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A decision by MAGA-friendly Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) to challenge Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) for the seat he has held since 2002, has the GOP leadership concerned Donald Trump may stick his nose in that race and others.

According to a report from Politico, senior Republicans are publicly voicing their dismay over a possible internal civil war that could disrupt their election prospects if incumbents are forced to fend off Trump favorites in primaries, only to lose in the general election.

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President Donald Trump announced agreements with four top law firms he had targeted for punishment.

The president started going after some of the nation's leading firms last month by issuing financially punitive executive orders that judges have found are most likely unconstitutional, but some of them have agreed to terms with Trump to avoid costly showdowns with the executive branch, and he confirmed four new agreements Friday afternoon on Truth Social.

New York University Stern School of Business Professor Scott Galloway blasted President Donald Trump's ongoing tariff changes and attacked him as "stupid."

Co-host Whoopi Goldberg bashed Trump, saying he has "wreaked havoc on the global economy since his so-called liberation day last week with massive tariffs." She noted that Trump has now mostly walked them back, leaving a 10% tariff on all goods and 125% tariff on China.

The United States Department of Justice said on Friday that it will not comply with an order from Judge Paula Xinis to reveal information on the whereabouts and status of deported immigrant Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

As reported by Politico's Kyle Cheney on BlueSky, the DOJ information Judge Xinis that it would not be able to provide the information she requested on Garcia because the court set an "impracticable" deadline to do so.

As President Donald Trump threatened and then delayed the global tariffs (except for China) Big Tech CEOs were hard at work… lobbying, according to a report from WIRED.

With the exception of Elon Musk, a Trump ally who openly disagreed with POTUS on the tariffs, Jeff Bezos, Tim Cook, Sundar Pichai, and Mark Zuckerberg, all stayed silent in the public eye on the topic.

A beekeeper who voted for president Donald Trump every chance he got expressed regret over his choice in the most recent election.

North Carolina farmer Jim Hartman, who operates Secret Garden Bees, told CNN that he voted for Trump all three times, but he's not sure he would have made the same decision in November if he knew what the president's tariffs and funding cuts would do to his honey business, reported The Daily Beast.

Consumer sentiment over the last month plunged to levels not seen since the Great Recession more than 15 years ago.

As reported by the Wall Street Journal, "a closely watched index of consumer sentiment nosedived to 50.8 in April from 57 last month, continuing a recent downward trend stoked by concerns about trade, jobs and inflation."

President Donald Trump’s tariff turnaround rocked the global economy but it’s his “game show-like approach to ‘governance’” which could be more damaging to America than we realize, according to a column in Salon.

While the BBC called the spectacle “a high-stakes game of chicken, with the world's economy hanging in the balance,” columnist Chauncey DeVega believes there is something more subtle happening.

Last night, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 9-0 in favor of the Maryland man whom the U.S. government admits it wrongfully detained. He was then deported to a notorious prison in El Salvador. Now his lawyer is asking why the government wants more time.

Speaking to MSNBC on Friday, Kilmar Abrego Garcia's lawyer, Simon Sandoval-Moshenberg, lamented that putting someone on a plane isn't that difficult.

CNN's Jessica Dean was shaken by video of an encounter between one of her colleagues and president Donald Trump's self-proclaimed "secretary of retribution."

Senior correspondent Donie O'Sullivan has been investigating the surge of misinformation and extremism, and his reporting took him to the Republican and Democratic national conventions, Mike Lindell’s pillow factory, a QAnon church and a JFK conspiracy convention, and he previewed his new special, "MisinfoNation," on "CNN News Central" with a clip of his interaction with Trump ally Ivan Raiklin.

In an attempt to propel his agenda, President Donald Trump is attempting to remove the Chair of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, according to a Politico Report.

Current chair, Rochelle Garza, is a Democrat in the second year of her six-year term. She and other commission officials received an email last month claiming she was “de-designating” as the current chair.

The Trump administration is using a Biden-era policy to investigate protesters as potential terrorists, and intelligence sources are alarmed by the new strategy.

The effort is being led by White House counterterrorism czar Sebastian Gorka, who has recently claimed president Donald Trump has “done a 180 on our counterterrorism policy," which has resulted in strikes on “high value targets” in Iraq, Syria, Yemen, and Somalia, and intelligence sources told independent journalist Ken Klippenstein that some of those strategies will be deployed on the domestic front.