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Alan Dershowitz is scheduled to sit down with the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on July 20 as part of its sprawling investigation into Jeffrey Epstein and the government's handling of his case, according to Politico.

"I asked to be allowed to set the record straight and correct various misconceptions," Dershowitz said in a text message. "I look forward to doing so."

Anthony Scaramucci, who briefly served as the White House communications director during President Donald Trump's first term, credited the President with exceptional political instincts in navigating cultural conflict.

Scaramucci, now a fierce Trump critic, compared Trump to Napoleon on a Sunday post, arguing he intuitively grasps issues from transgender athletes to anti-woke sentiment and Bible Belt values. He cited a conversation he shared with Trump, when the President said, "My base is socially conservative and fiscally liberal. They are working-class people who need the government's help."

Former NBC journalist Chris Hansen of “To Catch a Predator” fame delivered a pointed quip in a video published Monday after a man swept up in a child exploitation sting arrived wearing a shirt prominently featuring President Donald Trump.

The sting was carried out by the Livingston Parish Sheriff’s Office in Louisiana late last year in coordination with Hansen. A video published Monday revealed new details about some of the 15 men arrested in the operation, including 21-year-old Brennan Temple.

A federal judge on Monday struck down the Trump administration's revamped voter-citizenship database, ruling that federal agencies broke the law by building a centralized system that swept up the private data of millions of Americans and wrongly flagged U.S. citizens as non-citizens.

In a sharply worded opinion, U.S. District Judge Sparkle L. Sooknanan vacated the 2025 overhaul of the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements, or SAVE, system, along with two related privacy notices issued by the Department of Homeland Security and the Social Security Administration. She found the changes violated the Social Security Act, the Privacy Act, and the Administrative Procedure Act.

A federal judge has upended Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche's campaign to "retaliate" against Minnesota Democrats who refused to help enforce President Donald Trump's immigration agenda.

Chief Judge Patrick J. Schiltz of the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota quashed all six grand-jury subpoenas Monday targeting Gov. Tim Walz, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, and St. Paul Mayor Kaohly Her — all Democrats — as well as county officials in Ramsey and Hennepin counties.

CNN's Tom Foreman sounded surprised at his own reporting as he provided an update on the ongoing Reflecting Pool saga.

President Donald Trump has blamed vandals for the problems that have plagued his $14 million renovation of the pool, which turned green with an algae bloom once it was refilled following a paint job that is already deteriorating. At least five people have been arrested for taking chunks of the damaged materials from the water.

A photograph shared by Qatari Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani sparked controversy over security protocol violations.

The image, posted Sunday during U.S. and Iranian peace talks in Switzerland, shows Vance seated at a laptop with Jared Kushner standing behind him. A Common Access Card, or CAC, used by U.S. defense personnel appears inserted into the laptop, bearing a photograph of a woman instead of Vance.

President Donald Trump had a very public falling out last week with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, but the rupture had been building for months.

Trump told an Italian journalist that Meloni had "begged" him for a photo at the recent G7 summit in France — a claim Meloni called "totally invented" – and a political scientist at a university in Rome explained to the Financial Times that the president's claims are “totally unacceptable” to the nationalist prime minister who presents herself as the defender of "Italy’s honor and interests."

Republican congressional candidate Michael Carbonara of Florida took to social media Monday to laud the Trump administration's "massive accountability" push – only to be immediately fact-checked for a blatant falsehood in his post.

“Wow: [FBI Director] Kash Patel CONFIRMS felony convictions against James Comey,” Carbonara falsely wrote, as was soon pointed out by several critics and X’s crowd-sourced fact checking service known as “community notes.” “This is MASSIVE for accountability.”