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President Donald Trump took time on Monday to lament the trial of Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil's former president, on charges of money laundering, criminal conspiracy related to undeclared diamonds and an attempted coup.

"I have watched, as has the World, as they have done nothing but come after him, day after day, night after night, month after month, year after year!" Trump exclaimed in a post on Truth Social. "He is not guilty of anything, except having fought for THE PEOPLE."

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) suggested God had allowed more than 80 people to die after historic flooding hit Texas.

During a Monday interview on Real America's Voice, host David Brody asked Cruz why "God doesn't make sense" in light of the flooding deaths.

President Donald Trump's decision to shutter a long-running worldwide wheat aid program has left farmers in Kansas reeling, The New York Times reported on Monday.

It's one of a number of programs that faced the chopping block when tech billionaire Elon Musk established the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) task force to root out what he believed to be waste and fraud in the government — which in practice meant mass layoffs of federal workers and the termination of a number of small, lesser-known programs that serve a vital purpose for some people.

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem admitted that she struggled to deal with the recent historic flooding in Texas that left over 80 people dead.

During a Monday interview on Fox & Friends, Noem said she turned to God to help her understand the emergency.

President Donald Trump's former prison chief is sounding the alarm on Florida’s new migrant detention center known as “Alligator Alcatraz,” warning the facility is unsafe and logistically unworkable.

With an estimated cost of $450 million per year, Alligator Alcatraz was proposed to help ease the burden on local law enforcement by housing as many as 5,000 migrants awaiting deportation. Hugh Hurwitz, Bureau of Prisons director during Trump’s first term, however, suggested the facility might be a logistical nightmare, particularly as it relates to inmates’ health.

Deadly flooding caused by torrential rain in central Texas late last week called attention to U.S. President Donald Trump's full-scale assault on the climate research and monitoring agencies tasked with studying and predicting such weather catastrophes, as well as his ongoing attacks on disaster preparedness and relief.

Though local National Weather Service (NWS) forecasters did issue warnings in the lead-up to Friday's flooding—which killed at least 82 people, including dozens of children—key roles were reportedly vacant ahead of the downpour, prompting scrutiny of the Trump administration's mass firings and budget cuts, in addition to years of neglect and failures by Republicans at the state level.

Elon Musk announced over the weekend that he's forming a third political party after falling out with Donald Trump, but CNN's Harry Enten said his chances of success are capped by his deep personal unpopularity.

The president's former "first buddy" introduced the America Party on his X platform as an alternative to what he calls a "one-party system," which Trump quickly dismissed as "ridiculous." Enten told "CNN News Central" that polling seems to agree that Musk's plan is "off the rails."

The newly passed Republican budget legislation aims "targeted cruelty" at women across the U.S. — and will be especially painful for those living in the South, according to an expert.

Cuts to Medicaid and Planned Parenthood will devastate health care in the South, where care networks are already stretched thin, rural clinics are shutting down and maternal mortality rates resemble those in developing nations, Carmen James Randolph, founding president and CEO of the Women’s Foundation of the South, wrote in a column for MSNBC explaining why the GOP bill is a "death sentence" for women and babies.

A central plank of President Donald Trump's brand is to revitalize the economies of distressed factory towns across the Midwest — but the amount of money he wants to put into these communities is completely at odds with his dismantling of federal programs that these areas already depend on, wrote University of Chicago sociologist Jerel Ezell in an analysis for Politico.

Ezell hails from Flint, Michigan, where General Motors was born and which has seen an economic decline in recent decades. It's the site of the infamous water crisis of the 2010s, where state-appointed officials ordered the city's water sources switched as a cost-cutting measure and exposed thousands of people to lead contamination, prompting a years-long cleanup.

"Photos: After Texas Hill Country flood, grief and recovery take hold" was first published by The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans — and engages with them — about public policy, politics, government and statewide issues.

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Some potential Republican contenders are already jockeying for position for a 2028 White House run just six months into Donald Trump's second presidency.

Several would-be candidates are making moves to build their national profiles with visits to early primary states and meeting with major donors as they eye an opening in a post-Trump future, since the president is constitutionally prohibited from running a third time, reported Axios.