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President Donald Trump's former prison chief is sounding the alarm on Florida’s new migrant detention center known as “Alligator Alcatraz,” warning the facility is unsafe and logistically unworkable.

With an estimated cost of $450 million per year, Alligator Alcatraz was proposed to help ease the burden on local law enforcement by housing as many as 5,000 migrants awaiting deportation. Hugh Hurwitz, Bureau of Prisons director during Trump’s first term, however, suggested the facility might be a logistical nightmare, particularly as it relates to inmates’ health.

Deadly flooding caused by torrential rain in central Texas late last week called attention to U.S. President Donald Trump's full-scale assault on the climate research and monitoring agencies tasked with studying and predicting such weather catastrophes, as well as his ongoing attacks on disaster preparedness and relief.

Though local National Weather Service (NWS) forecasters did issue warnings in the lead-up to Friday's flooding—which killed at least 82 people, including dozens of children—key roles were reportedly vacant ahead of the downpour, prompting scrutiny of the Trump administration's mass firings and budget cuts, in addition to years of neglect and failures by Republicans at the state level.

Elon Musk announced over the weekend that he's forming a third political party after falling out with Donald Trump, but CNN's Harry Enten said his chances of success are capped by his deep personal unpopularity.

The president's former "first buddy" introduced the America Party on his X platform as an alternative to what he calls a "one-party system," which Trump quickly dismissed as "ridiculous." Enten told "CNN News Central" that polling seems to agree that Musk's plan is "off the rails."

The newly passed Republican budget legislation aims "targeted cruelty" at women across the U.S. — and will be especially painful for those living in the South, according to an expert.

Cuts to Medicaid and Planned Parenthood will devastate health care in the South, where care networks are already stretched thin, rural clinics are shutting down and maternal mortality rates resemble those in developing nations, Carmen James Randolph, founding president and CEO of the Women’s Foundation of the South, wrote in a column for MSNBC explaining why the GOP bill is a "death sentence" for women and babies.

A central plank of President Donald Trump's brand is to revitalize the economies of distressed factory towns across the Midwest — but the amount of money he wants to put into these communities is completely at odds with his dismantling of federal programs that these areas already depend on, wrote University of Chicago sociologist Jerel Ezell in an analysis for Politico.

Ezell hails from Flint, Michigan, where General Motors was born and which has seen an economic decline in recent decades. It's the site of the infamous water crisis of the 2010s, where state-appointed officials ordered the city's water sources switched as a cost-cutting measure and exposed thousands of people to lead contamination, prompting a years-long cleanup.

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Some potential Republican contenders are already jockeying for position for a 2028 White House run just six months into Donald Trump's second presidency.

Several would-be candidates are making moves to build their national profiles with visits to early primary states and meeting with major donors as they eye an opening in a post-Trump future, since the president is constitutionally prohibited from running a third time, reported Axios.

A newlywed Palestinian woman from Texas released from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention earlier this week says she was shackled for long periods, denied food and water, and subjected to other human rights abuses during nearly five months in ICE custody—all because she is a stateless person.

Ward Sakeik, 22, was born in Saudi Arabia to Palestinian parents from Gaza. Because Saudi Arabia does not grant birthright citizenship to the children of foreign nationals, Sakeik was officially stateless when her family legally emigrated to the United States when she was 8 years old.

President Donald Trump's longtime lieutenant Stephen Miller has emerged as his most powerful and empowered adviser in his second term — but it's not clear how long he can maintain his lofty position, according to a New York Times writer.

Miller, now White House deputy chief of staff with apparent ambitions to become national security adviser, has remained in Trump's inner circle by casting aside allies like Steve Bannon and Jeff Sessions once they fall from favor and striking up new alliances, all while seeking to turn the president against others in his orbit, reported the New York Times.

The world’s richest man jumped headlong into a MAGA meltdown Monday after Pam Bondi's Justice Department and the FBI shot down claims about a so-called “client list” belonging to late child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Elon Musk posted scorn at the claim on X, just weeks after he made a sensational accusation that President Donald Trump was on the disgraced Epstein’s list.

Josh Hawley literally wrote the book on manhood — and then proceeded to demonstrate he doesn't understand the first thing about it, the New York Times wrote Monday.

The Missouri Republican senator, who penned "Manhood: The Masculine Virtues America Needs" after he infamously gave a fist salute to January 6 insurgents — before “scurrying” away in fear for his safety — just delivered another masterclass in political cowardice by folding on Trump's devastating domestic policy bill, Frank Bruni wrote.