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A New York Times journalist got heated when a conservative on CNN tried to equate people in the country illegally with criminals during a discussion on whether President Donald Trump is rightfully weighing whether to send federal troops to Chicago to combat crime.

While Trump has not yet sent troops to Chicago, the Trump administration has threatened to send National Guard troops to the city, and detailed planning has been ongoing for weeks.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio is the latest target of fury by a controversial foreign leader hostile to the United States.

According to Bloomberg News, embattled Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro "blasted the White House’s decision to send 4,000 troops and warships to the Caribbean in what Washington calls a counter-narcotics mission," while speaking to reporters in Caracas. "Singling out Secretary of State Marco Rubio, he said the move risks escalating into direct confrontation."

After news that Rudy Giuliani was seriously injured in a crash Saturday night in New Hampshire, President Donald Trump said the former New York City mayor would receive the nation's highest civilian honor.

Giuliani suffered fractured vertebrae and other injuries in a crash near Manchester. According to a statement signed by Michael Ragusa, Giuliani's head of security, the incident occurred after Giuliani "was flagged down by a woman who was the victim of a domestic violence incident."

Although President Donald Trump's administration likes to boast that it puts "American workers first," several news reports published on Monday document the president's attacks on the rights of working people and labor unions.

As longtime labor reporter Steven Greenhouse explained in The Guardian, Trump, throughout his second term, has "taken dozens of actions that hurt workers, often by cutting their pay or making their jobs more dangerous."

President Donald Trump went into a long and confused rant about "crazy" women who spit on "good-looking" men while describing his plan for expanding the use of state mental institutions to lock up homeless people.

The answer was part of a longer interview he gave to the right-wing Daily Caller on Friday, being released in excerpts over the last few days.

Kristi Noem's Department of Homeland Security blasted The New York Times on Monday for its reporting on a migrant who was convicted of murder in 1996 and recently deported to Africa.

The Times ran the headline, "Man Who'd Served His Time In U.S. Is Deported to an African Prison." The first sentence of the story notably mentions that the man, Orville Etoria, shot and killed a man in Brooklyn nearly 30 years ago and was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison.

Former state and federal prosecutor Pat Brady sounded off Monday on Newsmax host Katrina Szish over her defense of President Donald Trump’s looming threat to launch a federal takeover in Chicago, much like the ongoing takeover of Washington, D.C.

“The president's statements that somehow the city of Chicago is this great warzone [are] just not true,” Brady said, who chaired the Illinois Republican Party and is now a GOP strategist. “There are very localized areas on the south and west sides that are horrible, and this is where you see a lot of this crime occur, but if you go to the north side where I live, it's substantially better than it used to be.”

Reacting to comments made by Homeland Security Secretary Kirsti Noem during an appearance on CBS Sunday, the ranking Democratic member of the House Oversight Committee called her out for lying and then proceeded to rake her over the coals.

Appearing on MSNBC with fill-in host Erielle Resheff, Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA) was shown a clip of Noem stating Donald Trump saved Los Angeles from being destroyed by a crime wave.

Republican lawmakers are returning to Washington, D.C., after Labor Day with the dark cloud of the Jeffrey Epstein files waiting for them and no clue where a vote on releasing them will go and what they will reveal.

In his column for The Hill, longtime political observer Juan Williams claimed there are multiple “fires” the GOP –– which has majority control of both chambers –– will have to put out, but none bigger than the Epstein mess that was made worse because Attorney General Pam Bondi had previously stated there was a list of clients linked to the convicted pedophile sitting on her desk.

President Donald Trump is considering declaring a new national emergency later this year to bolster the Republican Party’s prospects in the 2026 midterm elections, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent revealed on Monday.

“We’re trying to figure out what we can do, and we don’t want to step into the business of states, counties, and municipal governments,” Bessent told the Washington Examiner Monday in an exclusive interview. “I think everything is on the table.”

If Donald Trump doesn’t make an attempt to buck the Constitution and run for president once again in 2028, which he has hinted at, his middle son, Eric, has indicated he might like to take his turn in the Oval Office.

According to a report from Newsweek’s Theo Burman, Eric made rumblings about jumping from the Trump family business into a run, likely against a handful of Republicans seeking the MAGA crown and what comes with it.

Jeanine Pirro, the current U.S. attorney for Washington, D.C., announced last month that her office would no longer prosecute residents found in violation of the city’s ban on open carrying long guns, a decision that one gun violence expert warned could produce deadly results.

“Now, especially with the announcement that National Guard members will carry firearms, our nation’s capital has become nothing short of a tinderbox,” wrote Kris Brown, president of the anti-gun violence organization Brady, writing for the Washington Post in an op-ed published Monday.

Former Sen. Kyrsten Sinema is taking credit for portions of President Donald Trump’s "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" according to a new report from the Wall Street Journal, credit that some critics say is undeserved as the one-term lawmaker rakes in hundreds of thousands of dollars from pro-business, cryptocurrency and lobbying organizations.

Sinema, who was elected in Arizona as a Democrat but switched later to an independent as her favorability among Democratic voters plummeted, has launched several ventures since leaving office in January. She leads an Arizona business advocacy group, works at a lobbying and law firm and serves on the council of a cryptocurrency advocacy organization.