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President Donald Trump is opening yet another front in his war on the free press, columnist Brian Karem wrote for Salon on Friday — and it's getting harder to overlook his true vision for the media.

"In the latest round of professional malfeasance, the president’s sycophants in the communications office have launched a 'Media Bias Portal' on the official White House website," wrote Karem.

U.S. District Judge Rodney Smith ordered the release of grand jury materials from investigations into sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

After rejecting a similar bid earlier this year, Smith said on Friday that the Epstein Files Transparency Act granted him the authority to release grand jury transcripts.

The Trump administration’s recent decision to end immigration protections for Haitians shocked many in the migrant community, but for Caribbean-U.S.-based journalist Felicia Persaud, it was a predictable outcome driven in part by pro-Trump immigrant voters.

The Department of Homeland Security announced last month that it would be terminating Temporary Protect Status for Haiti, first enacted under the Biden administration due to the ongoing political instability in the Caribbean nation that has endured centuries of exploitation and political meddling from Western nations.

Fox News hosts expressed disappointment after claiming that FIFA had "rigged" an event with President Donald Trump and other world leaders.

During a Friday ceremony at the Kennedy Center, Trump received FIFA's first annual peace prize before participating in a draw with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney and Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum.

It did not take long after Donald Trump was awarded a “peace prize” from FIFA, the governing body for international soccer responsible for World Cup events, when the glitter started to come off the gold.

On Friday afternoon, the president, who has been lobbying for Nobel Prize for years, attended a FIFA event at the Kennedy Center designed around for the match-up draw for the 2026 World Cup where Trump was gifted the newly created honor by FIFA President Gianni Infantino.

President Donald Trump, who has long said he deserved the Nobel Peace Prize, said that he didn't need such awards after CNN asked him if he deserved one during his ongoing threats to strike Venezuela.

"You're expected to get the FIFA Peace Prize, Mr. President," CNN's Kaitlan Collins told Trump at a Kennedy Center event on Friday. "What would you say to people who say that prize might conflict with your pledge to strike Venezuela?"

President Donald Trump has weathered political scandal after scandal, but last week may have been the week that “the wheels finally, at long last, came off the Bad Orange Man’s decade-long authoritarian project,” Zeteo reporter and columnist Peter Rothpletz argued Friday.

Trump had indeed been plagued with a number of major controversies this week. On Monday, Trump scrambled to defend Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth for having allegedly committed a war crime; on Tuesday, the GOP suffered a major blow after winning a tight race in a district Trump carried by 22 points.

The Trump administration’s quiet effort to deliver billions more in tax breaks to some of the largest companies in the United States drew fresh scrutiny and outrage this week, with Democratic members of Congress warning that a series of obscure regulatory changes could further undermine efforts to rein in corporate tax dodging.

In a letter to the US Treasury Department unveiled Thursday, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Rep. Don Beyer (D-VA) led a group of lawmakers in denouncing the Trump administration’s assault on the corporate alternative minimum tax (CAMT), a Biden-era measure that requires highly profitable US corporations to pay a tax of at least 15% on their book profits—the numbers reported to shareholders“The Trump administration has consistently chipped away at CAMT to further corporate interests,” the lawmakers wrote, pointing to rules issued in recent months exempting many corporations from the tax.