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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) has gone from being considered a far-left backbencher when she was first elected in 2018, to one of the Democratic Party's most prominent rising stars — and with that has come swirling questions and rumors about whether she plans to seek higher office.

Former Barack Obama campaign strategist David Axelrod asked her about precisely that during an interview at the University of Chicago Institute of Politics — and she gave an answer that wowed many observers.

The Wall Street Journal's editorial board threw its weight behind reports that President Donald Trump is planning to fire FDA Commissioner Marty Makary on Friday, and didn't hold back in explaining why.

"That would be great news for patients who have been denied access to life-saving therapies on his watch," the board wrote in a hard-hitting editorial published Friday.

President Donald Trump was caught on the back foot Friday when a reporter asked him about the reports his Food and Drug Administration commissioner is set to be fired, not even appearing to understand what was being asked of him.

"What's going on with Marty Makary?" asked a reporter.

MS NOW's Symone Sanders-Townsend kicked off Friday night's edition of "The Weeknight" by contrasting America's economic malaise with President Donald Trump's obsession with lavish spending on renovations in Washington, D.C.

Many of these renovations appear to have shady details under the hood, including Trump steering the contract to redo the Reflecting Pool to a business tied to Trump properties.

White House chief of staff Susie Wiles was forced onto social media Thursday to reassure the tech industry after her own National Economic Council director went off-script and publicly floated FDA-style government approval requirements for new AI models — touching off nearly a day of anxiety across the sector, according to Politico.

Kevin Hassett, director of the National Economic Council, had suggested the administration was considering a vetting process for new AI models similar to the FDA's drug approval system. The comments sent the tech sector into a panic, forcing Wiles to step in, tweeting that the administration was pushing a strategy that "empowers America's great innovators, not bureaucracy."

President Donald Trump's Washington, D.C. prosecutor Jeanine Pirro made a massive blunder in the White House Correspondents' Dinner shooting case, former federal prosecutor Elie Honig told CNN's Jake Tapper on Friday — and it could cause huge problems down the road.

Specifically, she is not going to recuse herself from the case, despite having described herself as a victim, since she was at the dinner when the shooting happened.

A New Jersey man was body slammed and arrested at a packed township meeting this week after speaking out against a proposed AI data center — part of a growing national backlash against Trump's $500 billion push to build AI infrastructure across the country.

The confrontation unfolded Thursday at an Andover Township Committee meeting in Sussex County, where hundreds of residents turned out to oppose plans for a data center by developer National Land Developers LLC. The project is part of a wave of similar developments accelerating under Trump's Stargate initiative, a joint venture with OpenAI, SoftBank, and Oracle that the president has called "the largest AI infrastructure project in history."