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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement was rocked Monday as a former agency lawyer blasted the Trump administration for gutting critical training programs while rushing to hire thousands of new officers.

Ryan Schwank, who recently trained cadets at the ICE academy in Georgia, accused the agency of slashing 240 hours from its 584-hour training program, The Hill reported. During his testimony, Schwank described the cuts as rendering the curriculum "deficient, defective and broken."

Mark Epstein, the brother of disgraced financier and convicted sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein, abruptly ended an interview on Monday after he was asked about the victims of his brother's crimes.

Epstein joined journalist Piers Morgan on his eponymous YouTube show, where he was asked about the latest release of files from the FBI's investigation into his brother. Epstein claimed the files added credence to his theory that Jeffrey was murdered while in jail. He also claimed that the FBI has been playing "games" to portray his brother's death as a suicide.

President Donald Trump announced last week that a U.S. Naval hospital ship was en route to Greenland, sparking outrage at yet another imperialist move on the Danish territory despite its residents' repeated insistence they have no interest in joining the United States. Trump cited a supposed public health crisis going on in Greenland, without any details or explanation.

But according to the Wall Street Journal, no such hospital ship on the way.

New evidence has emerged that the Florida attorney general's office incited protests against a lawmaker who was investigating him.

According to the Tampa Bay Times, "In an apparent bout of political payback, a spokesperson for [James] Uthmeier reached out to faith groups falsely alleging that Rep. Alex Andrade was proposing cutting funding for the chain of anti-abortion clinics known as the Florida Pregnancy Care Network. Uthmeier’s spokesperson asked groups to protest and carry signs in the House budget committee Andrade oversees on Monday."

Another MAGA lawmaker said on Monday that she's lost all faith in the Trump Department of Justice to hold anyone in the U.S. accountable for the crimes of disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.

Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) discussed the renewed calls for Trump's DOJ to arrest and prosecute people who aided in Epstein's crimes on a new episode of "Piers Morgan Uncensored" on Monday. Mace's comments happened at a time when authorities in the United Kingdom appear to be ramping up efforts to hold Epstein associates Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and Peter Mandelson accountable for their actions.

President Donald Trump raged on Monday at alleged "fake news" reports that his administration is considering going to war with Iran.

Speculation grew last week that the Trump administration would approve a new series of strikes against Iran. The New York Times reported on Sunday that Trump administration officials met in the Situation Room last Wednesday to discuss their options. Negotiators from Iran are scheduled to meet with their U.S. counterparts this week to go over a final offer, the Times reported.

President Donald Trump's SAVE Act, an aggressive attempt to curtail voting rights, has earned a Republican opponent in the Senate.

The bill would place nationalized voter ID requirements, put draconian new restrictions on the process of registering to vote, and require voter rolls be purged more aggressively using an infamously unreliable Homeland Security system that frequently flags citizens as noncitizens. It has already earned support from almost the entire Republican Senate caucus, but Republicans currently lack the votes to either overcome a Democratic filibuster or change the Senate rules to avert one.

One of MAGA's most prominent supporters seems to have gained notoriety within the movement on the backs of social media bots, according to a report.

Nicki Minaj, a Grammy Award-winning rapper, has spent the last year or more steadily shifting her brand toward MAGA and away from traditional pop culture. That shift has included attacks against prominent Democrats like California Gov. Gavin Newsom and repeating MAGA talking points about former President Joe Biden's health and his economy. Minaj was also present at the White House for the launch of President Donald Trump's so-called "Trump Accounts" and was pictured on the red carpet alongside the first lady for the premiere of her self-titled documentary.

An order by U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon to keep special counsel Jack Smith's investigation report into the classified document case of President Donald Trump under wraps may face legal challenges that could reverse her decision. Cannon, a Donald Trump-appointed judge accused of running interference for the president, ruled that Smith was illegally appointed and his investigation invalid. She characterized the report's compilation as "a concerning breach of the spirit of the Dismissal Order." However, legal analyst Lisa Rubin noted that while the Department of Justice and indictment-affected parties did not contest Cannon's ruling, two public interest groups—American Oversight and the Knight First Amendment Institute—have attempted to intervene. Though Cannon denied their intervention request, both groups are appealing. If the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals determines these groups have standing in the case, Cannon's order could be reversed.

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The U.S. women's Olympic hockey team declined an invitation to attend President Donald Trump's State of the Union speech on Tuesday. USA Hockey released a statement expressing gratitude for the invitation and acknowledging the team's gold medal achievement, though the statement was widely interpreted as a polite rejection. Social media commentators suggested the team's response amounted to effectively telling Trump to "go to hell." The rejection comes after Trump expressed reluctance about inviting the women's team during a phone call with the men's hockey team, which also won gold at the Olympics. Trump told the men's team he would need to invite the women's team, adding that if he didn't, he "probably would be impeached."

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Joshua Orta, a key witness in the controversial ICE killing of 23-year-old U.S. citizen Rubén Ray Martínez, died Saturday in an unrelated vehicle crash in San Antonio, Texas. Orta's death raises concerns about the ongoing investigation into Martínez's death, which occurred last March but was not reported by the Department of Homeland Security at the time. DHS claimed an ICE agent shot Martínez in self-defense after he struck the agent with a vehicle. However, Orta, who was present during the encounter, disputed this account, stating neither he nor Martínez resisted ICE officers. Alex Stamm, lawyer for Martínez's mother, emphasized that Orta's testimony was critical and called for all evidence to be made public. DHS maintained its original account of the incident following Orta's death.

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President Donald Trump suggested at an Angel Families event Monday that he would like to send unemployed Americans to other countries. Trump claimed other nations have sent their undesirable residents and criminals to the U.S., taking advantage of what he characterized as weak border policies. He stated he understands the strategy and would implement it if given the opportunity. Trump quoted world leaders as saying they saved "hundreds of millions of dollars" by emptying their populations onto the U.S. Angel Families, whose members have lost loved ones to crimes committed by individuals in the country unlawfully, were present at the event. Trump also revisited debunked claims about the 2020 election being rigged, telling attendees that without election fraud, "every single one of the people in this room right now would not be here."

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