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.

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.

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.

Prosecutor details ongoing ‘grand conspiracy’ probe into Trump's enemies  —  Federal prosecutors are still pursuing multiple grand jury investigations into President Donald Trump's perceived enemies — including a “far-reaching” probe into purported violations of Trump's civil rights …

PAC Spending Reveals: Republicans Are Screwed in the Midterms  —  Polling has taken a beating this year, but you don't need to look at a single poll to get a sense of how the parties are feeling about this midterm election.  All you have to do is study where the leading outside campaign groups are spending money.

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.

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!"

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 …

Bernie and Bannon unite for “pro-human” AI  —  Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and former Trump White House adviser Steve Bannon will join forces at an event on Tuesday to push for human-controlled AI. … The nonprofit advocacy group is behind “The Pro-Human AI Declaration,” …

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 …

Untroubled Watters: Fox host still hasn't told the truth about Reflecting Pool “vandals”  —  Fox News host Jesse Watters' coverage of the alleged vandalism of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool provides a useful case study in how the network's MAGA stars respond to the collapse of their narratives.

US airman recounts Iran rescue in 60 Minutes segment branded propaganda  —  Critics say segment about airman's rescue was made to boost public perception of Trump's unpopular war  —  A US airman has spoken of climbing a 7,000ft ridge with a broken back, arm and shoulder after he was shot down in Iran …

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.

New York City leads lawsuit against Trump's ‘public charge’ immigration rule  —  NEW YORK — New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and mayors around the country announced a joint lawsuit Monday seeking to stop President Donald Trump from making it harder for lawful immigrants to receive green cards or visas.

A College Girl Was Exploited on Camera.  A Network of Anonymous Men Got to Work  —  Maddie Kowalski is one of countless young women who've had their lives destroyed by the burnerverse, a loosely connected online community of sports fans.  Now she's fighting back.

Manchin endorses Collins in Maine Senate race  —  Former Sen. Joe Manchin (W.Va.), a prominent centrist who left the Democratic Party at the end of his Senate career, has endorsed Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), praising her as the “soul of the Senate.”  —  Manchin gave his nod to Collins …

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 …

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.

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.

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 …

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 …

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.

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?

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.

Kremlin welcomes Trump's call on Ukraine to halt strikes on diesel facilities  —  The Kremlin on Monday welcomed U.S. President Donald Trump calling on Ukraine to halt strikes on Russia's diesel-producing facilities, while adding that the upheaval in global energy markets was mainly due to the conflict in the Gulf region.