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FBI Director Kash Patel made good on his threat to sue The Atlantic over a report about his alleged excessive drinking, but not everyone was convinced that was a wise decision.

The complaint filed Monday alleges The Atlantic Monthly Group LLC and its staff writer Sarah Fitzpatrick published "an article replete with false and obviously fabricated allegations designed to destroy Director Patel's reputation and drive him from office," and Patel is seeking $250 million in damages and other actions deemed by the court.

President Donald Trump’s ongoing feud with Pope Leo XIV – along with his sharing of an image on social media depicting him as a Jesus Christ-like figure – has soured Catholics nationwide, many of whom say that Trump’s quarrel with the head of the Catholic Church was beyond defensible.

“The reactions were definitely like, you know, who would do something like that?” said Max D’Amore, a student at Villanova University, a private Catholic research institution in Pennsylvania, speaking with The New York Times for its report Monday.

President Donald Trump warned that Iran would be on the receiving end of "lots of bombs" if the country's leaders did not negotiate with the U.S. before a ceasefire ends on Tuesday.

In a Monday interview, PBS asked Trump about what would happen if the ceasefire with Iran expired on Tuesday.

President Donald Trump took to social media Monday to insist that the decision to launch a war against Iran was entirely his own, a remark that comes amid growing claims that Israel had “pulled” him into the conflict.

“Israel never talked me into the war with Iran, the results of Oct. 7th, added to my lifelong opinion that IRAN CAN NEVER HAVE A NUCLEAR WEAPON, did,” Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social.

FBI Director Kash Patel has reportedly filed a lawsuit against The Atlantic after the outlet revealed that colleagues were worried about his alleged drinking problem.

"Kashyap P. Patel, the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, brings this lawsuit to hold Defendants The Atlantic Monthly Group LLC and its staff writer, Sarah Fitzpatrick, accountable for a sweeping, malicious, and defamatory hit piece published on April 17, 2026," Patel's lawsuit begins.

President Donald Trump is on an extended losing streak that rivals the New York Mets' 11-game skid, according to a new analysis.

CNN's Harry Enten examined recent polling that shows Americans have soured on the 79-year-old president's economic record, and he expressed surprise by how long his numbers have remained below water.

Despite President Donald Trump’s disputed claim that the United States is engaged in peace talks with Iran, multiple White House officials predicted that the U.S. war against Iran is likely to “significantly intensify," and “very soon,” Zeteo reported on Monday.

Launched on Feb. 28, the U.S. war against Iran has sent tremors through the world economy, frustrating the White House and prompting Trump to issue a genocidal threat earlier this month to destroy Iran’s entire civilization. While Trump ultimately backed down from his threat, he re-issued it on Sunday, vowing to destroy Iran’s civilian infrastructure should they not agree to end the conflict on the White House’s terms.

Far-right gadfly Nick Fuentes has discovered that peddling racism and misogyny is extremely profitable –– and that has Republicans nervous.

The 27-year-old far-right extremist has amassed approximately $900,000 from his online followers since 2025 — funds he's using to build what he calls an "invisible empire" of infiltrators positioned throughout American institutions.

According to a Washington Post analysis using AI technology to survey approximately 1,400 hours of Fuentes's livestreams, the money flows through multiple revenue streams: superchats where donors pay for on-screen visibility, swastika-imprinted merchandise, and $100-a-month subscriptions to a private chatroom where he talks with devotees.

Fuentes is explicit about his mission. "We're an invisible empire. We're building a cadre of professionals, money people, bureaucrats, and we need them to all be waving the flag, but quietly, ideologically, loyally. … We've got to be underground," he told donors during a January stream.

Rachel Benavidez, one of 10 women who say they were groomed or assaulted at Jeffrey Epstein’s New Mexico compound, broke her silence Monday for the first time since the Justice Department (DOJ) released Epstein files in January, saying it was not “too late for the truth to come out” about possible co-conspirators.

“I don’t think it’s too late for the truth to come out about people that were involved and helped him and turned a blind eye to his crimes,” Benavidez told NBC News in its report Monday.

Escalating tensions between Pope Leo XIV and President Donald Trump are being shaped by an unusual factor: the pope's native fluency in English, which eliminates traditional Vatican diplomatic buffers and amplifies his political impact in the United States.

Unlike previous popes who relied on translation, Leo speaks culturally attuned English that mirrors American political discourse, and this linguistic advantage removes what Vatican officials historically used as a diplomatic tool — ambiguity in translation that softened or reframed controversial papal statements after they sparked backlash, reported Axios.