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President Donald Trump may be on the verge of changing history, but not in a way fans of his MAGA movement are expecting, according to one legal expert.

Joyce Vance, law professor at the University of Alabama, argued in a new Substack essay that Trump's deportation operations have an ugly parallel in American history. She compared raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to the tactics segregationist sheriff Bull Connor used in an attempt to squash the Civil Rights movement in Birmingham, Alabama, during the 1960s.

A Department of Homeland Security official seemed to back herself into an "extremely implausible" corner over a recent immigration arrest, according to analysts.

Over the weekend, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials conducted a raid in St. Paul, Minnesota, where they detained a U.S. citizen, ChongLy Thao. Video shows officers taking Thao, wearing just his underwear, with a blanket draped over him as officers took him from his home. Thao was later returned to his home and was not charged with any crimes, according to reports.

President Donald Trump is advancing his ambitions in the far north with a huge investment in a surprising place, The New York Times reported on Monday: the tiny town of Nome, Alaska.

"Nome is a quiet, frozen frontier town much of the year, known mostly for the Iditarod sled race, and reachable only by air except for a few summer months when the water thaws enough to allow boats through," said the report. "Soon, however, Nome’s existing dock will be turned into the country’s first deepwater Arctic port, a critical hub in President Trump’s ambitions to make the United States master of the far north and compete with other world powers for untapped natural resources and shipping corridors."

The Wall Street Journal's editorial board is sounding the alarm, urging the Supreme Court to slam the brakes on President Donald Trump's tariff power grab. The high court is scrutinizing whether Trump's so-called "emergency" tariffs are even legal.

And the timing couldn't be more urgent.

A GOP analyst warned on Monday that America is following President Donald Trump's recipe for doom with "depressing precision," and it could accelerate the superpower's decline.

Mike Madrid, co-founder of The Lincoln Project, argued in a new Substack essay that America is already exhibiting signs of decline, from Trump's repeated attacks against foreign allies to his weaponization of the federal government against American citizens. He compared America's current decline to the end of the plantation aristocracy following the Civil War, when plantation owners created a new "fantasy" reality in which they remained in power.

President Donald Trump's Treasury Secretary just revealed the "insanity" behind Trump's ploy to control Greenland, according to one analyst.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent joined NBC News's "Meet the Press" on Sunday to discuss Trump's efforts to wrest control of Greenland from the Kingdom of Denmark. Will Saletan, writer for The Bulwark, discussed Bessent's interview in a new video for "Bulwark Takes," which he said was one of the most "embarrassing" of the entire administration.

A former federal prosecutor was taken aback on Monday by a jury's "staggering new rebuke" of one of President Donald Trump's hand-picked prosecutors.

Last week, a federal jury acquitted a 33-year-old man named Jacob Winkler after Trump's Department of Justice charged him with crimes stemming from shining a green laser at the presidential helicopter last year. The case was brought by former Fox News host Jeanine Pirro, who currently serves as the U.S. Attorney for Washington, D.C., and the jury deliberated for just 35 minutes, according to reports.

A major decision was handed down on Monday that will make it harder for Democrats to hold the Trump administration accountable for conditions inside Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities, according to a new report.

U.S. District Court Judge Jia M. Cobb declined to block a new Department of Homeland Security policy that limits when Congressional lawmakers can visit ICE facilities, The Denver Post reported. The new rules require lawmakers to give at least 7 days' notice before visits. Democrats like Reps. Jason Crow (D-CO) and Joe Neguse (D-CO) have challenged the rules in court.

The family of a man in St. Paul, Minnesota, who President Donald Trump's immigration agents detained on a snowy day while he was wearing only his underwear, spoke out on Monday and categorically denied many of the claims the administration made about the incident.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents raided the home of ChongLy Scott Thao on Sunday and detained Thao and two other individuals with whom he lives. After they were released, Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin posted a lengthy statement on X saying ICE officers had targeted two sex offenders at the residence, both of whom remain at large.

Former GOP strategist Rick Wilson unleashed a scathing attack Monday on Donald Trump, calling the former president a threat to American democracy itself, and making the case for forcible removal if Trump doesn't willingly leave.

In a fiery piece titled "Declaration of Independence From The Mad King," Wilson ripped into Trump for treating the presidency as a "personal franchise" designed for revenge, profit, and self-protection. The political operative pulled no punches, accusing Trump of replacing law with loyalty and governance with grievance.

Right-wing podcaster Katie Miller was roundly mocked on Monday after she attempted to chide one of President Donald Trump's biggest rivals on social media, according to a new report.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom's office announced that he will travel to Davos, a popular conference for the world's economic elites, and tell the crowd what he thinks of Trump. Newsom and Trump have squabbled in the past over Trump's attempts to federalize the state's National Guard troops and his administration's immigration policies.

It appears President Donald Trump has been able to keep one of his most odious campaign promises, according to one analyst.

In 2024, Trump made major promises to bring down the cost of living for Americans and to release the FBI's investigation files into disgraced financier and convicted sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein. However, neither of those promises has been kept, according to a new article from Nathalie Baptiste, a senior reporter on HuffPost's national desk.

Fans of President Donald Trump's MAGA movement fumed on Monday after a former CNN host accused them of reinforcing 'white supremacy."

Former CNN host Don Lemon discussed MAGA's response to a Sunday morning protest at a church in St. Paul, Minnesota, during a podcast interview on Monday, where he described the movement's response as "entitled" and said that it stems from a "white supremacy" belief that America was founded as a white, Christian nation.