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President Donald Trump's staunch ally Roger Stone is urging him to pardon a former Honduran president convicted of running a secret drug empire.

"SCANDAL: Biden & deep state put Latin American drug cartel kingpins on the US streets to frame & imprison pro-Trump Honduran Pres. Juan Orlando Hernandez and install a far-left socialist," wrote Stone on X. "@realDonaldTrump should remedy this injustice w/ a pardon. #FreeJOH"

Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton, the 88-year-old Democratic lawmaker who has represented the District of Columbia in Congress since 1991, is facing growing concerns from colleagues who say she is no longer running her own office.

“She’s missing stuff,” a senior House Democrat told Axios for a report published Monday evening, describing Norton’s apparent disengagement from key legislative battles, including recent Republican-led attacks on the city's budget and laws. While Norton has long been “a formidable presence in the halls of Congress despite her non-voting status,” some Democrats quietly say her influence on Capitol Hill has faded, Axios said.

A jury has found MyPillow founder Mike Lindell, an avowed ally of President Donald Trump, defamed a former executive of a voting equipment company and awarded the executive more than $2 million in damages, The Associated Press reported Monday evening.

Lindell was accused in a lawsuit of making and amplifying false claims that Eric Coomer, a former executive at Dominion Voting Systems, helped rig the 2020 presidential election in favor of then-candidate Joe Biden. Lindell attacked Coomer as a "traitor" and baselessly accused him of stealing the election on Lindell’s online media platform FrankSpeech.

Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is facing a fresh round of criticism over his car being parked illegally on the campaign trail in the New York City mayoral election.

Cuomo resigned the governorship in an avalanche of controversy over his alleged inappropriate and predatory behavior toward women, and controversy over how his mismanagement of nursing homes potentially worsened COVID deaths in New York during the pandemic. However, he is widely shown as the frontrunner in a crowded mayor's race as incumbent Eric Adams has seen his support deteriorate following accusations he accepted bribes connected to the Turkish government, although recent polls have shown a tightening race as progressive state Rep. Zohran Mamdani has made inroads with voters.

Democratic Sen. Tina Smith (D-MN) said she "confronted" a MAGA colleague following his comments on social media blaming "Marxists" for Minnesota shootings over the weekend that resulted in the assassination of Democratic state Rep. Melissa Hortman.

Hortman and her husband, Mark, were shot dead in their Brooklyn Park home by a suspect impersonating a police officer. Additionally, Democratic state Sen. John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette, were shot multiple times at their home in neighboring Champlin. The state senator was critically wounded, but both survived after undergoing surgery.

House Republicans have come under sustained fire for their budget bill, which would deliver sweeping cuts to the social safety net, slashing hundreds of billions of dollars from Medicaid and Medicare. While many expected Senate Republicans to soften those reductions, the Senate’s version—released late Monday afternoon—goes even further, deepening the House’s Medicaid cuts and raising the debt ceiling by $5 trillion, rather than the $4 trillion proposed in the House bill.

Politico reports that the decision to squeeze Medicaid for even more money, to help pay for President Donald Trump’s tax cuts that largely benefit the wealthy, is “already setting off shockwaves through Capitol Hill,” and would be “a huge departure from the House-passed bill.”

President Donald Trump raged at Iran again on Monday afternoon for failing to sign a "deal" he said he told the country to sign.

Trump took to his Truth Social platform on Monday to attack the country, which has seen at least 224 people killed — the vast majority reportedly civilians — since Israel began its airstrikes late last week. More than 1,400 people have been injured in the country, which has also seen significant damage to civilian infrastructure, including hospitals.

Supporters of President Donald Trump have flown into conniptions over Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson’s creation of a task force to study slavery reparations.

Johnson, a progressive mayor whose tenure has been marked with controversy, issued a news release announcing his decision this week, ahead of the observance of Juneteenth, the holiday commemorating when the final slaves held in Texas were notified of emancipation.

A former Coast Guard lieutenant and sharpshooter has been accused in federal court of threatening to assassinate President Donald Trump, writing multiple times on social media that he'd be "willing to pitch in $100 for a contract."

Peter Stinson, of Oakton, Virginia, repeatedly threatened to kill Trump in social media posts, court documents filed in a Virginia federal court alleged Monday. The documents were shared on X by CBS News Justice Correspondent Scott MacFarlane.

President Donald Trump brushed aside the mounting criticisms being made against him by far-right commentator and former Fox News primetime host Tucker Carlson at a press pool caught on video by Newsmax on Monday afternoon.

"I don't know what Tucker Carlson is saying," said Trump. "Let him go get a television network and say it so that people listen."

Former Republicans Tim Miller and MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace were incensed by the behavior of former colleagues over the assassination and threats to Democratic lawmakers in Minnesota over the weekend.

Chatting Monday, Wallace told Miller of The Bulwark that she supposed "after nine years, nothing should surprise any of us on this."

President Donald Trump is the first president in 116 years who will not be invited to the NAACP's national convention, The Associated Press reported.

The NAACP declined to invite the president because the organization says Trump is working against its mission.