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MS NOW's Rachel Maddow kicked off Monday night's broadcast with a devastating round of mockery for President Donald Trump's recent celebrations to himself.

She set the scene by covering an episode she had already reported on in Philadelphia, where the Trump administration tried to take down memorials to enslaved people at the President's House, only for locals to sue and stop him — but then the National Park Service only restored half the memorials, leaving the entire site looking obviously unfinished.

Kellyanne Conway, a former advisor to President Donald Trump, made a bizarre remark on Monday during a new interview on Fox News.

Conway joined Fox News's Sean Hannity on his eponymous show, where they discussed the contentious Senate race in Maine, where Democratic candidate Graham Platner is seeking to unseat incumbent Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME). During the interview, Conway demanded that Democrats disown Platner because of his extreme views, something she said they once used to cause a divide between Republicans and a high-profile extremist.

Pro-Trump influencers have all suddenly started waging war on Harley-Davidson motorcycles — and it's clearly not an organic movement, Will Sommer wrote for The Bulwark in an analysis published on Monday.

This week, he wrote, "has seen wave after wave of MAGA personalities and meme accounts decide, seemingly out of nowhere, that Harley-Davidson was company non grata." For example, he noted, "MAGA influencer Priya Patel declared the manufacturer 'fundamentally anti-American,' while Hercules actor-turned-tweeter Kevin Sorbo said his friends were abandoning Harley-Davidson en masse." Even Nick Adams, a Trump envoy, boosted the campaign.

President Donald Trump just got a "fast lesson in political gravity" by retreating from his most recent plot to pay his supporters with federal money, according to one analyst.

On Tuesday, reports indicated that the Trump administration is backing down from its plan to create a nearly $1.8 billion so-called "anti-weaponization" fund that would pay people who claimed they were wrongfully prosecuted by the government. The fund received sharp bipartisan criticism after multiple Trump allies and former advisors publicly said they intend to seek compensation from the fund.

One of the Make America Great Again movement's biggest stars shared a blistering warning for President Donald Trump during a new interview on Monday.

Megyn Kelly, who hosts an eponymous radio show on SiriusXM, warned Trump during an interview with Piers Morgan on his YouTube show that he risks sinking the Republican Party's chances in the upcoming 2026 midterm election and the 2028 general election by continuing the disastrous war in Iran. Kelly added that losing the House seems likely, and losing the Senate has become more likely, according to some polling.

A federal judge in Colorado has put a stop to the Trump administration's plans to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, slamming the move as an effort to exact political revenge on the state.

According to The Colorado Sun, Senior U.S. District Judge R. Brooke Jackson called the administration's plans to transfer NCAR's supercomputing facility to the University of Wyoming “arbitrary, capricious, an abuse of discretion, or otherwise not in accordance with law.”

President Donald Trump's Justice Department probe into E. Jean Carroll has one unmistakable purpose — and it isn't a successful prosecution, according to a former U.S. attorney quoted in a new Slate analysis.

Writing in Slate, journalist Shirin Ali cited former U.S. attorney for Alabama Joyce Vance, who argued the reported investigation into the 82-year-old writer is a revenge tactic designed "to intimidate the woman who stands to collect an enormous sum from the president once the appeals in these matters are complete."

The Trump administration repeatedly dismissed internal objections from National Park Service officials regarding a proposal to lease nearly 40 acres of Rock Creek Park in Washington, D.C., to a private operator.

Internal records reveal Park Service employees raised legal, environmental, and ethical concerns about the plan, which includes the Rock Creek Tennis Center, reported The Washington Post.

CNN's Jake Tapper was visibly taken aback by new comments made by election denier and disgraced county clerk Tina Peters after she was released from prison on Monday.

Peters appeared on Steve Bannon's "War Room" podcast after her release, where she claimed that she was sent to jail for exposing a Democratic plot to steal the 2020 election from Donald Trump. Her comments echoed some of the claims she made in court during her case, in which the judge described her as a "charlatan" who was abusing her position of authority to help the Trump campaign in its efforts to overturn the election results.

The conservative Wall Street Journal editorial board delivered a scathing verdict on Donald Trump's handling of Iran, accusing the regime of manipulating the president into rescuing Hezbollah, even as it openly violates ceasefires and fires at American forces.

In an editorial published Monday evening, the editorial board wrote that Iran is "throwing a wrench into negotiations with the U.S., and President Trump spent the rest of the day scrambling to satisfy Iran’s demand." That resulted in a fresh Lebanon ceasefire that handed Hezbollah a reprieve it didn't earn, the editors railed.

House lawmakers have demanded that Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton produce documents related to his lawsuit against ActBlue, a critical Democratic Party fundraising platform, according to the Austin American-Statesman.

This lawsuit alleges that ActBlue failed to act sufficiently to prevent illegal donations from foreigners or people who had already hit their campaign contribution limit.