President Joe Biden said in an interview with ABC that has ruled out a pardon for his son. And the first lady left France where where she was attending D-Day anniversary events with the president to head back to Wilmington. She's expected to attend trial Friday. In court, the widow of Hunter Biden’s brother testified about their relationship, her drug use and that she took the gun at the center of the case and threw it in the trash at a nearby market. Federal prosecutors have argued that Hunter Biden was in the throes of a heavy addiction when he bought the gun. He’s pleaded not guilty.

Seven migrant smuggling suspects have been arrested and 11 migrants are hospitalized after a law enforcement sting near San Antonio. Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar says 26 migrants were found at a house in rural South Bexar County on Thursday. Salazar says 11 of them have been taken to hospitals with heat-related injuries. Authorities received a tip about a smuggling operation and followed a trailer that was towed to a rural residence. The sheriff says the migrants were packed into a false compartment under the trailer for three hours without water. Temperatures in San Antonio were in the high 90s Thursday afternoon.

Prosecutors spent the first day of testimony in Hunter Biden's federal gun trial detailing his history of drug use. The case is dredging up painful memories for the president and his family, and revealing new and highly personal details about their struggles with addiction and grief as the presidential election looms. He's accused of lying on federal gun forms in 2018. Jurors also got their first look at the document at the center the trial and heard audio excerpts of Hunter Biden's memoir. He has pleaded not guilty.

Joe Biden says as president he won't comment on his son Hunter's criminal trial, but as a dad he has “boundless love" for him. Hunter Biden and first lady Jill Biden are in a Delaware court for jury selection in a federal gun case against him after the collapse of a deal with prosecutors that would've avoided the spectacle of a trial so close to the 2024 election. President Joe Biden's son is charged with lying on federal gun purchase forms when he said he wasn’t a drug addict. Hunter Biden has pleaded not guilty and argues he’s being unfairly targeted by the Justice Department. Republicans had decried the now-defunct deal as special treatment for the Democratic president's son.

Donald Trump has attacked the judge and the star witness in his hush money criminal trial and criticized New York’s criminal justice system while trying to repackage his conviction as fuel, not an impediment, to his latest White House bid. Trump spoke to reporters at Trump Tower in Manhattan on Friday, his return to campaigning a day after he was convicted. President Joe Biden responded by blasting Trump's response, saying the Republican former president “was given every opportunity to defend himself.” The Democratic president says it's reckless, dangerous and irresponsible ”for anyone to say this is rigged just because they don’t like the verdict'"