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Donald Trump posted a stark warning to Iran on Truth Social Monday evening, threatening military retaliation if the country interferes with oil shipments through the Strait of Hormuz.

"If Iran does anything that stops the flow of Oil within the Strait of Hormuz, they will be hit by the United States of America TWENTY TIMES HARDER than they have been hit thus far," Trump wrote in the post.

Former Missouri House Speaker John Diehl was sentenced to 21 months in federal prison Monday after pleading guilty last year to misusing federal loans meant to help businesses withstand the COVID-19 pandemic.

Diehl, a St. Louis-area attorney, admitted defrauding the U.S. Small Business Administration out of $379,900 through an Economic Injury Disaster Loan and a later loan modification obtained through false representations.

A top Republican senator is warning that farmers are already feeling the financial squeeze from rising energy prices tied to the U.S. military conflict with Iran.

Sen. John Boozman (R-AR), who chairs the Senate Agriculture Committee, said Monday that farmers, a key constituency for President Donald Trump and the MAGA movement, will soon need additional federal aid as costs for gasoline, diesel, and fertilizer surge.

The wife of a Republican state senator in Michigan has been charged with embezzling money from a local chamber of commerce.

According to The Detroit News, "On Friday, Kellie Lauwers, who had been the treasurer of the Yale Area Chamber of Commerce, was charged with one count of embezzlement and one count of using a computer to commit a crime, according to a complaint filed in Port Huron's 72nd District Court and obtained by The Detroit News. Each charge carries a maximum penalty of 10 years behind bars. The warrant was signed by Michael Frezza, an assistant attorney general. The Michigan State Police conducted the investigation, according to the court records."

A federal judge appointed to the bench by Donald Trump issued a 111-page ruling Monday, finding that the president's own immigration enforcement machine likely ran an unconstitutional racial profiling operation targeting Black and Latino Minnesotans.

The ruling, filed in the District of Minnesota, found "clear" evidence that ICE and Border Patrol agents detained more than two dozen American citizens and legal residents during "Operation Metro Surge," a 3,000-officer invasion of the Twin Cities, based on skin color.

Legendary veteran Democratic strategist James Carville had a lot of thoughts about President Donald Trump's chaotic press conference promising a swift end to the Iran war he just started — but one of the things he flagged was that Trump just sent a clear signal which camp of MAGA he backs to carry the torch in the 2028 election.

Specifically, he argued on MS NOW's "The Beat" Monday, Trump is throwing his support to the isolationist wing that was against him going into Iran in the first place.

Experts are pushing back on recent claims by President Donald Trump that Iran was just weeks away from obtaining a nuclear weapon before the United States military action late last month.

Trump has said in recent days that Iran would have had a nuclear weapon within two weeks if the U.S. had not launched aerial strikes. But reporting from NBC News and statements from nuclear experts suggest the president’s timeline "is not true."

An attorney in a legal case against Rep. Randy Fine (R-FL) posted on X that the congressman has been attempting to send law enforcement after the people who are tasked with serving him papers in a First Amendment lawsuit.

"Since Congresman Randy Fine has been evading service and siccing law enforcement on process servers, clearly believing himself to be above the law, we’ve moved for alternative service on the Florida Secretary of State, as permitted by Florida law," wrote Jenin Younes of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee.

President Donald Trump baffled the internet Monday afternoon with conflicting new remarks on whether the war in Iran was ending or just beginning.

Trump took questions about the war, in which he was asked to clarify why he said Monday the war was "very complete" while Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth said it was "just the beginning."

Leaders of a think tank aligned with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. called Monday for eliminating the U.S. childhood vaccination schedule and removing vaccines from the market until they are proven “safe and effective.”

Speaking at a Washington gathering of the Make America Healthy Again movement, the president of the MAHA Institute said the current vaccine framework should be scrapped in its entirety, NOTUS reported Monday.

On Monday, a man pardoned by President Donald Trump for his role in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol was arraigned in Arlington, Virginia, on an assault and battery charge — and then, after he left the courthouse, was arrested in the parking lot on an "outstanding warrant" in a completely unrelated case.

The re-arrest of Bryan Betancur, confirmed by Metro Transit police, was first reported by Tisha Lewis of FOX 5 DC, who posted videos of the arrest to X.

Rising energy prices tied to President Donald Trump’s war in Iran are threatening to derail Republicans’ strategy for the upcoming midterm elections, raising fears inside the GOP that the economic fallout could overshadow their campaign message on affordability.

That’s according to Politico, which reported Monday that spikes in oil and gasoline prices could wipe out some of the financial gains Americans saw from the sweeping tax cuts Republicans passed last year – a key argument GOP lawmakers hoped to sell to voters.