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Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons tore into CNN on Monday, accusing the network of endangering federal agents by promoting an app that alerts users to nearby immigration enforcement activity.

Appearing on Newsmax’s “Rob Schmitt Tonight,” Lyons launched a forceful condemnation of CNN’s coverage of the app ICEBlock, calling it “disgusting” and warning it could lead to interference in law enforcement operations.

One of New York's wealthiest grocers published an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal on Monday attacking Zohran Mamdani for proposing the creation of up to five city-owned grocery stores.

John Catsimatidis, the billionaire businessman who owns the Gristedes and D'Agostino Supermarket chains in Manhattan, argued that Mamdani's policy proposal has echoes of Hugh Chávez's regime in Venezuela. He also said the proposal would kill private industry and potentially create the bread lines that were once seen in the Soviet Union.

Another GOP senator no longer supports part of President Donald Trump's megabill, putting the legislation on thin ice as lawmakers try to meet Trump's July 4 deadline to pass the bill.

Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) said she can't support the legislation after negotiations on as section involving AI regulations fell through. Blackburn said the legislation is "not acceptable to those who need protections the most."

Top White House aide Stephen Miller erupted on Fox News Monday night, lashing out at critics of Republicans’ sweeping legislative package, and calling it the “most conservative bill” of his lifetime.

Appearing on “Hannity,” the Trump advisor raised his voice as he angrily went after opponents of the so-called “big, beautiful bill” and demanded it be passed by Independence Day.

The Wall Street Journal’s conservative editorial board issued a forceful rebuke of Donald Trump in a Monday opinion piece, where it slammed the president’s call to cancel Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s ongoing criminal trial.

“Trump tries to issue a pardon—in Israel,” the Journal’s board wrote in the sharply worded op-ed. “But it isn’t his country.”

Two recent Supreme Court decisions illustrate how overzealous litigation decisions from liberal groups are ultimately setting back LGBTQ+ rights across the country, according to one analyst.

In a Monday essay for the Atlantic, attorney Duncan Hosie posited that strategic miscalculations from groups like the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) — where he formerly worked as a fellow — are "doing more harm than good" for the advancement of equal rights for marginalized populations. Hosie further argued that these defeats will only continue until liberal advocacy organizations undergo a complete rethinking of their strategic approach, suggesting that it's a mistake to rely on federal courts to provide relief.

GOP state Sen. Brian Birdwell says he won’t seek reelection

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Conservative lawyer George Conway had a lot to say about President Donald Trump's abuses of power since he's been in office for a second time, and the people who have enabled that behavior.

Conway made the comments after the Supreme Court issued a spate of rulings that can be used to dramatically expand the executive powers of the presidency. Meanwhile, Trump seems eager to wrestle the power to wage war and to control Congressional spending from Congress, both of which are delegated by the Constitution. MSNBC host Michael Steele pointed out on Monday that there appear to be few people standing in Trump's way as well.

Elon Musk's time in the federal government may have been more about collecting valuable data on his competitors than finding the alleged waste, fraud, and abuse that Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency were tasked to find, according to a new report from The Washington Post.

The Post details how Musk secured the power to view records and "obtain competitors' trade secrets" in at least seven departments. Musk also viewed or secured "nonpublic details about government contracts, and sensitive regulatory actions," The Post reported.

One of President Donald Trump's most faithful MAGA influencers is enraged at the Senate GOP for the state of negotiations on Trump's "big, beautiful bill" to slash taxes on the wealthy.

In particular, she is against how the Medicaid cuts are going.

A man hailed as a hero for helping save a 9-year-old girl from a shark attack in Florida is now being held by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, according to reports.

Luis Alvarez, 31, originally from Boaco, Nicaragua, was one of several men who intervened on June 9 when the girl was attacked by a suspected bull shark while snorkeling near Boca Grande. Alvarez wrapped the girl’s partially severed hand in towels before she was airlifted to a hospital for emergency surgery.

This week, the Republican-controlled U.S. Senate will vote on its version of H.R. 1 — President Donald Trump's "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" — which extends tax cuts primarily benefiting the richest Americans and pays for it by drastically slashing social safety nets for the poorest Americans. One anti-Trump conservative is not optimistic that Republicans will buck the president, despite how much the bill may harm their constituents.

During a Monday segment on MSNBC's "Deadline: White House," commentator Charlie Sykes listed three reasons he believes Republicans will ultimately vote in favor of the bill's passage: "They're afraid of Donald Trump, they're afraid of failure and they're afraid of Donald Trump." According to Sykes, Trump making the bill "the cornerstone of his agenda" means Republicans know they have no choice but to vote to pass it or else risk Trump's wrath.

In perhaps one of the most bizarre legal whiplashes since the start of Donald Trump's second presidency, he dropped his lawsuit against polling expert Ann Selzer and the Des Moines Register on Monday — but then filed it again, in a different court.

Politico's Kyle Cheney, reporting on the development, expressed puzzlement by the move.