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At the White House press briefing, Karoline Leavitt was asked if President Trump had any comments on Elon Musk's recent comments about the failures of DOGE's ability to curtail the deficit with the Big Beautiful Bill and reports that it will expand the deficit rather than cut it.

The Trump administration is seeking to terminate approximately $100 million in federal contracts held by Harvard University. This initiative, disclosed by a senior administration official, escalates the ongoing conflict between Trump and the prestigious institution. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has also announced that the United States will start revoking visas for some Chinese students. LiveNOW's Andrew Craft is getting the details from Jay Greene, a Senior Research Fellow in The Heritage Foundation?s Center for Education Policy.

Testimony in the sex trafficking trial of hip-hop mogul Sean ?Diddy? Combs continues this week with new accounts from Deonte Nash. This is the friend and former stylist of Cassie Ventura. She has now said that Cassie wanted a casual 29th birthday, but her boyfriend, Combs, had other plans. According to testimony from Nash on Wednesday at Combs' federal sex trafficking trial, the hip-hop mogul took his R&B prot?g? to a Los Angeles hotel for one of his "freak-off" sex marathons. LiveNOW's Andrew Craft discussed the testimony with legal analyst Neama Rahmani.

Convicted killer and former police chief Grant Hardin, known as the "Devil in the Ozarks," escaped Sunday from the North Central Unit, a medium-security prison in Calico Rock, Arkansas. Officials are continuing their statewide search for Hardin, who had been serving a lengthy sentence for murder and rape. Hardin briefly held the position of police chief in Gateway, a small town near the Arkansas-Missouri border. LiveNOW?s Andrew Craft is speaking with Fox News reporter Chelsea Torres as the manhunt continues.

Jeanine Pirro was sworn in as US Attorney of Washington, DC on Wednesday in the Oval Office.