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Former Rep. Max Rose (D-NY), who served as an advisor to former Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, said Monday Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's plan to reduce the number of four-star admirals and generals by 20 percent indicates there is a "deeper problem" within the Department of Defense (DoD).

"I don't think it's actually connected to a strategic imperative, but rather to the fact that they are looking for constant destruction," Rose said during an appearance on CNN.

by John BIERS

Ford reported a 65 percent drop in first-quarter profits Monday, citing a near-term drag on auto sales from new vehicle launches, as it withdrew its forecast amid tariff uncertainty.

by Romain FONSEGRIVES

"It makes no sense," entertainment lawyer Jonathan Handel said of Trump's idea.

US President Donald Trump on Monday ordered new limitations on a form of biological research his administration says caused the Covid-19 pandemic through a lab leak in China.

The United States will halt funding in certain countries for so-called "gain-of-function" experiments -- aimed at enhancing the properties of pathogens —- according to an executive order Trump signed Monday at the White House.

President Donald Trump on Monday escalated his defense of former Mesa County, Colorado, Clerk Tina Peters, who was convicted last year in a scheme to undermine the 2020 election, calling her a “political prisoner” and demanding her immediate release.

In a post to his Truth Social media platform, Trump lashed out at Democratic Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser, who he accused of ignoring “Illegals committing Violent Crimes like Rape and Murder in his State,” while targeting Peters, an election denier whom Trump described as “a 69-year-old Gold Star mother who worked to expose and document Democrat Election Fraud.”

President Donald Trump is scrambling to whip the votes in the Senate from reluctant members of his own party to confirm his pick for federal prosecutor in Washington, D.C., Ed Martin, CNN reporter Paula Reid told anchor Erin Burnett on Monday evening.

Martin, a far-right activist from Missouri who had no prosecutorial experience prior to his appointment to the U.S. attorney's office on an acting basis, has repeatedly come under fire for his erratic and ethically dubious behavior, including trying to dismiss cases he previously acted as defense counsel on, and threatening inappropriate criminal investigations of entities ranging from Wikipedia to the American College of Chest Physicians. He has even had to apologize for praising a Nazi sympathizer.

President Donald Trump's education secretary said Monday that Harvard will no longer receive federal grants, escalating an ongoing battle with the prestigious university as it challenges the funding cuts in court.

The Trump administration has for weeks locked horns with Harvard and other higher education institutions over claims they tolerate anti-Semitism on their campuses -- threatening their budgets, tax-exempt status and enrollment of foreign students.

Over the weekend, President Donald Trump claimed not to know that he had to uphold the Constitutional guarantee of due process under the law in his interview with NBC's Meet the Press. Now, a constitutional law expert is calling him out.

During a Monday interview with CNN host Jake Tapper, Harvard Law professor emeritus Laurence Tribe — who is also the co-founder of the American Constitution Society — pointed out that there was nothing complicated about the due process clauses in the 5th and 14th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution. And he opined that Trump was trying to feign ignorance in order to consolidate power.

President Donald Trump took to his social media platform Monday evening to double down on his plans to celebrate the end of World War I and World War II in the United States by designating specific "Victory Days" for each conflict.

He wrote on his Truth Social app last week that he would rename May 8 as "Victory Day for World War II," aligning with the European observance of VE Day, and Nov. 11 as "Victory Day for World War I," the date of the armistice in 1918.

A Trump-appointed federal judge ordered Democratic North Carolina Supreme Court Justice Allison Riggs' re-election victory to be certified on Monday, reported The News & Observer, dealing another blow to the state GOP's efforts to get enough ballots thrown out to flip the result of the race to GOP challenger Jefferson Griffin.

The race, which was decided by a margin of just over 700 votes, is the only race in last year's general election that has yet to be certified.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) on Monday ruled out a bid to become the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee – but not before taking a thinly-veiled swipe at her party’s continued preference for seniority.

“It’s actually clear to me that the underlying dynamics in the caucus have not shifted with respect to seniority as much as I think would be necessary, so I believe I’ll be staying put at Energy and Commerce,” the New York progressive lawmaker told reporters, as reported by Politico.

Gov. Brian Kemp (R-GA) dealt Republicans a blow on Monday by taking his name out of consideration to run for Senate against Democratic incumbent Jon Ossoff, leaving them stuck with a roster of weaker and less popular candidates for the position and potentially even aligning the stars for far-right and highly divisive Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) to take a crack at the nomination.

But the Trump wing of the GOP can hardly complain about this state of affairs, Georgia-based GOP pundit Erick Erickson wrote on X following the announcement. After all, he pointed out, they have long attacked and put Kemp down.

The founder and CEO of a clothing company made a direct appeal to Donald Trump during a CNN interview Monday, where the MAGA supporter urged the president to reconsider his sweeping tariff policy that he said is threatening small businesses like his own.

Steven Borrelli of Cuts Clothing, who said he voted for Trump three times, told CNN’s Jake Tapper that his e-commerce company has been hit hard by the 145% tariff on goods coming from China. Cuts, a California-based menswear brand, relied on a workaround known as the “3-2-1 loophole” – importing items from China through Mexico and bringing them across the U.S. border on a daily basis.