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Trump foe warns DOJ against committing a 'shocking assault' after failed re-indictment bid

A lawyer for New York Attorney General Letitia James on Thursday sent President Donald Trump's Justice Department a stark message after grand jurors in Virginia failed to secure a re-indictment on allegations of mortgage fraud charges.

The news came after a judge tossed an initial indictment about 10 days earlier, declaring the appointment of the interim U.S. attorney overseeing the case unlawful.

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'Bad sign': Supreme Court under fire for 'failing the country' with latest order

Legal experts bashed the Supreme Court's unsigned order on Thursday that allows Texas to use an election map that significantly favors President Donald Trump and the Republican Party.

On Thursday, the Supreme Court reversed a lower court's order prohibiting Texas from using the map state Republicans created during a special session that eliminated five Democratic districts. The lower court found the map constituted a racial gerrymander, meaning that it considered the race of voters when lawmakers were outlining the districts.

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Blistering dissent warns of 'serious consequences' as Supreme Court allows Texas maps

Three Supreme Court justices issued a blistering dissent on Thursday to yet another unsigned order from the high court.

The Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that Texas can use the new election map its Republican-controlled legislature drew during a special session during the 2026 midterm. The new map is designed to eliminate five Democrat-controlled districts, but a lower court ruled that the map was a racial gerrymander, which violates the 14th and 15th Amendments of the Constitution.

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'Slanderous!' Vance claims he doesn't see 'simmering antisemitism' on the right

Vice President JD Vance said on Thursday that he doesn't see the "simmering antisemitism" on the right, as some of his Republican colleagues have claimed, according to a new report.

Vance told NBC News in an interview that it is "anti-American" to judge someone by their immutable characteristics, and that he doesn't see "simmering antisemitism" in young conservatives he engages with. His comments happened at a time when other Republicans like Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), who appears to be positioning himself to challenge Vance in 2028, are calling out antisemitism within the Republican Party.

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Supreme Court allows Texas to use Trump-backed election map in 2026 midterm: report

The Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that Texas can use the election map favored by President Donald Trump in the 2026 midterm election, according to a new report from CNN.

The ruling paves the way for Texas Republicans to use a map that will give them a significant advantage over Democrats in the election. It also blocked a lower court's ruling that the map was illegal because it was likely drawn on the basis of race, according to the report.

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'Intolerable': Trump roundly rebuked for 'racist and inflammatory' remarks

President Donald Trump is being roundly condemned for making bigoted attacks on Somalis, whom he referred to collectively as “garbage” earlier this week.

During a Tuesday Cabinet meeting at the White House, Trump unleashed a racist tirade against Somali Americans living in Minnesota, whom he falsely portrayed as layabouts who sponge up welfare money.

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Appeals court allows Trump's National Guard deployment to continue in DC

A federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., has paused an order requiring President Donald Trump to remove National Guard troops from policing operations in Washington, DC.

In a ruling on Thursday, the court lifted an injunction ordering the troops to leave by Dec. 11.

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'Pardon me, such a terrible mistake!' Grinning Trump teases new name for Kennedy Center

President Donald Trump has completely remade the Kennedy Center in his image — and now he wants to name it after himself.

According to The New Republic, Trump let this plan slip "during a speech at the U.S. Institute of Peace for the signing of a peace agreement between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Coincidentally, the Institute of Peace is the latest building that the president has stamped his name on, even in the midst of a legal battle over who owns the building."

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Obsessed Trump's revenge case on top foe will likely be 'killed in the cradle': analyst

Federal courts will probably "kill" President Donald Trump's latest attack on one of his political foes "in the cradle" before the case gets off the ground, a legal analyst said Thursday.

Adam Klasfeld, editor-in-chief of All Rise News, discussed a subpoena that Trump-aligned prosecutor, Acting U.S. Attorney John Sarcone, served to New York Attorney General Letitia James with progressive YouTuber Brian Tyler Cohen on Thursday. The subpoena concerned James' investigatory files from when she prosecuted Trump for fraud, Klasfeld said. James appeared in court on Thursday to fight the subpoena, where her lawyers argued that Sarcone is improperly serving as the acting U.S. attorney.

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'Setup operation': Kash Patel backs up Trump Jr.'s wild theory on J6 pipe bomber

FBI Director Kash Patel celebrated an arrest in the case against the alleged Jan. 6 pipe bomber by immediately discussing conspiracy theories with Donald Trump Jr.

Following the arrest of Brian Cole on Thursday, Trump complained to Patel that the case seemed to "disappear" while the Biden administration prioritized the prosecution of Jan. 6 rioters.

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'Grandpa needs a nap': Trump mocked as he can't keep eyes open during peace signing

President Donald Trump amused onlookers when he appeared to nod off — again — Thursday at a peace-themed signing ceremony for a U.S.-brokered pact between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda.

The event was being held at the U.S. Institute of Peace in Washington, D.C., where Trump was hosting Presidents Félix Tshisekedi of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Paul Kagame of Rwanda.

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Troubling trends undercut Trump's boast of new 'golden age'

This is “the golden age of America, because we are doing better than we’ve ever done as a country,” President Donald Trump declared last month, standing before a backdrop emblazoned with “The Golden Age,” as he promoted a central theme of his administration.

On the White House’s social media page on X, it declares, “The Golden Age of America Begins Right Now.”

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Strike survivors deserved death for 'trying to flip their boat back over': GOP senator

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) insisted that two survivors of the strike on a small alleged drug boat deserved to die because they were trying to "flip" the vessel back over after it was hit.

Following a briefing from Adm. Frank “Mitch” Bradley on Thursday, Cotton defended the Pentagon's decision to continue firing on the boat after the first strike.

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