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First lady Melania Trump told the United Nations that she hoped the children of the world could experience "peace" just days after her husband, the president of the United States, was said to have bombed an Iranian girls' school because of outdated maps.

While presiding over the UN Security Council on Monday, Melania Trump made a statement in her "capacity as first lady of the United States."

Internal documents reviewed by The Washington Post reveal the Trump administration's sweeping effort to scrub America's parks of inconvenient truths, from slavery to civil rights to climate science.

The submissions paint a picture of park rangers scrambling to comply with orders to remove content deemed "disparaging" to America. At Cape Hatteras, officials flagged a brochure mentioning aviator Samuel Langley's failed flight attempts. At Glen Canyon, staff questioned whether condor conservation displays might offend hunters.

Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos predicted severe consequences following Paramount Skydance's acquisition of Warner Bros., a deal finalized after Netflix withdrew from the bidding war in late February. Sarandos characterized Paramount's bid as "unusual" and "irrational," warning it could be seismic for the U.S. media landscape. According to Sarandos, Paramount plans cost-cutting exceeding $16 billion within 18 months, with production and personnel representing the largest expense targets. This will result in reduced production output and significant job losses across the industry. Sarandos expressed confidence Netflix will benefit from the upheaval, though he stated he hopes his predictions prove wrong "for the sake of the industry." The Paramount Skydance deal, led by the Trump-supporting Ellison family, includes major assets like CNN and HBO Max, financed primarily through debt.

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In a seismic admission of defeat, the Trump administration's Justice Department is abandoning its legal defense of an executive order that would have punished law firms that had represented clients against his prior policies or legal woes.

According to the Wall Street Journal, the DOJ is expected to "drop its appeals of four trial-court rulings that struck down President Trump’s actions against law firms Jenner & Block, WilmerHale, Perkins Coie, and Susman Godfrey."

Charlie Kirk Show hosts Blake Neff and Andrew Kolvet called for journalist Mehdi Hasan, a naturalized U.S. citizen, to be deported because he opposed the Department of Education hanging a banner of Kirk because he called college a "scam."

During a Charlie Kirk show broadcast on Monday, Neff and Kolvet appeared irate about Hasan's opposition to President Donald Trump's Education Department's decision to celebrate Kirk.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth defended Joint Chiefs General Dan Caine's explanation of the Iran war's trajectory Monday, then attacked reporters for questioning the evolving timeline. After initially suggesting the conflict would last two weeks, the administration now indicates four weeks. Hegseth accused NBC of asking "gotcha" questions, insisting Trump has "all the latitude in the world" to adjust timelines as needed. He claimed Trump possesses abilities other presidents lack, including finding "opportunities and off ramps" while executing objectives on the U.S. timeline. Hegseth criticized former President Biden for not understanding military strategy. He dismissed reporters' questions about war duration as "games," praising Trump as "no better communicator" for expressing military intentions. The defense secretary's combative response reflected administration defensiveness over shifting war projections and escalating conflict duration estimates.

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Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem's latest legal argument for blocking Democratic members of Congress from unscheduled inspections of immigration detention facilities just got rejected by a federal court.

In a new order released on Monday, U.S. District Judge Jia Cobb ruled in favor of 13 representatives who sued Immigration and Customs Enforcement after they were denied access to detention facilities.

On Monday, Donald Trump took time out during his first live address to the nation about the war he set in motion on Iran early Saturday to boast about the gold White House drapes he claims he personally selected.

Combining the presidential address with a presentation of awarding the Medal of Honor to three Army soldiers before a packed room, the president went off script, as is his custom, and pointed out that the drapes behind him concealed the area where his ballroom will be constructed.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth defended the Iran attack at a Pentagon press conference, dismissing traditional U.S. allies as "pearl-clutching" while attacking the press for spreading "fake news." He boasted that Israel had "clear missions" and criticized allies for opposing military force. Most controversially, Hegseth promised "no stupid rules of engagement," triggering alarm among national security experts on social media. Former Chicago Tribune editor Mark Jacobs warned the statement means abandoning Geneva Conventions and international humanitarian law. Democratization Policy Council founder Toby Vogel cautioned the approach is "a great way to go to jail for war crimes." Academic Lee Papa emphasized rules of engagement protect troops and civilians. National security analyst Stephanie Carvin called the position "nihilism." Journalist Will Harris noted many generals view Hegseth as incompetent.

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