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'Heart and soul haven’t changed’: Cracker Barrel pushes back at MAGA's logo fury

A popular Southern food restaurant defended its rebranding efforts on Monday after facing backlash from conservatives for several days, according to a new report.

Cracker Barrel apologized for the way its rebranding has been communicated in a statement to the Wall Street Journal. However, the company did not say it would change the direction of its rebrand.

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'24-karat gold!' Trump brags about Oval Office makeover while honoring fallen soldiers

President Donald Trump heaped praise on his Oval Office renovation during a ceremony on Monday to honor fallen U.S. soldiers.

Trump met with the families of the 13 soldiers who died after terrorists bombed Abbey Gate at the airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, in 2021 as the U.S. military was withdrawing from the country. The meeting marked the fourth anniversary of the attack, and Trump signed a proclamation honoring the "brave souls who shed their blood for our nation."

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'Justice will find you': Trump and his allies get a potent threat from Democratic governor

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) issued a stark warning to those who are aiding President Donald Trump in the weaponization of the U.S. government against his perceived foes and states that didn't support him in the 2024 election.

Speaking at a news conference about Trump's threat to send federal agents and National Guard soldiers into Chicago, Pritzker cautioned that while Republicans may be in charge today, they won't be forever. He warned that they will face accountability if they help Trump break the law.

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Gov attacks Trump's 'slipping mental faculties' and slams Chicago invasion: 'Do not come'

Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D-IL) spoke at a news conference on Monday afternoon, telling President Donald Trump not to come to his state and calling him out on using soldiers as political props without even having the courtesy of contacting his office ahead of time to coordinate.

Attacking it as "evil" and "unwanted," Pritzker explained, "No one from the White House or the executive branch has reached out to me or to the mayor. No one has reached out to our staff. No effort has been made to coordinate or to ask for our assistance in identifying any actions that might be helpful to us. Local law enforcement has not been contacted. We have made no requests for federal intervention. None. We found out what Donald Trump was planning the same way that all of you did. We read a story in the Washington Post. If this was really about fighting crime and making the streets safe, what possible justification could the White House have for planning such an exceptional action without any conversations or consultations with the governor, the mayor, or the police?"

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Trump threatens to defy law on renaming Defense Department: 'We're just going to do it'

President Donald Trump threatened to rename the Department of Defense without obtaining permission from Congress, even if it would run afoul of the law.

At an Oval Office event on Monday, Trump said he would "probably" rename the Pentagon to the Department of War in the coming days.

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'So weak and scared': Analysts roast MAGA senator after DC carjacking comment

An Oklahoma senator received a sharp rebuke on Monday after sharing his concerns about crime in Washington, D.C., during a Fox News interview.

Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK), a former professional mixed martial arts fighter, told Fox News host Brian Kilmeade on Friday that he does not wear a seatbelt while driving around D.C. because he is afraid of being carjacked.

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'OMG!' Trump stuns observers with flippant remark on WWII sex trafficking

President Donald Trump made remarks about sex trafficking and forced prostitution on the Korean peninsula, but the term he chose shocked many and sparked questions about his mental state.

Speaking to South Korean President Lee Jae Myung, Trump talked about "comfort women," a term from just before and during World War II, in which the Japanese government trafficked women, girls, and boys into its occupied territories to satisfy soldiers, according to History.com.

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Judge blocks Trump's bid to ship Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Africa

A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration's plan to deport undocumented Maryland father Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Uganda, The Washington Post reported.

District Judge Paula Xinis made the order "hours after Homeland Security officials detained him during a required check-in at the U.S. Immigration Customs Enforcement field office in Baltimore and said they’d begun processing him for removal," reported Maria Sacchetti, Jeremy Roebuck, and Dana Munro.

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Trump Tower in North Korea? South Korean president teases as Trump gushes over Kim Jong Un

Lee Jae Myung, the president of South Korea, met with President Donald Trump on Monday at the White House, where the two talked about, among other things, their relationship with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un.

In an Oval Office conversation, Trump gushed about his desire to get the two leaders together.

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'Insane': Trump confuses Gretchen Whitmer with '90s NJ gov in bizarre Oval Office flub

A confused and rambling President Donald Trump fumbled Monday while trying to remember Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's (D-MI) name in the Oval Office, landing instead on Gov. "Christy Whitman," former governor of New Jersey in the 1990s.

The gaffe occurred as Trump was signing executive orders, and came as he hurled insults at Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D) amid tensions over the National Guard possibly being sent to Chicago.

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‘Didn’t happen’: Trump’s head-scratching claim smacked down by governor's staff

President Donald Trump trashed Baltimore, Maryland, during the signing of an executive order on Monday, claiming that Gov. Wes Moore had given him glowing praise. The reality, however, is something very different.

"It's a deathbed," Trump said of Baltimore. "I know Gov. Moore said, 'Oh, he wants to take a walk with me.' He meant it in a derogatory tone. I said, no, no, no, I'm the president of the United States. Clean up your crime and I'll walk with you. But there's — it's a tremendous crime. But he was trying to be derogatory. He doesn't have what it takes, but he's trying to be derogatory."

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Trump says 'nobody needed magnets' until '20 years ago' because of China

President Donald Trump insisted that "nobody needed magnets" until a Chinese plot "convinced" the world to use them 20 years ago.

During a Monday Oval Office meeting with South Korean President Lee Jae Myung, Trump reflected on his relationship with China.

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GOP's Kasich called out by MSNBC analyst after frantic rant about crime-ridden cities

Former Ohio governor and current MSNBC contributor John Kasich got some surprising pushback on the network on Monday afternoon after he backed Donald Trump’s claim that major urban centers in the U.S. are wracked with uncontrollable crime.

Following Donald Trump’s rambling press conference where he suggested a dictator might be required to get the cities under control, Kasich spoke with host Chris Jansing to give his take, but did not find agreement with MSNBC’s Basil Smilke.

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