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President Donald Trump showed up Friday with a fresh bruise on his left temple, on top of bruising on both hands, and the sight set off new speculation about his health, the Daily Beast reported.

The mark stretched from his cheekbone up toward his eyebrow. It appeared in photos from his remarks to reporters outside the White House and from his arrival in Fort Myers, Florida, where Gov. Ron DeSantis met him ahead of a midterm rally. It wasn’t on his right temple, and it wasn’t in pictures from Thursday when he left for an Iowa rally. The 80-year-old’s hands were covered in beige makeup.

For months now, Trump has been appearing in public with odd bruising on his hands, often concealed with caked-on makeup....

The organizer behind Catholic bishops praying over President Donald Trump has a past that should have raised alarms, a new report shows.

Mario Enzler, a senior adviser at the Heritage Foundation who arranged Thursday's Oval Office prayer, was once called a "con artist" by professors who found he had claimed academic degrees he never earned, Christopher Hale of Letters from Leo reported Friday. Hale built on reporting from The Pillar, which found Enzler spent weeks inviting bishops to the event.

Enzler served in the Pontifical Swiss Guard under Pope John Paul II from 1989 to 1993 and has since turned that stint into a memoir and a speaking career. He went on to work in banking, teach at the Catholic University of America and, in 2020, take over as business school dean at the University of St. Thomas in Houston....

President Donald Trump's Justice Department made a last-ditch move to shield a vulnerable Republican senator, and legal experts say it's dead on arrival.

The DOJ filed a suit Thursday seeking to stop Alaska from certifying its Senate race if GOP Sen. Dan Sullivan loses, Politico reported Friday. Notre Dame law professor Derek Muller didn't mince words about the case. "The legal argument is one of the worst ones I've ever seen," he said.

Associate Attorney General Stanley Woodward, the DOJ's third-ranking official, brought the case. It asks state officials to hold off on certification if Sullivan is defeated until they investigate supposed "voter confusion" stemming from a second man named Dan Sullivan appearing on the ballot. Alaska's Supreme Court already tossed out an identical challenge in June, which would ordinarily end the matter....

A veteran Republican election lawyer was baffled Friday by President Donald Trump’s Justice Department pursuing an extraordinary election lawsuit in Alaska that he predicted would collapse in court.

The Justice Department sued Alaska on Thursday, seeking to block certification of the state’s U.S. Senate race pending an investigation into whether votes cast for a second candidate named Daniel J. Sullivan were meant for Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan. Trump said he ordered the suit.

CNN contributor Ben Ginsberg argued on “The Arena With Kasie Hunt” that the president was crossing a constitutional line....

The federal agents whose surprise appearance at a Tallahassee early voting site triggered an FBI complaint this week had a baffling excuse, officials now say, as they thought they could stop and vote on their way out of the state.

Two U.S. Customs and Border Protection vehicles parked at the Bruce J. Host Northeast Branch Library, Leon County’s busiest early voting site, around 10:15 a.m. Monday, shortly after early voting began, according to a statement Friday from Leon County Supervisor of Elections Mark Earley. The vehicles stayed about 10 minutes, and their occupants did not appear to go inside, he said.

Earley had lodged a formal complaint with the FBI. He noted that federal agencies had assured election officials there would be no federal presence at the polls, because it would violate federal law....

Republican senators are escalating their clash with President Donald Trump and reaching for one of their most powerful pieces of leverage.

Senators from both parties have warned top White House officials that they will hold up Trump’s pending nominees until his administration restores the satellite communications Ukraine’s military relies on, The New York Times reported Friday, citing three people familiar with the discussions.

The threat has not yet been made public, according to the Times. It would land during the lame-duck session following the midterm elections, when Republicans are expected to push dozens of Trump’s nominees through before the current Congress expires....

MS NOW host Jonathan Capehart was in the middle of criticizing Vice President JD Vance’s answer to a grieving military widower on Sunday when his co-host cut in with a correction. He took the remark back on the spot.

The panel on “The Weekend” was discussing Vance’s appearance at a CBS News town hall on Saturday. Joey Amor asked him there about the death of his wife, Master Sgt. Nicole Amor. She was one of six U.S. service members killed March 1 in an Iranian strike in Kuwait.

“There was a failure in the leadership,” Amor told Vance. “And I want to know how this administration is going to start holding those leaders accountable.”...

A Republican Senate candidate endorsed by President Donald Trump froze, then laughed, when a debate moderator asked her to define the “reasonable access” to abortion she says she supports.

Republican nominee Michele Tafoya faced Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan (D-MN) on Friday in a debate for Minnesota’s open U.S. Senate seat.

It was the race’s only scheduled debate, according to MPR News, whose politics editor, Brian Bakst, moderated the hourlong broadcast....

CNN's justice correspondent singled out President Donald Trump's response to a new criminal probe targeting one of his longtime political allies.

CNN senior justice correspondent Evan Perez called the president's remarks "striking" on Thursday's episode of "The Lead with Jake Tapper," after Trump appeared to throw his weight behind the Justice Department's criminal investigation into Republican operative Corey Lewandowski.

"In fact, they've shut down investigations into people inside the administration," Perez said. "This is a remarkable one. And the president's comments there are striking."...