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Following Texas’ lead, Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey on Monday announced that she would also order her state’s flags to be flown at “full-staff” when President-elect Donald Trump is inaugurated as the country's 47th president next week.

Ivey’s directive comes just days before Trump is set to return to the Oval Office and is in direct defiance of Joe Biden’s presidential order following the death of former Democratic President Jimmy Carter.

Cattle ranchers in a state that President-elect Donald Trump won by 20 points are worried about the ramifications of one of his key campaign pledges: mass deportations.

Trump has repeatedly vowed to deport millions of immigrants living in the country illegally beginning on his first day in office. In November, Trump said he would declare a national emergency to carry out his mass deportations and even use military assets to do so.

A 2021 fundraiser that longtime Republican Michael Allen co-hosted for former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) proved to be detrimental to his role in Donald Trump’s transition, according to a new report.

Allen, who served in various national security policy and legislative positions in the George W. Bush administration, was pushed out as CIA director nominee John Ratcliffe’s “sherpa” because of his help in organizing a fundraiser for prominent Trump critic Cheney, Politico reported.

MSNBC's Rachel Maddow opened her show on Monday with a blistering look at how President-elect Donald Trump has loaded his transition with chaos and grift.

"The last transition Donald Trump was part of was the worst presidential transition in the history of the country," said Maddow, alluding to the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. "And given how disastrously he performed in that last transition, I mean, you have to just assume that this one inherently will be better. It has to be, right? But I think it is worth being blunt about the fact that it might be close. Because this, too, is a terrible, terrible presidential transition. And I think it ought to be more central to the way that we are talking about what's going on in politics and in our country and in government at this moment."

A far-right attorney with close ties to President-elect Donald Trump — and a penchant for threats — turned his gaze onto a federal prosecutor who led the Jan. 6, 2021, investigation against rioters at the Capitol.

Matthew Graves served as the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia from 2021 to 2025. He was nominated by President Joe Biden and announced he would resign effective Thursday, Jan. 16, four days before Trump's inauguration.

Officials in Greenland said they plan to work with the United States amid threats of economic — or even military — force from President-elect Donald Trump.

Trump has said the U.S. needs the massive island for "economic security." When asked last week if he would consider using military or economic coercion to make the acquisition proceed, Trump replied: “I can’t assure you — you’re talking about Panama and Greenland — no, I can’t assure you on either of those two."

A company linked to far-right webcaster Alex Jones is upping the bidding to keep the Infowars platform in his hands amid bankruptcy, reported The Independent on Monday.

"First United American Companies, which runs a website in Jones’ name that sells nutritional supplements, submitted the new offer even though there was no request to do so, Joshua Wolfshohl, an attorney for the trustee overseeing Jones' bankruptcy, told a bankruptcy court judge at a hearing in Houston," said the report. "Wolfshohl said the trustee is also expecting a new offer soon from The Onion's parent company, Chicago-based Global Tetrahedron."

The collision course between two of the MAGA movement’s chief acolytes – tech billionaire Elon Musk and right-wing influencer Steve Bannon – is showing no signs of slowing down.

In fact, things are “only getting uglier,” according to Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis wants to be front and center on voters' minds when they think of President-elect Donald Trump's mass deportation plans — but it seems GOP legislative leaders in Florida aren't so sold.

According to The Associated Press, DeSantis "is calling state lawmakers into a special session to help carry out President-elect Donald Trump’s promises for a swift crackdown on immigration," announcing on Monday that "he’s scheduling the special session for the week of Jan. 27, the week after Trump is sworn in, so that state lawmakers will be poised to help implement the incoming president’s policies immediately."

Social media users collectively groaned over a new report that Chinese officials are weighing their options in light of a looming ban on TikTok — including having tech billionaire Elon Musk buy the popular social media app's U.S. operation.

People familiar with the matter told Bloomberg News on Monday evening that officials in Beijing would prefer that the massively popular app — which has about 1 billion monthly active users worldwide — remain owned by ByteDance. However, In April 2024, Congress passed legislation, citing national security concerns, that was signed into law by President Joe Biden giving ByteDance nine months to sell the app to a US-approved buyer.

Legal observers are on the lookout for what new legal tactics President-elect Donald Trump and his team of lawyers might attempt in the hours before Jack Smith’s looming report involving the 2020 election hits.

But the law isn’t on Trump’s side, according to CNN’s Elie Honig, who poured cold water on the incoming president’s desire to have the decision by Judge Aileen Cannon overturned in a higher court.

Special counsel David Weiss sharply tore into President Joe Biden over his criticisms of the case against his son Hunter, in his final report made public on Monday, The New York Times reported.

Biden controversially issued a full pardon to his son, who was convicted of tax crimes and illegal attempts to buy a gun, shortly after President-elect Donald Trump nominated far-right conspiracy theorist loyalist Kash Patel to serve as FBI director. The move, which ran counter to Biden's previous statements he would not use the pardon power on his family, led some to speculate the president had no confidence in the DOJ under Trump not to engage in political attacks against his son.

A firebrand Republican senator said Monday that California wildfire victims don't deserve federal aid because they elected Gov. Gavin Newsom.

Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) joined the right-wing Newsmax network with host Chris Salcedo on Monday afternoon to talk about the fires, which have left at least two dozen dead.