immigration and Customs Enforcement has been 'recklessly' expanding the use of these short-term detention facilities amid its nationwide push for stricter immigration enforcement."

Authorities on Thursday night identified the suspected shooter who killed two students and injured nine others at Brown University and a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology last week.

The suspected gunman was identified as Claudio Nevis Valenti, 48, a Portuguese national whose last known address was in Miami, by Oscar Perez, Jr., the chief of Providence Police. Authorities found Valenti after a license plate reader picked up plates matching a car linked to the suspect.

The suspect in a shooting that killed two students and wounded nine others at Brown University, as well as a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was found dead in a storage unit in Salem, New Hampshire, on Thursday night, according to The Associated Press.

A massive manhunt had been underway for the gunman, who has not yet been identified, since Saturday, when he opened fire at Brown University. Authorities later connected the shooter to the killing of MIT professor Nuno Loureiro, 47, who taught in the engineering and physics departments.

Some high-profile allies of President Donald Trump were called out on Thursday for "casting aspersions" about several right-wing figures during an event dubbed the "Super Bowl" for young Republicans.

Ben Shapiro, editor emeritus at The Daily Wire, spoke on Thursday during Day One of Turning Point USA's AmericaFirst Conference in Phoenix, Arizona. During his speech, he called out Steve Bannon, Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, and other right-wing media figures for spreading conspiracy theories about slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk, who founded TPUSA, and his wife, Erika, the organization's current CEO.

President Donald Trump's administration took a major swipe at Colorado this week — so Colorado's senators are fighting back by putting a hold on a key funding bill.

Earlier this week, Office of Management and Budget director Ross Vought revealed plans to dismantle the National Center on Atmospheric Research, an agency behind fire and flood studies located in Boulder, Colorado. Vought, a notorious extreme-right figure who helped craft the Project 2025 agenda, denounced the agency as "one of the largest sources of climate alarmism in the country," and said any NCAR functions he deems to be important will be re-delegated to other federal offices.

A renowned historian on Thursday accused President Donald Trump's administration of attempting to install a "Nazi worldview" in America.

Heather Cox Richardson, historian and author of the Substack "Letters from an American," discussed how the Trump administration differs from previous presidential administrations in a new interview on Zeteo News with journalist John Harwood. The interview occurred at a time when Trump's rhetoric had become increasingly dark around topics like immigration and citizenship.

President Donald Trump was accused on Thursday by Sen. Ted Budd (R-NC) of lying about the process of his marijuana policymaking.

Trump reportedly plans an executive order to direct drug agencies to downgrade marijuana from a Schedule I drug, a category reserved for the most dangerous and illegal substances with no recognized medical use, to Schedule III, alongside anabolic steroids and certain moderate painkillers. It's a rare policy issue on which he is aligned with former President Joe Biden, who also directed federal officials to evaluate rescheduling marijuana.

Erika Kirk's scheduled speech at her company's grand annual meeting on Thursday was overshadowed by what she called a "fun technical difficulty."

Kirk spoke on day one of Turning Point USA's AmericaFest Conference in Phoenix, Arizona, on Thursday, an event she called the organization's "Super Bowl." Her dramatic entrance followed an emotional video about her late husband, conservative activist and TPUSA founder Charlie Kirk. Still, as she began talking, it soon became apparent that something went wrong.

FBI Director Kash Patel has said some genuinely strange stuff in the past, but some of his most "baffling" work occurred during a recent podcast interview, according to one columnist.

Patel and his girlfriend, 27-year-old country music singer Alexis Wilkins, appeared on "The Katie Miller Podcast" on Wednesday, a show hosted by the wife of President Donald Trump's deputy chief of staff, Stephen Miller. During the interview, Miller tossed Patel several softball questions about criticism he's received to help him "dress down the haters and losers," Luke Winkie, a staff writer for Slate, argued in a new column.

Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-OH) pushed back sharply after the White House claimed the Kennedy Center board unanimously approved renaming the venue after President Donald Trump, saying that account is flatly untrue. Beatty, an ex officio board member, said she was on the call and attempted to raise concerns but was repeatedly muted, preventing her from speaking or voting. She stressed that Congress created the Kennedy Center and retains authority over major decisions, accusing the administration of trying to sidestep the law while falsely portraying consensus.

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Republican Party insiders on Thursday offered the press a starkly different assessment of President Donald Trump's primetime address to the nation than they gave the president, according to a new report.

Politico reported on Thursday that people close to the president told him that he did "great" after the cameras stopped rolling on Wednesday night. However, once he left the room, they were "far less ebullient about the president’s attempt to improve his dismal numbers on the economy," according to the report.