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The man suspected in the arson attack on Gov. Josh Shapiro (D-PA) was already set to appear in court over domestic violence charges, reported CNN on Monday.

Cody Balmer, a 38-year-old car mechanic, "faces charges of attempted homicide, aggravated arson, terrorism and other crimes after police say he climbed over a fence, broke into the governor’s mansion and set the fire with a homemade Molotov cocktail in the early hours of Sunday morning," noted the report.

Although Silicon Valley billionaire Mark Zuckerberg — whose Meta owns the social media platforms Facebook and Instagram — was critical of President Donald Trump in the past, he reached out to him after the 2024 election and attended Trump's inauguration. Zuckerberg has met with Trump three times in 2025, but according to Semafor reporter Ben Smith, some of the Meta CEO's "key antagonists in the federal government" showed up in the White House Oval Office on Tuesday, April 8.

Smith, in an article published on April 14, explains, "The visitors were Andrew Ferguson, the chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, which is suing Meta in a trial that begins today; and Gail Slater, the assistant attorney general who is responsible for the Justice Department’s anti-trust enforcement. Ferguson and Slater were there, a person familiar with the meeting said, to stiffen Trump's spine against a relentless wave of lobbying from Meta."

Five owner-operated businesses have filed a lawsuit against the tariffs in the U.S. Court of International Trade.

The Liberty Justice Center and law professor Ilya Somin joined together to form the legal team for the five businesses, which includes VOS Selections, Inc. Plastic Services and Products, Genova Pipe, Microkits, FishUSA, and Terry Precision Cycling.

Backing up the Trump administration, the President of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, says he has no intention or ability to return an unlawfully removed Maryland legal resident, Kilmar Abrego García, to the United States. Abrego García was wrongly deported to a notorious maximum security “mega-prison” for terrorists in El Salvador.

“How can I return him to the United States?” President Bukele said to reporters on Monday, during a meeting with President Donald Trump and his top officials in the Oval Office, as reported by The Washington Post. “I smuggle him into the United States? Of course I’m not going to do it.”

The official X account for the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) shared an ad for Elon Musk's Tesla company and then quickly deleted it on Monday.

ABC News correspondent Will Steakin first reported that DOGE had shared the video advertisement and called it "awesome."

A proposed budget from the Trump administration revealed they plan to cut the budget of the State Department and USAID by nearly half, according to a report from the Washington Post.

The outlet’s review of an internal memo found an early proposal for the next fiscal year would leave a total budget of $28.4 billion for all activities carried out by the State Department and USAID.

President Donald Trump told El Salvador's president Nayib Bukele to build more prisons to hold U.S. citizens.

The U.S. president declared his willingness last week to send Americans to a notorious prison where his administration has sent alleged gang members – as well as a Maryland man who was deported by mistake – and he was caught on video urging Bukele to get ready for "homegrown criminals" to join them behind bars.

President Donald Trump confirmed that he wants his administration to deport U.S. citizens to a prison in El Salvador.

During a Monday meeting with Salvadorian President Nayib Bukele, Trump was asked about the possibility of deporting citizens to the notorious Cecot prison.

President Donald Trump falsely blamed Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky for starting a war with Russia in a rant from the White House.

The U.S. president met Monday with El Salvador's president Nayib Bukele in the Oval Office, and he expanded on comments he made earlier on Truth Social blaming Zelensky and former president Joe Biden for Russia's invasion.