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Brooke Rollins, President Donald Trump's agriculture secretary, is apparently worried that the administration got outsmarted by China. That's according to a photo taken over the shoulder of Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent of a message she sent, and flagged by Rohit Chopra, the third director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

The photo by The Associated Press was taken at the United Nations General Assembly last week.

President Donald Trump's so-called "border czar," Tom Homan, was ensnared in a $50,000 bribery sting last year that the incoming administration ultimately ignored, according to a report.

According to MSNBC reporters Carol Leonnig and Ken Dilanian, Homan, whose official title is executive associate director for Enforcement and Removal Operations, was part of an investigation into a private prison contracts scheme involving Homan's former ICE colleague Julian “Jace” Calderas.

President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held a joint announcement on Monday afternoon to discuss their proposed peace deal to end the Israeli occupation of Gaza — a deal that drew immediate criticism from observers for not even including leaders of the terror group Hamas at the table, which as one of the parties fighting in the conflict would be essential for the agreement to work in the first place.

The president, seemingly trying to avoid any difficult questions, simply ended the event without letting reporters ask anything.

President Donald Trump stood with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and announced a new ceasefire proposal and peace plan, but critics couldn't help but notice it's missing some critical pieces — namely, that a key party is missing.

Steve Herman, executive director at the Jordan Center for Journalism Advocacy and Innovation, quoted Trump's comment, "Everyone else has accepted it."

Republicans are starting to falter on the hardline stance about the government shutdown, according to a House GOP conference call on Monday.

While Republicans hold the majority in the House, Senate and White House, they don't have enough votes to pass an increase in the debt ceiling. It means they'll need support from Democrats. However, Democrats don't want to help Republicans raise the debt ceiling unless they bring back the healthcare subsidies for those utilizing the Affordable Care Act.

Journalist and blogger Amanda Marcotte laid into Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Monday in an op-ed over what she described as his “special vendetta against the bodily autonomy of women, especially pregnant women,” and compared his rhetoric to that of “rape apologists.”

RFK Jr. has faced renewed scrutiny after his conference last week alongside President Donald Trump, in which he linked autism to the use of Tylenol by pregnant women, a claim that experts say is not supported by existing data. At the event, Trump recommended that pregnant women “tough it out” rather than use Tylenol, among the few over-the-counter pain relievers scientists have said are safe for them.

President Donald Trump's trade war is squeezing small business owners as increasing costs for the materials they need cut into their profits.

Many larger companies absorbed higher costs from the president's tariffs without passing the difference on to consumers, but smaller businesses often lacked the money and storage space to stockpile materials before the levies kicked in — and they fear raising prices could alienate customers, reported The New York Times.

A pair of longtime MAGA voters in one of the nation's most hotly contested swing states is starting to sour on the president, according to an extensive profile by The Washington Post — and to survive the midterms and beyond, the GOP faces the challenge of persuading them to stay loyal and stay engaged.

Jessie and Carter Meadows of Swainsboro, Georgia, run a small local flower shop. In 2024, the business faced tough times, squeezed by inflation, and the Meadowses, who had consistently voted Republican for decades except for Jessie breaking for Barack Obama once, were eager for a revival with President Donald Trump's re-election. After all, in his first term, business boomed.

A Christian pastor who called the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints a "cult" and suggested burning the Book of Mormon appeared on "The Charlie Kirk Show" a day after a shooting at an LDS church in Michigan.

Following the shooting and fire that left four people dead at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Grand Blanc, right-wing pastor Mark Driscoll was welcomed by Kirk Show guest host Andrew Kolvet on Monday's podcast.