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A federal judge prevented the Department of Justice from making an unusual move against a frequent target of President Donald Trump's political fury, according to a new report.

CNN's Katelyn Polantz reported Thursday that the White House pushed for an unusually aggressive search at the home of Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), but she said the judge who ultimately signed off on the search warrant expressed concerns about that approach and imposed some limits.

"They wanted to treat it like any other search," Polantz said. "That's not how it works under the law."...

In yet another admission of an uphill battle to hold onto their House majority, Republican groups are pulling funding out of a key battleground district in New York that they had hoped to flip from Democrats.

Per Punchbowl News, "MAGA Inc.-aligned groups are stopping airing TV ads in Rep. Tom Suozzi’s (D-N.Y.) district, according to AdImpact and sources tracking the race."

Suozzi's district in Long Island flipped to Republicans as recently as 2022. However, their newly elected congressman, George Santos, was swiftly buried in scandal as revelations came out about his fabricated candidate background and his extensive campaign finance fraud schemes, and expelled from the House in an overwhelming bipartisan vote....

The U.S. military has drawn up new plans to strike Iran – possibly with the “mother of all bombs” – as President Donald Trump looks for a way out of an increasingly unpopular war, but officials doubt the strikes would accomplish much beyond the spectacle.

The plans include possibly using the GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast Bomb, or MOAB, against Iranian energy infrastructure and nuclear sites, reported CNN.

A source familiar with the Pentagon’s planning said military officials have developed options that would amount to a “fireworks show," with the goal of giving Trump an off-ramp from the conflict even if the strikes fail to achieve the goals he set for the war....

White House press secretary Katie Zacharia’s legal résumé took another hit as a partner at the Chinese law firm she lists on her LinkedIn profile clarified that her job there was likely “similar to a paid internship.”

Zacharia, who started the job this week, has described herself as a lawyer, and President Donald Trump has called her “an attorney," but she has faced mounting questions about her credentials, and the New York Times spoke with sources at the Zhong Lun Law Firm about her work there.

Reporters asked Zacharia shortly after she abruptly ended her inaugural press conference in which state she had passed the bar exam, she twice answered, “When I moved to China.”...

President Donald Trump has found himself on the losing side of yet another lopsided issue.

Eight in 10 Americans say the execution of convicted Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan should not be live-streamed to the public, according to a Washington Post-ABC News-Ipsos poll released Thursday, and that includes many who support putting the gunman to death.

Trump has said he “absolutely” approved live-streaming the execution, which is scheduled for Dec. 3 in Texas, and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said people “need to understand that there’s serious consequences for these types of things.”...

Anguilla, a Caribbean island that controls the .ai internet domain, says President Donald Trump’s effort to rename artificial intelligence “super intelligence” hasn’t hurt its business, Politico reported on Thursday.

Much of the island’s income depends on people registering .ai websites, so the rebrand sparked worry. But technology minister José Vanterpool said at a press conference on Monday that sales rose in September from August, after the announcements, and said there’s been no meaningful shift away from .ai.

He called it “highly unlikely” that companies would switch domains over the president’s remarks, and said part of the uptick likely reflects speculation....

Former MLB superstar Roger Clemens fact-checked President Donald Trump during his Texas rally Wednesday night.

Trump traveled to San Antonio, Texas, to stump for Republicans like Tano Tijerina in his race against Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX), whom Trump attacked for what he considered to be a "disloyal act" by not becoming a Republican after Trump pardoned him. At the rally, Trump invited Clemens on stage to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor, because Clemens had not yet been elected to the Hall of Fame.

In typical Trump fashion, the president also rattled off a fact about Clemens that the former big league pitcher was quick to correct. ...

Former White House ethics czar Norm Eisen said he could not believe what he was reading in Kimberly Guilfoyle's newly revealed text messages.

Eisen, who served in the Obama White House and later as U.S. ambassador to the Czech Republic, appeared on CNN's "Anderson Cooper 360" on Wednesday to discuss a Wall Street Journal report on Guilfoyle's Signal messages, which The Journal reports show her asking Trump donor Eric Deters to send her $100,000 to pay off her American Express debt. Guilfoyle is the U.S. ambassador to Greece.

"It's one of the worst things that I have ever seen with respect to a U.S. ambassador," Eisen told Cooper. "It stinks to high heaven."...

Stephen Miller says Americans owe their amazing energy prices to Donald Trump. Critics saw it differently.

Miller, the White House deputy chief of staff for policy, appeared Saturday on Fox News’ “My View with Lara Trump.” The segment ran under the banner “Miller touts Trump’s sweeping achievements.”

“The reason we have lower energy prices than anyone else in the developed world is because of President Trump,” Miller said, according to a clip posted by Acyn....