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The walls appear to be "closing in" around President Donald Trump as a bipartisan coalition of lawmakers prepares to force the president to fulfill one of the central promises from his 2024 campaign, according to one analyst.

House lawmakers are planning to vote on a discharge petition to force the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files, which Trump has spent a lot of political capital to avoid. Recently released documents painted an unsavory picture of Trump's relationship with Epstein before he ran for office, and directly undercut claims the president and Epstein's associate, Ghislaine Maxwell, have made about the case.

President Donald Trump's niece issued a startling warning on Sunday about the president as he tries to navigate the renewed pressure to release the Jeffrey Epstein files.

Next week, House lawmakers are expected to vote on a discharge petition to force the administration to release the files. The vote follows several days of leaks from House Democrats, who publicized emails and other documents that painted an unsavory picture of Trump's relationship with Epstein before Trump entered politics.

President Donald Trump's lawyers have asked the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals to pause an order prohibiting him from sending federal troops to protect immigration agents in Portland, Oregon, according to a new report.

On Sunday, the administration filed a 494-page appeal of District Judge Karin Immergut's order that found the Trump administration did not establish that the right conditions exist to justify deploying troops, reported Josh Gerstein, senior legal affairs reporter for Politico. Trump has described Portland as a "war zone," although media reports indicate the protests against Trump's deportation operations have been peaceful.

President Donald Trump made a startling claim about his administration's strikes on drug boats in international waters on Sunday while speaking to reporters at Palm Beach International Airport.

So far, the administration has conducted at least 21 strikes, killing around 90 people. The administration has claimed they are striking drug runners who are bringing drugs into the U.S., although it has provided scant evidence to support the claim. Reporting indicates that the Trump administration has also refused to arrest some survivors of the strikes, which has led experts to question the legality of the operations.

Prices have risen so high at fast food landmark McDonald's under President Donald Trump's leadership that " traffic from one of its core customer bases, low-income households, has dropped by double digits," reports the LA Times.

"The struggle of the Golden Arches — long synonymous with cheap food for the masses — reflects a larger trend upending the consumer economy and making 'affordability' a hot policy topic," writes Suhauna Hussein.

Bill Pulte, Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), seems to get along very well with President Donald Trump and that, reports The Daily Beast, is rattling MAGA Republican feathers.

Pulte, writes Will Neal, "has reportedly made such a song and dance of pandering to the president that it’s starting to drive other aides insane."

A Nobel Prize-winning economist bashed President Donald Trump's "false" claims about the state of the U.S. economy in a new Substack essay published on Sunday.

Paul Krugman, who won the 2008 Nobel Prize in economics for his work on trade theory, argued in the essay that Trump is "simply lying" about the state of the economy. Although data indicate the economy is faring better than popular sentiment might lead someone to believe, Krugman added that there are several warning signs, such as the price of groceries continuing to increase.

President Donald Trump's administration conducted an immigration crackdown on Sunday in Charlotte, North Carolina, that some protesters described as "causing unnecessary fear and uncertainty."

The Trump administration announced on Saturday that it was "surging" immigration agents into Charlotte as part of an operation it dubbed "Charlotte's Web." Homeland Security official Tricia McLaughlin said that the operation was being conducted because local law enforcement was not honoring DHS' detention requests for more than 1,400 people.

A key GOP Senator faced significant pushback from political analysts and observers on Sunday after he refused to commit to holding a vote to release the Jeffrey Epstein files if legislation makes it to the Upper Chamber.

Republican lawmakers in the House of Representatives are expected to hold a vote on Tuesday on a discharge petition to force President Donald Trump's administration to release the Epstein files, something he promised to do while on the campaign trail. Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY) discussed the possibility of the Senate voting on the legislation if the House passes the bill during an interview on NBC News' "Meet the Press" on Sunday.

One of President Donald Trump's former "fixers" on Sunday predicted a "Blue Tsunami" would sweep the U.S. after seeing the election results in Aurora, Colorado.

For the last decade, Aurora has been under majority Republican rule. In that time, the city has implemented popular Republican policies such as moving to audit nonprofits that serve immigrants, creating a work-and-treatment-first system to address homelessness, and turning the city into a lightning rod over the Tren de Aragua gang.

A darling of the MAGA movement lashed out at a House Republican after she suggested that Israel or another foreign government may be pressuring President Donald Trump into hiding the Jeffrey Epstein Files.

Laura Loomer, a MAGA influencer, called out Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) on Sunday in a post on X after Greene suggested in an interview with The New York Post that Trump may be covering up the Epstein files. She clarified during an interview on CNN's "State of the Union" on Sunday that she was just asking questions "out loud."

An Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent appeared to sympathize with a protester on Sunday while in Charlotte, North Carolina, but declined to engage with them out of fear of “video cameras.”

According to Ukrainian-American journalist Oliya Scootercaster, ICE agents were conducting an operation Sunday in Charlotte, writing that agents were “searching through [a] wooded area for a man who was selling flowers on the corner.”