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A second ransom note in the months-long investigation into the abduction of Nancy Guthrie claims the 84-year-old died and was "buried with nature now," according to a source close to the investigation who spoke to NewsNation reporter Brian Entin on Monday.

The note indicated her death was not intentional but offered no direct apology, the source said.

Several intelligence professionals were reassigned on Monday, in what CNN reporter Kristen Holmes described as a "pretty stunning" start to the reign of Bill Pulte, the new acting intelligence chief.

Holmes reported, citing sources who spoke to CNN, that Pulte had begun firing intelligence professionals on Monday, one of his first acts as acting director of national intelligence, a job he inherited from the agency's former director, Tulsi Gabbard. Holmes said she did not have information about how many people were let go or from which departments within the agency, but said that a source familiar with the firings said the "deep state firings had begun."

President Donald Trump's executive order signing ceremony on Monday left some observers wide-eyed.

Trump signed a pair of executive orders to boost America's quantum computing industry during a ceremony in the Oval Office. However, Trump stumbled over a section of one of the orders while reading it to the press, leaving some onlookers genuinely baffled.

Stephen Miller, one of President Donald Trump's top White House aides, melted down on Monday after the administration suffered a series of stinging defeats.

On Monday, a federal judge in Washington, D.C. ruled that the Trump administration's Department of Homeland Security had illegally created a new voter verification database using the private information of millions of Americans to facilitate voter surveillance. Another federal judge in Minnesota squashed the Trump administration's efforts to investigate Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, a Democrat, and several top state officials over social benefits fraud. The Minnesota judge found that the investigation arose in retaliation for the officials not going along with the Trump administration's immigration enforcement agenda.

President Donald Trump appeared angered by a reporter's suggestion on Monday that his negotiation tactics with Iran may be giving the regime leverage over him.

Trump held a press gaggle in the Oval Office after he signed an executive order to support America's quantum computing industry. While he was taking questions, one reporter asked Trump if he was willing to cause economic mayhem by striking Iran again, which Trump said was an option that he's considering. The back-and-forth escalated from there.

A former MAGA firebrand who helped build the movement now says it's going to "collapse under its own weight."

Pedro Gonzalez, a writer and former New Right activist who broke with Trump, made the prediction in a Vox piece published Monday by journalist Zack Beauchamp.