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A conservative lawyer noted on Thursday that the U.S. Attorney General may have made a major mistake in the federal takeover of Washington, D.C.'s police department.

One of the first moves Attorney General Pam Bondi made after President Donald Trump federalized the D.C. police force was to appoint the Drug Enforcement Agency's director as the chief of D.C. police. However, this move put the federal government out of compliance with the statute that allows it to take over the police force in the first place, according to conservative lawyer George Conway.

A progressive lawyer on Thursday slammed President Donald Trump's grand strategy for managing the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files.

The Trump administration is supposed to disclose some of the Epstein files to Congress on Friday. However, some of the administration's recent moves have raised questions about whether the administration plans on being transparent with Congress. For instance, a federal judge accused the administration of creating a diversion by attempting to release the grand jury files, which represent a small fraction of the files the federal government possesses.

President Donald Trump drew attention Thursday evening after delivering an unusual set of remarks while speaking to Washington D.C. law enforcement officials, prompting a flurry of reactions on social media questioning his mental acuity.

While discussing plans to improve public parks, Trump veered into a meandering commentary on his expertise in landscaping, stating, “We’ll be redoing the parks. I’m very good at grass because I have golf courses all over the place. I know more about grass than any human being, I think anywhere in the world.”

A federal judge ruled Thursday that the Trump administration must close parts of a detention center in Florida.

In her opinion, Judge Kathleen M. Williams of the Southern District of Florida ruled that the Trump administration had violated federal environmental laws by building a detention center known as "Alligator Alcatraz" in the Florida Everglades. Williams found that the administration did not conduct the proper environmental studies before building the facility.

A former federal prosecutor slammed the Trump administration on Thursday for its recent moves in court related to the Jeffrey Epstein files.

President Donald Trump's administration has made court filings to disclose transcripts of grand jury testimony, but judges have prevented the administration from doing so because the documents do not reveal new information. This is happening at a time when the administration is supposed to turn over Epstein file records to Congress on Friday, which has raised questions about whether any new information will be disclosed.

President Donald Trump is the reason America is descending into a fight over which party can rig their states' congressional districts more efficiently, the Wall Street Journal editorial board wrote in a scathing analysis published Thursday.

At Trump's direction, Texas Republicans are ramming through a map that gives a stronger Republican advantage in five Democratic-held seats, even going so far as to impose police escorts on Democratic state lawmakers so they can't walk out a second time to deny quorum. Other states, including Florida and Missouri, are debating whether to move forward with similar plans, and in California, Gov. Gavin Newsom has retaliated by launching a ballot referendum in which voters will choose whether to draw five Republican seats out of their own current map.

The White House's announcement Wednesday that it had deployed three warships to the coast of Venezuela has raised fears among antiwar and human rights advocates of the US becoming embroiled in another potential "regime change" quagmire.

In recent weeks, the Trump administration has accused Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro of being one of the world's largest traffickers of illegal narcotics and of leading the cocaine trafficking gang Cartel de los Soles.

A Democrat running for Senate in Ohio revealed what he thinks is President Donald Trump's greatest weakness during a podcast interview on Thursday.

Sherrod Brown, who previously represented Ohio in the Senate as a Democrat from 2007 to 2025, told progressive YouTuber Brian Tyler Cohen on his show "No Lies" that congressional Republicans could be a liability for Trump in the elections. Focusing energy on the Republicans who enabled Trump during his presidency may yield a few new seats for Democrats, Brown argued.