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The Trump administration is trying to investigate an incident in which the official Department of Government Efficiency Veterans Affairs account sent an angry personal message to an outspoken critic of tech billionaire Elon Musk.

According to Politico, "James Fishback, the anti-DEI investor who recently launched FSD PAC — a super PAC aimed at blunting Musk’s political ambitions — received a direct message on X from the official DOGE Veterans Affairs account." The message stated, “James - we need to talk. Your recent behavior has crossed some serious lines. That’s why we rejected your DOGE application in the first place. Let’s step your game up. This is embarrassing.”

Global leaders hit back Monday at a series of threats issued by President Donald Trump in posts on Truth Social, the social media network Trump owns.

Trump posted 13 letters written to countries ranging from Thailand to Serbia and Tunisia threatening each of them with additional tariffs unless they corrected "many years" of trade imbalances with the United States. Those threats coincided with new U.S. tariffs that went into effect against trade partners like Japan and South Korea on Monday.

A business owner in Denver is calling on President Donald Trump to reconsider his administration's use of tariffs.

Masaru Torito, who has owned the casual Japanese restaurant Kokoro for 39 years, made the comments on CNN's "The Lead With Jake Tapper." They happened just a few hours after Trump announced new 25% tariffs on countries like South Korea and Japan.

The internet erupted in cheers Monday over reporting that the Transportation Security Administration quietly reversed a decades-old security check long reviled by travelers.

The TSA began encouraging passengers to take off their shoes at airport security checkpoints beginning in February 2002, following an attempted shoe bombing by Richard Reid two months earlier. Shoe removal became mandatory for all passengers in August 2006 amid strict liquid restrictions following a thwarted liquid explosives plot in the United Kingdom.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) received sharp criticism on Monday for traveling abroad during yet another natural disaster to impact his home state.

Cruz was spotted in Athens, Greece, by tourists over the weekend, The Daily Beast reported. Cruz's office confirmed the trip in a statement to The Daily Mail, calling it a "preplanned family vacation." While he was away, a flood in central Texas killed more than 100 people. Rescue operations are ongoing.

CNN's resident Donald Trump supporter Scott Jennings went out of his way to mock the smaller countries on the receiving end of the president's tariffs, as Trump announced yet another delay in full implementation.

"Today, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt was asked if there's any concern that world leaders will not take these new tariff threats seriously because deadlines keep shifting," said anchor Jake Tapper. "I mean, there was this '90 deals in 90 days' thing that is no longer fully operative. Not the 90 days part of it anyway. Here's what Leavitt had to say."

Los Angeles residents lobbed profane insults at U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents on Monday after they swept through the city's MacArthur Park.

Los Angeles-based news station KTLA reports that masked, heavily-armed federal agents were in the park as "part of an apparent immigration raid" although exact details about the operation are not known as of this writing. A video taken on the scene by Mel Buer, an independent labor journalist in the California city and posted on social media website Bluesky showed many agents riding through the park on horseback.

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem received plenty of backlash Monday after appearing on Fox News to express her shock at the floods that killed more than 90 people in central Texas over the weekend.

During an appearance on Monday's episode of "Fox & Friends," Noem said she "can't wrap my head around" how the flooding became so deadly when flash flood alerts went out about "several hours" ahead of time.

Nevada Republican Senate Minority Leader, Dr. Robin Titus, began a Monday legislative committee meeting by claiming that Lt. Gov. Stavros Anthony, a Republican, was "locked" out of the chamber at the end of the 2025 legislative session.

KTNV broadcaster Steve Sebelius wrote on X that the "chaos" particularly when it comes to the "shifting" of "the membership from a 3-3 split to a 4-2 split."

The American tourism industry is being brought to its knees by President Donald Trump.

According to NBC News, foreign travel to the United States has fallen by 10 percent since Trump took office, and it's already having measurable effects on the U.S. economy.

President Donald Trump announced nearly 15 new tariffs that will take effect Aug. 1, as the countries have not been willing to make a deal with the United States.

July 9 was the initial deadline for Trump to reach 90 trade deals in 90 days, but he's looking to push that deadline back after it became clear the president couldn't meet his "deals" goal.

President Donald Trump defended the FBI on Monday in a post on the social network that he owns, Truth Social, following uproar from the MAGA faithful.

Trump's MAGA base descended into furor after Attorney General Pam Bondi closed the Jeffrey Epstein case and said there was no "client list" that would be released. This came months after Trump hosted a right-wing influencer event where he gave out binder copies of the "Epstein Files."