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Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche took the microphone to deliver a speech to National Guard troops in Washington, D.C. on Thursday — but struggled to make himself heard over a constant stream of shouting and boos from protesters.

Blanche was there to give a speech to thank the guardsmen for their duties patrolling D.C. and working on President Donald Trump's vanity beautification projects around the city.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) tried to mock New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani for urging the public to conserve energy amid a dangerous heat wave cooking the East Coast — but there was one glaring thing he overlooked.

"New York: it's hot out there, and the power grid is working overtime to keep us cool," wrote Mamdani on X. "Set your AC to 78 degrees, turn off lights/electronics you're not using, and unplug what you can. Our City is doing its part too: maintaining the 78 degrees rule in our buildings, dimming/turning off our lights during peak electricity demand, asking private partners to do the same, and powering down non-essential equipment."

Kevin Warsh has taken over as Federal Reserve chair with a strategy few of his predecessors would recognize – saying almost nothing about where interest rates are headed.

But that silence has instead opened the door for his colleagues to fill the void, and their message is increasingly hawkish, reported Politico.

There was more bad news for Donald Trump on Thursday morning as the new jobs report revealed dismal growth, leading MS NOW’s Stephanie Ruhle to raise a new red flag for the president’s embattled administration.

Appearing on “Morning Joe,“ Ruhle, a former Wall Street executive, noted that only 57,000 new jobs were created — a far cry from the 115,000 expected by economists.

If President Donald Trump was hoping for a good jobs report to boost his party's spirits, he didn't get it.

As the latest survey results came in, economic reporters and other observers were quick to note that, while not every figure in the report was bad, it was well below what Wall Street had been hoping for.

A new polling analysis suggests Democrats' uphill battle to flip the four seats needed for Senate control may be more winnable than previously thought — thanks largely to a dramatic drop in President Donald Trump's popularity in the states that matter most.

CNN chief data analyst Harry Enten examined six pivotal Senate battlegrounds — Alaska, Maine, Iowa, North Carolina, Ohio and Texas — and found Trump's net approval rating has swung nearly 20 points in the negative direction since 2024, when he carried these states by an average of eight points, and some by double digits.

The Fox Business team was greeted with bad news on Thursday as job numbers came in shockingly low.

"We came in underneath expectations," said Cheryl Casone. "We came in at 50,000 nonfarm jobs. The Street was looking for 110,000. The unemployment rate fell to 4.2 percent, down from 4.3 percent, which it had been holding steady at for about three months."

A reporter pointed out a dismal detail that serves as a leading indicator of just how poorly attended President Donald Trump's state fair has been.

The Great American State Fair leading up to the July 4 celebration of the nation's 250th birthday has prompted grim fascination and drawn comparisons to the disastrous Fyre Festival, and Atlanta Journal-Constitution reporter Tia Mitchell told "CNN News Central" about her own experience at the event.

President Donald Trump and his family have made unfathomable profits off their cryptocurrency ventures, Tim O'Brien wrote for Bloomberg Opinion on Thursday — and it is a new level of brazenness from a president who once made his real feelings about crypto tokens very clear.

"Trump is 80, and he has been working for the better part of 60 years," wrote O'Brien. "His crypto windfall is certainly far larger than any amount he earned in a single year as a real estate developer, casino impresario and reality TV oddity during that span."

Director Kash Patel's FBI has ordered every field office to immediately send analysts to support its investigation into the 2020 election in Georgia, according to a new report.

MS NOW obtained an unclassified memo showing Patel is mobilizing 260 intelligence analysts — from every field office in the country — as part of what the bureau calls a "priority effort" in Atlanta.

With the country engrossed by the unexpected success of the US men's team’s performance in the 2026 World Cup, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin refused to take the high road when the team from Iran was eliminated.

In a column for MS NOW, political analyst Zeeshan Aleem called out the former Oklahoma plumber-turned-US senator for gloating in the Iran team elimination after the US government made their appearance a nightmare with travel restrictions and continued harassment by government officials.

A year after Republicans quietly rebranded their signature tax cut legislation, President Donald Trump's own pollster is publicly disputing his role in the decision.

According to two sources who attended a White House strategy meeting last fall, Tony Fabrizio, Trump's longtime pollster, told the room that while the president loved the name "One Big Beautiful Bill Act," it simply didn't test well with voters, reported NOTUS.