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CNN's Harry Enten presented new data showing that Americans aren't buying President Donald Trump's assurances about the economy.

The president insists on social media there's "almost no inflation" and that "prices are way down," and he's even floated sending out tariff rebate checks, but Enten told "CNN News Central" that polling shows the public isn't feeling great about their personal spending power.

Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), one of the eight moderate Senate Democrats that had agreed to cooperate with Republicans and cave in the government shutdown fight, defended her decision Monday by insisting that GOP leadership’s promise to hold a vote on extending health care subsidies was sufficient to warrant crossing her party’s leadership.

Appearing on Fox News, Shaheen was asked if she had any doubts that the Senate – which has yet to vote on a spending bill that would end the shutdown – may fail to ultimately reopen the government given the pressure on Senate Democrats to hold firm in their demands to secure funding for health care subsidies.

Republicans may already be regretting their extraordinary mid-decade redistricting gambit pushed by President Donald Trump, according to a report.

If history is any guide, last Tuesday's election wins by Democrats in California, New Jersey and Virginia suggest that Republicans may have pressed their presumed advantages too far by redrawing their congressional maps in states like North Carolina, Ohio and Texas, reported Politico.

The white glove treatment being extended to convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell at a minimum security prison in Texas should prompt an investigation into the facility’s warden, suggested MSNBC’s Ken Dilanian on Monday morning.

Reacting to an NBC report and a letter from Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) that revealed that the former associate of both pedophile Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump is being given privileges that sound more like an extended resort stay and less like criminal detention, the justice and intelligence correspondent admitted he had never seen anything like it.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced a new series of military strikes Monday that killed at least six people as part of the Trump administration’s purported efforts to combat drug trafficking, sparking outrage over what critics have dubbed the administration’s “extrajudicial executions.”

At the direction of President Donlad Trump, the U.S. military conducted strikes on two sea vessels in the Eastern Pacific Ocean, vessels that Hegseth alleged were “operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations.”

President Donald Trump seems to be realizing that "there is no future for him" within the Republican Party, and that could make his next "desperate play" to stay relevant his most dangerous one yet, according to one analyst.

For more than a decade, Trump has faced little dissent from within the Republican ranks in Congress, David Rothkopf, a columnist for The Daily Beast, argued during an episode of "The Daily Beast Podcast" that aired on Sunday. Now, he's facing a cadre of critics from within his party, such as Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and Thomas Massie (R-KY), over his handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files and his signature tariffs.

Reacting to a deal hammered out by seven Democrats and one independent senator to hand Republicans a victory in the shutdown battle with only a promise of a vote for keeping Affordable Care Act subsidies in place and little else to show for it, MSNBC’s Jonathan Lemire said on Monday many of their Democratic colleagues are questioning their waving the white flag.

Speaking with the “Morning Joe” panel about the deal, fashioned by the eight lawmakers — none of whom who will face re-election in 2026 — Lemire noted it was a big turnabout for Democrats who had Republicans and Donald Trump on their heels after last week's elections.

British intelligence officials were left “incredulous” as FBI Director Kash Patel axed an agent’s job in London, compromising an intelligence-sharing agreement between the two countries that had held strong since 1938.

That agreement is known as Five Eyes, an alliance between the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. During a visit to London in May, Patel assured officials with M15 – the UK’s domestic intelligence agency – that he would preserve an FBI job in London. It had, however, already been axed, The New York Times reported Monday.

Elections last week marked a significant shift in American political discourse — with sweeping Democratic Party wins being less a direct reaction to Donald Trump rule and more a result that the opposition has discovered his "kryptonite," a columnist wrote Monday.

Zohran Mamdani, in particular, was an antidote to Trump's message of anger and revenge — and his message of empathy and hoped destroyed his competition, wrote E. J. Dionne Jr. for the New York Times.

President Donald Trump has issued pardons for numerous allies and alleged co-conspirators in his efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss.

Justice Department Pardon Attorney Ed Martin posted documents Sunday night showing the president issued “full, complete and unconditional” pardons to Rudy Giuliani, Mark Meadows, John Eastman, Kenneth Chesebro, Boris Epshteyn, Jenna Ellis and Sidney Powell, although the pardons are largely symbolic, reported Politico.

Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell, having struck out with the Supreme Court in her bid for freedom after being convicted of sex trafficking, is now prepping a package to be given to Donald Trump in the hope that he will commute her sentence.

According to a report from Politico early Monday, House Judiciary Committee Democrats have obtained documents shared between the close associate of pedophile Epstein, who died in prison, and her legal team indicating she wants Trump, also a former associate of hers, to intercede.