U.S. Senator Joe Manchin, a conservative Democrat from coal-rich West Virginia, indicated he would not hold a confirmation hearing to consider President Joe Biden’s re-nomination of top energy regulator Rich Glick, potentially dooming Glick’s chances.

In an attack on the man who many expect to be his main rival for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, former president Donald Trump blasted Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Truth Social Thursday night, taking credit for DeSantis’ rise to power and blasting him for disloyalty.

The oil and gas rig count, an early indicator of future output, rose 9 to 779 in the week ending on Nov. 11, its highest since March 2020, energy services firm Baker Hughes Co said in its closely followed report on Friday.

The Biden administration issued a directive on Thursday ordering federal agencies to house pregnant illegal immigrant minors in pro-abortion states so they have access to the life-ending procedure.

The ruling came a month after a jury in Waterbury, Connecticut, found that Jones and the parent company of his Infowars website must pay more than a dozen relatives of Sandy Hook victims nearly $1 billion in compensatory damages for falsely claiming they were actors who staged the shooting as part of a government plot to seize Americans’ guns.

Kyiv officials said Friday that Ukrainian flags were being hoisted “en masse and all over the place” in the wake of Russia’s retreat from Kherson.

“In this country, we are not ruled by an all-powerful executive with a pen and a phone,” Judge Pittman wrote. “Instead, we are ruled by a Constitution that provides for three distinct and independent branches of government.”