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MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow delivered an on-air takedown of the Trump administration’s startling arrest on Wednesday of a Turkish national by masked Department of Homeland Security agents, who surrounded and “snatched” her from the street.

The sudden detainment of Tufts University grad student Rumeysa Ozturk, 30, was captured on a doorbell video and sparked protests demanding her release “spontaneously and basically instantly,” Maddow told viewers Thursday.

A law firm hit back at President Donald Trump after finding itself in his crosshairs over its ties to former special counsel Robert Mueller.

Trump directed agencies to strip the firm WilmerHale of its security clearances and restrict its access to federal buildings. The order also revoked government contracts from companies it represents.

Tech billionaire Elon Musk went on Fox News Thursday, alongside a gaggle of his Department of Government Efficiency software engineers, to defend and justify his takeover and purge of the civil service.

But a CNN panel was less than impressed with some of his answers.

President Donald Trump took aim at yet another prominent law firm on Thursday, signing an executive order to go after WilmerHale over its ties to former special counsel Robert Mueller, who investigated Russian efforts to meddle in the 2016 election.

Trump directed agencies to strip the firm of its security clearances and restrict its access to federal buildings, The Wall Street Journal reported. The order also revoked government contracts from companies it represents.

Tech billionaire Elon Musk said Thursday that his team at President Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency isn’t moving fast enough in his efforts to dismantle the federal government.

The assessment from the DOGE head came during a sit-down interview with Fox News’ Bret Baier, where he first discussed the cost-cutting agency’s work and goals alongside DOGE staffers. But when members of his team left the room, Musk opened up in response to a viewer’s question, who asked if he and his team are “happy with the speed at which they’re making changes.”

Quite often, Americans who threaten to leave the United States for political reasons don't follow through when they see how complex the immigration laws of other countries can be. But during Donald Trump's second presidency, some well-known Americans really are expressing their worries about the United States' current political climate by moving to other countries.

Liberal actress Rosie O'Donnell, an outspoken Trump critic, is now living in the Republic of Ireland. And Jason Stanley, a Yale University professor known for his expertise on fascism, is accepting a job offer in Canada — as he fears the U.S. is becoming increasingly authoritarian.

Before Elon Musk’s vision of his rocket-filled town can take flight, voters in the unincorporated village of Boca Chica, Texas, will vote in May on whether to greenlight it.

But not everybody is over the moon about the idea.

J.D. Vance earned mockery this week from a former Republican lawmaker as the vice president tried to salvage the second lady's cultural trip to Greenland by refashioning it as a national security visit.

President Donald Trump has pressed the idea of the United States acquiring Greenland, a territory of Denmark that has ambitions to be its own independent state.

Peter Navarro, a counselor to President Donald Trump, clashed with CNN's Kasie Hunt on Thursday after he attempted to claim that American automakers weren't really American.

Navarro claimed that the tariffs would ultimately put more money in Americans' pockets, as much as $1,000, he said at one point.

Longtime MAGA disciple Steve Bannon launched a furious tirade on his "War Room" show Thursday evening after U.S. District Judge James Boasberg ordered President Donald Trump to preserve all records from the burgeoning "Signalgate" scandal.

In Bannon's view, this is a red alert for Republicans to start cracking down and stripping the federal judiciary of its independence — because, he believes, if Democrats win their way back into power over the next couple of years, Trump's track record of dodging prison time for his criminal charges will run out.

After days of spinning the Signal group chat fiasco embroiling the Trump administration this week, Fox News host Will Cain on Thursday turned the tables on the Cabinet officials involved in the colossal national security error, including his former TV colleague Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

Cain on his show Thursday walked viewers through "unanswered questions" still lingering in the aftermath of The Atlantic’s editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg’s bombshell report, including asking viewers what “ethical obligation” the journalist had in the ordeal.

President Donald Trump is desperate to talk about anything other than the exploding Signalgate controversy, CNN's Kasie Hunt reported on Thursday afternoon — even as his own party and supporters begin to ask tough questions of him.

"There are new questions in the defense and intelligence community about Defense Secretary Pete Hegsth's judgment, after he put incredibly detailed information about strikes in Yemen into a group chat," said Hunt, who added that sources are telling her, "The egregious actor here is Hegsath." They added, "He's in the bullseye now because he put all this out there on a signal chat."

The stark images of caged undocumented immigrants stacked on top of bunks while U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem toured an El Salvadoran megaprison conjure up a grim reality of where the country is headed.

That’s according to Bulwark editor Jonathan V. Last, who told readers that propaganda images such as the ones manufactured by Noem on Wednesday have been seen before, “just not from America.”