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President Donald Trump's economic agenda was dealt a crushing blow, with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit striking down his authority to enact tariffs under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act.

The ruling potentially guts a core policy of the Trump administration, which has imposed sweeping tariffs on goods from virtually the entire world, using them both to try to spur U.S. domestic production and to create leverage to bargain for better trade deals with foreign countries.

Terry Moran, a broadcast journalist who was fired from ABC News in June after posting a message on X referring to top White House adviser Stephen Miller as a "world-class hater," blasted his old employer this week for "failing the American people."

Moran posted to social media, "The thing about Stephen Miller is not that he is the brains behind Trumpism. Yes, he is one of the people who conceptualizes the impulses of the Trumpist movement and translates them into policy. But that's not what's interesting about Miller. It's not the brains. It's the bile. Miller is a man who is richly endowed with the capacity for hatred. He's a world-class hater."

The chief data officer at the Social Security Administration, who sounded the alarm that the Department of Government Efficiency uploaded the unsecured personal information of hundreds of millions of Americans onto a vulnerable cloud server, is out after filing his whistleblower complaint.

Charles Borges filed the complaint on Wednesday, which revealed that members of DOGE, tasked with eliminating parts of the federal government, had accessed personal data uploaded to a cloud server.

Economists are warning that President Donald Trump's efforts to meddle with the Federal Reserve are going to wind up raising prices even further for working families.

Michael Madowitz, principal economist at the Roosevelt Institute, said on Wednesday that the president's efforts to strong-arm the US central bank into lowering interest rates by firing Federal Reserve Gov. Lisa Cook would backfire by accelerating inflation.

National Guard soldiers were deployed to Washington, D.C., earlier this month, but since arriving, they haven't done much. Two reporters at The Atlantic found that even the soldiers have no idea what their mission is.

Photos captured them standing around in extreme heat and humidity. Last week, they were seen grabbing ice cream from a food truck and guarding the Krispy Kreme. In the past few days, it seems to have evolved into Guard soldiers picking up trash and spreading mulch around the landscaping in the city.

During Donald Trump's first presidency, CNN's Daniel Dale aggressively fact-checked him and found numerous inaccuracies or flat-out lies. Dale fact-checked former President Joe Biden as well, describing, at times, some of his statements as misleading. But Trump gave Dale a lot more material to work with.

In a fact-check published by CNN early Friday morning, Aug. 29, Dale debunks 10 claims Trump made in the course of only one week.

A CNN reporter said experts are stunned by an "unprecedented" Trump administration move to take steps to send hundreds of Guatemalan children back to their home country after they arrived in the United States alone.

CNN correspondent Priscilla Alvarez joined "News Central" and told co-host Brianna Keilar that it's an "unprecedented move."

Rick Wilson, political strategist and co-founder of the Lincoln Project, suggested Friday that President Donald Trump’s “tough guy” persona, one fed into by many of his most loyal supporters, is in many ways a cover for something far more dire.

“This idea that a lot of folks have in their head, that Donald Trump is ill, appears to be correct,” Wilson said, speaking on an episode of the Lincoln Project’s “Elephant in the Room” podcast in an episode titled “Sending Clots and Prayers.”