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A Baltimore man in what witnesses called an "Uncle Sam costume" was arrested on opening day of President Donald Trump's Great American State Fair for allegedly performing lewd acts in front of a circus audience.

Gian Rachtelli, 54, was taken into custody Thursday on the National Mall, where President Donald Trump's Freedom250 nonprofit had launched its 16-day patriotic celebration just hours before.

President Donald Trump ranted against "godless communists" across more than 400 words as he prepared to speak to the Faith and Freedom Coalition.

The 80-year-old president issued sharp warnings about what he described as the rise of "Communists" in American politics after this week's election wins by candidates backed by New York's democratic socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani, but his comments strayed off into lengthy boasts.

House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer announced Friday that the panel will subpoena billionaire investor Leon Black as part of the Republican-led investigation into Jeffrey Epstein's financial network.

Lawmakers are seeking a deposition and related documents following a closed-door interview in which Black declined to answer questions about non-disclosure agreements tied to the late sex offender, and the subpoenas — one for testimony and one for information about the NDAs — came in the middle of his interview with the committee on Capitol Hill, reported CNN.

After Donald Trump watched fans walk out of the opening rally at his Great American State Fair on the Washington Mall, things have not gotten much better.

According to Washington Post reporting, the 16-day National Mall celebration got off to an inauspicious start Thursday, with organizers struggling to open gates on time and workers "scrambling to hide construction debris."

A Utah judge ruled Friday that a deputy prosecutor in the murder case against a man accused of assassinating conservative activist Charlie Kirk had violated a pretrial publicity order by speaking to the media — and held him in contempt of court.

Judge Tony Graf declined, however, to impose the more severe sanction, stripping prosecutors of the option to seek the death penalty, that had been sought by defense lawyers for shooting suspect Tyler Robinson, reported MS NOW.

Countless right-wing figures predicted last year that New York City would experience an unprecedented rise in crime under the leadership of Mayor Zohran Mamdani, but after recently published data suggested the opposite to be true, onlookers braced themselves for what some anticipated would be a MAGA meltdown.

Right-wing pundits who predicted New York City’s crime would explode under Mamdani include Fox News’ Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham and disgraced conservative commentator Bill O’Reilly, who said he warned his own daughter – who lives in Manhattan – that she wouldn’t be able to go outside “at night or even twilight.”

President Donald Trump scored a major victory Thursday after the Supreme Court cleared the way for his administration to potentially expedite the deportation of 1.3 million migrants, but the win could very well end up handing Democrats the key to winning the midterms, one security expert argued Friday.

The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 Thursday to allow the Trump administration to end what’s known as Temporary Protected Status, a designation that allows migrants fleeing dangerous countries to work in the United States legally. The ruling immediately puts more than 350,000 Haitian and Syrian migrants at risk of deportation, and threatens the status of all 1.3 million people currently protected under the program.

Reacting to reports that Michael Boulos, who is married to Donald Trump’s daughter Tiffany, is being included in meetings with Secretary of State Marco Rubio in the Middle East, MS NOW Host Stephanie Ruhle blurted, “Are you kidding me!?” and suggested something didn’t smell right.

Bloomberg Opinion columnist and former Trump biographer Tim O’Brien agreed.

A source who claims knowledge of the identities of Nancy Guthrie's kidnappers claims to have enough evidence to deliver them up to authorities on a "silver platter."

TMZ received an email from the source claiming to have video showing the "main guy" with the mother of NBC News broadcaster Savannah Guthrie on the day the 84-year-old allegedly died, and the outlet says it has authenticated the email as coming from the same person who sent previous messages.

Right-wing podcaster Megyn Kelly was denounced as "shockingly racist" for a rant celebrating a Supreme Court ruling against Haitian refugees.

The court's conservative majority ruled 6-3 to overturn decisions by federal judges blocking the Trump administration from terminating Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for 350,000 asylum seekers from Haiti and another 6,100 from Syria, and Kelly gloated on her podcast that they would be forced to return to the countries they fled due to war and natural disasters.

President Donald Trump fired off at Fox News journalist Shannon Bream on Friday for apparently not defending his deportation record strongly enough, attacking her using a misspelled insult.

“The Average Daily Catch and Repatriation is, by far, the Highest under President Trump. No other president comes close,” Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social.

One of President Donald Trump’s key promises has been that, by deporting millions of migrants, new jobs would become available to American citizens, but according to a recent study, the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown has largely had the opposite effect.

“During the first nine months of 2025, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations led directly to at least 668,000 lost jobs across 86 U.S. metropolitan areas,” wrote Marcela Escobari, one of three authors of the study, in an op-ed published in The New York Times on Friday.

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) was seething with "anger" after Trump scrapped a housing bill Republicans were counting on as their midterm lifeline, a source told POLITICO.

President Donald Trump cancelled the signing of the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act on Wednesday morning — an hour before he was due at the Capitol. The bill had cleared Congress with a veto-proof majority: 358-32 in the House, 85-5 in the Senate.