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Donald Trump took his rivalry with Barack Obama to the walls of the White House Friday, replacing a portrait of the former US president with one of himself surviving an assassination attempt.

The 78-year-old Republican moved the picture of the Democrat, the only Black US president, to the opposite side of the famed residence's grand entrance hallway.

Iran's top diplomat arrived in Oman on Saturday and began laying the groundwork for high-stakes nuclear talks with the United States that are unfolding under the threat of military action.

Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi flew in ahead of the foes' highest-level discussions since an international agreement on Iran's nuclear programme crumbled after US President Donald Trump pulled out during his first term in office.

The White House on Friday pledged to release a detailed update of Donald Trump’s health after the oldest president in U.S. history underwent his annual medical examination earlier in the day.

“I have never felt better, but nevertheless, these things must be done!” Trump posted on his Truth Social platform before the examination, which was performed at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland.

President Donald Trump’s proposed 2026 budget reportedly seeks to effectively dismantle the scientific research arm of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, shut down critical weather laboratories, and slash the agency’s budget by more than 25 percent. NOAA serves as the primary source of weather forecasting in the United States and is a vital contributor to global forecasting efforts.

SCIENCE, the flagship journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, says that it has seen an internal document, and reports that the administration’s goal is to end climate research at NOAA.

A.1. Steak Sauce is having a moment after Education Secretary Linda McMahon mixed the popular steak-topping condiment with artificial intelligence – and MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow was all over the gaffe she called “delicious.”

Maddow in the opening minutes of her Friday show paused to highlight the latest blunder to emerge from President Donald Trump’s administration after she first highlighted the infamous “Signalgate” debacle, and the president’s own misdialed call this week to his estranged former National Security Adviser, H.R. McMaster, who he proceeded to curse out.

One of the potential unintended consequences of President Donald Trump's draconian new tariff regime on China could be the collapse of the supply chain to manufacture a vital and inexpensive drug necessary for hospitalized people, The Washington Post reported on Friday.

Specifically, the anticoagulant drug heparin, vital for ensuring some patients don't develop blood clots on lines that put nutrients directly into their bodies, requires ingredients from Chinese plants — which could be part of the new 145 percent tax Trump is enacting on that country.

It didn’t take long for President Donald Trump’s tariffs to hit the pocketbooks of American consumers – and some businesses are making no secret of why new surcharges are appearing on their bills.

That’s according to a new report in Bloomberg, which detailed how a growing crop of businesses – ranging from companies selling shower heads to adult toys – are beginning to slap “Trump tariff” surcharges onto customers’ bills. It’s a “marketing gimmick” that could provide a financial boost to some specialized brands struggling under the steep new tariffs affecting Chinese goods, the report added.

Trump's draconian new tariffs regime is now being delayed due to a "glitch" that has arisen at U.S. ports, CNBC reported on Friday, in the latest blow that threw even more uncertainty into how markets and international trade are functioning.

An alert sent out to shippers from U.S. Customs and Border Protection "notified users of a glitch in the system that is used to exempt freight from tariffs, including shipments from China that were already on the water at the time of this week’s whipsaw in tariffs policy, and any trade from nations now under the 90-day pause put in place by the Trump administration," reported Lori Ann LaRocco. "The alert explained that U.S. Customs discovered that the entry code for U.S. shippers to use to have their freight exempted is not working and 'the issue is being reviewed.'"

President Donald Trump told reporters Friday evening he would return a migrant that his administration deported, should the conservative-leaning Supreme Court order him to do so.

The response came after the high court ordered his administration to "facilitate" the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland man who was wrongly deported to El Salvador and has been detained in a notoriously brutal maximum security prison.

The Wall Street Journal’s conservative editorial board eviscerated President Donald Trump in a biting opinion piece on Friday that turned the tables on the MAGA leader for repeatedly vowing to end the “unfair weaponization of the Justice Department.”

But the president did just that with a pair of “extraordinary” executive orders directing his DOJ to launch probes into two members of his former administration he now views as his political enemies, the editorial board wrote.

President Donald Trump appears to be employing a radical new strategy to get around federal law that prohibits the use of the military to enforce immigration law, said a prominent immigration rights attorney on Friday.

The 1878 Posse Comitatus Act prohibits the use of the military for civilian law enforcement except in very narrow circumstances, which do not apply to Trump's efforts to ramp up expulsion of immigrants from the country. But Trump's apparent end-run around became clear on Friday evening when he dropped a new presidential memorandum directed at the Secretaries of Defense, Interior, Agriculture, and Homeland Security.

A Trump-backing homebuilder from Tennessee joined CNN on Friday evening to discuss how President Donald Trump's draconian new tariff regime, rippling through the stock market, is impacting his industry — and while he broadly tried to downplay it as a serious threat to his own business, he admitted it's been suffering at least to some degree.

"Maybe it's just too soon to tell, but I'm just wondering if any potential customers have expressed any concerns just because of the volatility of the market and the potential impact of the tariffs," said anchor Jake Tapper.

Top Wall Street executives are still reeling from the chaos caused by President Donald Trump's tariffs — and they're warning that we're about to see economic instability of a type that hasn't occurred in living memory, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.

"Financiers came into the year excited for President Trump’s tenure, expecting corporate tax cuts and lower regulation to lift stocks, dealmaking and corporate confidence," reported Alexander Saeedy, AnnaMaria Andriotis, and Gina Heeb. "One quarter in, the tone is entirely different and executives are worried about tariffs and their impact, especially after the market gyrations of this month. Some economists are predicting a recession by the second half of 2025."