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'Cash grab': MAGA Bible-thumpers face accusations of 'exploiting' Christians

Amanda Marcotte with Salon is lifting the lid on a scandal of somewhat Biblical proportions involving the evangelical MAGA acolytes behind the hugely successful podcast "Girls Gone Bible."

Nicole Ardrete, a former friend of L.A. actresses and self-professed "Jesus freaks" Angela Halili and Arielle Reitsma, told Marcotte they all once worked together as underground "poker girls" who dressed sexy and were expected to flirt with high-end male customers in Los Angeles.

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Trump has 'botched' his whole tariff plan with a single slip of the tongue: report

The Atlantic's Jonathan Chait claimed in an article Friday that President Donald Trump's plan to encourage American manufacturing by imposing huge import tariffs was doomed from the moment he offered to negotiate with targeted countries.

"The key to making it work was to convince businesses that the new arrangement is durable," Chait wrote. "Nobody is going to invest in building new factories in the United States to create goods that until last week could be imported more cheaply unless they’re certain that the tariffs making the domestic version more competitive will stay in place."

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'Made my mouth drop open': Expert 'astonished' as Trump lawyer makes courtroom admission

In a Maryland court on Friday, the Justice Department dropped what one lawyer called a jaw-dropping claim.

The DOJ faced off against lawyers for an immigrant that the administration has admitted was mistakenly sent to an El Salvador prison.

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'I lost people!' MAGA senator's 'fuhrer' insult leaves Chuck Schumer sick

The Senate's top Democrat expressed his outrage to CNN after a Republican senator called him a "fuhrer," a German term meaning "leader" that's commonly associated with Nazi leader Adolf Hitler.

Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-OH) told reporters, "Republicans are independently minded. Democrats are monolithic sheep that follow the Fuhrer Schumer's orders."

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Trump personally chose the 'mocked formula' used to determine tariffs: reporter

President Donald Trump personally selected the formula that the U.S. government will use to determine the percentage of reciprocal tariff to be implemented on a country, territory, or island, according to a Friday report.

The Washington Post's Jeff Stein wrote that numerous aides at the National Economic Council, Council of Economic Advisers, Commerce Department, and the Office of the United States Trade Representative confirmed the president made the decision himself.

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'Now?' Trump called out on CNN for golfing during 'a very volatile time' of his own making

CNN's Dana Bash was gobsmacked that President Donald Trump opted to play golf Friday while the U.S. economy was melting down due to the tariffs he imposed on dozens of countries earlier this week.

On Friday, stocks continued their downward spiral, losing more than 3,000 points in two days. China announced it was retaliating with 34% tariffs on U.S. goods. And Fed chairman Jerome Powell said Trump's tariffs "raise risks of faster inflation and slower growth," according to The New York Times.

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'Things will get bad': Ex-GOP insider predicts Trump's 'mental illness' is profound threat

Former GOP insider Steve Schmidt, who worked for prominent Republicans like former President George W. Bush and the late Sen. John McCain, has written a damning assessment of Donald Trump and the "shame" he has brought to America.

In a new Substack article, Schmidt claimed that the "crisis" facing America is based completely on Trump's character and psychology, which precludes him from ever being told "no" or that he is "wrong."

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'How do you negotiate with this?' Rage as Trump suggests he's crashing market on purpose

President Donald Trump left Washington on Thursday to fly back to Mar-a-Lago for the weekend. By Friday morning, the stock market was in freefall for a second day in a row.

From his Truth Social page, Trump posted a video from a person going by the handle @AmericanPapaBear, claiming Trump is purposely tanking the stock market so he can get the Federal Reserve to lower interest rates.

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'Unravelling': Trump accused of 'breathtaking sabotage' against the U.S. economy

President Donald Trump has been working at breakneck speed to eliminate federal programs, prompting an opinion columnist with The Washington Post to ponder, "Is there anything Trump won't destroy?"

Columnist Dana Milbank used the metaphor of Trump wielding an ax to chop down not only a 200-year-old magnolia tree at the White House, but the very Constitution on which the United States was founded.

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'Who is this elusive Hank Tough?' Observers mercilessly mock Trump's now-deleted typo post

President Donald Trump had a "covfefe" moment Friday when he posted to Truth Social about the better-than-expected jobs numbers and tried to encourage Americans to keep the faith. That's when his keyboard got him into a bit of trouble.

"GREAT JOBS NUMBERS, FAR BETTER THAN EXPECTED. IT'S ALREADY WORKING. HANK TOUGH, WE CAN'T LOSE!!!" the president posted just before 9 a.m.

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Taiwan earmarks $2.7 bn to help industries hit by US tariffs

by Joy CHIANG

Taiwan has earmarked $2.7 billion to help industries affected by US President Donald Trump's new tariffs, the government said Friday.

Taipei had sought to avoid Trump's threatened levies by pledging increased investment in the United States and more purchases of US energy, but it was still hit by a 32 percent tax on its imports, excluding semiconductor chips.

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'Really big deal': China's response to Trump could reportedly 'really hurt' U.S. farmers

China responded to president Donald Trump's trade war threats with its own 34-percent retaliatory tariffs on all U.S. goods, and a CNN correspondent warned that farmers could be hit hard by the move.

The president announced so-called reciprocal tariffs on imports from about 90 countries Wednesday, which he dubbed "Liberation Day," and claimed the new taxes were necessary to erase trade deficits between the U.S. and its trading partners, and China responded with a corresponding duty to that imposed by Trump.

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Rat earns world record for sniffing landmines in Cambodia

A landmine-hunting rat in Cambodia has set a new world record by sniffing out more than 100 mines and pieces of unexploded ordnance, a charity said Friday.

Ronin, a giant African pouched rat, has tracked down 109 landmines and 15 other potentially deadly war remnants since his deployment to northern Preah Vihear province in August 2021, the Belgian charity APOPO said in a statement.

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