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New court documents allege that pro-MAGA podcaster Steve Bannon was a secret operative helping President Donald Trump and the White House extort nearly $1 billion from the nation's top law firms.

Trump's personal lawyer, Boris Epshteyn, is also named alongside Bannon.

President Donald Trump's political advisers know exactly how much his Iran war has cost him with the MAGA base and Republican voters, but Trump himself is another matter, New York Times correspondent Maggie Haberman said Thursday.

Appearing on MS NOW's "The Moment with Katy Tur," Haberman was asked whether the White House grasps the war's political fallout.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers have justified the killing of 52-year-old Houston man Lorenzo Salgado Araujo by claiming he rammed their vehicle with his own and attempted to run down an agent. But new footage casts serious doubt on their version of events.

Salgado Araujo, a Mexican national, lived peacefully with no criminal issues in Texas for 35 years before the incident.

MS NOW anchor Katy Tur could hardly keep a straight face this week as she walked viewers through the strange fate of one of President Donald Trump's most loyal foreign allies, who is now on track to campaign against a man wearing a trash can on his head.

The ally is Nigel Farage, leader of the United Kingdom's hard-right Reform party, who resigned his seat in Parliament this week amid an investigation into millions of pounds in undisclosed gifts from wealthy backers. Farage, who has denied any wrongdoing, quit to trigger a special election he can re-contest. Tur and much of the British political class read the move as a thinly veiled attempt to sidestep the scrutiny and paint himself as a victim of the liberal establishment.

On Wednesday night, President Donald Trump took to Truth Social to publicly praise SpaceX's President Gwynne Shotwell and her husband for their contribution to Trump Accounts, the tax-advantaged savings account funded with $1,000 from the Treasury for every American child born between 2025 and 2028.

"Thank you to the brilliant and highly respected Gwynne Shotwell, and her husband, Robert, for their extreme Generosity in helping children to attain the ever magnificent American Dream!" the president wrote.

President Donald Trump may call himself the master of making a deal, but four Wall Street Journal writers think he stinks at writing them.

The Journal on Thursday published a stern rebuke of Trump's memorandum of understanding with Iran, arguing a single "poorly worded clause" resulted in the battle for the Strait of Hormuz.

The White House's top spokesman went after one of the reporters behind a story on President Donald Trump's abrupt Air Force One switch, branding her a liar and questioning whether she even counts as a journalist.

Communications director Steven Cheung, known for his fiery outbursts, wrote on X that "Carol Leonnig is a liar and this article is complete Fake News," referring to an MS NOW report that said Trump abandoned his Qatari-gifted jet on the flight from the NATO summit in Turkey to the United Kingdom over security concerns tied to escalating strikes on Iran.

A "giant tarp" printed to resemble the columns it now covers has been quietly draped over an area of the White House one Trump appointee wants to redo so it will resemble Mar-a-Lago, witnesses reported on Thursday.

Scaffolding at the White House's North Portico entrance was covered Wednesday as construction crews continued a makeover of the 200-year-old structure, according to multiple reporters on the scene.

House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan (R-OH) is harassing a Virginia prosecutor by dragging her into a closed-door deposition—and she's refusing to go quietly, according to a new report.

Parisa Dehghani-Tafti, the top prosecutor for Arlington County and Falls Church, is calling out Jordan for subpoenaing her to answer questions about her handling of a protest case involving Donald Trump adviser Stephen Miller's home, PunchUp reported Thursday. The catch: Jordan is insisting the deposition happen behind closed doors, despite the prosecutor's repeated offers to answer every question publicly.

Donald Trump Jr. has found yet another way to monetize his father's presidency — and this could have deadly consequences, a new analysis warns.

Salon columnist Heather Digby Parton on Thursday authored a withering editorial about the eldest Trump son's spokesman position at online retailer GrabAGun and his ownership of 300,000 in the publicly traded company.