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President Donald Trump announced that he is raising tariffs on one of America's largest trade partners over the country's progress toward ratifying a "historic" trade agreement.

Last year, Trump imposed sweeping tariffs on several of America's trade partners, including South Korea, a country that produces goods ranging from washing machines to cars and pharmaceuticals. Trump announced on Monday that he is increasing tariffs on South Korea from 10% to 25% because of the country's alleged failure to ratify the trade agreement struck last year.

News that Customs and Border Patrol commander Greg Bovino will depart Minneapolis after an immigration agent shot and killed an ICU nurse over the weekend sparked outrage online.

CNN's Kaitlan Collins, Priscilla Alvarez, and Kristen Holmes reported on Monday that Bovino will leave Minneapolis as early as Tuesday. His departure happened after immigration agents expressed frustration with Bovino's characterization of slain ICU nurse Alex Pretti, 37, as a terrorist who wanted to "massacre" law enforcement.

At least 30 current and former immigration agents have been charged or convicted of violent offenses, according to a new report.

Two advocacy groups, the Ohio Immigrant Alliance and the Pacific Antifascist Collective, published an updated list on Monday of immigration officers, all of whom are men, who have been accused of various violent offenses. The list shows that all but one officer has been charged with sex offenses, and two-thirds committed sexual crimes against children. It covers agents from both Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Patrol.

Donald Trump's recent spate of Truth Social posts claiming his poor polling numbers are both inaccurate and "criminal" signal that he recognizes the limits of his ability to control public perception, despite wielding substantial governmental power.

According to MSNBC columnist Kaivan Shroff, Trump has long possessed a "norm-defying" capacity to shape his personal narrative. That ability is now eroding during his second term.

Yale historian Timothy Snyder has a grim view of the Trump administration's lethal Immigration and Customs Enforcement crackdown: it's the early stages of totalitarianism, and must be treated as such.

"We have to see the logic of the killings as well as the killings themselves," wrote Snyder on his Substack. "The horror is a truth in itself. But it is also a sign of a political logic, one known from the totalitarian regimes of the twentieth century, Soviet as well as Nazi, and from attempts to replace the rule of law with personal tyranny. It is the logic of lies and of lawlessness."

A panel of judges — including two of President Donald Trump's appointees — refused to hear an appeal on a lower court's ruling that found Alina Habba had been unlawfully appointed as U.S. Attorney.

Last year, U.S. District Judge Matthew Brann found that the Trump administration's "novel series of legal and personnel moves" to have Habba remain in office after her term expired broke federal law.

The Department of Justice may have suffered a major setback in a hearing on Monday morning, as lawyers for the Donald Trump administration opposed a motion seeking a temporary restraining order that would severely curtail ICE activities in Minnesota.

According to MS NOW’s Lisa Rubin, U.S. District Judge Katherine Menendez gave every indication that she might not rule entirely the way the state of Minnesota seeks.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt refused to defend aide Stephen Miller after he described Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old nurse gunned down by Border Patrol, as an "assassin" who "tried to murder federal agents."

During Monday's White House briefing, one reporter noted that the Department of Homeland Security had accused Pretti of wanting to do "maximum damage" and "massacre law enforcement."

As ticket sales plummet and performances get canceled at the Kennedy Center following Donald Trump’s takeover of the institution earlier this year, the president took to social media Monday to shift blame for the venue’s financial troubles to past administrations.

“People don’t realize that The Trump Kennedy Center suffered massive deficits for many years and, like everything else, I merely came in to save it and, if possible, make it far better than ever before!” Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social.