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President Donald Trump downplayed the risks of the hantavirus outbreak when asked about it by reporters.

Hantavirus is a virulent, slow-incubating infection spread by rodents; an estimated 38 percent of infected people who develop respiratory symptoms die, and up to 15 percent who develop hemorrhagic fever symptoms. The disease has flared up on a luxury cruise ship off the coast of Africa, leaving three people dead.

Inmates at a Texas federal prison were punished for speaking to reporters about Ghislaine Maxwell — including one who says the warden told her she had "ruined her weekend," according to a new CNN investigation.

Julie Howell, a former inmate at Federal Prison Camp Bryan in Texas, told CNN she was transferred to a higher-security federal detention center in Houston later that day after sharing her views about Maxwell's arrival at the minimum-security camp with a British reporter last August. Howell, who had recently begun serving a one-year sentence for financial crimes, said she consulted the prison handbook before speaking to the press and believed she was within her rights to do so.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio got a round of derision by MS NOW's "The Weeknight" panel on Thursday for his efforts to patch up the ongoing conflicts between President Donald Trump and Pope Leo XIV, whom the president has repeatedly attacked for condemning war with Iran.

Stephen Schneck, who heads the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, brought some needed perspective to the issue.

A federal judge ruled against President Donald Trump's Department of Government Efficiency on Thursday, finding that the group's mass cancellation of National Endowment for the Humanities grants was illegal — and that a key part of the process relied on ChatGPT.

DOGE, partly the brainchild of tech billionaire Elon Musk when he was advising the Trump administration, promised to find and reform government waste and make federal agencies run a leaner operation — something that the project failed to do in terms of federal spending.

President Donald Trump boasted about the destruction of Iranian drones in a lengthy rant posted to his Truth Social platform on Thursday evening.

"Three World Class American Destroyers just transited, very successfully, out of the Strait of Hormuz, under fire," wrote Trump. "There was no damage done to the three Destroyers, but great damage done to the Iranian attackers. They were completely destroyed along with numerous small boats, which are being used to take the place of their fully decapitated Navy. These boats went to the bottom of the Sea, quickly and efficiently."

Newly revealed transcripts of grand jury proceedings in the Georgia criminal election case against President Donald Trump and his allies paint a picture of Rudy Giuliani as confused, rambling and frequently evasive.

In the transcript of Giuliani's interview, which goes on for 127 pages, the former New York City mayor and MAGA ally kicked off by struggling to remember how old he is.