Donald Trump Jr.'s Bahamas Wedding Was Secretly Bankrolled by Russian Oligarch Close to Putin  —  The oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island.  He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large group of other Russian guests.

Exclusive: He Marched With Nazis in Charlottesville.  Now He's Expected to Join the Florida Legislature.  —  The Republican nominee for a seat in the Florida House of Representatives marched alongside neo-Nazis at the deadly 2017 “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, a new Talking Points Memo investigation can reveal.

E.P.A. Expected to Erase Limits on Climate Pollution From Power Plants  —  Generation of electricity is the second largest source of carbon dioxide and other planet-warming gases in the United States.  —  The Trump administration plans to announce Monday that the United States will no longer limit …

MAGA Is Making the World Safe for Corruption  —  Far-right ideologues have transformed American foreign policy into a tool of private gain and antidemocratic reaction.  —  in the summer of 2025, the government of Brazil suddenly found itself in a deep crisis.

Kennedy Center could close as early as Tuesday, warns of bankruptcy, documents show  —  Officials said the center is facing “certain fiscal collapse” within weeks, insist that adding President Donald Trump's name may be the only way to avoid bankruptcy.  —  Summary

HAYDEN PANETTIERE DIED FROM FENTANYL-LACED OXY, SOURCES Drug Dealer DEA Target  —  EXCLUSIVE  —  Hayden Panettiere took one fatal pill the day she died, and multiple law enforcement sources believe it was oxycodone laced with fentanyl.  —  Our sources — all connected to the case …

Exclusive: Tense phone call and resignation upend Justice Department probe into Trump's top foes  —  Donald Trump Federal agencies Congressional news January 6th  —  The Justice Department's push to pursue a sweeping conspiracy probe into former officials behind investigations targeting …

Corporate tax payments plunge as AI feasts on new incentives  —  Corporate tax payments are plummeting even as profits soar.  —  A big reason: all that AI spending.  —  The tech world is pouring oceans of money into chips, data centers, power supplies and other components of the artificial intelligence infrastructure.

AI Is a Test of Our Maturity.  *Gulp*  —  Recursively self-improving machines vs. recursively self-deluding people.  —  AI fears—as Bill discusses below—are scrambling our politics and making for some extremely strange bedfellows.  How strange?  Well, how many issues could put Steve Bannon …

Illegal deportations spike under Trump's ICE push  —  Jose Ojeda Duarte's wife sensed something had gone terribly wrong.  She had just searched his name in ICE's detainee locator and discovered he had disappeared.  —  Hours earlier, at 3 a.m., Ojeda told POLITICO, ICE officers had roused him abruptly.

Exclusive / Inside the US Treasury secretary's tense relationship with financial media  —  THE SCOOP  —  Last September, Bloomberg News Editor-in-Chief John Micklethwait got a call from US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.  —  The secretary had been a regular on Bloomberg's TV programming …

Trump says a strong, smart president is the only “guardrail” AI needs  —  President Trump lashed out at calls for new AI guardrails and protections, arguing AI only needs a “STRONG AND SMART (High IQ!)  PRESIDENT” and that AI critics should “BEWARE!” … PRESIDENT, and the U.S.A. has that, in spades!"

Paid brokers tout ties to Trump's orbit to lobby for presidential pardons  —  Presidents have been pardoning criminals since George Washington.  It's a constitutional power — no explanation needed.  —  The Department of Justice does screen applicants and typically only recommends those who remorsefully seek mercy.

GOP congressman from Wisconsin tearfully recounts surviving emergency plane landing in lake  —  Rep. Tom Tiffany said he and the pilot, Leonard Boltz, remained on top of the plane in Lake Wausau until it began sinking before deciding to try and swim to shore.

How Republicans secretly got Fetterman for their convention  —  The biggest surprise of last week's Republican midterm convention began with an audacious request from the organizers to GOP Sen. Dave McCormick: Could he get Democratic Sen. John Fetterman, a fellow Pennsylvanian, to make an appearance?

In Hegseth's Pentagon, Top Leaders Battle Turmoil  —  Persistent distractions are feeding a climate of mistrust as the U.S. military faces a series of wartime issues, including shortfalls of missile interceptors.  —  For decades, secretaries of defense have largely sought to insulate …

Is the Trump Family Preparing to Cash Out on Its Own Crypto?  —  President Donald Trump and his three sons have taken a step that would permit them to cash out the digital “tokens” created by the family's cryptocurrency firm, intensifying concerns from ethics experts about potential conflicts of interest.

Russia wanted to cow Ukraine allies with railway drone attack, says top EU diplomat  —  Prominent Western security officials were on a nearby train.  —  Russia's Sunday morning drone strike on a Warsaw-bound train near the Ukraine-Poland border was intended to push Western countries to stop …

Crypto's political clout meets resistance on the left … The cryptocurrency industry is becoming a political liability on the left.  —  A massive spending spree by crypto companies in the 2024 elections established the industry as a political force capable of making allies and breaking critics in big races.

DHS watchdog: Immigrants held in outdoor cages the size of phone booths at ‘Alligator Alcatraz’  —  The cages, called “calming areas,” were used for detainees to “reflect on their behavior choices, manage their emotions, reduce stress and practice self-directed behavior,” according to the inspector general's report.

Texas Republicans denounce GOP statewide candidate over xenophobic post  —  Prominent Texas Republicans are denouncing Bo French, a Republican nominee to join the state's railroad commission, after he made a xenophobic post describing a group of Asian American students attending a University of Texas football game as a “problem.”

Second federal judge freezes Trump mail ballot order with U.S. Supreme Court poised to weigh in  —  The nation's highest court already is considering the administration's appeal of an order by U.S. District Court in Boston.  —  A federal judge late Sunday ordered that the U.S. Postal Service …

Democrats to train tens of thousands to monitor polls amid election interference fears  —  Project will prepare volunteers across US to monitor polls, encourage early voting and respond to disinformation  —  The Democrats intend to train tens of thousands of volunteers to monitor the polls …

Former Stars and Stripes publisher says critical coverage was ‘underlying cause’ of staff firings  —  TOKYO — Former Stars and Stripes publisher Max D. Lederer Jr. said Monday that the Pentagon used accusations of insubordination to justify firing three of the newspaper's staffers when the real reason …

Don't Believe the Hype About James Talarico  —  The opinions expressed by columnists are their own and do not necessarily represent the views of Townhall.com.  —  When Vice President JD Vance told the midterm convention audience that he had absolutely no desire to see James Talarico's browser history, it got a good laugh.

Obama and the Dems are suspiciously sounding the ‘AI apocalypse’ alarm — just in time for the midterms  —  The “AI Apocalypse” scare campaign looks suspiciously like the climate hoax.  How convenient that it's come to a head right as the midterm election season kicks off this week.

The radical Left is coming for the nuclear football.  Trump must lock the codes now  —  In August 1974, Defense Secretary James Schlesinger ordered U.S. commanders to confirm any nuclear launch order from Richard Nixon with him or Henry Kissinger.  Watergate had isolated a drinking president …

With 50 Days to the Midterms, It All Might Come Down to One Thing  —  Plus, key liabilities could impede the Democrats' momentum to retake Congress, and Trump draws controversy on trip to Ireland  —  Good morning.  —  The average cost of a gallon of gasoline hit $4.31 on Sunday.

Elmet Group wins $2 billion US tungsten stockpile contract  —  Elmet Group (ELMT.O) said on Monday one of its units had been awarded a contract worth about $2 billion by the U.S. Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) to help rebuild the National Defense Stockpile and strengthen the country's tungsten supply chain.

Left edges ahead in Swedish election thriller  —  STOCKHOLM — Sweden's high-stakes general election is heading for a tight finish in a contest to decide whether a new center-left prime minister takes over or the far right enters government for the first time.