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Despite all of tech billionaire Elon Musk's efforts to make his AI chatbot on X give right-wing approved answers, it once again went after President Donald Trump this week, The Daily Beast reported.

Grok's response came about in response to questioning about Trump's decision to deploy the National Guard to take over the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Police — ostensibly to bring crime under control, even though crime in the district has fallen dramatically over the last few years.

President Donald Trump endorsed a candidate for governor of Georgia on Monday who is currently fighting a lawsuit over how he is financing his campaign.

"As your next Governor, Burt Jones will fight hard to Grow the Economy, Cut Taxes and Regulations, Promote MADE IN THE U.S.A., Champion American Energy DOMINANCE, Continue to Secure our now Secure Southern Border, Strengthen our Military/Veterans, Ensure LAW AND ORDER, Advance Election Integrity, and Defend our always under siege Second Amendment," Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social.

Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) issued a fiery takedown of the GOP's scheme to rig the 2026 primary elections.

Crockett joined "The Lead with Jake Tapper" on Monday afternoon after Texas Gov. Greg Abbott appeared on the show. Crockett responded to many of the claims Abbott made, including about whether Texas's efforts to redraw its electoral map are about improving voter choice or silencing votes from communities of color.

Critics bemoaned President Donald Trump's decision to nominate a top Heritage Foundation economist as head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Trump fired Erika McEntarfer from the role earlier this month after she published a disappointing July jobs report showing a significant economic slowdown and downward revisions to previous months' job numbers. An outraged Trump lashed out over the report and cited the fact that McEntarfer was a Biden appointee as part of his justification to oust her. He baselessly accused her of "rigging" the report.

A prominent Democrat gave Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott a brutal civics lesson on Monday.

Abbott has claimed that Texas Democrats who broke quorum during a special session have violated their constitutional duty and called for their removal from office. He further insulted the Democrats on Monday afternoon during "The Lead with Jake Tapper" by calling them "chickens" for fleeing to Illinois.

President Donald Trump's federal takeover of the Washington, D.C. police is just the beginning of something much darker, University of Maryland political science professor Dr. Niambi Carter told MSNBC's Jason Johnson on Monday evening.

"When Trump sent in federal troops and everything else like that, you know, sending the Marines to try and take over Los Angeles — Los Angeles is a huge city," said Johnson. "People were still having brunch and didn't know what was happening in downtown. Washington, D.C. is a lot more compact."

President Donald Trump was dealt a court loss Monday afternoon from a federal judge he appointed during his first term.

Trump nominated Dabney Friedrich as a United States district judge in 2017 and she was confirmed in November of that year. On Monday, that decision came back to bite him, as Friedrich ruled the Trump administration illegally withheld tens of millions of dollars in funding from the National Endowment for Democracy, or NED, that had been approved by lawmakers in Congress.

The Zuckerbergs were forced to close a private school they opened during the pandemic after neighbors complained, according to a new report.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla, a pediatrician, opened what the San Francisco Chronicle described as a "pandemic pod" for their children and the children of their friends after schools closed during the COVID-19 outbreak. The Zuckerbergs filed paperwork with the city of Palo Alto, California, to formally establish the school, The Chronicle reported.

President Donald Trump's trade policies are rapidly becoming a nightmare for the coffee industry, Todd Carmichael, co-founder of the coffee retailer La Colombe, warned in The Washington Post on Monday.

Coffee already began to surge in price from practically the moment Trump took office, in anticipation of his tariff threats. But things are starting to get even worse, wrote Carmichael.

A CNN host confronted Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott over his efforts to help the GOP fix the 2026 midterm election.

Jake Tapper, host of "The Lead," spoke with Abbott about the state's redistricting efforts and Abbott's threats to remove Democrats who broke quorum from their elected seats.

Harvard University is close to a deal with President Donald Trump after he threatened to withdraw funding for medical research from the Ivy League school unless it met his demands.

New York Times reporter Mike Schmidt said on X that the truce would ultimately cost Harvard $500 million.

A Texas woman accused a U.S. Marine of spiking her hot chocolate with at least 10 abortion pills, causing the loss of her pregnancy, and local police said they aren't investigating the case.

According to NBC News, a woman who wished to have her name withheld accused Christopher Cooprider of secretly dissolving nearly a dozen abortion pills into hot cocoa he prepared for her on April 5. The lawsuit states that after giving her the drink, Cooprider left her home and stopped responding to her messages as she profusely bled.