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Legendary Republican strategist Karl Rove says America is “already exhausted” of President Donald Trump only 100 days into his second term.

Rove, one of the architects of the $3 trillion Iraq War, observed in a recent Wall Street Journal essay that Trump won last year on a stated goal of lowering prices and improving the economy, but what he’s delivered is trade war, international and domestic market instability, along with a litany of unrequested objectives. Some of these unwanted ideas “concocted on the fly” include the “Department of Government Efficiency and removing fluoride from drinking water.”

US Vice President JD Vance arrived at the Vatican on Saturday morning ahead of a meeting with the Holy See's second-highest official, just two months after Pope Francis lambasted the new US administration.

Catholic convert Vance and his delegation arrived at the pope's official residence, the Apostolic Palace, just before 10:00 am (0800 GMT) and were due to hold a meeting with the Vatican's secretary of state, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, and Paul Richard Gallagher, the Holy See's secretary for relations with states.

The US Supreme Court on Saturday paused the Trump administration's deportation of alleged Venezuelan gang members under an 18th-century law.

US President Donald Trump invoked the 1798 Alien Enemies Act (AEA) last month to begin rounding up Venezuelan migrants accused of belonging to the Tren de Aragua gang before expelling them to a maximum security prison in El Salvador.

The sweeping set of demands President Donald Trump’s administration insisted Harvard University comply with last Friday was sent to the elite institution by mistake and should never have hit their inbox, according to the New York Times.

But by the time Harvard received “a frantic call from a Trump official,” the following Monday, it was too late. The university had already defied the president’s demands for control, “setting off a tectonic battle between one of the country’s most prestigious universities and a U.S. president,” the Times reported.

MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow unloaded on the stunning number of legal challenges President Donald Trump is embroiled in as his MAGA administration continues to upend the federal government through massive cuts to federal programs and firings of government workers.

But there was one issue that has drawn legal scrutiny the primetime host zeroed in on that she told viewers on Friday “is just lighting up the country right now.”

President Donald Trump's major economic cabinet officials, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, were only able to persuade him to temporarily reduce the burden of his "Liberation Day" tariffs because they spoke to him while his most fanatical trade adviser was out of the room, reported the Wall Street Journal on Friday evening.

Peter Navarro allegedly was the individual with the idea in the first place to urge that Trump set tariffs based on the size of the U.S. trade deficit, or balance between imports and exports, with each country — an idea not endorsed by mainstream economists, who don't generally view trade deficits as a universally bad thing.

Allies and advisers of President Donald Trump melted down late Friday after a federal court ruled his administration must allow six transgender people to have their preferred gender reflected on their passports.

The Trump administration is not allowed to enforce its policy requiring six passport-holders' sex to align with what's listed on their birth certificate, Judge Julia E. Kobick said in a memorandum and order obtained by Bloomberg. The judge partially allowed the plaintiffs’ motion for a temporary block, finding they were likely to succeed in their lawsuit.

Faith leaders are imploring President Donald Trump to reconsider as his administration moves to order the "self-deportation" of Afghan Christians who fled to the United States to escape the Taliban, Fox News reported on Friday evening — particularly because the order came down right around Easter, one of the most holy holidays of the Christian faith.

Already, the president has overseen mass deportations that caught up some asylum seekers from Afghanistan who would face imprisonment or death by the extremists running the theocratic Taliban regime. This new move places many thousands more in jeopardy.

The Wall Street Journal's conservative editorial board bonked the Trump administration Friday evening over its latest move to "whack Americans."

The Trump administration on Thursday announced new fees on Chinese-built and Chinese-owned ships docking at U.S. ports. The fees are part of a broader effort to weaken China's dominance in shipbuilding and maritime transport, after U.S. trade officials concluded that China’s shipbuilding sector benefited from unfair competitive advantages.

A federal judge in Washington, D.C., rejected a request from migrants in Texas to pause what they believe are imminent deportation flights, saying he doesn't have the authority to step in under a recent Supreme Court ruling.

U.S. District Judge James Boasberg called an emergency hearing on Friday evening in response to reports that the Trump administration was plotting imminent deportations under the Alien Enemies Act, even as ongoing legal challenges and previous court orders prevent such removals.

Doctors, policy analysts and members of the media reacted badly to President Donald Trump's administration replacing the pivotal Covid.gov government website with what critics described as an ill-conceived movie poster.

“The United States has, it seems, lost the plot,” wrote Loughborough University professor Duncan Robertson.

The Department of Justice is filing to intervene on behalf of President Donald Trump in his appeal of the $83 million civil defamation judgment against him won by writer E. Jean Carroll, The Daily Beast reported on Friday.

"In a joint motion filed last week with Trump’s legal team, the Justice Department said the federal Westfall Act, which provides immunity to government employees for actions taken within the scope of their duties, should apply to Trump," reported Erkki Forster. "The department argued that the U.S. government should therefore be substituted as the defendant in the case, CBS News reported."

President Donald Trump said Friday the United States will "take a pass" on brokering further Ukraine war talks unless there is quick progress from Moscow and Kyiv.

Trump was speaking after Secretary of State Marco Rubio commented -- following talks with European allies -- that Washington would "move on" if a truce did not seem "doable" within days.