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Law & Crime reports a federal judge called out President Donald Trump's administration for violating a court order demanding access to hidden spending plans.In win for transparency groups, U.S. District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan, first appointed by President Ronald Reagan and later by Presidents George H.W. Bush and Clinton, had to school the Trump ad

One high-ranking member of President Donald Trump's administration is now being subjected to a fusillade of racist insults from Trump supporters.MS NOW columnist Ja'han Jones wrote Friday that Madhu Gottumukkala — who is Trump's acting head of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) — is the latest target of far-right rage after he was caught in a scandal. According to Politico, Gottumukkala uploaded sensitive government documents to a public version of ChatGPT. None of the documents were classified

The Atlanta Journal Constitution reports a federal judge on Friday blocked federal agencies from requesting citizenship status when distributing voter registration forms. The decision amounts to the latest derailment of President Donald Trump’s far-reaching executive order seeking to change the face of voting in national elections.U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotell

The recent arrest of journalist Don Lemon has set off alarm bells within the media world – including from one prominent media executive with ties to President Donald Trump.In a Friday segment on his gossip site TMZ, founder Harvey Levin lamented the Trump administration's indictment of Lemon – a former CNN anchor — and suggested Trump was taking a page from the authoritarian playbook."So the Trump administration wonders why people are saying that they are trying

President Donald Trump may have fired Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem if she ran the agency during his first term. But his second term is different — possibly due to the first high-profile appointee Trump fired.In a Friday article for The Independent, correspondent Andrew Feinberg wrote that Noem may have to give thanks to Gen. Michael Flynn (Ret.), who served as Trump's first White House National Security Advisor. Flynn's tenure was short-lived, and he was let go after just 22 days on the job after he was found to have had back-cha

Mississippi may soon face a ‘huge gap’ in disaster recovery funding when the Trump administration follows through with its plan to raise the threshold for public assistance. Mississippi Today reports the administration of President Donald Trump’s is proposing raising the threshold a state’s damages have to reach to qualify for public assistance funds for road, bridge and government building repairs after a disaster.State emergency officials saw the numbers rolling down from the federal level and alerted Mississippi lawmakers, warning them that had Trump’s cuts alrea

President Donald Trump has nominated former Federal Reserve Governor Kevin Warsh to succeed Jerome Powell as chairman of the Fed. But one Republican senator is threatening to make sure Warsh never gets confirmed out of his committee.Semafor reported Friday that outgoing Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) – who is not running for another term in November – is signaling he will vote against Warsh's confirmation in the Senate Banking Committee, where he is one of 13 Republican members on the 25-member body. Tillis maintains tha

One member of President Donald Trump's Cabinet apparently sought to travel to convicted child predator Jeffrey Epstein's private island, according to a newly released document.The New York Times reported Friday that Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick sent an email to Epstein in 2012, telling him that he and his family were going to be in the Caribbean and asking if they could meet for lunch. Epstein responded through an assistant, who gave Lutnick information about Epstein's "Little Saint James Island" in the U.S. Virgin Islands.Lutnick told the Times he "spent zero time with [Epstein]" and hung up on r

The New York Daily News is reporting on new “gushing” emails from the latest trove of documents from the Epstein files, showing First Lady Melania Trump with an apparently strong relationship with convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell (who was convicted for procuring victims for Jeffrey Epstein) two years before Melania married now-President Donald Trump.“Dear G! How are you?” Melania asked in one email to Maxwell, dated October 2002. “Nice story about JE in NY mag. You look great in the picture.”“In her email, Melania expressed exc

The indictment of journalist Don Lemon was recently unsealed, and many legal experts are largely in agreement that the charging document is flimsy at best. On Friday, CNN host Jake Tapper posted the unsealed 12-page indictment of his former colleague to his official X account. Lemon has been charged with one count of conspiracy against right of religious freedom at place of worship and one count of impeding access to the exercise of religious freedom at a place of worship. The charges stem from Lemon documenting a protest at a church in St. Paul, Minnesota where one of the pastors is reportedly in a leadersh