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MSNBC "Morning Joe" co-host Mika Brzezinski went off on a brutal rant on Thursday morning aimed at the conservative media for smearing critics of Donald Trump's harsh immigration policies.

Using the abduction and shipping of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia to an El Salvador maximum security prison without due process which has led to criticism as a springboard, the MSNBC host pointed out that criticism of Trump's policies have come from both liberals and conservatives –– including hosts on Fox News and the Wall Street Journal editorial board.

Donald Trump was up early on Thursday morning, launching a fresh attack on Fed chair Jerome Powell for ignoring his demand to lower interest rates while threatening him with termination.

In apparent reaction to reports that the European Central Bank (ECB) is poised to cut interest rates for the seventh time in a year today, the president –– reeling from criticism about his handling of the economy –– tried to shift the blame to Powell.

Coming a day after Powell instead warned about the tariff war Trump began, and stated, "Without price stability, we cannot achieve the long periods of strong labor market conditions that benefit all Americans,” hinting at no rate reduction on the horizon, Trump flipped out on Truth Social.

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Early Thursday, he wrote, "The ECB is expected to cut interest rates for the 7th time, and yet, 'Too Late' Jerome Powell of the Fed, who is always TOO LATE AND WRONG, yesterday issued a report which was another, and typical, complete 'mess!'"

He then insisted that, "Oil prices are down, groceries (even eggs!) are down, and the USA is getting RICH ON TARIFFS. Too Late should have lowered Interest Rates, like the ECB, long ago, but he should certainly lower them now."

Nora Aunor, considered by many Filipinos as their country's greatest actor and singer, has died aged 71, the government and her family said Thursday.

Proclaimed a "National Artist for Film and Broadcast Arts" by the Philippines in 2022, the once child snack vendor will be honoured with a state funeral.

U.S. District Judge James Boasberg has the tools to proceed with criminal contempt charges against President Donald Trump's administration — and can also enforce a sentence if they are found guilty, a legal analyst said Wednesday.

Slate senior writer Mark Joseph Stern addressed Boasberg's ruling regarding the government's response to his court order.

U.S. District Court Judge James Boasberg ruled on Wednesday that "probable cause exists to find the Government in criminal contempt."

The issue involved deportation flights to El Salvador that the judge ordered turn around and return to the United States. The judge said at the time that the individuals deported did not have the due process to which they were entitled. They, however, landed in the Central American country and the occupants were transferred to a jail there.

Fox Business correspondent Charlie Gasparino on Wednesday warned that President Donald Trump's international trade war strategy would soon face a do-or-die moment.

Writing on X, Gasparino outlined why Trump's plan appears fraught with peril for the American economy.

Ed Martin, who is President Donald Trump's nominee to be the United States Attorney for Washington, D.C., was a regular guest on Russian state media programs for the span of eight years.

According to a tally by the Washington Post, Martin appeared on Russian state outlets such as Russia Today and Sputnik more than 150 times from 2016 until 2024.

The Justice Department clashed with U.S. District Court Judge Paula Xinis in a Tuesday hearing over what the U.S. government acknowledged was an accidental deportation of a Maryland father.

Kilmar Ábrego García was shipped to a prison in El Salvador despite a judge ruling that García could not be deported there. The U.S. government has claimed that García is an MS-13 gang member, but one legal analyst wrote Tuesday there's reason to question this.

Investors are abandoning the dollar, according to Washington Post financial reporter David J. Lynch.

The dollar has lost nearly 10 percent of its value since President Donald Trump's inauguration, the Tuesday report said. About half of that decline came this month as Trump proceeded with his tariff plan.