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A Trump administration official is considering running for governor of New Hampshire after the sitting governor refused to go along with the administration's redistricting plans, according to a new report.

Corey Lewandowski, who serves as a senior advisor in the Department of Homeland Security, is reportedly considering primarying Gov. Kelly Ayotte (R-NH), according to Politico. Ayotte is a first-time governor, and the White House has upped pressure on governors like her to redraw their election maps.

One of President Donald Trump's key allies could soon find herself in legal jeopardy if she keeps showing "disrespect" to court orders, according to a former federal prosecutor.

Glenn Kirschner, the former deputy U.S. attorney in Washington, D.C., said on a recent episode of his podcast "Justice Matters" that Trump ally Kari Lake, who leads the U.S. Agency for Global Media, has shown "disrespect" for recent court orders. He noted a recent case where Judge Royce Lamberth of the District of Columbia said Lake's agency "clearly" lacked plans to abide by his order to broadcast news into parts of the world with limited press freedom.

President Donald Trump's Commerce Secretary, Howard Lutnick, is too dumb to keep any possible Jeffrey Epstein cover-up going, argued former GOP spokesperson and strategist Tim Miller in an MSNBC discussion with anchor Nicolle Wallace and reporter Tara Palmeri — as exemplified by his recent comments about his own visits to Epstein's residence.

This came during a discussion about Democratic lawmakers dropping a reveal of a handful of Epstein documents, which show tech billionaires Elon Musk and Peter Thiel, as well as Trump associate Steve Bannon, were all named in Epstein's itineraries in the 2010s.

The White House is asking nine top universities to sign a pledge that would set several requirements for them if they intend to keep their federal funding, The New York Times reported Thursday. According to one constitutional law expert, they're not only illegal, but she's shocked the administration was willing to put in writing.

Among the demands in the list are that colleges must "commit to strict definitions of gender." Others include that schools must "prohibit policies that would punish conservative ideas. Provide free tuition to students studying math, biology, or other 'hard sciences' if endowments exceed $2 million. Prohibit employees from expressing political views on behalf of their employer, unless the matter affects the school."

Former Vice President Mike Pence melted down Thursday after President Donald Trump's administration approved a generic version of an abortion drug, thereby abandoning a key promise to a part of his base.

The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday approved a generic version of mifepristone. The agency first approved the drug in 2000, and it is typically taken in combination with another pill called misoprostol to induce abortions.

MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace confessed she was "gobsmacked" watching Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick's recent interview, where he described "sharing a wall" with accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.

"They took videos of massages and then blackmailed them," Lutnick says at one point in the interview.

Lindsey Halligan, who President Donald Trump picked to lead the prosecution of former FBI Director James Comey, has created "chaos" within her new office because she appears to be letting at least one MAGA-aligned influencer make staffing decisions, according to a new report.

Halligan was recently appointed to lead the U.S. Attorney's office for the Eastern District of Virginia, an office that typically handles cases about classified information leaks and national security issues. Halligan was an insurance attorney and Trump's former defense counsel before she joined his administration. She has no prior prosecutorial experience, according to reports.

Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought is drawing attention amid President Donald Trump’s sweeping cancellation of funds previously allocated by Congress. Vought has spent the past few days targeting federal funds intended for so-called “blue states,” prompting enthusiastic celebration among MAGA loyalists.

The New Republic’s Greg Sargent described Vought as delighting in “a sadistic thrill” when he announced Wednesday that, as part of the government shutdown fight, he would inflict punitive spending cuts on states that voted against Trump in 2024. Sargent characterizes Vought as “a shadowy and powerful figure lurking behind the despot’s throne,” who recently tweeted in what Sargent calls a “drunk-on-power rapture.”

A pop-up statue of President Donald Trump holding hands with late financier and child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein has gone back up on the National Mall, after the National Park Service took it down.

The reinstallation of the statue, known officially as the "Trump-Epstein Friendship Statue" and erected as a protest by a group known as Secret Handshake, was reported on X by Joe Heim of The Washington Post. Its return comes amid ongoing controversy about the Trump administration's refusal to release the full trove of files on the Epstein criminal case, and reporting that Trump himself is mentioned in the files.