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Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins and Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS) sparked widespread mockery Monday after both appeared on Newsmax to blame former President Joe Biden for the screwworm emergency now threatening Texas cattle — despite the Trump administration's own cuts to the very monitoring programs designed to stop the parasite.

Rollins, who oversees the federal response to the first confirmed U.S. screwworm infestation in decades, pointed the finger squarely at her predecessor. "I do think it's important to note that under the last administration, with the massive movement under the open borders policy, the cartels, et cetera, border security — that's when it began to make its way back up toward America," she said, adding that when she took office in February 2025, "obviously not much had been done to push back."

For years, Ramsey Elkholy had a simple business proposition.

The New York City modeling agent had a roster of young women and an eye for opportunity. Jeffrey Epstein was a well-connected financier with ties to Victoria's Secret, Vera Wang and the upper reaches of the fashion world. Elkholy would bring Epstein women, Epstein would help those women — and by extension, Elkholy — get work. Everyone, in theory, would benefit.

A Black man sits on death row in Mississippi, convicted by a jury of 11 white people and one Black juror — and now a Supreme Court justice says the far-right state court that keeps rejecting his appeals is applying a standard that is "almost certainly wrong."

Justice Sonia Sotomayor used a Supreme Court order Monday to rebuke the Mississippi Supreme Court over its handling of racial bias claims in the case of Tony Terrell Clark, a death row inmate whose lawyers say prosecutors systematically weeded out Black jurors at his trial.

A clerical error inadvertently revealed a campaign contribution to Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) that's now the subject of complaint with the Federal Election Commission.

The nonprofit Project On Government Oversight flagged a $250,000 contribution by the private prison contractor GEO Group to a super PAC aligned with Jordan less than two weeks after the lawmaker helped pass President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which provided funding to double the detention space for immigrant detainees.

Former Rep. Aaron Schock (R-IL), who in 2015 resigned amid scandal for defrauding taxpayers, is facing renewed scrutiny after being exposed for allegedly working on behalf of a foreign government in exchange for “an honest-to-god gold mine,” Politico reported Monday.

“No one around Schock could know whether the agreement was real. Like many things in Schock’s life, it could have been a gilded mirage distracting from a more complicated truth,” Politico’s report reads.

A joke has been making the rounds among House Republicans about Mike Johnson.

The GOP House speaker relies so heavily on President Donald Trump to whip votes and manage his fractious caucus that Trump is, for all practical purposes, running the House himself, the joke goes, but NOTUS reported that most members passing that quip along believe it's essentially true.

The New York Knicks return home to Madison Square Garden riding a historic 13-game playoff win streak and two wins from the NBA championship, but many fans worry that President Donald Trump could jinx them.

The president will attend Game 3 back in his hometown, which is forcing the cancellation of some watch parties that have sprung up around New York City during his year's postseason, and panelists on MS NOW's "Morning Joe" wondered whether his injection of partisan politics will end the team's good fortunes.

With his grip on the South Carolina Republican primary suddenly less certain than anyone anticipated, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) is calling in the biggest favor he has — President Donald Trump.

Graham announced Monday that Trump has agreed to join a last-minute tele-rally Monday evening ahead of Tuesday's GOP primary, urging supporters to dial in at 5:30 p.m.

Texas Attorney General and GOP Senate nominee Ken Paxton was delivered a personal blow Monday after his former attorney issued him a scathing rebuke, as well as an endorsement of his Democratic opponent in the race.

“[Paxton] has lost sight of his core mission, which is to represent the people of Texas,” said Dan Cogdell, a defense lawyer who represented Paxton during his impeachment trial in 2023, speaking with NOTUS for its report published on Monday.

President Donald Trump has long raged about election integrity, saying "honest voting" is the key to maintaining nationhood, but his Department of Justice seemingly has other priorities.

The DOJ has quietly dismantled much of the infrastructure it has relied on for years to protect the integrity of American elections, reported NOTUS. Training sessions have been canceled. A definitive prosecutorial guidebook has been scrubbed from government websites. The unit most responsible for overseeing election crime investigations has been gutted. And the department has yet to establish the around-the-clock command center it has historically stood up to handle Election Day emergencies.

President Donald Trump plans to attend the first NBA Finals game in nearly three decades at Madison Square Garden, and panelists on MS NOW's "Morning Joe" predicted he would not find a friendly reception from his hometown.

The New York Knicks will face off Monday night against the San Antonio Spurs in game 3 of the Finals, which will require fans to wait in extra-long security lines to enter the arena and forced the cancellation of a watch party outside, all of which will anger the crowd inside, according to the panelists.