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Late-night giant Stephen Colbert took a fresh dig at Donald Trump Monday, just days after having his show canceled in what is widely believed to be retribution for previous criticism.

The “Late Show” host mocked Trump’s dealings with the European Union while in Scotland over the weekend, claiming one leader knew exactly how to play the president.

Jeffrey Epstein's former accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell, appears to have concocted a plan to get herself out of jail, according to reports.

But one analyst suggests that the plan could backfire spectacularly if Maxwell isn't careful to avoid some traps she seems to be setting for herself.

Lawyers with the liberal watchdog group Democracy Defenders Fund are using a surprise tactic against the Trump administration to compel the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files, according to a new report.

Norm Eisen, a former Obama White House ethics chief and DDF co-founder, told The Daily Beast on Monday that the group has already filed a sweeping Freedom of Information Act request. While the Department of Justice probably anticipated that request, Eisen suggested that the government gave DDF an ace to play.

MSNBC's Rachel Maddow spent Monday evening describing how Republicans used North Carolina as a "testing ground" for underhanded tactics to strip power from elected Democrats, following the announcement that former Gov. Roy Cooper (D-NC) will run for Senate, bolstering Democrats' candidate roster for the 2026 midterms.

"This man has been through some things, some things that qualify him, perhaps uniquely, for this moment in Washington," said Maddow. "He has served in North Carolina. He has not served in Washington. But he brings an experience, a level of political experience to Washington. If he wins this race, which is, again, perhaps uniquely suited to this moment."

President Donald Trump's attempts to install a loyalist in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in New Jersey have sewn chaos in the criminal court system, according to a new report.

Politico reported Monday that Trump's attempts to place his former attorney, Alina Habba, in the New Jersey prosecutor's office threaten to upend up to 1,500 criminal cases. Desiree Leigh Grace, a career prosecutor who the New Jersey courts selected to fill the seat after Habba's temporary role had concluded, is listed as the counsel of record for "several dozen" active cases, according to the outlet.

Rep. Randy Fine (R-FL) drew fury this month when he cheered on the mass death going on in Gaza under Israeli occupation, saying that Palestinian civilians should "starve away" until the remaining Hamas hostages are released. He got into a feud with Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-NY), an ardent support of Israel himself, who called Fine a “bloated, braindead, blithering idiot who has no business being in Congress,” and was below the title of “jester” as that would be “an insult to jesters who have more brain cells.”

And it's not just Democrats who are fed up with Fine's antics.

A stunning turn of events at the CIA unfolded after a top official’s appointment to the London station — long considered the agency’s most prestigious overseas posting — was abruptly canceled. Now, the official has announced his retirement, the New York Times reported Monday.

Tom Sylvester, the agency’s long-serving deputy director for operations, was poised to become the top CIA liaison in the United Kingdom when the agency’s leadership reversed the decision following the publication of excerpts in Tim Weiner’s new book, The Mission. Although Sylvester’s remarks — ranging from intelligence sharing with Ukraine in 2014 to strengthening European alliances — were uncontroversial, their inclusion in the book sparked controversy, per the report.

An off-duty police officer was among five dead after a gunman armed with a long rifle opened fire inside a Midtown Manhattan skyscraper on Monday evening, according to CNN.

Four people were killed by a man armed with a long gun, who opened fire around 6 p.m. Eastern Time inside 345 Park Ave., a law enforcement official told CNN. The suspected gunman, tentatively identified as a 27-year-old Las Vegas resident, died by suicide on the 33rd floor after barricading himself in the building, which houses Blackstone and the NFL headquarters.

President Donald Trump's Secretary of Commerce, Howard Lutnick, appeared on Fox News on Monday to sell President Donald Trump's tariff regime, including the new "monster deal" the administration struck with the European Union — but he made an admission that accidentally contradicted his own defense of the plan.

"The European Union is going to pay 15 percent, and they sell us $600 billion worth of goods," Lutnick told Fox's Bret Baier. "That's $90 billion for America, and they agreed for the first time ever to cut all their tariffs, cut their barriers, and let American businesses and farmers and ranchers and fishermen finally sell into the European Union, massive market. This is huge for America."

President Donald Trump blocked the Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te from stopping over in the United States, according to a report by the Financial Times.

Ching-te is on an international trip where he will visit Paraguay, Guatemala, and Belize. The president planned to stop in New York in August, but Trump rejected the idea after China raised concerns about the trip, the outlet reported.

With preparations to refit a Qatari jet to be used as Air Force One "underway," a press freedom group sued the Department of Justice in federal court on Monday for failing to release the DOJ memorandum about the legality of President Donald Trump accepting the $400 million "flying palace."

The Freedom of the Press Foundation, or FPF, represented by nonpartisan watchdog American Oversight, filed the lawsuit seeking the memo, which was reportedly approved by the Office of Legal Counsel and signed by U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi, who previously lobbied on behalf of the Qatari government.

The Department of Justice filed a formal complaint against a federal judge who spoke out against the Trump administration, Attorney General Pam Bondi announced on Monday.

The complaint is directed at Chief Justice James Boasberg of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Boasberg is currently overseeing several high-profile cases related to President Donald Trump's deportation schemes, according to media reports.

After months of national protests over President Donald Trump's mass deportation agenda, even some of his supporters—including an Alabama man who runs day-to-day operations at construction sites—have concluded that workplace raids aimed at rounding up undocumented immigrants are the wrong way to go.

In an interview with Reuters published Monday, construction site superintendent Robby Robertson expressed frustration at the way the Trump administration's hard-line immigration policies have impacted his business.