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.

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!"

Whistle-Blower: Federal Agents May Have Broken State Laws in Search for Voter Fraud  —  Agents expressed concern about being directed by top Homeland Security leaders to use private information to look up voter records in state databases.  —  Investigators may have broken state laws under …

Texas Republican Slammed for Racist Post About Longhorn Fans  —  As Texas Longhorns football fans basked in their comeback win over top-ranked Ohio State this weekend, a photograph of gleeful students ignited a fresh round of Republican infighting over immigration and assimilation …

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.

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.

Macklemore Dropped From Ed Sheeran Tour After Onstage ‘Free Palestine’ Statements  —  “We have been notified by venues on the upcoming U.S. tour dates that they will not allow a concert to take place with Macklemore on the lineup,” promoter says  —  ADD US AS A GOOGLE PREFERRED SOURCE

Kennedy Center leaders say adding Trump's name might be path to financial rescue  —  The Kennedy Center's board will consider closing its main building for two years — unless President Donald Trump helps rescue the institution from probable bankruptcy, a step he might be unwilling …

Cops Search Thousands of Flock Cameras for Reasons of ‘LMAO,’ ‘IDK,’ ‘Hehe,’ and ‘asdfg’  —  The EFF found cops writing “idiot,” “WEIRD KID,” “blah,” “leave me alone,” and button mashing in Flock's ‘reason’ box.  —  Last summer, a cop with the Lake County, Indiana Sheriff's Department used …

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 …

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.

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 …

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.

Gavin Newsom tells CNN's Jake Tapper he won't run for president if Kamala Harris runs in 2028  —  While fly fishing in Montana, CNN's Jake Tapper asks Governor Gavin Newsom what it would take for him to run for president in 2028.  This is part of on an ongoing series where Jake Tapper joins politicians …

Trump nominates Wesley Hunt as US ambassador to Saudi Arabia  —  President Donald Trump nominated Rep. Wesley Hunt (R-Texas) to be the next U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia on Monday, part of a spate of nominations sent to the Senate less than two months before the midterms decides the fate of the GOP's control of the chamber.

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.

Mitch McConnell expected to return to Senate this week  —  GOP lawmakers believe Sen. Mitch McConnell will return to the Capitol this week, ending a three-month health-related absence, according to four people granted anonymity to disclose private conversations.

Beshear confronts a Latino revolt  —  DEEP IN THE HEART: Andy Beshear has a simmering Latino revolt on his hands.  Quelling it could come down to Texas.  —  A group of Latino Democratic officials — including operatives, local and congressional leaders — are pushing the Kentucky Governor …

Thune says ‘light touch’ needed on AI regulation  —  Senate Majority Leader John Thune said Monday he sees a role for Congress in regulating artificial intelligence — albeit with a “light touch.”  Thune's comments, made to reporters in the Capitol as President Donald Trump publicly railed …

RFK Jr. to headline Children's Health Defense conference in D.C.  —  Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is scheduled to give a keynote address this week at a conference for Children's Health Defense (CHD), the anti-vaccine advocacy organization he co-founded …

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 …

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.

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 …

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 …

Democrat Al Green to force House-wide vote on impeaching Trump  —  Longtime Rep. Al Green, D-Texas, announced on Monday that he intends to force a vote on impeaching President Donald Trump, citing federal immigration officers' killing of two U.S. citizens earlier this year.

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.