Political and legal experts are sounding the alarm after a New York Times deep dive details how Donald Trump and his top allies are planning to massively reorganize the entire executive branch to hand him unprecedented power and decimate the constitutional basis of checks and balances should he win re-election next year.

"Donald J. Trump and his allies are planning a sweeping expansion of presidential power over the machinery of government if voters return him to the White House in 2025, reshaping the structure of the executive branch to concentrate far greater authority directly in his hands," The New York Times' Jonathan Swan, Charlie Savage and Maggie Haberman report.

“It’s not clear whether the troops will actually be deployed,” Politico reports, “but it suggests the U.S. military presence in Europe is under strain.”

The order is to “augment the active Armed Forces of the United States for the effective conduct of Operation Atlantic Resolve,” the President states. Operation Atlantic Resolve was created in 2014 in response to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s unlawful annexation of Crimea from Ukraine.

Scandal-ridden far-right commentator Milo Yiannopoulos has seemingly settled up — financially — with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA).

Yiannopoulos reimbursed Greene’s campaign $7,020.16 on May 12 for “use of campaign credit card for personal use,” according to a new Federal Election Commission filing reviewed by Raw Story.

In November, Yiannopoulos had purchased a campaign website domain for Kanye West’s yet-to-be-launched 2024 presidential campaign using Greene’s campaign credit card.

The House Ethics Committee has re-opened its investigation into U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), who previously was also under investigation by the U.S. Dept. of Justice over whether or not he had sexual relations with a 17-year-old minor and paid for her to travel with him.

“Investigators from the House Ethics Committee have begun reaching out to witnesses as part of a recently revived investigation into Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida, focused on allegations that he may have engaged in sexual misconduct, illicit drug use or other misconduct,” CNN reports Thursday.

Republican U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is defending Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas after numerous well-documented reports and allegations of corruption and scandal related to the close personal and financial relationship he and his wife, Ginni Thomas, have with a billionaire GOP donor, his wife's alleged attempts to promote overturning of the 2020 presidential election results, and his refusal to recuse himself from matters before the court when he has ties to them.

Leader McConnell, more than any other sitting member of the U.S. Senate, has shaped the Supreme Court for decades, helping to push it more and more to the right. His infamous and unprecedented refusal to even allow a single hearing on Merrick Garland, then-President Barack Obama's nominee to replace the late, far-right Justice Antonin Scalia, was later followed by his catapulting Trump nominee Amy Coney Barrett into the high court just weeks before the 2020 election.

Taylor Taranto, the Seattle man who was arrested after he was allegedly found walking toward former President Barack Obama's home must remain in jail before trial, a federal magistrate judge said Wednesday, CNN reports. A former U.S. Attorney responding to news about Taranto, including a list of weapons and other items found in a van reportedly belonging to him that had been parked near the Obamas' Washington, D.C. home, called the report "truly chilling."

That list of items included "guns and hundreds of rounds of ammunition," according to the Associated Press.

Americans learned Wednesday morning the rate of inflation nationally has dropped dramatically, to just 3% annually, down from over 9% one year ago.

But not in Florida, which MarketWatch reports "has the highest inflation in the U.S."