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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.

by Daniel AVIS

Donald Trump's simmering discontent with the US Federal Reserve boiled over this week, with the president threatening to take the unprecedented step of ousting the head of the fiercely independent central bank.

In the days leading up to Easter, President Donald Trump has repeatedly—and falsely—claimed that egg prices have plummeted to the point of being “too low,” baselessly citing steep double-digit declines—even as Americans face record-high prices at the grocery store.

“The egg prices are down 87 percent, but nobody talks about that,” the President said on Friday. “You can have all the eggs you want, we have too many eggs, in fact, if anything the prices are getting too low.”

CNN’s legal analyst Elie Honig tore into the Trump administration’s newest attempt to justify its deportation of the Maryland man who was mistakenly sent to El Salvador under the president’s hardline immigration agenda.

The Department of Homeland Security on Friday released a 2022 traffic stop report, the agency claimed contained “bombshell” proof that Kilmar Abrego Garcia was a suspected human trafficker.

President Donald Trump reportedly ousted his acting IRS commissioner after just a few days in the role as a "power struggle" unfolded between a Cabinet member and Elon Musk.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent complained to Trump that, as the head of the department, he should hire the commissioner of the IRS. Instead, Trump appointed Gary Shapley after a recommendation from Musk, bypassing Bessent.

Adversaries targeting the United States through covert cybersecurity campaigns aimed at amplifying political discourse have been given more freedom to conduct their missions thanks to President Donald Trump’s dismantling of the country's disinformation campaign.

That’s according to a new report in The New York Times, which detailed Friday how efforts to combat disinformation by U.S. cybersecurity agencies have come to a screeching halt under President Donald Trump’s administration.

Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) tried to dispel notions Friday that he and Kilmar Ábrego García — the Maryland man mistakenly deported to a notorious Salvadoran megaprison — were drinking margaritas during their meeting earlier in the week.

Van Hollen landed at Dulles International Airport on Friday after a two-day trip to El Salvador, where he asked to see Ábrego García. The U.S. government has previously admitted he was wrongfully deported to the Terrorism Confinement Center in El Salvador.

Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) delivered a speech at Dulles International Airport on Friday, detailing his experience traveling to El Salvador to track down the wrongfully deported Maryland family man, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, whom he finally managed to get into contact with on Thursday evening after days of getting the run-around from government officials.

"We need to end the illegal abduction of Kilmar Abrego Garcia and bring him home," said Van Hollen, who has previously accused the Trump administration of misinformation on the case.

Col. Nicole Malachowski was celebrated for being the first woman selected to fly Thunderbird #3 with the USAF Air Demonstration Squadron and the first woman to fly on any Department of Defense military jet demonstration team. But all articles about her were yanked from websites in accordance with President Donald Trump's directive to remove all diversity, equity and inclusion content from government sites.

The Air Force later told CNN in a statement that the content was being restored. When CNN looked at the stories, they are now headlined saying, "DEI_A Life in flight for the first woman 'Thunderbirds' pilot."

Federal workers on Friday were put on notice by Donald Trump that their jobs could be in jeopardy if they don’t fall in line with the president’s MAGA agenda.

Trump escalated his attacks against civil servants after his administration moved forward earlier in the day with a new rule known as “Schedule F” that effectively strips about 50,000 people, or 2% of the federal workforce, of their civil service protections, according to media reports.