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President Donald Trump's hometown of New York City is reminding the public of just how closely tied he is to deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in a new stunt.

According to The Daily Beast, an art gallery in the Tribeca neighborhood of Manhattan "was transformed into the 'Donald J. Trump & Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Reading Room,' where every document the federal government has released related to Epstein — arguably the country’s most infamous pedophile — can be found. The free installation will close on May 20, but not without a theatrical farewell."

A former senior National Security Council official is warning that President Donald Trump's Beijing summit left Americans dangerously exposed, and that, unlike Richard Nixon's historic China opening, this one will have consequences that can't be undone.

" Trump is getting away with this move politically. Geopolitically, he will not. His new stance imperils Americans and emboldens China, which makes a future crisis likelier than ever," wrote Thomas Wright, a Brookings Institution senior fellow who served as NSC strategic planning director under Biden, in a new Atlantic essay.

The New York Times filed a new lawsuit challenging Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth's press access policy — and going into extensive detail, using an emoji to indicate the clear intent of the policy was to silence freedom of the press.

The policy effectively neutered Pentagon reporters by forcing them, as a condition of receiving Pentagon Facility Alternate Credentials (PFACs), to agree not to publish anything that was the product of leaks from within the administration — something even the vast majority of right-wing outlets refused to agree to.

Onlookers were shocked on Monday after a new image of President Donald Trump's bruised hand began circulating on social media.

Trump has consistently downplayed the bruising on his hands, often suggesting it is from all the handshakes he gives to supporters and political dignitaries. The president has also tried to hide the bruising on his hand by plastering it with makeup. But a new image of Trump's hand during a health care affordability event at the White House sparked fresh health concerns.

House Speaker Mike Johnson told a room full of top Republican donors Monday that he expects his party to net seven to eight additional House seats through mid-decade redistricting, a bullish prediction that signals how aggressively the GOP plans to redraw the map heading into the midterms.

Johnson made the remarks on a panel at his big-donor retreat in Washington alongside National Republican Congressional Committee Chair Richard Hudson and Congressional Leadership Fund president Chris Winkelman, according to a source in the room, per Punchbowl News.

One of President Donald Trump's ambassadors has been linked to a scandal-ridden movement in Canada because of his involvement with a right-wing voting group, according to a new report.

Pete Hoekstra, Trump's ambassador to Canada, has been linked to a separatist group in Alberta that has coordinated with a right-wing group in Michigan called 10xVotes for more than a year, PressProgress reported on Monday. The separatist group, known as the Centurion Project, is under investigation by Canadian authorities after it obtained private information about more than 3 million Alberta voters. A lawyer recently told the CBC that the data breach is one of the “the most significant privacy incidents” in Canadian history.

Airline industry executives are bracing for a worst-case "Armageddon" scenario under President Donald Trump as the Iran war is threatening critical shortages of jet fuel — and they expect that if things get worse, the industry could see more liquidations similar to what happened to Spirit Airlines earlier this year.

According to the Daily Beast, European budget carrier Ryanair's CFO Neil Sorahan told CNBC, “Do we have plans for some kind of Armageddon situation? Of course, we do, but I don’t see that coming to pass. As things stand, we’re operating a full schedule this summer, and plan to operate a full schedule into the winter period.”

A federal judge has blocked the body that oversees state judicial elections in Georgia from issuing ethics criticism against a pair of liberal state Supreme Court candidates, in a sudden new twist in the emerging drama in the race set to take place this week.

According to Atlanta News First, "In a temporary restraining order, U.S. Chief Judge Leslie A. Gardner said the Judicial Qualifications Commission (JQC) cannot issue a non-confidential 'public statement' about the allegations outlined in April notice letters to Jen Jordan and Miracle Rankin, finding that kind of late-campaign disclosure could chill protected political speech without meaningful constitutional review."

A conservative kingmaker appears to be sitting idly by as Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) continues to battle MAGA firebrand Ken Paxton, the Texas attorney general, in the state's heated primary runoff, a sign that President Donald Trump's signature movement is on the fritz, according to a new report.

Leonard Leo has a deep history within Republican politics and the Trump administration. Leo built the Federalist Society into the conservative legal movement's premier organization, which has sent Trump all three of his Supreme Court nominees. Leo also has a roughly $1 billion fund available to support Republican candidates across the country, but has chosen to sit on the sidelines as Paxton and Cornyn compete for a Senate seat, the Washington Examiner reported.

A Florida congressman went on Real America's Voice on Monday and unleashed a kitchen-sink attack on fellow Republican Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) — the latest GOP lawmaker to fall in line behind President Donald Trump's all-out campaign to oust the libertarian-leaning Kentuckian in Tuesday's primary.

Rep. Randy Fine (R-FL), appearing with host Eric Bolling, hurled allegations ranging from ties to Iran to sexual misconduct involving an ex-girlfriend — and didn't stop there.

The former Republican governor of Maryland warned on Monday that the antidote to his party's loss of sanity is getting further away as President Donald Trump's grip on the party tightens.

Larry Hogan told the Washington Post that he has left Trump's Republican Party behind as he enters what he calls his "Zen era." That comes after Hogan was unable to parlay his record-high bipartisan approval ratings into a national job, which he chalked up to Trump's efforts to remake the Republican Party in his image.