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Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) suspended his campaign for California Governor on Sunday as he battles allegations of sexual assault and rape.

"I am suspending my campaign for Governor," Swalwell wrote in a statement on X. "To my family, staff, friends, and supporters, I am deeply sorry for mistakes in judgment I’ve made in my past. I will fight the serious, false allegations that have been made — but that’s my fight, not a campaign’s."

President Donald Trump raged at Pope Leo XIV in a Truth Social post on Sunday night after the Pope criticized the president.

Pope Leo has been an outspoken critic of Trump's war with Iran, and called the president's threat to destroy the Iranian civilization "truly unacceptable." The Pope has also rebuked the president's immigration policies.

An election lawyer shared a stark warning about President Donald Trump's Department of Justice as the department's losses in court continue to pile up.

Marc Elias, a voting rights attorney and founder of Democracy Docket, said during a new episode of the "Democracy Watch" podcast with progressive YouTuber Brian Tyler Cohen that the Trump DOJ is becoming "desperate" as efforts to sway the 2026 midterms come up short in court after court. Elias said his firm has defeated the Trump administration in four of the 30 cases the DOJ is currently defending.

A political expert floated a new theory about what could have prompted first lady Melania Trump to deliver her "really bizarre" statement about disgraced financier and convicted sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein last week.

Allison Gill, owner of MSW Media and host of "The Daily Beans" podcast, said during a new episode on Sunday that Epstein's accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell, may have played a role in forcing Trump to make her statement. Gill argued that Maxwell has sought to maintain leverage over the Trump administration as she pursues a pardon, and may have used some of the tricks up her sleeve to "blackmail" Melania Trump.

President Donald Trump just revealed "what keeps him up at night" after dangling pardons for all of his administration officials, according to one expert.

Last week, the Wall Street Journal reported that Trump has promised to sign mass pardons for administration officials before leaving office. Michael Popok, a lawyer and host of the "Legal AF" podcast, said in a new episode on Sunday that the report shows Trump is clearly aware that he is running a "criminal enterprise" out of the White House and that he fears being prosecuted by a future Democratic Department of Justice more than anything else at this point in his second administration.

President Donald Trump's latest effort to settle the war with Iran proves that he is "the most powerful idiot in the history of the world," according to one columnist.

David Rothkopf, a columnist at The Daily Beast, argued in a new column on Sunday that Trump's decision to impose a retaliatory blockade on the Strait of Hormuz showed the president is operating with the "strategic acumen of a four-year-old in a fight on a pre-school playground."

First lady Melania Trump's niece-in-law, Mary Trump, bashed her aunt's "cruel" comments about her relationship with disgraced financier and convicted sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein during a new podcast interview on Sunday.

Last Thursday, Melania Trump held a seemingly impromptu press conference at the White House, where she denied ever having a relationship with Epstein and his accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell. Her comments came at a suspicious time for her husband's administration, which is trying to navigate an unseemly war with Iran and avoid discussing its poor handling of the release of the Epstein files.

Fans of President Donald Trump's Make America Great Again movement were dismayed on Sunday after one of their European allies suffered a stinging election defeat.

Hungarian autocrat Viktor Orbán conceded defeat to the opposition leader Péter Magyar on Sunday, ending his 16 years in power as Hungary's Prime Minister. Magyar's Tisza party is expected to take a supermajority in the country's legislature, and his victory was hailed as a relief to many across the U.S. and Europe.

The internet erupted on Sunday after a Trump-backed autocrat lost a high-stakes election.

Viktor Orbán, a strongman and staunch Russian ally who has led Hungary for the last 16 years, conceded defeat to opposition party leader Peter Magyar in the country's national election. Orbán has been a symbol of the rise of the far right across Europe as he sought to roll back the country's democratic reforms.

Viktor Orbán, the autocratic Hungarian president and staunch Russian ally, conceded defeat in the country's national election on Sunday, ending his 16-year reign in power, according to reports.

The Associated Press reported that with 60% of the vote counted, opposition leader Peter Magyar’s party held 52% of the vote compared to Orbán's 38% support. Orbán described the loss as "painful."

A key U.S. ally called out President Donald Trump's fibbing about other countries agreeing to help the U.S. "clean out" land mines from the Strait of Hormuz on Sunday.

Trump claimed during an interview on Fox News that “it won’t take long to clean out the Strait,” referring to reports that the Iranian regime had planted several sea mines in the area to depress shipping through the waterway. Trump also claimed that “numerous countries are going to be helping us," a claim that was swiftly undercut by a spokesperson for the government of the United Kingdom, The Guardian reported.

A former diplomat was befuddled on Sunday by President Donald Trump's latest negotiation tactic to end the war with Iran.

On Sunday, Trump announced in a Truth Social post that he directed the U.S. Navy to enact a counter-blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, an important waterway that the Iranian regime has asserted control of since late February when the war began. The Iranians have effectively shut the waterway to U.S. ships traveling through the area, which accounts for 20% of the global energy trade.

As oil and gas prices continue to soar amid disruptions in the Strait of Hormuz, President Donald Trump’s recent announcement of a U.S. Navy blockade is expected to drive prices even higher, one energy expert warned on Sunday.

The Strait of Hormuz – a critical shipping channel through which 20% of the world’s oil trade flows – has remained inaccessible to U.S.-aligned vessels since late February after Trump authorized Operation Epic Fury. Re-opening the strait to U.S.-aligned vessels – as it was before the United States attacked Iran – has since emerged as the Trump administration’s new “paramount objective” of the war.