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When the Trump administration dismantled USAID in early 2025, one prominent voice cheered the demolition – and now his own Christian aid organization has benefited enormously from the shuttering.

Franklin Graham, son of Billy Graham and CEO of Samaritan's Purse, echoed Elon Musk's unsubstantiated claims of waste and fraud at the agency and expressed confidence that President Donald Trump's team would "make good decisions," and The Bulwark reported he had reason to be confident, because Secretary of State Marco Rubio quickly exempted Samaritan's Purse from the initial aid freeze.

A Donald Trump-endorsed Republican Senate candidate was busted for using artificial intelligence to generate social media posts denouncing data centers.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton endorsed a pause on the construction of data centers introduced by Republican Gov. Greg Abbott in response to the growing backlash against AI and the infrastructure needed to power the tech, and the GOP Senate nominee introduced his own four-point plan on the issue.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent issued a threatening ultimatum Monday with a message that CNN’s Jeremy Diamond said would “ripple around the world.”

Speaking during a press conference at the Treasury Department in Washington, D.C., Bessent unveiled the Trump administration’s new “economic D-Day” plan, officially named Operation Economic Outcast, which is designed to financially squeeze Iran into submission through the use of secondary sanctions and other measures.

President Donald Trump’s unusual technique for waving the starting flag at this weekend’s IndyCar race in Washington, D.C., drew mockery from Jim Acosta’s show on Monday after the moment went viral.

Trump appeared at the event Sunday and is seen in clips waving the green flag to start the Freedom 250 Grand Prix, a first-of-its-kind IndyCar race through the streets of the nation’s capital celebrating America’s 250th anniversary.

Iowa is in play for Democrats in large part because there is a major feeling of betrayal by the state’s farmers aimed at President Donald Trump.

In an interview with MS NOW’s Alex Tabet, Iowa Farmers' Union President Aaron Lehman bluntly stated that the president's policies, including a new plan to bring in imported beef, are doing nothing to help them out of their financial straits and are only making matters worse.

Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) refused to even say Vice President JD Vance's name as she announced she would not join his campaign stop in Maine on Monday.

The move comes as Collins trails former Maine Senate president Troy Jackson, the Democratic nominee, in a race that could determine control of the U.S. Senate, according to recent polling. Vance spoke at Compotech, a defense contractor in Brewer, without her.

The Justice Department pressed the Supreme Court to lift an injunction blocking President Donald Trump's mail-ballot order, even after its only argument had "evaporated."

Trump signed Executive Order 14399 in March, directing the United States Postal Service to impose new requirements on mail-in ballots ahead of the November midterm elections. Federal courts repeatedly blocked it, including with two separate injunctions from a Massachusetts federal judge now barring implementation of the order for the Nov. 3 election.

A former aide to President Jimmy Carter is sounding the alarm over who in the Trump administration wields a handful of lesser-known "extraordinary secret powers" that "essentially" allow the administration to "upend the Constitution," veteran journalist Seymour Hersh reported.

That aide is Joel McCleary, who served as Carter’s deputy assistant, and the Trump administration official is White House Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, who, despite being an “unconfirmed White House aide,” is arguably the “de facto head” of the “machinery” that allows the administration to enact its “secret powers,” McCleary told Hersh.

President Donald Trump lashed out at polling that shows he's underwater in nearly all 50 states.

The 80-year-old president's approval rating has fallen below 40 percent nationwide, and his net job approval is negative in every state except Idaho, West Virginia and Wyoming, although he still enjoys support from more than 80 percent of self-identified Republicans.

Boxing legend Oscar De La Hoya had nothing good to say about a round of golf with President Donald Trump, accusing him of cheating in multiple ways.

According to a report from the Daily Mail, De La Hoya has claimed the president repeatedly bent the rules in his favor during a round they played.

Congressional Democrats are playing hardball on the farm bill, and with the midterms approaching, they appear to see little reason to fold.

The clearest sign came at an Aug. 6 markup, where Democrats blocked the bill from advancing in the Senate Agriculture Committee — pushing any further action to September at the earliest – and they're using SNAP as leverage, reported MS NOW.

The Trump administration’s new plan to financially squeeze Iran and force it back to the negotiating table is dangerously short-sighted, sanctions expert Brett Erickson warned Monday, and ultimately has only two outcomes — both of which carry severe risks.

Revealed by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Sunday, the Trump administration's new plan to force Iran into submission has been called an “economic D-Day,” and would see severe secondary sanctions imposed on any nation or entity providing Iran with financial assistance. However, Trump administration officials have yet to explain how they plan on executing such a plan without sparking a new trade war among the United States’ largest trading partners.