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President Donald Trump's administration is planning to pull the plug on his $1.776 billion "Anti-Weaponization Fund" to pay out people supposedly victimized by "lawfare" — a controversial plan that critics claimed was a slush fund to pay out money to Jan. 6 rioters and other allies of the president convicted of crimes.

According to Axios, White House officials are set to comply with a court order putting the fund on pause and don't have plans at this time to contest the court's action or try to resume it later.

Minnesota Republican Party Chair Alex Plechash refused Monday to say whether he supported a moment of silence for convicted murderer Derek Chauvin held at the GOP's state convention over the weekend — stonewalling a radio interviewer who pressed him three times and never got a straight answer.

When WCCO's Vineeta Sawkar asked Plechash point-blank if he agreed with delegates who believe Chauvin was wrongly convicted, he dodged. "I don't think I'm going to comment on that," he told her. "The court system had its verdict, and I'm not going to challenge the court."

President Donald Trump announced Monday that a key obstacle standing in the way of his administration’s negotiations with Tehran to end the U.S. war against Iran had apparently been addressed, potentially clearing the path to an end to the conflict.

“I had a very productive call with Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu, of Israel, and there will be no Troops going to Beirut, [Lebanon], and any Troops that are on their way, have already been turned back,” Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social.

A federal appeals court on Monday blocked Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's ban on transgender servicemembers, ruling the policy is driven by unconstitutional animus — and torching the government's legal strategy along the way.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit affirmed a preliminary injunction protecting currently serving troops from the Hegseth Policy — the February 2025 Pentagon directive implementing President Trump's executive order barring from service anyone with a history of gender dysphoria. The court vacated the injunction for prospective recruits.

President Donald Trump swept all seven main battleground states in the 2024 presidential election, but as the midterm elections draw closer, a number of his supporters in those states are starting to voice regret as the president’s deeply unpopular war against Iran continues to squeeze Americans’ pocketbooks.

“Last time I filled up [my tank with gas] I was like, ‘Oh, this hurts,’” said Adele Wilson, a 30-year-old Michigan resident and dental assistant, speaking with The New York Times in its report Monday.

60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley confronted new executive producer Nick Bilton and another CBS executive Monday morning in what Guardian US media reporter Jeremy Barr described as a "heated meeting," pushing back forcefully on last week's mass firings at the storied newsmagazine.

Pelley didn't mince words about who he held responsible.

President Donald Trump is expected to meet with House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) on Monday at the White House to address a major obstacle to a top GOP priority – one created by the president himself, Punchbowl News’ Jake Sherman revealed.

That obstacle is Trump’s taxpayer-funded $1.7 billion “anti-weaponization fund,” designed to award payouts to those who’ve alleged to have been unfairly targeted by the Biden administration’s Justice Department. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche has admitted that even those convicted of assaulting police officers during the Jan. 6 Capitol riot would be eligible for compensation from the fund.

Tina Peters walked out of a Colorado prison Monday morning and headed for Steve Bannon's War Room — where the convicted election denier told the MAGA faithful she wants a job in the Trump administration.

"I would like for President Trump — I'd like to be more involved in prison reform," Peters said on the podcast, adding she'd pursue it "if that's the way the Lord leads me."

A former senior Trump administration official issued President Donald Trump and those around him an ominous warning on Monday about what they said were “historic consequences” they’ve yet to face, but undoubtedly will – and soon.

That former official was Miles Taylor, a security expert who served as a Homeland Security senior advisor in the first Trump administration, and his warning was about the Trump administration’s ongoing operation in the Caribbean targeting suspected drug traffickers, an operation that critics have called illegal and as of Monday has killed 205 people.

A former Trump White House aide who once brokered a plot to seize voting machines, went on a racist Telegram rant, and built a nonprofit around publishing Biden family dirt just struck out at the Supreme Court. On Monday, the justices declined without dissent to hear a petition from Garrett Ziegler — ending his bid to squeeze more protection out of California's anti-SLAPP statute.

The case traces back to a 2023 lawsuit alleging Ziegler had impersonated a Democratic fundraiser to extract information about Hunter Biden's laptop, then published his target's personal contact details — triggering a torrent of harassment. Ziegler responded with an anti-SLAPP motion — a legal tool designed to protect defendants from suits that target free speech activity. He lost most of it.