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Nearly half of Republicans support President-elect Donald Trump deploying U.S. military forces to detain undocumented immigrants in internment camps until they can be deported, according to a new poll.

The findings suggest that Trump’s controversial mass deportation program – which he has acknowledged includes plans to declare a national emergency and use “military assets” to support operations – has the backing of his base even as the program is still unpopular with most Americans.

Texas' far-right governor mistakenly offered his condolences to Rosalynn Carter, the late wife of former President Jimmy Carter, shortly after news broke of his death.

Jimmy Carter died Sunday at the age of 100 at his home in Plains, Georgia, where he was surrounded by family. He faced several health challenges in recent years, including melanoma that metastasized to his liver and brain.

Democrats need to build a "war machine" capable of sustained and rapid attacks on the GOP agenda, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) wrote in a new memo to state party leaders obtained by Politico.

Republicans, wrote Whitehouse in the memo, “rapidly and effectively deploy false narratives, while we struggle to bring true ones to bear.” The problem, he continued, is there's no central machine to coordinate Democratic strategy and messaging — no equivalent to the GOP's right-wing cable networks like Fox News.

A possible team-up between President-elect Donald Trump and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) could be brewing.

The progressive senator on Monday again called on the incoming president to join forces with him and others in Congress to cap soaring credit card interest rates.

The Office of Congressional Ethics cleared Reps. Ronny Jackson (R-TX) and Wesley Hunt (R-TX) of wrongdoing after they were accused of misusing campaign money by spending it on private clubs and for personal gain.

The committee opened the investigation in May. The Office of Congressional Ethics, an independent entity that investigates allegations against officials, then reported its findings to the Ethics Committee in June.

President-elect Donald Trump's team is instructing all his nominees to stop posting on social media before confirmation, reported the New York Post on Monday.

“While this instruction has been delivered previously, I am reiterating that no member of the incoming administration or Transition speaks for the United States or the President-elect himself,” stated Susie Wiles, the GOP strategist and former Trump campaign head now selected for White House Chief of Staff. “Accordingly, all intended nominees should refrain from any public social media posts without prior approval of the incoming White House counsel.”

The woman convicted of murdering legendary Tejano singing icon Selena is seeking parole as inmates say there is a "bounty on her head" within Texas prison, reported WJLA and The New York Post.

Yolanda Saldívar, 64, has been serving a life sentence for three decades over the shooting of the 23-year-old Latina icon. Saldívar has a hearing planned in March to determine whether she will be freed.

Elon Musk is sleeping near Donald Trump in a cottage at the Mar-a-Lago club that would normally cost at least $2,000 each night.

Musk is staying in the Banyan cottage several hundred feet from the big house, A source told The New York Times. According to the Encyclopedia Britannica, the Banyan is an "unusually shaped tree" native to the Indian subcontinent that "spreads laterally indefinitely."

The recent dust-up in MAGA world created by Vivek Ramaswamy’s throwing blame on America’s supposed cultural problem is a glaring misunderstanding of the sources of American success, according to conservative columnist David Brooks.

Perhaps Ramaswamy, the tech billionaire tapped by the incoming president to slash government spending, “doesn’t understand what makes America great,” Brooks wrote Monday in a stinging takedown of Ramaswamy for the Atlantic.

President-elect Donald Trump took to his social media site to stir speculation that he intends to merge Canada with the United States.

In a post on Truth Social, Trump reshared a screenshot of a report that Shark Tank co-host and Canadian Kevin O'Leary — not Prime Minister Justin Trudeau or any other Canadian leaders — would discuss the merger of the two countries.

Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) suggested Monday he might vote for Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA) for speaker of the House because he did not "cheat on his wife."

During a Monday interview on Fox News, Burchett was asked if he would support Johnson's speakership after being endorsed by President-elect Donald Trump.

Special counsel Jack Smith has officially handed over the classified documents case and the election interference case against Donald Trump to the U.S. Attorney's Office.

In court filings obtained by Politico, Smith declared he was "removing" five DOJ attorneys who had been involved in the cases.

Georgia's top prosecutor is publicly urging the state Supreme Court not to take up an appeal of a lower court's decision disqualifying Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis from the election racketeering case against President-elect Donald Trump and several of his associates.

"The Georgia Court of Appeals has ruled that the Fulton County DA created her own conflict and rightfully removed her from the case against President-elect Trump," wrote Attorney General Chris Carr. "'Lawfare' has become far too common in American politics, and it must end. As such, I would encourage the Georgia Supreme Court to not take her appeal."