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A veteran New York Times reporter spotted a revealing detail in House Speaker Mike Johnson’s response to a news-making bipartisan meeting: his reluctance to anger the president or his inner circle.

Maggie Haberman, who has covered Trump extensively, made the observation Monday on CNN while discussing Johnson’s reaction to Jared Kushner’s private meeting with House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries.

Former federal prosecutor Andrew Weissmann was aghast over new reporting that President Donald Trump intervened directly to broker a sweetheart settlement for the Live Nation concert monopoly case.

Live Nation's anticompetitive practices, partly carried out through its subsidiary Ticketmaster, have unfairly cost millions of people extra to get tickets to live venues, and even some of Trump's own allies, like Kid Rock, have condemned the settlement as a disaster. The new reporting reveals the breakthrough happened when Live Nation retained a law firm Trump himself has used to get out of many legal snafus.

A GOP strategist broke ranks on Monday after the Supreme Court handed down a bombshell ruling on President Donald Trump's mail-in ballot executive order.

The Supreme Court lifted a lower court's injunction preventing the executive order from going into effect on procedural grounds. The narrow order is likely to cause chaos ahead of the midterm elections, which are about 10 weeks away, according to some experts.

A Texas state lawmaker is openly plotting to revive a punishment not seen since America's earliest days: banishing people from the state entirely, with Muslims as his stated target.

Republican state Rep. Andy Hopper laid out the strategy during a presentation at the "Year of the Patriot" conference hosted by the True Texas Project in Fort Worth, People for the American Way reported. The event also featured former Trump administration staffer William Wolfe and white nationalist writer C. Jay Engel.

A feud has erupted between two prominent MAGA figures over allegations that individuals seeking presidential pardons from Donald Trump are being charged for access to the clemency process.

The war of words ratcheted up Monday after Trump pardon czar Alice Marie Johnson warned of “scammers” falsely claiming to represent her or her office, according to an exclusive report from The Daily Beast.

Critics erupted Monday after the Supreme Court cleared the way for President Donald Trump to move forward with an executive order restricting mail-in voting ahead of the midterm elections.

“This court is blatantly corrupt. It’s honestly laughable,” political scientist and author Conor J. Kelly wrote on X minutes after the ruling’s release.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth sparked outrage on Monday after he used a slur in a speech about military preparedness.

Hegseth spoke to a crowd at Oshkosh Corporation in Wisconsin as part of his "Arsenal of Freedom" tour, billed as a way to highlight ongoing efforts to strengthen America's manufacturing base to support military operations. During the speech, Hegseth made one remark that caught the ears of several political analysts.

Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson lost patience with her colleagues who moved on Monday to lift restrictions on President Donald Trump's executive order to restrict mail-in voting.

The order directs the U.S. Postal Service to create new rules that would prevent the delivery of mail-in ballots in states that don't turn over invasive information about their voter rolls to the federal government. Experts have warned that a system like this, implemented just weeks before early voting begins in the midterm elections, could trigger widespread chaos.

The Supreme Court caused an earthquake on Monday after it sided with President Donald Trump's order to restrict mail-in ballots ahead of the 2026 midterms, according to reports.

The court's decision to pause a temporary injunction leaves open the possibility for lower courts to challenge Trump's executive order on mail-in ballots, which places significant restrictions on when the ballots can be used. The order also required the Postal Service to create its own database of voters who vote by mail, the legality of which is still up in the air, according to the Supreme Court.

President Donald Trump's new plan to import hundreds of thousands of tons of beef will spell nothing but disaster, said John Boyd Jr., a cattle and soybean farmer who heads up the National Black Farmers Association, on MS NOW Monday.

"I believe that this is a raw deal," Boyd told anchor Katy Tur, noting that Trump "keeps making the announcement that he loves farmers, he loves cattlemen, and then undermines us with 300,000 metric tons of foreign beef that we don't even know where it's coming from," Boyd noted that there was a significant recall of Argentinian beef imports in the United States.

A stalwart of the GOP sounded the alarm on Monday during an interview on Fox News as one of President Donald Trump's priorities is shaping up to be a massive midterm headache for Republicans.

Trump has strongly defended the build-out of more artificial intelligence data centers across the U.S., a policy position that puts him at odds with 70% of American voters, according to a recent Fox News poll. Karl Rove, a former senior adviser to President George W. Bush, said during a new interview that the issue is creating headwinds for the midterms, which are already shaping up to be a slog for Republicans.

The Pentagon offered clarification Monday on how a prominent MAGA activist who previously received journalist credentials began working for the department.

Jennica Pounds, who operates the influential pro-Trump DataRepublican account on X, now serves at President Donald Trump’s Department of Defense as a special government employee, according to Pounds and the department.