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A former federal prosecutor raised the alarm Friday that the Trump administration may intervene to help a charged ICE agent dodge accountability after a Minnesota county issued a nationwide arrest warrant — and the agent had not yet been taken into custody.

Gregory Donnell Morgan Jr., an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer, was charged Thursday with two felony counts of assault after pointing his service weapon at two Minneapolis residents sitting in their car during a traffic dispute in February. Morgan was driving an unmarked rented SUV on a highway shoulder when a motorist partially blocked his path. After the car returned to the legal lane, Morgan pulled alongside and drew his gun.

A growing divide is emerging within the Republican Party as President Donald Trump pushes a massive increase in defense spending, with fiscal conservatives warning a “clash is looming” over the proposal.

That’s according to NOTUS, which reported Friday that administration officials are lobbying lawmakers behind closed doors to approve a record-high $1.5 trillion Pentagon budget. But some of Trump’s own MAGA allies are signaling resistance, particularly deficit-focused Republicans wary of the nation’s rising debt.

CNN anchor Erin Burnett zeroed in on a striking moment during President Donald Trump’s latest remarks on Iran, calling out what she described as a telling misstep.

“Trump claims everything is back to normal. He said Iran has just announced that the Strait of Iran, the Strait of Iran….interesting, that's interesting,” Burnett told viewers Friday as she opened her show. “I guess he just gave them the straight. Ostensibly, he met Hormuz, which is fully open and ready for full passage. Thank you. It's a Freudian slip there.”

Seven weeks into the conflict with Iran, new polling suggests President Donald Trump is struggling to win over the American public - a challenge one Republican strategist described as his “biggest problem.”

A new survey from Politico found that just 38% of Americans back the military strikes, while a majority say the war is not in the national interest. A plurality of respondents also said they are not confident Trump has clear objectives, “including a notable chunk of his 2024 supporters,” according to Politico.

A Democratic congressman on Friday seized on an unlikely source to hammer Donald Trump over his escalating feud with the Pope — Fox News host Laura Ingraham, who urged the president to show some restraint.

Rep. Jared Moskowitz of Florida, speaking with progressive commentator Brian Tyler Cohen, noted that even one of Trump's most reliable defenders on cable news had seen enough.

Far-right conspiracy theorist webcaster Alex Jones took to X on Friday to accuse President Donald Trump of deliberately throwing the midterms on behalf of a foreign power.

"This is my response to the new attack President Trump launched on myself and other sane American patriots today. The evidence is overwhelming President Trump is committing political suicide on purpose, and has made a deal to sabotage the midterms," he wrote, accompanied by a 5-minute video manifesto. "America is now under the control of a foreign government."

President Donald Trump said in a phone interview Friday that Iran has “agreed to everything” in ongoing talks with the United States, including allowing the removal of its enriched uranium, according to CBS News.

Trump insisted the effort would not involve U.S. ground troops, but offered few specifics about how the materials would be secured.

The new boss of CBS who claimed he was too swamped to face Congress was caught red-handed making time for something far more to his liking — a private dinner with the president whose goodwill he has chased.

Paramount Skydance chief David Ellison, who seized control of CBS last summer, ducked a Senate appearance Wednesday by citing a death in the family. Twenty-four hours later, he took the stage in front of a roomful of movie industry insiders at CinemaCon, the Daily Beast noted Friday.

MAGA influencer Steve Bannon was mocked after people questioned an apparent stain or shadow on his pants in a viral video clip.

During his appearance at a Semafor conference earlier this week, Bannon's green pants appeared to be stained. Some speculated that the dark area on his trousers might be urine. It couldn't immediately be determined what caused the apparent stain or shadow.

Israel was issued a fierce demand Friday morning by President Donald Trump that they cease striking Lebanon, but according to reports, it appears to have dismissed Trump’s orders “a number” of times within a matter of hours, resulting in at least one death.

The ongoing two-week ceasefire between the United States and Iran was brokered on the condition – according to Tehran – that Israel halt its siege on Lebanon, which Israel invaded last month and has struck repeatedly, displacing more than 1 million people – including 350,000 children – and killing more than 2,000.

A coalition of business groups, restaurateurs, and lawmakers in Texas has been formed to push back against the anti-immigrant policies of Donald Trump’s administration as sales collapse and companies struggle to find employees.

According to a report from the New York Times, there is tension in the deeply conservative state, as the economic impact on restaurants, in particular, is no longer tenable, with owners considering closing up shop.