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Donald Trump may not be the only one in his administration held to account if the International Criminal Court in The Hague decides to take up accusations against the American president.

In a column for the Wall Street Journal, conservative George Mason University Scalia Law School professor Eugene Kontorovich suggested Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth might want to be careful when they travel abroad after they leave their jobs.

President Donald Trump insisted that young people owed him "big" for his role in a deal that allowed TikTok to continue operating in the U.S.

Although the Chinese government has not approved the deal, Trump recently signed an executive order allowing a joint venture led by billionaire Larry Ellison to run TikTok.

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced that she would be deploying federal agents to the 2025 Super Bowl following the announcement that Puerto Rican singer Bad Bunny would be the halftime show performer — and Whoopi Goldberg sees it as a perfect time to punk ICE.

Noem's promise suggests that Bad Bunny — who is a U.S. citizen as he is from a U.S. territory — will bring with him immigrant fans, despite the astronomical price of a Super Bowl ticket.

Democratic lawmakers have a strong opportunity to come out on top in the ongoing government shutdown, argued political commentator and columnist Michael Tomasky in an analysis published Monday in The New Republic — but only “if they’re willing to use it.”

“If the Democrats stick together, they can win this and make [President Donald] Trump cave,” Tomasky wrote. “The Democrats have three cards to play here that give them a strong hand, if they’re willing to use it.”

President Donald Trump has purged dozens of judges as part of his sweeping changes to immigration policy.

Since Trump returned to office in January, 139 immigration judges have been fired, taken an early-out offer or been involuntarily transferred, according to the National Association of Immigration Judges — with 24 dismissed last month alone, reported CNN.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) lashed out at the NFL's decision to have Puerto Rican rapper Bad Bunny perform at the Super Bowl halftime show by calling on Congress to make English the official language of the United States.

"Bad Bunny says America has 4 months to learn Spanish before his perverse unwanted performance at the Super Bowl halftime," Greene complained Monday in a post on X. "It would be a good time to pass my bill to make English the official language of America."

In the midst of an MSNBC panel discussion on Donald Trump sending military troops into U.S. cities to help ICE round up undocumented immigrants, the normally even-keeled Jonathn Lemire lashed out at the Department of Homeland Security for deploying videographers to film arrests and then turn them into propaganda videos.

Over the weekend, DHS head Kristi Noem was filmed at various locations in besieged Chicago as protests broke out as people were snatched off of streets.

President Donald Trump's military deployment is widely unpopular because voters don't trust his justification, according to new polling data.

The president is deploying hundreds of National Guard troops to Illinois, Oregon and other states to crack down on what he describes as out-of-control crime, but CNN data analyst Harry Enten presented fresh polling that shows how strongly Americans oppose the use of military troops on domestic soil.

The U.S. Supreme Court declined to consider Laura Loomer's petition, which alleged media censorship.

In a statement on Monday, the high court announced that Loomer's petition had been denied. Justice Samuel Alito "took no part in the consideration or decision of this petition," the court added.

The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal from convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell.

Jeffrey Epstein's co-conspirator argued that she should have been shielded from prosecution under a plea agreement the late sex offender had reached with federal prosecutors in Florida, but the top court declined her case Monday at the start of its new term, reported CNN.

New data from a private polling memo revealed that the Democratic Party may have an opening to get ahead of Republicans among voters on the issue of crime, which has long been a weak spot for the Democrats, according to a report Monday from Politico.

Conducted by Global Strategy Group, a battleground-district survey found that only 38% of voters trusted Democrats over Republicans with keeping them safe. However, in what Politico wrote was a “hint of hope,” those same voters “swung toward Democrats” after hearing messaging on the issue from party leaders.

President Donald Trump's longtime strategist Stephen Miller threw a public meltdown on social media when a prominent Democratic congressman accused him of enabling violence — but the target of his wrath remained completely unswayed.

Over the weekend, the South Carolina home of state circuit court judge Diane Goodstein erupted in flames with her family still inside. Her husband, a former state senator, and two other family members, were hospitalized. The cause of the fire is unknown, but state law enforcement agents are investigating the matter as a potential act of arson, and speculation has run wild online given that Goodstein recently issued a ruling that blocked state officials from transferring voter information to Trump's Justice Department.

An attempt by House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) to paint Democrats as the bad guys responsible for the government shutdown flopped miserably on MSNBC moments after the end of an interview with “Way Too Early” host Ali Vitali.

On Monday morning, Vitali pressed the GOP leader on why Republicans are not working to end the impasse with Democrats, as he fell back on the debunked talking point about the opposing party wanting to hand undocumented immigrants Affordable Care Act medical benefits.