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President Donald Trump's chair of the Federal Communications Commission began going after the media deemed "unfriendly" to the president straight away. Now he's picking "norm-busting fights with the mainstream media," according to Politico.

In a Monday report about Brendan Carr, Politico noted that the first investigations began into NPR, PBS and Comcast on Jan. 20. Since then, Carr has taken the agency from "an independent regulator in favor of an openly personal embrace of Trump."

President Donald Trump is “dismantling domestic violence nonprofits,” according to a report from Slate.

The sentiment from writer Matt Watkins comes after “the Department of Justice quietly released a revised set of guidelines for the Office on Violence Against Women grants.”

President Donald Trump has set up an endless series of showdowns and confrontations with federal courts, walking right up to the line of ignoring court orders and, in some cases, being accused of actually doing so. But there is a "centuries-old" mechanism courts can use to fight back, Loyola Law School constitutional law professor Justin Levitt wrote in an analysis for The Washington Post published Monday.

"Though Alexander Hamilton called the judiciary the 'least dangerous' branch, the courts’ centuries-old civil contempt authority makes it plenty mighty when it wants to be," wrote Levitt.

President Donald Trump was asked about President Joe Biden's cancer diagnosis at the White House on Monday and took a swipe at the former president's doctor.

"I think it's very sad, actually. I'm surprised that it wasn't, you know, the public wasn't notified a long time ago," Trump said. "Again, because to get to stage nine, that's a long time."

Oklahoma Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R) said Monday afternoon he wasn't certain the timing of former President Joe Biden's cancer announcement was genuine.

"It's interesting — the timing of them releasing the cancer, right?" Mullin said from Arlington, Virginia.

President Donald Trump is being "played by a fool" in negotiations over the Russian invasion of Ukraine, conservative columnist Max Boot warned in The Washington Post — and he has no idea how effortlessly he's being used.

Trump has been tough to pin down on the Ukraine war. He has spent much of his political career sympathetic to Russia's Vladimir Putin after his government interfered in the 2016 presidential election, and has frequently suggested Ukraine should give up territory to appease Russian aggression, but has more recently acted aware that Russia isn't interested in peace — yet, Boot wrote, he keeps giving Putin far more chances than he is entitled to.

Republicans may have just targeted their own base with the Interstate Obscenity Definition Act, according to an opinion by Milwaukee Journal Sentinel columnist Kristin Brey.

The act introduced by Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT)and Rep. Mary Miller (R-IL) would criminalize pornography.

Before diversity, equity, and inclusion, or DEI, became the subject of scorn for the Trump administration, various companies used the acronym. According to a Wall Street Journal report, companies that have nothing to do with diversity, equity, and inclusion are now struggling with their name.

“You’re reading these headlines: ‘DEI is wrong,’ ‘Terrified of the aftermath of DEI,’” David Markley told the Journal. “It’s disheartening when somebody’s, like, bashing your baby.”

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) lost previous lawsuits against the New York Times, but she's not giving in.

Adam Klasfeld, editor-in-chief of All Rise News, posted a screen capture of the docket showing Palin asking for a new trial.

Former FBI Director James Comey spoke to MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace on Monday, describing finding the shells on the beach that he posted on his Instagram account last week, which caused an uproar.

Comey said he and his wife were walking on the beach when they came across the shells that spelled out "86 47." At first, Comey said his wife wondered why someone would put their address in the sand.

President Donald Trump is engaged in a war on government records unlike any other chief executive in modern history — and he is flouting the law to suit his purposes, wrote Zeeshan Aleem in a blistering column for MSNBC published on Monday afternoon.

Some of this effort has led to the infamous "Signalgate" controversy, where Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth was found to be sharing highly dangerous military battle strategy in chats with relatives and a reporter for The Atlantic. But that's just the tip of the iceberg, Aleem wrote.