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Just before midnight on Monday, Donald Trump jumped onto his Truth Social account and announced a $15 billion defamation lawsuit against the New York Times, a handful of reporters and book publisher Penguin Random House that both stunned and amused legal experts.

Trump led off with “Today, I have the Great Honor of bringing a $15 Billion Dollar Defamation and Libel Lawsuit against The New York Times, one of the worst and most degenerate newspapers in the History of our Country, becoming a virtual ‘mouthpiece’ for the Radical Left Democrat Party. “

Sarah Longwell, publisher of The Bulwark, said on Monday that there is something "fundamentally wrong" with the way the Trump administration has responded to the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

Kirk was killed last week when a gunman shot him in the neck during a talk at Utah Valley University. A 22-year-old suspect has been arrested in the case, and is allegedly not cooperating with authorities, according to officials.

A Democratic political analyst expressed concern on Monday night that President Donald Trump's administration could move to outlaw the Democratic Party after the murder of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

Jamal Simmons, a CNN political commentator, joined CNN's Kaitlan Collins on "The Source" to discuss the aftermath of Kirk's assassination. Simmons noted that Trump's Deputy Chief of Staff, Stephen Miller, called the Democratic Party an extremist organization during a podcast interview on Monday, and that Trump has recently said his administration is working to root out extremism.

Sen. Tina Smith (D-MN) slammed the "callousness" that President Donald Trump exhibited during a press conference on Monday.

Trump claimed during the press conference that he didn't order flags to be lowered after Minnesota Democratic state lawmaker Melissa Hortman and her husband were murdered in June by a right-wing extremist because Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, a Democrat, didn't ask him to. CNN's Kaitlan Collins played footage of Trump saying he chose not to call Walz after Hortman's murder.

Legal experts weighed in Monday night after a federal appeals court dealt President Donald Trump a major loss in his high-profile firing of a Federal Reserve official who was ousted over dubious mortgage fraud claims.

Lisa Cook was fired by Trump from her position as a Federal Reserve governor based on claims that she claimed two properties as primary residences on loan documents to obtain more favorable terms. The administration cited mortgage fraud claims lodged by Bill Pulte, head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, as "cause" for dismissal, which is legally required for a president to remove a Fed governor.

Mehdi Hasan, founder and CEO of news outlet Zeteo, erupted during an interview on Monday night after a former Trump advisor defended some of conservative activist Charlie Kirk's most incendiary statements.

Hasan and Ken Cuccinelli, the former Homeland Security acting deputy secretary during the first Trump administration, clashed on a new episode of "Cuomo" on NewsNation.

President Donald Trump's signature domestic policy law's cuts to Medicaid is already wreaking havoc on rural hospitals — particularly in some of the reddest states. One Senate Republican is already fearing the backlash from voters could require an intervention.

According to a Monday report in Politico, Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) predicted that Republicans may soon have to go back to the drawing board to rework H.R. 1 ("The One Big Beautiful Bill Act") in order to preserve hundreds of rural hospitals across the country.

Stephen Miran, an economic advisor in the Trump administration, narrowly secured enough votes to be confirmed as the next Federal Reserve Governor, according to a new report.

Reuters reported on Monday night that Miran was confirmed by a 48-47 vote in the Republican-controlled Senate. He replaces Adriana Kugler, who resigned from the central bank in August.

President Donald Trump's questionable ouster of a Federal Reserve official over allegations of mortgage fraud was dealt a blow Monday evening when an appeals court declined to allow him to do so.

Lisa Cook was fired by Trump from her position as a Federal Reserve governor based on claims that she claimed two properties as primary residences on loan documents to obtain more favorable terms. The administration cited mortgage fraud claims lodged by Bill Pulte, head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, as "cause" for dismissal, which is legally required for a president to remove a Fed governor.

President Donald Trump was confronted by a reporter on why he hadn't bothered to order flags at half-staff for the murder of former Democratic Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman, as he did after right-wing youth activist Charlie Kirk was assassinated at Utah Valley University last week.

But Trump initially appeared not to recognize the lawmaker's name.

The top Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee didn't quite take President Donald Trump at his word Monday about the legality of a recent lethal drone strike on an alleged drug boat in international waters.

Trump has ordered at least two U.S. military strikes on boats from Venezuela that he has claimed contain narcotics bound for the United States. The first strike this month killed 11 people on a Venezuelan speedboat, which the Trump administration said contained large amounts of cocaine and fentanyl.

President Donald Trump issued a new round of attacks against Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) during a news conference on Monday, a move that was widely condemned online.

Trump talked with reporters in the Oval Office on Monday after signing a bill to send federal troops to Memphis, Tennessee. A reporter asked Trump to respond to Omar's criticism of slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

Two psychologists have recently pointed to several indicators that they argue show President Donald Trump is battling "early dementia."

The Daily Beast reported Monday that in the latest episode of the podcast "Shrinking Trump," psychologists John Gartner (who was educated at the prestigious Johns Hopkins University) and Harry Segal (a psychology professor at Cornell University) said Trump's pattern of falling asleep in public is particularly concerning for the 79 year-old president. They pointed to Trump's attendance at the U.S. Open men's singles final between Italy's Jannik Sinner and Spain's Carlos Alcaraz as just the latest example of a pattern the president has exhibited before.