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Judge who forced Trump DOJ to back down on NYT subpoenas not done with them yet: report

The Justice Department made a major retreat this week, withdrawing its controversial subpoenas against New York Times journalists intended to root out a leak.

But the federal judge who strong-armed them into backing down isn't finished with them quite yet.

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Republicans dread returning home for the summer: 'All of these issues will come up'

Republicans heading home for their summer recess will now have to explain to their hometown voters what they have been doing in Washington, D.C. — and they are not happy about that.

According to a Politico report, GOP lawmakers who spoke with the outlet after House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) sent everyone home early are fully aware that they will be facing voters' wrath after getting little done despite their majorities in both chambers.

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Trump vows Europe will pay 'big price' in unhinged threat: 'America is not a piggybank!'

President Donald Trump vowed vengeance on Europe Friday.

Trump, set off by news the American technology company Google had been fined more than $1 billion by the European Commission, promised to open an investigation into the European Union in a lengthy 200-plus-word rant.

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'Gag reflex': Respected conservative takes public stand against Todd Blanche

Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee were put on notice on Friday by a highly respected conservative that even the thought of appointing acting Attorney General Todd Blanche to the post should make them sick.

Washington Post columnist George Will argued Friday that Republicans owe no favors to President Donald Trump as he tries to foist his compromised former personal lawyer on the country.

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Tetchy Trump pouts over Canada bridge party snub: 'Terribly negotiated!'

President Donald Trump didn't want to go to Canada's party anyway, he told the nation Friday.

Trump declared on Truth Social was "fine" Friday after Canadian officials told his administration to skip an international bridge opening ceremony in Michigan — then proceeded to boast about the tariffs.

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Ex-ambassador erupts over Trump admin's 'huge mistake': 'This is so crazy'

Former ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul expressed on MS NOW Friday morning extreme dismay at the sloppiness of President Donald Trump’s nuclear cooperation agreement with the Saudis.

McFaul scoffed at the deal that would allow U.S. companies to help the Middle Eastern nation develop its atomic energy infrastructure and the reason it recently stalled: Trump's sudden demand Saudi Arabia normalize relations with Israel.

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War widow says Trump's tactics tormented her husband: 'Wanted to come home so bad'

A wife of one of the 18 military personnel killed in the Iran war has described her husband's dismay at how the conflict was unfolding.

Speaking with the New York Times, Jamiah Swinton described the changes her husband seemed to be undergoing since he was deployed over a year ago.

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Trump set to unleash 'unimaginable' suffering — with crippling backlash: expert

President Donald Trump's recent remarks could signal an upcoming move with "almost unimaginable humanitarian consequences," political scientist Robert Pape warned Friday.

Amid the ongoing and deeply unpopular U.S. war against Iran, Trump told Axios on Thursday that he was “close to making a decision” on launching a “massive attack,” one “bigger than ever before.” He also said Iran had “not suffered enough yet,” and noted that the U.S. military was ready to execute Trump’s plan at any moment.

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'Unethical' Trump admin sting operation starves poor community of food: lawsuit

A majority-Latino neighborhood in The Bronx was deprived of a food source after a Trump administration sting banned food stamps at a popular bodega over an alleged bottle of Clorox, a new lawsuit contends.

Naji Shagera Al Yafai, the sole owner of Black Olive Gourmet Inc., sued President Donald Trump's Agriculture Department in federal court in Manhattan on July 23, seeking to reverse the ban, federal court records show.

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Trump shocks by blasting 'cherry-red' MAGA towns as not 'smart'

Days after his own supporters organized 142 demonstrations against artificial intelligence data centers in 42 states, President Donald Trump claimed that “smart communities” across the U.S. “really want” the facilities known for raising electricity bills, consuming millions of gallons of water daily, and creating few permanent job opportunities.

At an event promoting his “Ratepayer Protection Pledge”—a plan to secure deals with major tech companies to keep household utility bills down in communities with data centers, which experts say is unlikely to produce meaningful savings for families—the president suggested that recent polls showing 7 in 10 Americans oppose data centers in their towns are the result of “propaganda... trying to convince everybody that this isn’t a positive thing.”

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GOP senators erupt at Karoline Leavitt: 'John can’t put a gun to people’s heads!'

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) and his fellow Republicans lashed out at Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt after she complained about the latest stalemate with the White House, according to new reports.

Tensions have erupted between the Senate GOP leadership and President Donald Trump's White House over the chamber's inability to pass the president's legislative priorities, primarily the controversial SAVE America Act, The Hill reported Friday.

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'Sensitive bunny' on Trump team busted for behind-the-scenes meltdown: 'You're a loser'

Wall Street Journal columnist Kimberly Strassel called out Friday morning a high-ranking member of President Donald Trump's administration for siccing his staffers on her after she criticized his work.

In a biting new column, Strassel dubbed Vice President J.D. Vance a "sensitive bunny."

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FBI rushed to gather 'salacious' Trump-Epstein dirt as it denied having client list: email

FBI agents scrambled to draw up a list of the most “salacious” Jeffrey Epstein-related allegations against President Donald Trump — just days after it announced the pedophile had left no client list.

Multiple allegations of sex crimes made against Trump to the FBI’s National Threat Operations Center tip line were gathered together and emailed among a handful of officials in the agency’s New York field office of the Child Exploitation and Human Trafficking Task Force.

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