"Doctor" Jill Biden should face criminal charges for elder abuse, according to one Trump administration official.
Leo Terrell, a former Fox News contributor and current lawyer at the Justice Department's civil rights division, argued Jill Biden is guilty of "elder abuse" in the wake of her husband's shocking cancer diagnosis.
During Joe Biden's presidency, the former first lady was often accused by critics of exploiting her aging husband for her own selfish purposes.
Following her husband's pivotal debate performance on CNN last year, which effectively ended his political career in one stroke, she infamously told Biden that he "answered every question," as if he were a child.
Jill Biden is under more scrutiny than ever as her family's former media allies finally begin reporting critically on Joe Biden's cognitive decline, and the effort to conceal it.
Some have even suggested Jill Biden knew about or possibly overlooked her husband's prostate cancer in the pursuit of political power.
Terrell responded to a post on X that claimed Jill Biden "knew about President Biden’s health problems” but “still wanted him to run for President.”
“Elder abuse! Criminal charges??” Terrell wrote.
The initial outpouring of sympathy that followed from Biden's cancer announcement has been replaced by broad skepticism.
Many have questioned how the aggressive, stage four cancer was not caught earlier. Before his recent diagnosis, Biden's last known prostate cancer screening was in 2014, according to his office.
Some have wondered aloud if the Biden family withheld the diagnosis from the public or even timed the news strategically to quash the recent scrutiny of the former president.
As President Trump put it, "Somebody is not telling the facts.”
The speculation is not limited to Trump and his following. Democrat Dean Phillips, who challenged Biden in 2024, said the timing of the cancer news looks suspicious.
“I don’t think it’s coincidental that this was announced this week,” Phillips told The New York Times in an interview published Monday.
Biden's White House doctor, Kevin O'Connor, has also fallen under scrutiny for certifying that Biden was "fit for duty" as recently as last year.
The famously close-knit Biden family, meanwhile, continues to put on a united front.
“Cancer touches us all. Like so many of you, Jill and I have learned that we are strongest in the broken places," Biden wrote on X, quoting Ernest Hemingway.
"Thank you for lifting us up with love and support,” the post read.
The Senate confirmed New Jersey real estate developer Charles Kushner, the father of President Trump's son-in-law Charles Kushner, to be ambassador to France.
Kushner was confirmed 51-45, overcoming scrutiny of his past convictions for tax evasion and illegal campaign contributions. President Trump pardoned Kushner in December 2020, citing his charitable work.
Kushner was prosecuted by then-U.S. attorney Chris Christie for tax evasion, illegal campaign contributions and witness tampering.
The witness tampering charge stemmed from Kushner's effort to blackmail his brother-in-law by hiring a prostitute to seduce him. Kushner spent two years in federal prison for his crimes.
Kushner expressed remorse for his past to the Senate, saying he had learned from his mistakes.
“I don’t sit here before you today and tell you I’m a perfect person,” Kushner told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee during his confirmation hearing. “I am not a perfect person.”
“I made a very, very, very serious mistake, and I paid a very heavy price for that mistake,” he said. “I think that my past mistakes actually make me better with my judgment, better in my view of life, better in my values to really make me more qualified to do this job.”
New Jersey Democratic senator Cory Booker, a regular Trump critic, voted to confirm Kushner. He was the only Democrat to do so.
Kushner, a New Jersey real estate mogul, supported Booker's political career early on in Newark, backing his first unsuccessful bid to be mayor of the city, as reported by the New Jersey Globe.
Booker defended his vote for Kushner, pointing to Kushner's work on the First Step Act, the criminal justice reform law signed by Trump in his first term.
“I have passionate differences and disagreements with Charlie Kushner, but I supported his confirmation because he has been unrelenting in reforming our criminal justice system and has substantively helped achieve the liberation of thousands of people from unjust incarceration,” Kushner said.
At his confirmation hearing, Kushner acknowledged Booker for his "special and close friendship."
Trump called Kushner, the founder of Kushner Companies, a "tremendous business leader, philanthropist, & dealmaker" while announcing his nomination for the ambassadorial post.
Kushner's son Jared is the husband of Ivanka Trump, President Trump's daughter. Jared and Ivanka served as top advisers in the first Trump White House but opted not to return for Trump's second term.
President Trump is considering a plan to relocate 1 million people from Gaza to northern Africa as Israel ramps up its military offensive in the Hamas-ruled territory.
As reported by NBC, Trump is not ruling out transferring 1 million Gazans to Libya in exchange for freeing up billions in funds frozen by the United States.
The plan is "under serious enough consideration that the administration has discussed it with Libya’s leadership," according to NBC.
A National Security Council spokesperson denied any such plans, calling them unrealistic.
“The situation on the ground is untenable for such a plan. Such a plan was not discussed and makes no sense,” a National Security Spokesperson said.
Any attempt to relocate a million people would face huge logistical challenges. According to NBC, the Trump administration is considering stipends or free housing to encourage Gazans to relocate, and all methods of transportation are being looked at.
Libya has experienced continuous unrest political instability since the violent overthrow of Muammar Ghaddafi in 2011. After two civil wars, the country is ruled by two competing factions.
No final decision has been made on relocating Gazans, but "Israel has been kept informed of the administration’s discussions," sources told NBC.
The idea echoes Trump's controversial proposal from earlier in the year to take over and develop heavily bombed Gaza into the "Riviera of the Middle East."
Trump's idea was shot down by Palestine's Arab neighbors, which have long resisted taking in Palestinian refugees, who they fear will destabilize their countries. Many Arabs also view the potential expulsion of Palestinians as a form of ethnic cleansing.
While a relocation policy would be favored by Israel's prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Trump has also put distance between himself and Israel as its war with Hamas has dragged on.
Israel has been escalating its bombing of Gaza in what prime minister Netanyahu has called a final push to demolish Hamas.
Trump notably did not visit Israel during a lavish tour of the Arab Gulf states last week that saw Trump ink billions of dollars in deals. He also expressed concern about people "starving" in Gaza, which has been under an Israeli blockade.
According to NBC, Trump officials are also eyeing war-torn Syria as a possible new home for Gazans. In a political shockwave, Trump met with Syria's new president, Ahmad al-Sharaa, last week and announced an end to U.S. sanctions to give Syria a "chance at peace."
Tragedy struck a Palm Springs fertility clinic and IVF lab last week after authorities confirmed that an explosion, likely caused by a car bomb, killed at least one person, injuring several more.
According to The Mirror, police and FBI are investigating the deadly incident, which resulted what authorities described as "body parts everywhere" in the aftermath of the explosion.
The Desert Regional Medical Center in Palm Springs, California was the sight of the deadly explosion, which caused a loud boom heard for blocks.
So far, the deadly situation has been described by authorities as a "car explosion," though they wouldn't confirm any further details at the time of the report.
The bomb attack, which has now been classified as a "terrorist attack" by the FBI, killed one person and injured four others, according to the BBC.
A suspect in the attack has already been named, according to the outlet.
BBC noted:
The suspect in the blast has been identified as 25-year-old Guy Edward Bartkus, according to sources familiar with the investigation who spoke to BBC's US partner CBS News.
Witnesses told the BBC the blast was strong enough to shatter windows and badly damage a nearby building that housed the ARC.
Several witnesses and bystanders were interviewed after the explosion, with one person indicating that the explosion knocked him off of his bicycle.
"It was that big of an explosion and I could hear windows shattering all around me," said Michael Beaumier, a witness.
“Make no mistake, this is an intentional act of terrorism. The FBI is investigating it as such.” -Our Assistant Director in charge at @FBILosAngeles Akil Davis giving the latest on the explosion in Palm Springs, CA. Our teams are working day and night on the ground to assist. pic.twitter.com/Rb8gM5BAwF
— Dan Bongino (@FBIDDBongino) May 18, 2025
Users across social media reacted to the news of the attack on the fertility clinic.
"There needs to be a reason for this to stop. You need to make an example out of this guy," one X user wrote.
Another X user wrote, "Find and prosecute this terrorist(s). They have no place here."
Hopefully they do make an example of the suspect. This needs to end.
President Donald Trump and his administration have had pretty solid luck with U.S. Supreme Court decisions since he took office, but they suffered a major setback recently regarding the deportation of Venezuelan gang members.
The Daily Caller reported that the high court maintained a block on the administration deporting the gang members through the Alien Enemies Act, upholding a previous court ruling that's causing quite an issue for the White House.
The Supreme Court shocked Republicans with the ruling, voting 7-2 to maintain the block on the deportations.
The Trump administration wanted to use the centuries-old law to expedite deportations of the Venezuelan gang members that have wreaked havoc on United States streets and neighborhoods.
The decision marked a major blow to Trump's efforts to expedite the deportations.
CNN noted:
The justices sent the case at issue back to an appeals court to decide the underlying questions in the case, including whether the president’s move is legal and, if it is, how much notice the migrants targeted under the act should receive.
Reliable conservative justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito both publicly dissented.
Newsweek noted:
Alito accused his fellow justices of "a mischaracterization" of events leading up to the request for injunctive relief and offered a reinterpretation of those events. He stressed that in his view, "the Federal Rules do not permit such a shortcut" in regards to how the court certified a class of plaintiffs to resist the AEA use.
The Supreme Court's decision this week was the full ruling after issuing a temporary ruling back in April.
Newsweek added:
Part of Alito's dissent took issue with the class of Venezuelan migrants at question, accusing his fellow justices of preferring to "ignore the important step of class certification and skip directly to the adjudication of the class members' rights."
The conservative justice held nothing back in his dissent.
"The Federal Rules do not permit such a shortcut," Alito wrote.
He added, "Instead of merely ruling on the application that is before us—which asks for emergency relief pending appeal—the Court takes the unusual step of granting certiorari before judgment, summarily vacating the judgment below dismissing the applicants' appeal, and remanding the case to the Court of Appeals with directions regarding the issues that court should address."
"From the Court's order, it is not entirely clear whether the Court has silently decided issues that go beyond the question of interim relief," he wrote, adding, "(I certainly hope that it has not.) But if it has done so, today's order is doubly extraordinary."
There was drama at the Supreme Court on Thursday as Chief Justice John Roberts chastised his liberal colleague, Sonia Sotomayor, for repeated interruptions during arguments on birthright citizenship.
The Trump administration's lawyer, John Sauer, had difficulty getting a word in as Sotomayor talked over him.
While Sauer defended the merits of Trump's executive order to end birthright citizenship, the arguments centered largely on the use of nationwide injunctions by lower courts.
In his opening statement, Sauer noted that courts have issued 40 nationwide injunctions since Trump's inauguration, but Sauer called judicial overreach a "bi-partisan problem."
Universal injunctions, he said, encourage "forum shopping" and "require judges to make rushed, high-stakes, low-information decisions." Sauer argued that courts should rule on the plaintiffs directly in front of them, instead of blocking government actions nationwide.
The conservative justices appeared receptive to Sauer's arguments, although they had questions about the patchwork effects of curtailing universal injunctions. On the other hand, the three liberal justices seemed to have their minds made up.
“Let’s just assume you’re dead wrong,” Justice Elena Kagan said. "Does every single person that is affected by this EO have to bring their own suit? Are there alternatives? How long does it take?"
Early on in the session, Sotomayor interrupted Sauer repeatedly as he was making his argument against nationwide injunctions.
"You are claiming that not just the Supreme Court, that both the Supreme Court and no lower court, can stop an executive from universally violating holdings by this court," Sotomayor said.
"We are not claiming that, because we are conceding that..." Sauer replied, before Sotomayor cut him off.
"Can I hear the rest of his answer?" Roberts interjected.
Sauer began to explain that lower courts can issue limited injunctions, or in certain cases, certify class actions. But Sotomayor didn't let him finish his thought.
"Lower courts in appropriate cases may certify class actions..." Sauer began saying.
"So, when a new president," Sotomayor interrupted.
"Can I hear counsel?" Roberts protested.
As the exchange wrapped up, Sauer pushed back on the "profoundly incorrect" characterization Sotomayor provided on the merits of Trump's executive order, which she claimed violates four different Supreme Court rulings. She was about to take up the issue again when Roberts changed the topic.
Trump's executive order maintains the "original meaning" of the 14th Amendment, which guaranteed citizenship to the children of former slaves and "not to illegal aliens or temporary visitors," Sauer said in his opening.
President Trump said there is "something wrong" with Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) after he threatened to stonewall Justice Department nominees over Trump's acceptance of a free luxury jet from Qatar.
The White House has noted that the opulent gift is being donated to the Department of Defense and not Trump personally, although it would be transferred to Trump's presidential library at the end of his term.
As Trump traveled to Qatar for the second stop on his Middle East tour this week, which also brought him to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, he was asked about Schumer's threats to block Justice Department nominees.
Trump remarked that Schumer, who is Jewish, has "become a Palestinian" and suggested the longtime senator from Trump's home state of New York had "something wrong" with him.
"Schumer is Schumer," Trump said. "You know, he's become a Palestinian. Something wrong with him? I don't know, I've known him a long time and there's something wrong. He's lost his confidence, totally. And there's something wrong with him. I don't know what it is with Schumer."
Trump's remark that Schumer has "lost his confidence" would be seconded by many Democrats who say the senator has been timid about stopping Trump's sweeping agenda.
Schumer seized an opportunity to quiet his critics by pouncing at Trump over his "corrupt" foreign gift.
"News of the Qatari government gifting Donald Trump a $400 million private jet to use as Air Force One is so corrupt that even Putin would give a double take. This is not just naked corruption, it is also a grave national security threat," Schumer said on the Senate floor Tuesday.
Trump has said he would be foolish not to accept the Boeing 747 jet, estimated to be worth $400 million, while Boeing works on replacing Air Force One. The current fleet is over 30 years old, and Trump has complained about the slow pace of Boeing's progress.
"We're very disappointed that it's taking Boeing so long to build a new Air Force One," Trump said Monday morning. "You know, we have an Air Force One that's 40 years old. And if you take a look at that, compared to the new plane of the equivalent, you know, stature at the time, it's not even the same ballgame."
While opposition to Qatar's gift has come mostly from Democrats, Republicans in Congress have also expressed caution about the arrangement. Critics have speculated that Qatar is trying to buy influence, while some have raised concerns about possible espionage.
Trump traveled to the Gulf states this week to secure investments in the U.S. and promote his vision for peace and stability in the Middle East. It was his first major foreign trip since returning to the White House.
The president was lavishly entertained by his oil-rich Arab hosts, with a parade of camels greeting his motorcade in Qatar after he touched down. "We appreciate those camels," Trump said.
While in Qatar, Trump announced that Boeing had secured a record order of 210 jets from Qatar Airways for $96 billion. The White House estimates the sale will generate 154,000 jobs in the U.S. annually.
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has fired two top intelligence officials for undermining President Trump.
Gabbard fired Mike Collins, who was serving as the acting chair of the National Intelligence Council, and his deputy, Maria Langan-Riekhof, Tuesday, senior intelligence. The purge was first reported by Fox News, which noted that both officials have faced whistleblower complaints.
The firings are in keeping with the tight discipline that has characterized Trump's historic comeback.
During his first term, Trump was subverted by bad actors within the intelligence community who sought to nullify his unexpected election victory with a bogus investigation into "Russian collusion."
As Trump fought for re-election in 2020, dozens of former intelligence agents publicly speculated, with zero evidence, that Hunter Biden's laptop was "Russian disinformation."
According to Fox News, Collins has ties to Michael Morrell, the former CIA deputy director who coordinated the notorious "Russian disinformation" letter.
Whistleblowers have accused Collins of "deliberately undermining the incoming Trump administration," while Langan-Riekhof has faced similar complaints of being "radically opposed to Trump" and advancing the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) agenda, which Trump has worked to root out.
A longtime critic of political malfeasance by the "Deep State," Gabbard has taken a series of actions in her new intelligence role to restore accountability.
She has recommended the Justice Department prosecute "Deep State criminals" behind recent classified intelligence leaks to the New York Times and Washington Post.
The leaked information included a National Intelligence Council assessment that Venezuela is not directing Tren de Aragua to invade the United States, a conclusion that undercuts President Trump's use of the Alien Enemies Act to swiftly deport suspected gang members.
The FBI partly dissented from the intelligence assessment, finding the Maduro regime is using Tren de Aragua as a proxy.
The ODNI fired two officials in early May for leaking information about a Tren de Aragua intelligence assessment to the New York Times, Fox News Digital reported.
Meanwhile, Gabbard is moving the National Intelligence Council from the CIA to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), which Gabbard oversees, to prevent the "politicization of intelligence" by Deep State bureaucrats.
"It takes time to weed them out and fire them," one official told Fox News Digital, adding that "plans to eliminate non-essential offices within ODNI that we know are housing deep state leakers are underway."
Sonia Sotomayor called on lawyers to resist the Trump administration, in an unusual public call to arms from a sitting member of the Supreme Court.
Without naming Trump, Sotomayor encouraged those in the overwhelmingly left-wing legal profession to "fight" back against Trump's actions.
"Our job is to stand up for people who can’t do it themselves. And our job is to be the champion of lost causes,” she told the American Bar Association.
Since returning to power in January, Trump has aggressively targeted elite law firms such as Perkins Coie, which procured the infamous and false Trump-Russia dossier on behalf of Hillary Clinton. Trump has also sharply criticized federal judges who have blocked his agenda with a series of sweeping injunctions.
Trump's effort against Perkins Coie was shut down by a liberal judge, Beryl Howell, who mockingly compared Trump to the tyrannical Queen of Hearts from Alice in Wonderland.
It's obvious where Sotomayor stands, not that it was a mystery before her latest comments. As Trump campaigned for the presidency in 2024, Sotomayor claimed the Supreme Court had placed him "above the law" with its ruling on presidential immunity.
Sotomayor has once again exposed the partisanship that drives her thinking, unusually referring to herself as one member of a collective ("we") that is standing against Trump.
“But right now, we can’t lose the battles we are facing. And we need trained and passionate and committed lawyers to fight this fight,” she added.
Sotomayor' latest comments confirm her reputation as one of the most strident justices on the Supreme Court, which is nominally non-partisan.
Her remarks echo similar warnings from the court's newest member, Ketanii Brown Jackson, who recently complained of "relentless attacks" on the judiciary.
Sotomayor's partisan activism at an American Bar Association (ABA) event is just the latest evidence of political corruption in the legal profession.
"For me, being here with you is an act of solidarity," Sotomayor said.
The Trump administration has barred Justice Department officials from attending events with the American Bar Association, which has become notorious for its left-wing bias, as Sotomayor once again proved.
It is clear that Trump is fighting against a deeply entrenched, left-wing legal movement that wants to frustrate his second-term agenda at every turn and ultimately, negate the will of the people who elected him.
President Trump fired the head of the U.S. Copyright Office, Shira Perlmutter, continuing a purge of suspected "woke" operatives at the Library of Congress.
Perlmutter received an e-mail from the White House explaining that, “your position as the Register of Copyrights and Director at the U.S. Copyright Office is terminated effective immediately.”
Perlmutter was handpicked by Carla Hayden, an Obama appointee who ran the Library of Congress until her sudden firing days ago.
Both women were identified as "deep state liberals" by a conservative activist group, American Accountability Foundation.
"The President and his team have done an admirable and long-needed job cleaning out deep state liberals from the federal government. It is time they show Carla Hayden and Shira Perlmutter the door and return an America First agenda to the nation's intellectual property regulation," Tom Jones the president of the American Accountability Foundation told the Daily Mail.
Trump's wide-ranging purge of "wokeness" from the federal government has included nominally non-partisan institutions, such as the military, that have been recently ideologized by left-wing activists.
Hayden is a regular Democratic donor who criticized efforts to ban LGBT-friendly literature targeting children. Her ten-year term would have ended in 2026.
Perlmutter used to be a policy director at the Patent and Trademark Office and worked on copyright and other areas of intellectual property, the AP reported.
Her firing comes after the Copyright Office released a report on the use of copyrighted materials to train AI models. President Trump is a big supporter of the AI industry, and his close ally, tech billionaire Elon Musk, has called for intellectual property laws to be repealed.
Democrats have suggested Perlmutter was fired because of her report on AI, which was critical of some uses of copyrighted works.
"But making commercial use of vast troves of copyrighted works to produce expressive content that competes with them in existing markets, especially where this is accomplished through illegal access, goes beyond established fair use boundaries,” the report said.
Rep. Joe Morelle of New York, the top Democrat on the House Administration Committee, claimed the timing is "surely no coincidence" without providing anything further to back up the claim.
“Donald Trump’s termination of Register of Copyrights, Shira Perlmutter, is a brazen, unprecedented power grab with no legal basis,” Morelle fumed.
The Justice Department confirmed Monday that deputy attorney general Todd Blanche, who is also Trump's former defense attorney, has been named acting Librarian of Congress.
Associate Deputy Attorney General Paul Perkins has been named acting register of copyrights, and Blanche's deputy chief of staff Brian Nieves is the deputy librarian of Congress.