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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg's hot mic moment during a dinner with President Donald Trump on Thursday was "quite a moment," according to one analyst.

Sara Fischer, media reporter for Axios, joined CNN's Kaitlan Collins on "The Source" to discuss the dinner, which was attended by business leaders like Zuckerberg, Apple CEO Tim Cook, and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. The press was invited to part of the dinner, and some business leaders gave thanks to Trump for his pro-business policies.

The Wall Street Journal's conservative editorial board slammed the "bare-knuckle tactics" President Donald Trump has used to try and force Harvard University to change its campus antisemitism policies.

On Wednesday, a federal judge in Massachusetts ruled that the Trump administration has violated Harvard's First Amendment rights by conditioning university funding on adopting certain antisemitism and diversity policies. The judge restored the more than $2 billion in funding the Trump administration froze, and the order prohibits the administration from placing future restrictions on university funding.

CNN's Kaitlan Collins was stunned on Thursday night by statements made by a former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention official on her show.

Collins interviewed Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, an infectious disease expert, on her show "The Source" about Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy's hearing before the Senate Finance Committee. Experts have said Kennedy repeated multiple false claims about vaccines during the hearing, which resulted in some Republicans calling for him to be removed from the post.

President Donald Trump all but confirmed his well-reported plot to interfere in the New York City mayoral race on Thursday evening, reported Politico's Emily Ngo.

Asked by reporters whether he is working on making a candidate withdraw from the race, Trump said, "No, I don't like to see a communist become mayor. I won't tell you that. And I don't think you can win, unless you have one on one." His remarks appeared to reference Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani, a young Muslim with ties to the Democratic Socialists of America, and his main challenger, disgraced former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who lost the Democratic primary to Mamdani earlier this year but is still running in the general election under a separate ballot line.

President Donald Trump is reportedly mulling a takeover bid of the 9/11 Memorial & Museum — and museum officials aren't on board.

Trump is looking into how the federal government could take control of the museum, which has faced questions over its finances and leadership, The New York Times reported Thursday, citing two anonymous White House officials. The officials described the talks as preliminary and exploratory, and an exact path for a takeover wasn't immediately clear.

Former Fox News host Geraldo Rivera raged Thursday at the Trump administration's deportation of "family people" alongside criminals who illegally migrated to the United States.

Rivera joined Piers Morgan on his YouTube show "Piers Morgan Uncensored" to discuss Trump's immigration policies. Morgan asked him to respond to an earlier interview with President Donald Trump's border czar, Tom Homan, who argued that the United States should not let anyone who illegally immigrates to stay in the country.

President Donald Trump got yet another smackdown in court on Thursday over his efforts to restrict transgender rights.

The controversy stems from President Donald Trump's order that passports must identify a holder's gender at birth, regardless of their current gender identity.

A former federal prosecutor said on Thursday that President Donald Trump's administration is "not even pretending" to provide equal protection under the law with its mortgage fraud investigations into Trump's opponents.

The Trump administration has publicly announced that they are investigating Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA), Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook, and New York's Democratic Attorney General Letitia James for alleged mortgage fraud. Trump has also had standoffs with each of the people being investigated.

Congresswomen Ilhan Omar and Delia Ramirez on Thursday strongly condemned the Trump administration's deadly attack on a boat allegedly trafficking cocaine off the coast of Venezuela as "lawless and reckless," while urging the White House to respect lawmakers' "clear constitutional authority on matters of war and peace."

"Congress has not declared war on Venezuela, or Tren de Aragua, and the mere designation of a group as a terrorist organization does not give any president carte blanche," said Omar (D-Minn.), referring to President Donald Trump's day-one executive order designating drug cartels, including the Venezuela-based group, as foreign terrorist organizations.

President Donald Trump announced on Thursday that he intends to sign an executive order to change the name of the Department of Defense to the Department of War, a move that was roundly criticized by legal and military analysts.

The rebrand speaks to the "warrior ethos" that Trump has asked Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to restore in the military, according to reports. Trump has also previously expressed interest in the name change.

Lawyers and legal analysts mocked Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh this week after Bloomberg Law published comments he made about trying to "rebrand" the court's secretive process for releasing controversial decisions.

Kavanaugh, who was appointed by President Donald Trump in 2018, told Bloomberg Law that he prefers the term "interim docket" to "shadow docket" when describing instances when the Supreme Court deviates from its traditional procedures to decide a case. Data from SCOTUSBlog shows the court issued 113 decisions during the 2024-25 term through the so-called "shadow docket."

President Donald Trump will follow through on his plan to revert the Department of Defense back to its former name, Department of War.

Trump plans to sign an executive order on Friday to rebrand the Department of Defense, a senior administration official told Politico. Trump has said he wants a more neutral name, arguing that "defense" in the name doesn't account for "offense."