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A panel of three federal judges has rejected a lawsuit brought after Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry (R) halted ongoing state elections in an effort to gain Republican House seats through redistricting.

In a filing late last month, Democratic House candidate Lindsay Garcia sued Landry and other state officials on behalf of "similarly situated voters and candidates statewide."

President Donald Trump announced on Friday afternoon that there will be a brief pause in the Russian invasion of Ukraine, effective this weekend.

"I am pleased to announce that there will be a THREE DAY CEASEFIRE (May 9th, 10th, and 11th) in the War between Russia and Ukraine," Trump posted on his Truth Social platform. "The Celebration in Russia is for Victory Day but, likewise, in Ukraine, because they were also a big part and factor of World War II. This Ceasefire will include a suspension of all kinetic activity, and also a prison swap of 1,000 prisoners from each Country. This request was made directly by me, and I very much appreciate its agreement by President Vladimir Putin and President Volodymyr Zelenskyy."

A New York man said that Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents admitted that they had the wrong person after he was beaten on the street in the Bronx.

Jeury Concepcion, 19, told WNBC that he had to get stitches and suffered a concussion after his encounter with ICE on Wednesday.

After having been under seal for nearly seven years, Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged suicide note was made public on Wednesday, but on Friday, Epstein’s brother, Mark Epstein, claimed the note was nonsense and alleged it to be a “forgery.”

“I’ve known Jeff all my life. If he was going to kill himself, if he was going to write a suicide note, he would’ve written it ‘to somebody,’ not just a blanket statement saying goodbye,” Mark Epstein told the National Enquirer in the outlet’s report Friday. “I don’t buy that.”

President Donald Trump has "signed off on a plan" to oust Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Marty Makary, sources told the Wall Street Journal.

According to Friday's report, Trump has clashed with Makary over the speed at which flavored nicotine vapes are being approved. The president has also had disagreements with the FDA commissioner on abortion and drug policy, the sources said.

In January, a Cuban immigrant died in a Texas immigration detention facility from what the Trump administration alleged was an attempted suicide, but another detainee calls his death suspicious.

An immigrant detained at the same facility claims that he “heard” the Cuban immigrant being “choked to death,” but that he was threatened by an immigration enforcement officer to keep quiet about the incident, and the detainee granted Zeteo permission to share his account, though the outlet withheld his identity over safety concerns and identified him only by the pseudonym “Texas.”

Expressing both bemusement and concern at the same time, former Undersecretary of State Richard Stengel stated on MS NOW on Friday morning that a bombshell CIA report that Iran still has the ability to stand up to the U.S. is bad news, but it is even worse that it caught the White House by surprise.

Citing the Washington Post report, host Anna Cabrera asked, “So, Rick, given this CIA assessment suggesting Iran can withstand a lot more pain and they can hold off if the U.S. has a blockade for more months, in fact, and given other reporting that U.S. military assets were more severely, severely damaged by Iran than the administration has let on, what does that mean for the kind of leverage Iran might have in any negotiation?”

President Donald Trump met Friday's news that the Virginia Supreme Court had struck down a voter-approved redistricting referendum with delight — but many questioned the ruling as unjust.

The court ruled 4-3 that the state’s Democratic-led legislature had violated procedural requirements when it placed the constitutional amendment on the ballot asking voters to authorize the mid-decade redistricting, but the ruling strikes down the narrowly approved measure enacted two weeks ago in response to gerrymanders in GOP-led states.

Former Fox News contributor Sean Duffy revealed that he spent seven months making a reality show while serving the country as Secretary of Transportation.

In a Friday interview on Fox News, Duffy and his wife, Fox News host Rachel Campos-Duffy, announced their new program called "The Great American Road Trip."

ABC has filed an aggressive defense against Federal Communications Commission regulatory action, accusing the agency of violating the network's free speech rights and creating a chilling effect on political content. The filing, made public Friday, represents the network's most forceful pushback since President Donald Trump began pressuring media organizations last year.

The dispute centers on ABC's morning talk show "The View," after FCC Chair Brendan Carr questioned whether the program qualifies for a news exemption under equal time rules, which require broadcast stations to provide political candidates equal airtime, reported the New York Times. The show features political interviews and commentary, often critical of Trump.

Critics hounded the Trump administration on Friday after the White House released its 2026 Counterterrorism Strategy report earlier that morning, which onlookers immediately noticed was riddled with typos and grammatical errors.

“This entire document looks like something written by an intern,” wrote author and foreign policy analyst Kabir Taneja on Friday in a social media post on X.

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins recently celebrated the removal of food stamps from 4.5 million Americans.

During an interview with Newsmax host Rob Finnerty this week, Rollins seemed jubilant about her success in moving people off of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).