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During the Monday episode of The Rachel Maddow Show, Maddow expressed disapproval of NBC News' hiring of former Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel as a political analyst, detailing how the ex-GOP leader "pushed conspiracy theories about the 2020 presidential election and attacked the network's own journalists."

Maddow emphasized how NBC's decision to tap McDaniel for the position "is like hiring a 'mobster to work in a D.A.'s office' or a 'pickpocket to work as a TSA strainer.'"

Raymond Arroyo — a frequent guest and occasional substitute host on Laura Ingraham's primetime Fox News show — has been noticeably absent since a racially insensitive remark he made last month spread across the internet.

During a February appearance on Ingraham's show, Arroyo — who is white — was lauding former President Donald Trump's new gold-painted sneakers that sell for roughly $400 a pair. He argued that Trump rolling out branded sneakers could make him more palatable to Black voters because "they love sneakers."

Kari Lake appears to be admitting defeat in a defamation lawsuit brought against her by Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer.

The Republican running for a seat in the U.S. Senate formally requested a motion default judgment — asking a jury to decide how much she owes in damages and sparing her from having to turn over information at the discovery phase, according to Vote Beat.

Former Fox News and CBS reporter Lara Logan went off the rails in a segment on Steve Bannon's "War Room," concocting an elaborate conspiracy theory that the Baltimore bridge disaster was actually a cyberattack directed against the United States — and somehow tied it to theories that the 2020 presidential election was rigged.

"This is what you call death by 1,000 cuts," said Logan. "It is an absolutely catastrophic attack on critical infrastructure and you cannot see it because a cyberattack is unseen, just like the attack on 2020, on the voting machines that you cannot see."

Just hours after a deadly container ship crash that destroyed the Francis Scott Key Bridge over Baltimore Harbor, a Utah Republican is sure he knows what really caused the disaster.

According to Utah news site KSL, state Rep. Phil Lyman of Blanding, who is challenging incumbent Gov. Spencer Cox, suggested in a post on X that the problem was caused by diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives — a policy that has been subject to frequent attacks from the right.

Going after the "Biden Crime Family" is costing House Oversight Chair James Comer (R-KY) and his family dearly — so he's passing around a figurative collection plate in the form of an email to raise support.

“I ask you to take the time to read this email in its entirety,” writes Comer, who along with Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan (R-OH), have been spearheading an impeachment inquiry hinged on the theory that Biden laundered international bribes through his son Hunter's foreign business dealings.

It's official: Ronna McDaniel will not be hired as a contributor for NBC News after all.

The widely-reported hire of the outgoing Republican National Committee chair triggered outrage from much of the network's audience and from its reporters and staff, owing to McDaniel's propagation of 2020 election conspiracy theories and her attacks on the network's own reporters.

Donald Trump's valet's grand jury testimony may soon be released publicly.

Judge Aileen Cannon is likely to unseal the transcript of testimony from the former president's former personal assistant Walt Nauta after a Washington, D.C., court transferred jurisdiction of the case to her, Newsweek reports.

Donald Trump last week told a court he could not secure a $454 million bond, but he was reportedly “more than $5 billion richer” Tuesday and saw his net worth “more than double” in the space of just hours, all thanks to the parent company of his Truth Social social media platform that went public Monday and began trading Tuesday morning.

“Former President Donald J. Trump’s social media company soared in its first day of trading on the Nasdaq on Tuesday,” The New York Times reported, just before market close, “giving the company an estimated market value of more than $8 billion, larger than established corporations like Mattel, Alaska Airlines and Western Union.”

Democrats are taking aim at Jared Kushner, sending a letter to Republicans on the Oversight Committee asking them to hold a hearing into Donald Trump's son-in-law's overseas business deals.

According to a The New York Times report, a plan by Kushner and his business partners to redevelop a prized location in Serbia’s capital is similar to interest expressed by Trump a decade ago in pursuing a deal for the site "and a similar proposal pushed during his White House term by a top aide" who now works with Kushner.

The Supreme Court appeared hostile to the arguments of right-wing doctors seeking a nationwide ban of the abortion drug mifepristone during Tuesday, but MSNBC legal expert Dahlia Lithwick doesn't think access to this medication is safe — even if its opponents end up losing the case.

That's because, she argued, some of the justices appeared to be entertaining the idea that they'd rule against mifepristone access if a different set of plaintiffs using a different legal theory brought the case to them.

While the U.S. Supreme Court remains firmly in the hands of conservative justices who were appointed during Donald Trump's presidency, a now-retired justice says in a new book and a recent interview that their "theories of constitutional and statutory interpretation" will not work out well for the country — and are doomed to fail.

Former Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer has written the book, "Reading the Constitution: Why I Chose Pragmatism, Not Textualism." In it, he slams the approach of conservative justices and their methods of interpretation.

Former President Donald Trump furiously defended his health care policy in a typo-ridden rant posted to his Truth Social platform Tuesday.

Among other things, Trump appeared to disavow the idea that he and the Republican Party would repeal the Affordable Care Act, which was a massive point of controversy during Trump's term as president as efforts to get rid of it ended in failure.