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A Fox News host scolded her colleagues on Thursday for dismissing actions of the Trump administration that they would criticize other presidents for doing.

Jessica Tarlov, co-host of the Fox News show "The Five," noted that her colleagues have been silent about President Donald Trump's efforts to use the government as an investment vehicle and assert control over museum content. Tarlov argued that her co-hosts would be up in arms if a Democratic president attempted to make the same moves.

The Washington man accused of throwing a sandwich at federal officers — and who subsequently earned the nickname "Sandwich Guy" from fellow Trump administration critics — achieved another win after Assistant U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro was forced to admit defeat in her effort to charge him with felony assault.

Pirro begged a grand jury to agree with her charges, but grand jurors refused. The flop earned ridicule for the former Fox News host as legal experts recalled the adage that a grand jury could "indict a ham sandwich." A defendant is not allowed to present his or her case to a grand jury, so it is typically seen as easy to get an indictment from a grand jury. Pirro's failure resulted in scores of puns about a ham sandwich thrower.

In the wake of a "Wednesday night massacre" at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and related resignations, Sen. Bernie Sanders on Thursday called for an immediate congressional probe.

Just weeks after the Senate confirmed President Donald Trump's pick to lead the CDC, Dr. Susan Monarez, the director was forced out on Wednesday after reportedly clashing with Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Her ouster led to calls for firing Kennedy, four other officials resigning in protest, and a related walkout by agency staff.

CNN's Jake Tapper on Thursday afternoon offered a strong rebuttal to the health secretary's justification for firing the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director.

Earlier in the day, Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. claimed the CDC was an agency that had been "very troubled for a very long time" before the Trump administration began to reform it. One aspect the Trump administration is seeking to change is the CDC's vaccine panel, which recommends vaccines for children. Kennedy also claimed on Thursday that the CDC lists abortion as one of the top 10 medical innovations of all time.

A GOP former congressman blasted President Donald Trump's move on Thursday to honor a Jan. 6 rioter.

Patrick McHenry, who represented North Carolina's 10th district as a Republican from 2005 to 2025, discussed Trump's plan to provide a full military funeral to Ashli Babbitt, who was shot and killed inside the Capitol as she attempted to climb through a broken window into the Speaker's Lobby.

A Nobel Prize-winning economist argued that the United States may not see the damage of President Donald Trump's economic policies until it's too late.

Paul Krugman, who won the Nobel Prize in 2008 for his work on trade theory, argued in a new Substack essay that the financial markets have not yet responded to Trump's economic policies because they act in "complacency until the last possible moment." Markets seldom price in the "huge, disruptive" changes that Trump's policies seek to make, according to Krugman, and will act as if nothing is wrong "until it’s blindingly obvious that it isn’t."

Two firefighters were arrested on Wednesday while they were responding to the Bear Gulch fire in Washington state's Olympic National Forest, the Seattle Times reported. Now the state's senator is demanding "immediate answers."

"This administration’s immigration policy is fundamentally sick. Trump has wrongfully detained everyone from lawful green-card holders to American citizens – no one should assume this was necessary or appropriate,” said Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA) in a statement.

The internet erupted on Thursday after a former Major League Baseball slugger announced he is running for a congressional seat in Texas.

Mark Teixeira, who played 14 seasons in the Major Leagues, announced that he is running as a Republican in Texas' 21st Congressional District, a seat being vacated by Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) as he runs for the Texas Attorney General's office. Teixeira said in a statement that he is ready to "help defend President Donald Trump's America First agenda" and work to protect Texas families and individual rights.

On Wednesday, Dr. Susan Monarez was removed from her weeks-long role as the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. And a fellow now-former official is now revealing that Monarez refused to do something illegal, and refused to sign off on anything contrary to science.

Speaking to MSNBC on Thursday, former Acting CDC Director Dr. Richard Besser said he maintains contact with the now-former CDC director in his current role as CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. In speaking to Monarez, he asked if there were any "lines that she was unwilling to cross."

Dr. Debra Houry, the chief medical officer for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, was escorted from the facility on Thursday following the firing of the full department's director, Susan Monarez, on Wednesday.

Speaking to MSNBC on Thursday, Houry, who resigned in protest of Monarez's ouster, said things at the CDC have been "really difficult when it comes to having science and data-driven decisions."

European leaders were previously hopeful that the summit in Alaska between President Donald Trump and Russia's Vladimir Putin might yield some real progress toward ending the Russian invasion of Ukraine, The Atlantic reported on Thursday — but now they're left confused about what happened and whether any agreements were struck.

The meeting, in which Trump's envoy Steve Witkoff also played a prominent role, already stirred controversy at home, due to the submissive posture of Trump throughout the affair.

Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suggested there was a problem in the United States because children could not "bring their guns" to school.

During a news conference in Texas on Thursday, Kennedy was asked about whether he considered mass shootings a public health crisis following the Wednesday massacre at a church in Minneapolis.