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President Donald Trump is the first president in 116 years who will not be invited to the NAACP's national convention, The Associated Press reported.

The NAACP declined to invite the president because the organization says Trump is working against its mission.

Donald Trump Jr. spoke to News Nation about the family's new mobile phone business, where he was asked about the potential for corruption similar to the TrumpCoin business, which involved a cryptocurrency bearing the Trump brand.

NewsNation's Connell McShane inquired whether the memecoin could create opportunities for conflicts of interest on behalf of the president.

The Department of Homeland Security is vehemently denying allegations that it engaged in mass racial profiling in its immigration raids, but David J. Bier of the libertarian Cato Institute isn't buying those denials for an instant.

DHS's denials came last week in response to a report by the Los Angeles Times that a number of immigrant communities fear that stops and arrests are being done randomly against people based primarily on their appearance.

The Colorado Secretary of State has temporarily taken down a state campaign finance website in response to the Minnesota assassination plots against Democratic lawmakers, Axios reported on Monday.

The attack, in which the gunman staked out the homes of Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party legislators to shoot, resulted in the killing of state Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband, and injuries to state Sen. John Hoffman and his wife.

Stunned staffers told CNN the directive came verbally in recent months as EPA administrator Lee Zeldin and other top officials have made clear, implicitly and explicitly, that President Donald Trump wants to reduce what he sees as "burdensome" oil and gas industry regulations and increase production.

"The alarm bells began ringing just weeks into the new Trump administration, sources said, when they were asked to detail cases they were working on for review by upper management," CNN reported. "That was not particularly unusual — but they were also asked to single out any violations involving fossil fuel."

Business lobbyists are working overtime to kill a measure in the GOP tax bill that would allow foreign companies to collect additional taxes from American technology companies, The New York Times reported Monday.

The provision is buried in the GOP's "One Big Beautiful Bill Act." It would effectively impose a revenge tax of up to 20% on companies headquartered in “discriminatory foreign countries” with “unfair foreign taxes.” It would also punish foreign companies that attempt to abide by the 2021 global minimum tax agreement, which set a 15% minimum tax on cross-border profits generated by large corporations.

Panicked veterans are calling one member of Congress in droves, fearing consequences over an executive order.

New guidelines imposed by President Donald Trump's executive order could result in hospitals refusing treatment to unmarried veterans and Democrats, The Guardian reported.

President Donald Trump's pardons are developing into an economy of their own, according to a new report from Notus.

One Notus source described the process as a “'what has that person done for me lately’ type of situation.” But there is another option — and it’s costly.

Critics are trashing a new idea from Republicans on the Senate Finance Committee for President Donald Trump's 2026 budget bill.

Politico reported that Republicans plan to brief their colleagues Monday night on lowering the "Medicaid provider tax to 3.5 percent." The measure would be a "huge" change from what the House passed, the report said about Trump's megabill. It "would put a moratorium on states’ ability to raise their provider tax beyond the current 6%."

Senate Republicans sent "shockwaves" through Capitol Hill as they eyed a massive change Monday on a "politically explosive policy within Medicaid" to pay for President Donald Trump's so-called "big, beautiful bill," according to Politico.

The Senate Finance Committee has been working on the 2026 budget bill, and a new provision they've developed will further target Medicaid. Politico cited three sources with knowledge of the legislation that the Finance Republicans would brief their colleagues Monday night, which "would lower the Medicaid provider tax to 3.5 percent."