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A number of high-ranking Israeli officials are openly defying President Donald Trump and his Gaza peace plan amid the president’s visit to Jerusalem on Monday, publicly rejecting key elements of his proposal on social media.

“Israel’s defense minister says the bombing will continue after they get their hostages back,” wrote British journalist and former MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan in a social media post on Sunday. “Don’t say you weren’t warned.”

The U.S. Supreme Court seems almost certain to side with President Donald Trump in an upcoming challenge to his authority to fire government officials for any reason, but a leading conservative legal scholar sent a warning that could give the justices pause.

University of Virginia law professor Caleb Nelson, a leading originalist scholar whose work has been cited by all of the court's conservative members in more than a dozen opinions, published an article Sept. 29 for the Democracy Project that has sent shockwaves through the legal community, reported the New York Times.

As the government shutdown rolls into its second week, some Republicans are not happy that Donald Trump took away one weapon they had hoped to use to get Democrats to bend to their will.

According to a report on Monday from Politico, there is little light at the end of the tunnel as the government shutdown rumbles on, with the GOP leadership now saying it will no longer let Democrats call for their own stopgap spending bill to fund the government until the end of the month — instead allowing only Republican alternatives.

The MAGA world went into meltdown over the weekend as one of its own turned her back on the core of Donald Trump's presidential agenda.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene — who's been worrying Trump's administration for days as she became a vocal critic of some of its actions — announced over the weekend that the president's hardline crackdown on undocumented immigrants had gone too far.

A prominent voting rights attorney warned Sunday that an upcoming Supreme Court decision could create a "five-alarm fire" for voters ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.

Marc Elias, founder of the Elias Law Group, discussed the Supreme Court's upcoming decision in Louisiana v. Callais, a case that could determine whether states are allowed to racially gerrymander their election maps, during an episode of the "Democracy Watch" podcast with progressive YouTuber Brian Tyler Cohen.

A majority of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention staffers who were laid off during President Donald Trump's recent "chaos" have returned to work, according to a new report.

CNN reported that 700 of the 1,300 staffers who were fired after receiving an incorrect layoff notification on Friday have been reinstated, citing figures provided by a union representing federal workers. A spokesperson for the Department of Health and Human Services told CNN that the employees received layoff notices because of a coding error in the messages.

Former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner revealed on Sunday that President Donald Trump may have already given his former national security advisor "a defense" against a potential indictment.

The Trump administration is expected to unveil a slate of charges against former Trump National Security Advisor John Bolton this week over allegedly mishandling classified information, according to multiple reports. Bolton would be the latest in a long line of political enemies Trump is seeking to prosecute.

Progressive YouTuber Brian Tyler Cohen chastised President Donald Trump on Sunday for a strange, late-night post on Truth Social that Cohen said shows "there is truly no one he has more contempt for than his own voters."

Late Saturday night, Trump posted on Truth Social that former President Joe Biden placed "274 FBI agents" in the crowd during the January 6 insurrection.

MSNBC host Rachel Maddow exposed the strategy behind President Donald Trump's latest series of legal moves during an interview on Sunday afternoon.

Maddow joined MSNBC's Al Sharpton on his show "PoliticsNation" to discuss the Trump administration's decision to indict some of Trump's political enemies. Over the last couple of weeks, Trump's lawyers have indicted former FBI Director James Comey with lying to Congress and obstruction of justice, and charged New York Attorney General Letitia James with mortgage fraud. Both Comey and James have denied the allegations made against them.

A music analyst revealed on Sunday that a new song by one of America's most popular country artists has exposed the "cracks" in President Donald Trump's MAGA base.

Dominic Patten, executive politics editor for Deadline.com, discussed country star Zach Bryan's new song "Bad News," which talks about the impact of the Trump administration's immigration enforcement operations, on MSNBC's "Deadline White House: Weekend" with Nicole Wallace on Sunday.

One of President Donald Trump's top allies bashed the administration's decision to allow Qatar to build a military facility on American soil during an interview on Sunday.

Steve Bannon, host of the "War Room" podcast, discussed the administration's decision on a new episode of "Bolling!" on the MAGA-aligned network Real America's Voice. The interview happened about a day after the Trump administration announced it would allow Qatar to build a military facility in Idaho.

President Donald Trump's latest moves put Republicans in "jeopardy" ahead of the 2026 midterm election, one GOP analyst revealed on Sunday.

Former Rep. Carlos Curbelo, a Republican who represented Florida from 2015 to 2019, said on Sunday that Trump's efforts to prosecute his political opponents could cause Republicans to lose voters from the "political middle." That could significantly hinder the party's efforts to retain control of the House and Senate following the election.

President Donald Trump issued a winding threat to American universities on Sunday, saying the institutions are "corrupting our youth and society."

"Throughout most of our History, America’s Colleges and Universities have been a Great Strategic Asset of the United States," Trump posted on Truth Social on Sunday. "Tragically, however, much of Higher Education has lost its way, and is now corrupting our Youth and Society with WOKE, SOCIALIST, and ANTI-AMERICAN Ideology that serves as justification for discriminatory practices by Universities that are Unconstitutional and Unlawful."