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A former aide to President Donald Trump warned that his policies are fueling a rural collapse that could cost Republicans their Senate majority.

For three presidential campaigns, Trump made American farmers a cornerstone of his political coalition, handing out green "Make Our Farmers Great Again" hats at rallies and winning their votes each time, but in 2026, that loyalty is being put to its most severe test yet, wrote conservative activist Marc Short for the Washington Post.

For months, President Donald Trump has urged Congress to fund his administration’s immigration enforcement agencies which have lacked regular appropriations since mid-February, but in recent weeks, a new priority has captured the president’s attention, one that risks jeopardizing his goal of financially supporting his immigration crackdown.

Trump’s latest focus has been his so-called “anti-weaponization fund,” a taxpayer-funded $1.8 billion fund dedicated to awarding payouts to those who’ve claimed to be unfairly targeted by the Biden administration’s Justice Department, including violent and criminally convicted Jan. 6 Capitol rioters.

MS NOW's Jonathan Lemire struggled to make sense of President Donald Trump's latest weekend social media posting spree.

The 79-year-old president posted dozens of times across more than 12 hours Saturday, including a lengthy tirade against a federal judge and numerous AI-generated memes celebrating himself in fantastical scenarios, and the "Morning Joe" host attempted to describe the posts to viewers.

Financial experts sounded the alarm Monday over what some have described as a financial “coup” being carried out by Elon Musk, Tesla’s CEO and fierce ally to President Donald Trump, one that could see tens of millions of Americans unknowingly prop up his unprofitable company SpaceX through their retirement accounts.

“The richest guy on the planet is about to rob your 401K,” warned content creator Zack Nelson, writing in a social media post Sunday on X to his nearly 1 million followers.

While the public has been focused on the occasional high-profile clash between President Donald Trump and the Supreme Court, the court's conservative supermajority has been quietly using the shadow docket to hand Trump something far more consequential — effective control of the federal government — and legal analysts say that work is now largely complete.

That is the central argument of a new piece by Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern in Slate, who say the popular narrative of a principled Chief Justice John Roberts standing up to Trump conceals a far more troubling reality.

Newly released files reveal that Jeffrey Epstein quietly banked his sperm for years before his 2019 death and explicitly arranged for it to remain preserved rather than be destroyed if he died — raising urgent legal and ethical questions that remain unanswered.

Documents in the Department of Justice files show the late sex offender deposited sperm with California Cryobank before October 2012 and signed a renewed storage contract in May 2016, and that contract stipulated that upon his death, the samples would fall under the control of his estate or a legal representative, reported the New York Times.

Conservative commentator and influencer Dave Rubin, who was recently branded as the “dumbest man on the internet” after a video compilation of his failed predictions went viral, was hounded by critics again Sunday night after failing to name a single metric that has improved under the Trump administration.

“What is one main metric that Donald Trump has made better off since he got an office?” Rubin was asked during a debate hosted by Jubilee Media and published online Sunday. “An example would be GDP, unemployment, inflation, et cetera.”

President Donald Trump declared he's not concerned about Republicans facing a midterm reckoning this fall, but a columnist noted the frantic moves he's making that show otherwise.

The soon-to-be-80-year-old president insisted "I don't care about the midterms" at last week's cabinet meeting, drawing cheers from Democrats and gasps from political commentators, and blithely dismissed voters concerns about gas prices and other high consumer costs, but New York Times columnist Frank Bruni said those statements are just for show.

Senate Democrats are mounting a coordinated campaign to eliminate a controversial $1.8 billion "anti-weaponization" fund created by the Justice Department, with Minority Leader Chuck Schumer vowing to use every procedural tool available to force the issue to a vote.

In a letter to Democratic colleagues Monday, Schumer announced that Senate Democrats would pursue multiple legislative avenues to shut down the fund, which critics have labeled a taxpayer-funded slush fund benefiting President Donald Trump and his allies, including former January 6 defendants, reported NBC News.

President Donald Trump revealed early Monday morning that his efforts to negotiate an end to his deeply unpopular war against Iran were being compromised by “chirping” critics, whom he pleaded with to stop, “sit back and relax.”

“Iran really wants to make a deal, and it will be a good one for the U.S.A. and those that are with us,” Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social.

President Donald Trump just received an astounding rebuke from the legal community that reveals how much worse his second administration is compared to his first, according to two experts.

Attorneys Brian Kabateck and Shant Karnikian discussed a recent survey that found 94% of judges and lawyers believe the second Trump administration poses a greater threat to the rule of law than the first in a new episode of their podcast "Civil Action." Karnikian argued that the survey results were "astounding" and showed just how much Trump has eroded faith in America's institutions.