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Prosecutors are accusing an Austin, Texas, 17-year-old of animal cruelty after allegedly poisoning another student's pet goat, the Daily Mail reports.

Aubrey Vanlandingham, who often entered her own pet goat, Lacey, "in animal shows across the state for cash prizes and certificates," according to Daily Mail, is accused of using toxic pesticide to poison "Willie" the goat in the school's barn.

The FBI is on alert over a series of recent break-ins at the homes of professional athletes, CBS News reported Monday.

According to the report, federal agents "issued a notice to sports leagues earlier this month informing teams and players ... and advising them on how to protect themselves from future crimes. The advisory said "at least nine professional athletes were targeted in the rash of forced entries at their homes across the country between September and November, according to the sources. The FBI warned that the behavior, which included using publicly available information to target homes and deploying technology to bypass security systems, is consistent with past practices employed by international criminal organizations."

Donald Trump’s incoming border czar fired back at Democrats’ claims that he is “heartless” for his hardline immigration stance, which includes promises to see through the president-elect’s threats of mass deportations with a brutal takedown Monday.

The moment came on Fox News when former Immigration and Customs Enforcement chief Tom Homan was asked to respond to recent remarks from Democrats including former Obama cabinet secretary Julian Castro and Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) who both took aim at Homan's empathy in TV news appearances.

The son of Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-ND) has been sentenced to 28 years in prison for a car chase that killed a sheriff's deputy, The Associated Press reported on Monday.

This comes after Ian Cramer, 43, pleaded guilty three months ago to a bevy of offenses "including homicide while fleeing a peace officer, preventing arrest, reckless endangerment, fleeing an officer and drug- and driving-related offenses. Those charges related to a Dec. 6, 2023, chase and crash that killed Mercer County Sheriff’s Deputy Paul Martin, 53."

New York's governor said a controversial congestion pricing plan for New York City will move forward this weekend following a federal judge's decision Monday.

The judge found that the state took sufficient steps to toll drivers entering central Manhattan, The New York Times reported Monday evening. Federal transportation officials were also reportedly ordered to review and explain the program.

Trump-loyal Republicans should simply suck it up and unite behind House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), former Rep. David Jolly (R-FL) told MSNBC's Ali Velshi — because there's no other option for them.

Johnson's speakership, which was first established after weeks of chaos last year precipitated by the abrupt ouster of Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), now appears to be on the ropes as some lawmakers either refuse to back him or won't commit to doing so. President-elect Donald Trump, whose certification could be delayed by a messy speakership fight, threw him an endorsement on Monday, but tech billionaire Elon Musk, who also holds some sway over the caucus, sent much more mixed signals.

After an appeals court upheld veteran journalist E. Jean Carroll's $5 million judgment against Donald Trump on Monday — one day after the president-elect floated the idea of retribution against the ex-advice columnist — ex-federal prosecutor Andrew Weissmann said Trump is likely the one in danger.

"This is an interesting day," the former FBI counsel told MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace during the latest episode of Deadline: White House.

Nearly half of Republicans support President-elect Donald Trump deploying U.S. military forces to detain undocumented immigrants in internment camps until they can be deported, according to a new poll.

The findings suggest that Trump’s controversial mass deportation program – which he has acknowledged includes plans to declare a national emergency and use “military assets” to support operations – has the backing of his base even as the program is still unpopular with most Americans.

Texas' far-right governor mistakenly offered his condolences to Rosalynn Carter, the late wife of former President Jimmy Carter, shortly after news broke of his death.

Jimmy Carter died Sunday at the age of 100 at his home in Plains, Georgia, where he was surrounded by family. He faced several health challenges in recent years, including melanoma that metastasized to his liver and brain.

Democrats need to build a "war machine" capable of sustained and rapid attacks on the GOP agenda, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) wrote in a new memo to state party leaders obtained by Politico.

Republicans, wrote Whitehouse in the memo, “rapidly and effectively deploy false narratives, while we struggle to bring true ones to bear.” The problem, he continued, is there's no central machine to coordinate Democratic strategy and messaging — no equivalent to the GOP's right-wing cable networks like Fox News.

A possible team-up between President-elect Donald Trump and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) could be brewing.

The progressive senator on Monday again called on the incoming president to join forces with him and others in Congress to cap soaring credit card interest rates.

The Office of Congressional Ethics cleared Reps. Ronny Jackson (R-TX) and Wesley Hunt (R-TX) of wrongdoing after they were accused of misusing campaign money by spending it on private clubs and for personal gain.

The committee opened the investigation in May. The Office of Congressional Ethics, an independent entity that investigates allegations against officials, then reported its findings to the Ethics Committee in June.

President-elect Donald Trump's team is instructing all his nominees to stop posting on social media before confirmation, reported the New York Post on Monday.

“While this instruction has been delivered previously, I am reiterating that no member of the incoming administration or Transition speaks for the United States or the President-elect himself,” stated Susie Wiles, the GOP strategist and former Trump campaign head now selected for White House Chief of Staff. “Accordingly, all intended nominees should refrain from any public social media posts without prior approval of the incoming White House counsel.”