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Documents obtained by The Guardian and reported on Monday further detail how the Trump Justice Department has been forced to drop cases against protesters in Los Angeles because of false claims made by federal immigration agents.

The Guardian's review of federal law enforcement files revealed that "out of nine 'assault' and 'impeding' felony cases the Justice Department filed immediately after the start of the protests and promoted by the attorney general, Pam Bondi, prosecutors dismissed seven of them soon after filing the charges," the newspaper reported.

Among the comments President Donald Trump made when speaking from the U.K. on Monday was that he had turned down the "privilege" of going to sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein's private island — a location believed to be a center for his abuse of underage girls.

The phrase left onlookers aghast.

Vice President JD Vance faced questions about "protecting pedophiles" after President Donald Trump's administration refused to release a list of Jeffrey Epstein's associates.

Following a speech in Ohio on Monday, Vance took a question from Associated Press reporter Julie Carr Smyth.

Fox Business correspondent Charles Gasparino downplayed President Donald Trump's trade deal with the European Union as a "tax on U.S. consumers."

"You know, thank God we got it out of the way," Gasparino told Fox News host Brian Kilmeade on Monday after Trump announced the deal over the weekend. "I think the markets are going to like this deal."

The ceasefire between Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp and President Donald Trump has been threatened by the state's Republican Senate primary race.

The GOP governor had been the top choice to challenge Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff but ultimately declined to run, and Kemp instead threw his support behind former University of Tennessee football coach Derek Dooley. Trump world sources told NOTUS the president and his allies are furious.

President Donald Trump triggered a new wave of controversy during a joint press conference in Scotland with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, when he said the hostages still trapped in Gaza are being treated worse than the Germans treated Holocaust victims — and gave an example similar to the experience of Anne Frank.

"Not one person said there was any love from anybody," said Trump. "In other words, you have hundreds of people and you see it in the movies where somebody is a prisoner and somebody is helping. You even see it with Germany where people would be led into a house and live in an attic in secret. I said, did you see anything like that? Did they wink at you, say don't worry, you'll be okay?"

President Donald Trump was peppered with questions about convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein during a visit to Scotland.

While meeting with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Monday, one reporter noted that Trump's name was in the Epstein files.

President Donald Trump was peppered with more questions about his relationship with sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein while in Scotland on Monday, and he served up a new detail about why he fell out with the billionaire.

After speaking with U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Trump with hit with questions from the media. Among them were more about the Epstein crisis that he's been unable to shake for more than a week.

Donald Trump offended British Prime Minister Keir Starmer Monday as he launched an attack on the mayor of London after a meeting in the United Kingdom.

The president was responding to a question asking if he planned to visit England’s capital city during his visit to the nation, which has been based at one of his golf courses in Scotland.

President Donald Trump asked British Prime Minister Keir Starmer not to use new social media laws to censor his Truth Social platform in the United Kingdom during a joint press conference in Scotland on Monday.

Truth Social, the flagship product of Trump's media company and the subject of a number of ethics questions about stock ownership, has been used as the president's primary platform to announce policies, rant about politicians and judges who annoy him, make endorsements, and generally air out what's on his mind, ever since he was kicked off the platform previously known as Twitter following the January 6 riot — even though under tech billionaire Elon Musk he was allowed back onto it.

CBS Morning hosts Vladimir Duthiers, Adriana Diaz, and Nate Burleson took jabs at President Donald Trump after he was caught on camera cheating at golf.

"President Trump has been hitting the links at his golf courses in Scotland while negotiating trade deals," Duthiers explained on Monday. "The cameras have been following his every move, of course, even capturing the moment that Trump's caddy may have been a little too helpful."

Democrats have been facing difficulty reserving meeting spaces at the U.S. Capitol — and some of them are starting to suspect the Republican majority might be shutting them out.

Multiple Democrats and their staffers told NOTUS they've struggled to reserve rooms for committee or caucus meetings and other events on Capitol Hill, which has created real obstacles to carrying out their work and gathering with constituents.

The Supreme Court has stopped doing a core part of its job in its rush to greenlight a huge number of President Donald Trump's most controversial policies, The New York Times editorial board wrote in a scathing analysis published on Monday.

In recent weeks, the court has summarily used "emergency" rulings to lift a variety of lower-court pauses on Trump policies ranging from firing federal Democratic regulators with no cause, to dismantling the Department of Education. These rulings don't outright declare Trump's actions legal, but effectively say he can go ahead with these things while lower-court cases play out to decide whether they are legal — and they almost never sign these rulings or provide any explanation for them.