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The Trump administration repeatedly dismissed internal objections from National Park Service officials regarding a proposal to lease nearly 40 acres of Rock Creek Park in Washington, D.C., to a private operator.

Internal records reveal Park Service employees raised legal, environmental, and ethical concerns about the plan, which includes the Rock Creek Tennis Center, reported The Washington Post.

CNN's Jake Tapper was visibly taken aback by new comments made by election denier and disgraced county clerk Tina Peters after she was released from prison on Monday.

Peters appeared on Steve Bannon's "War Room" podcast after her release, where she claimed that she was sent to jail for exposing a Democratic plot to steal the 2020 election from Donald Trump. Her comments echoed some of the claims she made in court during her case, in which the judge described her as a "charlatan" who was abusing her position of authority to help the Trump campaign in its efforts to overturn the election results.

The conservative Wall Street Journal editorial board delivered a scathing verdict on Donald Trump's handling of Iran, accusing the regime of manipulating the president into rescuing Hezbollah, even as it openly violates ceasefires and fires at American forces.

In an editorial published Monday evening, the editorial board wrote that Iran is "throwing a wrench into negotiations with the U.S., and President Trump spent the rest of the day scrambling to satisfy Iran’s demand." That resulted in a fresh Lebanon ceasefire that handed Hezbollah a reprieve it didn't earn, the editors railed.

House lawmakers have demanded that Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton produce documents related to his lawsuit against ActBlue, a critical Democratic Party fundraising platform, according to the Austin American-Statesman.

This lawsuit alleges that ActBlue failed to act sufficiently to prevent illegal donations from foreigners or people who had already hit their campaign contribution limit.

President Donald Trump just suffered one of the biggest self-inflicted wounds of his second term, according to one legal expert.

On Tuesday, sources inside the Trump administration claimed that the $1.776 billion so-called "anti-weaponization" fund had effectively been killed after Trump met with Republican leaders at the White House. The fund was created as part of a settlement between Trump's Department of Justice and the IRS over the president's leaked tax returns. It sought to pay claims by people who alleged they had been improperly prosecuted by the government, and multiple of Trump's allies had publicly said they would seek payments. Both Republicans and Democrats sharply criticized the idea.

President Donald Trump unloaded on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a curse-filled phone call Monday, blasting the Israeli leader over the country's escalating military campaign in Lebanon, according to a bombshell Axios report citing two U.S. officials and a third source briefed on the conversation.

"You're fucking crazy. You'd be in prison if it weren't for me. I'm saving your ass. Everybody hates you now. Everybody hates Israel because of this," Trump told Netanyahu, according to one U.S. official's summary of the remarks.

Country singer Alexis Wilkins, girlfriend of FBI Director Kash Patel, filed a defamation lawsuit against MS NOW on Friday, claiming the outlet "knowingly and recklessly published lies" about her.

The lawsuit challenges a December story citing anonymous sources alleging Patel directed FBI agents to drive Wilkins's drunk friend home after a Nashville gathering, The New Republic reported. Wilkins's legal team characterized the reporting as "hogwash," asserting she is 27 years old and "does not drink."

A spokesperson for Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth caught heat from political analysts and observers on Monday after making a wild claim about the department's "transparency" on social media.

"This is the most transparent War Department in history. No amount of spin from the Fake News media will change that," Joel Valdez, the acting press secretary for DoD, posted on his official X account.

Rep. Tom Kean Jr. (R-NJ) has been mystifying Capitol Hill for months with his protracted absence due to an unspecified medical issue. Now he's introducing legislation — even though he hasn't actually returned to work yet.

According to NOTUS, Kean "became the lead sponsor of H.R.9061" on Friday — a bill that would require clear guidance from the federal government to states on whether to cover early screenings for preeclampsia, a life-threatening pregnancy complication, in Medicaid and CHIP.

Former Brazilian model Amanda Ungaro made explosive claims about first lady Melania Trump over the weekend, tying her to the Jeffrey Epstein scandal, according to a new report.

In a since-deleted post on X, Ungaro claimed that Melania Trump was one of Epstein's escorts, and that is how she was introduced to her husband, President Donald Trump, the Daily Beast reported. Ungaro shared a WhatsApp recording on X in which she accused her former partner, Paolo Zampolli, one of Trump's appointees to the Kennedy Center's Board of Trustees, of lying about introducing the Trumps in 1998, the report added.

The American Civil Liberties Union is filing a lawsuit against the Trump administration over conditions at the controversial Camp East Montana migrant facility near El Paso, Texas, alleging that the site is turning into a "civil rights catastrophe."

According to ABC News, civil rights organizations "are accusing Immigration and Customs Enforcement of subjecting immigrant detainees to wide-ranging 'inhumane' conditions and treatment, including physical abuse, sexual harassment, 'abhorrent medical care,' spoiled food, and inappropriate use of force" — all of which comes after a series of suspicious deaths at the facility.

Financial experts sounded alarms over Elon Musk's SpaceX being fast-tracked into major market indexes like the S&P 500 and Nasdaq-100, potentially forcing millions of Americans to unknowingly invest retirement funds in the unprofitable company.

Content creator Zack Nelson warned, "The richest guy on the planet is about to rob your 401K."