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The Supreme Court’s decision to back President Donald Trump’s efforts to ban the Chinese social media app TikTok may have inadvertently handed the Trump administration “power that the Constitution puts off limits,” two columnists argued Monday.

“We could have avoided this ending if the court had not bungled the beginning,” wrote columnists Evelyn Douek and Jameel Jaffer in an op-ed published in the Guardian Monday.

Despite her close alignment with Donald Trump, Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) has yet to secure the president's endorsement over other Republican candidates vying for the GOP nomination for New York governor.

The lack of support has left Stefanik's allies puzzled, particularly given Trump's previous nomination of her as UN ambassador and her status as a prominent House ally. According to Politico, the race to challenge Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) is considered a two-person contest between Stefanik and Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman.

On the one-month anniversary of President Donald Trump’s inauguration earlier this year, a group of his appointed aides gathered to celebrate.

For four weeks, they had been working overtime to dismantle the U.S. Agency for International Development, freezing thousands of programs, including ones that provided food, water and medicine around the world. They’d culled USAID’s staff and abandoned its former headquarters in the stately Ronald Reagan Building, shunting the remnants of the agency to what was once an overflow space in a glass-walled commercial office above Nordstrom Rack and a bank.

There, the crew of newly minted political figures told the office manager to create a moat of 90 empty desks around them so no one could hear them talk. They ignored questions and advice from career staff with decades of experience in the field.

Despite the steps to insulate themselves, dire warnings poured in from diplomats and government experts around the world. The cuts would cost countless lives, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and the other Trump officials were told repeatedly. The team of aides pressed on, galvanized by two men who did little to hide their disdain for the agency: first Peter Marocco, a blunt-spoken Marine veteran, and then 28-year-old Jeremy Lewin, who, despite having no government or aid experience, often personally decided which programs should be axed.

By the third week in February, they were on track to wipe out 90% of USAID’s work. Created in 1961 to foster global stability and help advance American interests, USAID was the largest humanitarian donor in the world. In just a month’s time, the small band of appointees had set in motion its destruction.

In a corner conference room, it was time to party. They traded congratulatory speeches and cut into a sheet cake.

President Donald Trump is stuck with an embarrassing cast of Cabinet members because he's too stubborn to admit he's made a mistake, an analysis from the Washington Post claimed Monday.

The newspaper argued that Trump's second administration was significantly different from his first in one major way — massive and rapid turnover of his aides the first time round hasn't happened again.

Authorities released a person of interest who had been detained over the weekend in connection with a deadly shooting at Brown University, raising fresh concerns about President Donald Trump's choices to lead the FBI.

Police initially had expressed confidence that the person of interest, who was identified as a 24-year-old U.S. Army veteran, was the individual who opened fire Saturday inside a classroom in the Barus & Holley building, killing at least two students and injuring nine others.

A progressive YouTuber revealed on Sunday the "worst part" of President Donald Trump's seeming absence from the 2026 midterm race for the GOP.

Brian Tyler Cohen said in a new episode of his podcast "No Lie" on Sunday that Trump is not campaigning like he once did, which gives Democrats an opportunity to connect with "regular people." He described the situation as a "huge opening" because Trump's absence is "dragging the rest of his party down with him."

A Democratic lawmaker said on Sunday that her son was pulled over by immigration agents, news that caused the internet to erupt with criticism toward the Trump administration.

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) told local news station WCCO in the Twin Cities, a CBS affiliate station, that her son was pulled over by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents for speeding on Saturday and was asked to prove his citizenship. Her son was able to produce a passport identification, and was let go thereafter, Omar said in the interview.

The Wall Street Journal's conservative editorial board warned Republicans that they face a "bruising" primary in Texas after Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) announced her candidacy for the Senate.

Crockett announced her run after the Supreme Court ruled that Texas could use its redrawn electoral map for the 2026 primary. The new map made four Democratic-held Congressional seats, Crockett's included, more competitive for Republicans.

A legal analyst was stunned on Sunday as she discussed the Department of Justice's latest "cover-up" attempts in a case against a member of Congress.

President Donald Trump's Department of Justice has been pursuing charges against Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-NJ) for allegedly assaulting a federal officer during a protest outside of an immigration facility in Newark, New Jersey, in May. Recently, the DOJ was forced to turn over text messages to McIver's defense team that show DOJ officials knew McIver did not assault the officer, and said the video the Trump administration relied on for the prosecution did not show her assaulting the officer either.

Authorities have identified the person of interest who was arrested on Sunday in connection with the shooting at Brown University over the weekend, according to CNN.

Benjamin Erickson, 24, of Wisconsin, has been identified as a person of interest in the case, the outlet reported. CNN reported observing FBI agents at a home in Wisconsin owned by Erickson's family members.