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'Unintimidated' Jack Smith vows to present case against Trump: report

Former Department of Justice Special Counsel Jack Smith reportedly has told people close to him that he is not intimidated by the Trump DOJ’s reported investigation into his activities and is looking forward to presenting the public case he made against now-President Donald Trump.

“Mr. Smith, the special counsel who twice indicted Mr. Trump, appears unintimidated by the president’s demand that Republican lawmakers investigate him and that the Justice Department put him in prison for as-yet unproved and unspecified crimes,” The New York Times reported on Monday.

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'Disaster!' Trump delivers shocking threat if Tuesday's election goes wrong way

President Donald Trump issued a winding threat to his "first home" of New York City in a new Truth Social post on Monday over the potential results of Tuesday's election.

New York City voters will likely elect Zohran Mamdani, a Democratic Socialist, as their next mayor on Tuesday, a move that Trump threatened would cause him to provide the "very minimum" federal support as required by law.

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DOJ's trial against sandwich hurler kicks off with a misfire

Monday kicked off the trial of accused sandwich tosser Sean Dunn, who the Justice Department tried to indict on felony assault charges after he chucked a foot-long at a federal agent tasked with the D.C. takeover. The problem, however, is that there's already a flub in the trial.

The Justice Department failed to indict Dunn on felony charges and was forced to knock the charges down to a misdemeanor when several grand juries refused to agree to the indictment.

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'You will rue the day': Trump uncorks ominous all-caps tirade over Tuesday election

President Donald Trump uncorked an all-caps tirade against Democrats running for office in New Jersey and Virginia in a new Truth Social post on Monday.

"VIRGINIA AND NEW JERSEY, REMEMBER THIS: A VOTE FOR A REPUBLICAN MEANS SUBSTANTIALLY LOWER ENERGY PRICES, A VOTE FOR A DEMOCRAT, ESPECIALLY THESE TWO LOSERS WHO ARE RUNNING, MEANS A DOUBLING, TRIPLING, AND EVEN QUADRUPLING OF YOUR ENERGY COSTS," Trump wrote.

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'Hot mess': Pulitzer-winner dismantles Trump's 'chaotic' standoff

President Donald Trump's approach to China is a "hot mess" with virtually no hope of progress, Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman wrote in an analysis published on Monday.

This comes a few weeks after Trump threatened a 100 percent tariff on Chinese goods in an attempt to get the country's leader, Xi Jinping, to come to the table — something that so far has borne little fruit.

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'Outright malicious': MAGA influencer hit with right-wing fury over 'feminist' comments

A conservative influencer on Monday addressed backlash she's received from MAGA fans after she made claims that they considered to be "feminist."

Over the weekend, Allie Beth Stuckey, host of the "Relatable" podcast on the conservative Blaze Network, shared a clip from a recent speaking engagement on social media where she argued that "porn has weakened men." She also applauded the late conservative activist Charlie Kirk for his efforts to dissuade young men from engaging in premarital sex.

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Trump investigations rock FBI as 4 officials ousted in abrupt shakeup: report

At least four more FBI officials with ties to investigations into President Donald Trump have been ousted since Friday, NBC News reported Monday.

MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace announced the report during her second hour of her show before a larger discussion about former special counsel Jack Smith.

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Melania hit with brutal roast after husband insists ICE crackdowns aren’t tough enough

A California Democrat whose district and constituents have been targeted by ICE raids took a shot at first lady Melania Trump after President Donald Trump said that ICE should continue its aggressive policies, The Daily Beast reports Monday.

Rep. Jimmy Gomez (D-CA), who represents the Golden State's 34th District, wrote this on X:

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Pam Bondi scrambles to retroactively appoint Comey prosecutor after legal challenge

Attorney General Pam Bondi took the unusual step of trying to retroactively appoint Lindsey Halligan as Special Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia after former FBI Director James Comey claimed that her appointment was not legitimate.

Following his indictment in September, Comey filed a motion to dismiss based on the claim that Halligan's appointment as interim United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia had been invalid.

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'Doesn't look great for Republicans': Journalist warns these GOP attacks are falling flat

A journalist revealed on Monday that MAGA's attacks against a rising Democratic star are falling flat — and could backfire on the Republican Party.

Will Pavia, a correspondent for The Times, discussed MAGA's attacks against Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani, who is favored to win the New York City mayoral race against Independent and former mayor Andrew Cuomo, during an interview on Times Radio. President Donald Trump has threatened to withhold federal funding from New York if Mamdani wins, and other MAGA lawmakers have threatened to denaturalize Mamdani, who became a citizen in 2018.

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'No words': Expert horrified as Trump deports woman victimized by domestic abuse

The Trump administration left an immigration expert floored after deporting a woman who had gone to the police to secure justice against her husband for leveling death threats — despite Congress having created a visa program explicitly to protect people in that precise situation.

The case, originally reported by the Los Angeles Times, concerns an undocumented woman known only as "Carmen."

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'They absolutely earned it': Nancy Mace doubles down after meltdown at TSA agents

Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) is in her eighth hour of her fourth day of complaining about Charleston International Airport security that couldn't find her on Thursday morning to protect her on her walk to her plane.

Among the details in the incident report was that Mace attacked TSA agents and police, calling them "f---ing incompetent" and alleging that she should be treated better as an elected official.

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'Biggest RINO': MAGA melts down as GOP candidate gets Trump's 'total endorsement'

President Donald Trump on Monday dropped a series of Truth Social posts adding endorsements for a slew of Republican candidates just hours before election day, including comments about one GOP incumbent that unleashed serious MAGA backlash.

House Majority Whip Rep. Tom Emmer (R-MN), who is up for reelection in 2026, got a shoutout from the president.

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