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Nicholas Tartaglione, once the cellmate of Jeffrey Epstein at the Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC) in New York, revealed new details recently about a “pressure” campaign Epstein had been subjected to in the final days before his 2019 death, a campaign that Tartaglione claimed left the disgraced financier “visibly shaken,” and involved President Donald Trump.

The revelations were detailed on Sunday by writers Jessica Reed Kraus and Jay Beecher, who claimed to have spoken with Tartaglione directly.

CNN's Kate Bolduan was startled by the latest polling on President Donald Trump and the economy.

A new survey conducted for CNN by SSRS finds that 77 percent of Americans, including a majority of Republicans, say the 79-year-old president's policies are to blame for the increased cost of living, and his economic approval rating has hit a career-low 30 percent.

CBS News chief Bari Weiss has intensified her contentious overhaul of "60 Minutes," directly inserting herself into high-profile booking decisions and pushing aside longtime correspondent Lesley Stahl — a move that has sparked internal hostility and raised questions about whether the legendary outlet is being dismantled from within.

According to media watchdog Status, Stahl had been pursuing an interview with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for months. However, Weiss personally stepped in and handed the interview to Major Garrett — a CBS News correspondent who does not work for "60 Minutes" and whose only dedicated platform is on the network's little-watched streaming service.

"But behind the scenes, Status has learned that famed '60 Minutes' correspondent Lesley Stahl had also been gunning for the interview but was upstaged by CBS News boss Bari Weiss, who booked Netanyahu herself and handed the interview to Garrett," Oliver Darcy of Status is reporting. "The move sparked hostility and amplified the already strained relationship between Weiss and the reporting team at the iconic newsmagazine."

The report notes that a CBS News spokesperson did not dispute the reporting but defended the decision, telling Status: "It's the editor in chief's job to make decisions about bookings and interviews. Major is a world-class journalist and did a tough, fair, and newsmaking interview."

Weiss' intervention into booking decisions extends beyond the Netanyahu interview. In March, she personally booked Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth for a CBS News interview and assigned it to Garrett, directing it to air on "60 Minutes" — highly unusual for a program that typically reserves major interviews for its own correspondents.

Internal sentiment at "60 Minutes" reflects deep frustration, the report states. When correspondents learned Netanyahu had agreed to appear on the program but the assignment went to Garrett instead of Stahl, tensions escalated rapidly. The feeling inside was that Netanyahu had effectively circumvented Stahl and the "60 Minutes" team — with Weiss facilitating the end-run by providing an interviewer he apparently found more agreeable.

According to Darcy, the decisions reveal how Weiss fundamentally views "60 Minutes": not as an autonomous program with its own traditions and correspondent hierarchy, but as a high-profile platform for CBS News' broader reporting portfolio and does not subscribe to the idea that "60 Minutes" must maintain rigid internal traditions and is expected to dismantle many of them.

Darcy observed that the approach risks undermining the program's identity. "60 Minutes" has maintained its stature and ratings dominance for decades precisely because of institutional traditions and correspondent prestige.

President Donald Trump lashed out early Tuesday morning at a New York Times journalist over their reporting that tied him directly to the contractor the Trump administration had selected to handle renovations of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, denying that he even knew the contractor – despite having praised them weeks earlier.

The Trump administration has sought to renovate the reflecting pool for a cost of $1.8 million, a cost that recently ballooned to $13.1 million. The contractor selected for the project was Atlantic Industrial Coatings, which received a controversial no-bid contract that New York Times journalist David Fahrenthold recently told PBS News bypassed the normal competitive bidding process.

The processed food industry, facing its most hostile political environment in decades, has found an unlikely ally in the very movement threatening it — and is now using the "Make America Healthy Again" wave to pursue federal standards that would undercut tougher state-level rules.

As the Trump administration pressures food makers to voluntarily eliminate synthetic dyes and limit marketing to children, industry lobbyists are quietly working Capitol Hill to lawmakers to establish new federal food standards that would pre-empt a growing patchwork of state regulations that set significantly higher bars for ingredient labeling and restrictions on ultra-processed food in schools, reported Politico.

The co-hosts of MS NOW’s “Morning Joe” piled on Donald Trump for repeatedly nodding off during an Oval Office appearance on Monday afternoon and contrasted that with comments he made in 2024 where he ridiculed “Sleepy Joe” Biden.

To make their case, they ran the Monday video of Trump with his eyes closed for an extended period of time with audio from his interview with podcaster Andrew Schulz.

President Donald Trump attacked the New York Times for coverage of the Reflecting Pool renovation, claiming his administration achieved dramatic cost and time savings compared to previous administrations' efforts.

The Times published a piece called, "Reflecting Pool Repairs to Cost $13.1 Million. Trump Had Promised $1.8 Million." That seemed to trigger the president.

Administration officials are intensifying efforts to secure $1 billion in security funding for President Donald Trump's White House ballroom project, but they're facing growing resistance from Republican lawmakers concerned about the political optics.

Secret Service Director Sean Curran will meet Tuesday with Senate Republicans to pitch the funding as necessary for enhanced White House security and protecting against emerging threats, but several GOP senators are skeptical or outright opposed to approving that funding, reported Politico.

Missouri's legislature stalled on a debate over how to finance new nuclear power plants amid rising electricity demand and utility bills.

The focal point is CWIP, or Construction Work in Progress, which would allow utility companies to charge customers for power plants as they're being built, before generating electricity.

President Donald Trump may send the wrong signals to Chinese President Xi Jinping when he travels to China later this week, and that could ignite a new round of global chaos, according to one analyst.

Trump is scheduled to visit China between May 13 and 15, where he will meet with Xi and perform what is known as the "great kowtow," according to political columnist David Rothkopf of The Daily Beast. He noted during a new episode of "The Daily Beast Podcast" with host Joanna Coles that it will be the first time in American history that the President of the United States visits China while not being the most powerful leader in the world.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) was brutally mocked by political analysts and observers after he made an inadvertent admission during an interview onFox News.

Cruz joined Fox News host Sean Hannity for an interview on Monday, where the two discussed the potential impact of the upcoming midterm elections. Cruz pointed out that Democrats like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) want to pass policies that could stifle entrepreneurial growth in America. However, Cruz may have told too much of the truth in making that point, according to some analysts.

A conservative columnist warned on Monday that her Republican colleagues just made a "tacit admission" about the 2026 midterms that could blow up in their face.

S.E. Cupp, a columnist for CNN, said during a segment on "The Source" with host Kaitlan Collins that Republicans have all but admitted that they don't stand a chance during the midterms with their push for mid-cycle redistricting. While those efforts seem to have paid off so far, Cupp warned that they could energize the Democratic base in a way that thwarts all the time Republicans spent trying to rig the election in their favor.