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The panel on CNN's "NewsNight with Abby Phillip" erupted on Monday night after a GOP strategist tried to defend President Donald Trump's tariff policy.

Earlier in the day, Trump announced new 25% tariffs against South Korea and Japan, two of America's largest trading partners. GOP strategist Brad Todd joined the panel to argue that the tariffs are a sound economic policy for the U.S. government to pursue.

WASHINGTON — U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem ended temporary protections Monday for nationals from Nicaragua and Honduras, opening up roughly 76,000 people to deportations by early September.

The move is the latest effort by President Donald Trump’s administration to wind down legal statuses, such as Temporary Protected Status, amid an immigration crackdown and pledge to carry out mass deportations.

President Donald Trump's decision to impose sweeping 25% tariffs on trade partners South Korea and Japan met swift condemnation from the Wall Street Journal's conservative editorial board.

The board penned an op-ed on Monday that argued Trump is spoiling the "economic mood" following the signing of his landmark "One Big, Beautiful Bill Act." The bill makes permanent several tax cuts from Trump's first administration while also slashing spending on social programs.

President Donald Trump has staked much of the credibility of his "big, beautiful bill" of tax cuts on Kevin Hassett, a right-wing economist long hitched to Trump's movement who insists in the face of all evidence that hundreds of billions of dollars in Medicaid cuts aren't actually Medicaid cuts, wrote Jonathan Chait in a searing analysis for The Atlantic published on Monday evening.

The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office has forecast that Trump's new law will cost millions of people their health care while driving up energy prices and adding more than $2 trillion to the deficit — but Hassett has a simple answer when confronted with this.

President Donald Trump's new fragrance line shouldn't be viewed as any other product release. Instead, it should be seen as a warning sign, according to a new op-ed on MSNBC.com.

Trump's fragrance line, deftly named 'Victory 45-47,' is the president's latest business venture since he entered office for a second term. He has also launched a cryptocurrency venture, negotiated a hotel development in Saudi Arabia, and helped his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, land a luxury hotel deal in Serbia.

Dan Bongino, deputy director of the FBI, became the latest Trump administration official to come under fire Monday night after Attorney General Pam Bondi announced that the Justice Department found no evidence that Jeffrey Epstein was murdered or that a so-called "client list" exists.

Bongino, a MAGA influencer before being tapped for the FBI, made numerous public remarks about Epstein and the "client list" over the years, frequently pushing conspiracy theories suggesting Epstein was killed and that he had blackmailed powerful elites.

Tesla Motors' stock has suffered ever since billionaire owner Elon Musk married himself to President Donald Trump's movement — and now the two have had a falling out, it has only gotten worse and more macabre for shareholders, CNN's Erin Burnett said on Monday.

"Tesla shares tanking, closing down nearly 7 percent for the day," said Burnett. "That's a massive drop. $12 billion gone from Elon Musk's personal net wealth worth, according to Forbes. And the reason for this is Musk's latest public fight with President Trump. I mean, just imagine juxtaposing me saying this with what we were saying two months ago. Talk about what a weird, warped world we're living in."

President Donald Trump's administration controls the fate of migrants it has deported to other countries like El Salvador, officials claimed in a court filing on Monday.

The claims contradict the Trump administration's position that it has no authority to return the migrants once they've been sent elsewhere. That was the argument they used to try and circumvent a court order to facilitate the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia from El Salvador's infamous CECOT prison to the United States.

The Trump administration is trying to investigate an incident in which the official Department of Government Efficiency Veterans Affairs account sent an angry personal message to an outspoken critic of tech billionaire Elon Musk.

According to Politico, "James Fishback, the anti-DEI investor who recently launched FSD PAC — a super PAC aimed at blunting Musk’s political ambitions — received a direct message on X from the official DOGE Veterans Affairs account." The message stated, “James - we need to talk. Your recent behavior has crossed some serious lines. That’s why we rejected your DOGE application in the first place. Let’s step your game up. This is embarrassing.”

Global leaders hit back Monday at a series of threats issued by President Donald Trump in posts on Truth Social, the social media network Trump owns.

Trump posted 13 letters written to countries ranging from Thailand to Serbia and Tunisia threatening each of them with additional tariffs unless they corrected "many years" of trade imbalances with the United States. Those threats coincided with new U.S. tariffs that went into effect against trade partners like Japan and South Korea on Monday.

A business owner in Denver is calling on President Donald Trump to reconsider his administration's use of tariffs.

Masaru Torito, who has owned the casual Japanese restaurant Kokoro for 39 years, made the comments on CNN's "The Lead With Jake Tapper." They happened just a few hours after Trump announced new 25% tariffs on countries like South Korea and Japan.

The internet erupted in cheers Monday over reporting that the Transportation Security Administration quietly reversed a decades-old security check long reviled by travelers.

The TSA began encouraging passengers to take off their shoes at airport security checkpoints beginning in February 2002, following an attempted shoe bombing by Richard Reid two months earlier. Shoe removal became mandatory for all passengers in August 2006 amid strict liquid restrictions following a thwarted liquid explosives plot in the United Kingdom.