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The market turmoil that greeted investors already reeling from weeks of President Donald Trump’s tariff-inspired trade war sent MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow delivering a blunt analysis of the MAGA leader’s impact on the U.S. economy.

Maddow kicked off her Monday evening show by highlighting the growing number of protests in opposition to Trump administration policies, which she said are playing out nationwide, “including in the reddest of red states.”

President Donald Trump's inaugural fund accepted $1 million from a China-linked firm that his campaign, along with the Michigan Republican Party, used to whip up voters into paranoia during the 2024 elections last year, The Detroit News reported Monday evening.

"Trump's inaugural committee released a list of $239 million in accepted contributions Sunday night, revealing Gotion gave $1 million on Jan. 8," said the report. "Michigan corporations and business executives donated more than $6 million to Trump's second inauguration, according to the disclosure, practically tripling the amount raised from Michigan for the Republican's first inauguration."

President Donald Trump's administration is eyeing new ways to encourage people to start families — and one floated by pronatalists calls for dangling a medal for people who have six or more children.

Among the ideas the administration is considering: so-called "baby bonuses" — a $5,000 infusion to every American mother who has a baby — reserviing scholarship money to applicants who are married or have children and educating women on their menstual cycles so they're informed when they're most likely to conceive, The New York Times reported.

A Supreme Court showdown is brewing in the world of religious freedom that could hand over certain groups and individuals with a staggering set of new control powers over public education in the country, in a key test of the separation of church and state.

That’s according to Slate legal analyst Mark Joseph Stern, who told readers that the high court will hear arguments in a critical First Amendment case on Tuesday that could surrender censorship rights over LGBTQ+ materials in public schools to religious parents.

The first Black mayor of Lewisville, Texas, was stabbed, and her husband was killed at the hands of their grandson in an early morning attack Monday, police said.

Mitchell Blake Reinacher, 23, has been charged with murder and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon in connection with the stabbing of longtime Denton County Commissioner Bobbie J. Mitchell and her husband, Fred Mitchell, the Daily Beast reported.

President Donald Trump made two endorsements for the same race in a post to his Truth Social platform on Monday evening — giving the nod to two separate politicians for governor of Arizona.

"I like Karrin Taylor Robson of Arizona a lot, and when she asked me to Endorse her, with nobody else running, I Endorsed her, and was happy to do so," wrote Trump. "When Andy Biggs decided to run for Governor, quite unexpectedly, I had a problem — Two fantastic candidates, two terrific people, two wonderful champions, and it is therefore my Great Honor TO GIVE MY COMPLETE AND TOTAL ENDORSEMENT TO BOTH."

President Donald Trump railed against the Supreme Court on Monday, which he said has "stymied" him at "every turn."

The Supreme Court recently temporarily blocked the Trump administration from deporting Venezuelan migrants under the Alien Enemies Act. The high court stressed that the targeted migrants must have a chance to challenge their removal in court.

A coalition of 75 civil rights groups on Monday responded to U.S. President Donald Trump's "escalating threats and actions" targeting nonprofit organizations by launching "The Pact: A Civil Rights Coalition Unity Commitment."

Led by the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, the groups represent "millions of people of every background in every ZIP code across America, exist to serve our communities, protect rights, and advance opportunity for all," the pact explains. "Today we face a campaign by the government to silence and isolate us, stop us from doing our jobs, and hurt the people we serve."

President Donald Trump was raked over the coals by the Wall Street Journal editorial board on Monday, over his escalating attacks on Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell for not lowering interest rates to his satisfaction.

The conservative board, which has frequently laid into Trump for his tariff wars and other controversial economic policies, is speaking out after Trump attacked Powell as "Mr. Too Late" and accused him with no evidence of manipulating interest rates to interfere in the 2024 presidential election.

President Donald Trump’s administration has its courtroom tactics to blame for bringing a Supreme Court with a conservative super majority hand-picked by the president to issue a stunning pushback of his signature policy that a longtime columnist said took “courage” to do.

“Thank God for the Supreme Court,” the New Yorker’s Ruth Marcus wrote in an opinion piece published Monday, where she made clear that it has been uncommon for her to heap praise on the high court in recent years. “But, at a time when the legislative branch has been shamefully supine and the public has been alarmingly complacent, the federal courts represent the last best hope—at least, until the midterm elections—of combatting Trump’s outrages against the Constitution.”

In a Truth Social post on Monday, President Donald Trump declared, "Melania and I will be going to the funeral of Pope Francis, in Rome."

"We look forward to being there!" he said, excitedly.

Harvard University filed a lawsuit Monday against the Trump administration following weeks of presidential threats to slash billions of dollars in federal funding from the elite institution, The New York Times reported.

The legal challenge, filed in Massachusetts federal court, alleges the government let loose a broad attack as “leverage to gain control of academic decision-making at Harvard,” the Times said, adding that similar funding cuts to other major universities were also referenced in the suit.

President Donald Trump sold the American people a bill of false goods, even from the perspective of people who agree with him politically, editor Michael Tomasky wrote for The New Republic substack — and it's time for his supporters to stop buying what he's selling.

One of the key new examples, he wrote, is Trump saying he'll "take a pass" on the Russian invasion of Ukraine if the two sides can't make a deal. This comes months after he took office a second time and despite his promise he would end the war within 24 hours.