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A self-described anarchist tried to pay $45,000 to have a hit man kill Attorney General Pam Bondi, according to authorities.

Tyler Avalos, 29, of Minnesota, shared the threat on TikTok and said he wanted Bondi "dead or alive," but "preferably dead," NBC News reported, citing an FBI affidavit.

Former Republican Party operative Richard Porter outlined Monday what he called Senate Democrats’ “breathtaking” strategy to bait Republicans amid the ongoing government shutdown, a plan he suggested could both end the shutdown and hand Democrats a long-sought victory on eliminating a key Senate procedure.

“You think that the Democrats have laid a trap for Republicans, essentially, and want [them] to do the Democrats' dirty work?” asked Tom Bevan, co-founder and president of RealClearPolitics, speaking with Porter on the polling aggregator’s podcast.

There's one government agency that the Washington Post says can push back on President Donald Trump, but they don't have long to do it.

Writing Monday, the Post explained that the Government Accountability Office has an appointee whose term expires in two months.

The teetering campaign of Maine oysterman Graham Platner to be the Democratic Party’s nominee to oppose Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) should she run for re-election in 2026 suffered another blow over the weekend.

According to a report from Axios’ Holly Otterbein on Monday, Kevin Brown, who took the place of departed former political director Genevieve McDonald on the Platner campaign, is bowing out after taking the job last Tuesday.

The Riverside County Sheriff's Department said it was investigating after masked men claiming to be FBI agents invaded a California home and detained a family in Jurupa Valley.

Ring doorbell camera video posted to social media last week shows three masked men claiming to have a search warrant before barging into the home.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is creating a different type of disruption in the town McCook, Nebraska, by making a deal with the Republican governor to take over a work camp and convert it into another undocumented immigrant holding facility.

That led to lawsuits filed by the town's residents.

Former Watergate prosecutor Nick Akerman thinks that Republicans are trying to catch former special counsel Jack Smith in a perjury trap so they can arrest him for investigating President Donald Trump.

Speaking to MSNBC on Monday morning, Akerman, a former assistant U.S. Attorney in the Southern District of New York, said that it's clear Smith is refusing to speak with Congress unless the testimony is public.

President Donald Trump has approved millions of dollars in disaster aid to states he won in 2024 while denying funds to states that did not back him, but an analyst explained that he was hurting his own supporters in blue states.

The president signed off on aid for Nebraska, North Dakota, Missouri and Alaska, going out of his way to point out that he'd won those states when announcing the funds, but denied requests for relief from Maryland, Vermont and Illinois, and The New Republic's Greg Sargent said Trump was making his intentions clear.

Newsmax legal analyst Andrew Napolitano suggested President Donald Trump was not telling the truth when he claimed that a billionaire's $130 million donation could be used to pay military troops during the government shutdown.

Speaking on Monday, Napolitano reacted to the $130 donation by Timothy Mellon, which Trump promised would "make sure that the military got paid."

President Donald Trump revealed Monday that he had undergone an MRI scan during a recent checkup at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center but has remained tight-lipped about what prompted the examination, leading to one medical expert raising serious questions as to the president’s health.

“It's not part of a routine screening examination,” said Dr. Jonathan Reiner, a CNN medical analyst who’s certified in interventional cardiology and internal medicine, speaking on the network Monday.