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A top military official undercut a key claim made by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth about the now infamous "double tap" bombing operation on an alleged drug boat in September, according to a new report.

During a briefing with lawmakers, Adm. Frank “Mitch” Bradley said that the survivors of the Sept. 2 bombing were "in no position to make a distress call," according to a report by CNN, citing three sources familiar with the situation. The survivors' boat had capsized, and other reporting indicates they were working to turn it back over when the U.S. military struck them a second time.

CNN's chief data analyst, Harry Enten, borrowed one of President Donald Trump's favorite phrases on Thursday night to describe the president's precipitous fall in support from a key part of his coalition.

Over the last couple of months, Trump's approval rating among young men aged 30 years and under has dropped by more than 56 points, Enten said during CNN's "Erin Burnett OutFront." Enten called the plummeting support "stunning."

President Donald Trump's administration announced on Thursday night that it had carried out another strike against an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean, an operation that killed four people.

U.S. Southern Command, a division of the Department of Defense, announced the operation in a post on X and included a video of the strike. It comes at a time when the administration's strikes against alleged drug runners are facing increased scrutiny on Capitol Hill.

News that a grand jury declined to indict one of President Donald Trump's political foes on Thursday set off a firestorm of reactions from legal analysts and court watchers.

A grand jury on Thursday refused to return an indictment against New York Attorney General Letitia James for alleged bank fraud and lying to a financial institution. It was the second time lawyers from Trump's administration failed to indict James for those crimes.

A lawyer for New York Attorney General Letitia James on Thursday sent President Donald Trump's Justice Department a stark message after grand jurors in Virginia failed to secure a re-indictment on allegations of mortgage fraud charges.

The news came after a judge tossed an initial indictment about 10 days earlier, declaring the appointment of the interim U.S. attorney overseeing the case unlawful.

Legal experts bashed the Supreme Court's unsigned order on Thursday that allows Texas to use an election map that significantly favors President Donald Trump and the Republican Party.

On Thursday, the Supreme Court reversed a lower court's order prohibiting Texas from using the map state Republicans created during a special session that eliminated five Democratic districts. The lower court found the map constituted a racial gerrymander, meaning that it considered the race of voters when lawmakers were outlining the districts.

Three Supreme Court justices issued a blistering dissent on Thursday to yet another unsigned order from the high court.

The Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that Texas can use the new election map its Republican-controlled legislature drew during a special session during the 2026 midterm. The new map is designed to eliminate five Democrat-controlled districts, but a lower court ruled that the map was a racial gerrymander, which violates the 14th and 15th Amendments of the Constitution.

Vice President JD Vance said on Thursday that he doesn't see the "simmering antisemitism" on the right, as some of his Republican colleagues have claimed, according to a new report.

Vance told NBC News in an interview that it is "anti-American" to judge someone by their immutable characteristics, and that he doesn't see "simmering antisemitism" in young conservatives he engages with. His comments happened at a time when other Republicans like Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), who appears to be positioning himself to challenge Vance in 2028, are calling out antisemitism within the Republican Party.

The Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that Texas can use the election map favored by President Donald Trump in the 2026 midterm election, according to a new report from CNN.

The ruling paves the way for Texas Republicans to use a map that will give them a significant advantage over Democrats in the election. It also blocked a lower court's ruling that the map was illegal because it was likely drawn on the basis of race, according to the report.

President Donald Trump is being roundly condemned for making bigoted attacks on Somalis, whom he referred to collectively as “garbage” earlier this week.

During a Tuesday Cabinet meeting at the White House, Trump unleashed a racist tirade against Somali Americans living in Minnesota, whom he falsely portrayed as layabouts who sponge up welfare money.

A federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., has paused an order requiring President Donald Trump to remove National Guard troops from policing operations in Washington, DC.

In a ruling on Thursday, the court lifted an injunction ordering the troops to leave by Dec. 11.

President Donald Trump has completely remade the Kennedy Center in his image — and now he wants to name it after himself.

According to The New Republic, Trump let this plan slip "during a speech at the U.S. Institute of Peace for the signing of a peace agreement between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Coincidentally, the Institute of Peace is the latest building that the president has stamped his name on, even in the midst of a legal battle over who owns the building."

Federal courts will probably "kill" President Donald Trump's latest attack on one of his political foes "in the cradle" before the case gets off the ground, a legal analyst said Thursday.

Adam Klasfeld, editor-in-chief of All Rise News, discussed a subpoena that Trump-aligned prosecutor, Acting U.S. Attorney John Sarcone, served to New York Attorney General Letitia James with progressive YouTuber Brian Tyler Cohen on Thursday. The subpoena concerned James' investigatory files from when she prosecuted Trump for fraud, Klasfeld said. James appeared in court on Thursday to fight the subpoena, where her lawyers argued that Sarcone is improperly serving as the acting U.S. attorney.