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Actress Taraji P. Henson took a swipe at celebrities who are attending the Met Gala, given heavy involvement this year by tech billionaire Jeff Bezos, Page Six reported on Monday.

"The 'Empire' actress made her opinion on the topic known while responding to social media personality Meredith Lynch’s rant about Bezos’ involvement in the event," said the report. "'If you are a celebrity and you attend the Met Gala and you wear the ICE OUT pin, please note that I will be dragging you in perpetuity,' Lynch said in an Instagram video over the weekend. You cannot wear the ICE OUT pin to the Jeff Bezos-backed Met Gala.”

An event organized by a Muslim group at a Texas water park sparked a MAGA meltdown on Monday after an advertisement for the event surfaced on social media.

Sarah Gonzales, host of the right-wing show "Sarah Gonzales Unfiltered" on BlazeTV, posted an advertisement on X of the event, called "Epic Eid," which included a description claiming it was a "Muslim-only event." The poster on the event organizer's website says the event is "modest dress only," as it is meant to celebrate the Muslim holiday of Eid, which marks the end of Ramadan.

Right-wing influencers Laura Loomer and Candace Owens took turns releasing details about each other's personal lives over a squabble about the killing of Charlie Kirk.

After Owens spent weeks publishing conspiracy theories about Kirk's death, Loomer took revenge by publishing alleged details about Owens' houses and cars.

Three nonprofits linked to conservative megadonor Leonard Leo channeled over $50 million into the Knights of Columbus, which then distributed millions to anti-abortion and anti-LGBTQ+ political initiatives, according to tax filings from 2023-2024.

The 85 Fund ($39 million), Rule of Law Trust ($1.4 million), and Marble Freedom Trust ($500,000) provided the funding.

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche may be the Trump administration's most dangerous employee in the Department of Justice, but not for reasons most people expect, according to one expert.

Barbara McQuade, an author and former U.S. Attorney in Michigan, told Slate's Dahlia Lithwick on a new episode of the "Amicus" podcast that Blanche seems to have certain skills that his predecessor, Pam Bondi, does not. She pointed to Blanche's experience in the federal courts and his time at big law firms, where he learned skills that could help move malicious prosecutions against former FBI Director James Comey through the system.

The Trump administration abruptly took over East Potomac Golf Links, Washington's busiest public golf course, citing routine maintenance and tree work as justification.

The Interior Department provided no advance notice to National Links Trust, the nonprofit operator, or explanation to golfers and city officials, as reported by the Washington Post.

A former attorney for President Donald Trump claimed during her radio show last week that religious freedom only applies to Christians in America, according to a new report.

Jenna Ellis, who defended Trump during his attempts to overturn the 2020 general election, claimed on her show, "Jenna Ellis In The Morning," that America's freedom of religion protections are intended to allow Christians to "evangelize" their faith, Right Wing Watch reported. She also called on Christians to be "more authoritative" in the public square.

President Donald Trump has long framed his nationwide purge of immigrants as a policy to protect working Americans, who in his formulation have spent decades seeing their jobs go instead to foreigners and noncitizens while their communities struggle.

But a newly revealed working paper for the National Bureau of Economic Research, authored by Elizabeth Cox and Chloe N. East and flagged by New York Times economics reporter Lydia DePillis, suggests that not only has the mass deportation of immigrants not improved job prospects for American-born workers, it might actually be making them worse off.

The Secret Service reportedly locked down the White House press office on Monday after gunshots were fired nearby.

As President Donald Trump was preparing to speak at a small-business summit, NewsNation correspondent Libby Dean said the Secret Service had moved to lock down the compound.

MS NOW political commentator Ashley Pratte Oates warned massive Republican losses in November's midterm elections could create a "dangerous and volatile situation" as President Donald Trump consolidates executive power to compensate for lost congressional majorities.

Republicans enter the midterms with Trump's approval rating at 37 percent, among the lowest for an incumbent in recent elections, while Democrats have built momentum through victories in state races and special congressional elections.

The alleged gunman charged in the storming of the White House Correspondents' Dinner last week may have just put President Donald Trump's Justice Department in an awkward position, according to a new legal analysis in MS NOW.

If the Cole Allen assassination case goes to trial, prosecutors working for Trump's DOJ may find themselves in the uncomfortable position of reading accusations that the president is a "pedophile, rapist, and traitor" out loud to a jury to prove Allen intended to kill him, legal analyst Jordan Rubin laid out this week

The Republican-backed farm bill, passed by the House on Thursday after a tumultuous series of setbacks, attracted heavy controversy for the inclusion of a pork-industry lobbyist wish list item.

Known as the "Save Our Bacon Act," the provision seeks to override state-level bans on the sale of pork from pigs raised in "gestation crates," a controversial practice many animal welfare advocates argue is a form of animal abuse.

A study published Monday warns that New Orleans must immediately begin planning and gradually implementing its permanent evacuation to avert a dangerously rushed exodus later, because it has passed a “point of no return” as climate-driven sea-level rise slowly swallows the storied city.

“With global temperatures poised to exceed the 1.5°C Paris Agreement threshold—a level that triggered substantial ice sheet collapse during the Last Interglacial—low-elevation coastal zones face sea-level commitments far beyond current planning horizons,” says the study, which was published by the journal Nature Sustainability.