Politico reports: U.S. President Donald Trump will join European leaders including Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for an emergency virtual summit on Wednesday. The call, organized by German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, comes ahead of Friday’s summit in Alaska between Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin on the war in Ukraine. The virtual summit will focus on pressure options against Russia, questions …

CBS News reports: In the midst of an already controversial special legislative session, lawmakers have reintroduced a bill that would allow lawsuits to target anyone who manufactures, mails, delivers, prescribes or distributes abortion pills. The bill would also permit people to file a wrongful death lawsuit if the medication results in harm or death of a fetus or the mother, …

Raw Story reports: Rep. Doug LaMalfa (R-CA) faced jeers and heckling at a town hall event over his support for President Donald Trump and the One Big Beautiful Bill. LaMalfa began the event on Monday by noting that one member of the audience had insulted President Donald Trump by calling him “the big orange man.” “No fascism in America!” a …

The Washington Post reports: Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) called President Donald Trump’s federal takeover of the D.C. police department “unsettling and unprecedented,” her first public statement since Trump announced the move, along with a deployment of National Guard troops, earlier Monday. “I can’t say that given some of the rhetoric of the past, that we’re totally surprised,” Bowser said. …

CNBC reports: President Donald Trump has signed an executive order that will prevent high U.S. tariffs on Chinese goods from snapping back into effect for another 90 days, a White House official told CNBC on Monday afternoon. The order was signed just hours before midnight, when the pause on Trump’s tariffs was set to expire. If the deadline was not …

Mediaite reports: Vice President JD Vance praised The Gateway Pundit, a far-right fake news site, in an interview with founder and editor Jim Hoft published on Sunday. Vance’s adulatory comments came after Hoft said that he had “heard some news” about Minnesota Governor Tim Walz (D), Vance’s Democratic counterpart in the 2024 election. “The FBI and DHS was covering for …

“This is President Donald Trump saying once we liberate DC — and by the way, I guarantee the crime’s gonna go whoop. It’s gonna go way down. And then the media will say, oh, it’s only going down because he brought in the military. Exactly. We need full military occupation of these cities until the crime desists. Period. Simple fix. …

Austin’s NBC affiliate reports: The Texas House once again convened Monday at 1 p.m. to try to meet quorum, one week after Democrats left the state to block mid-decade congressional redistricting. The House had 96 members, four short of a quorum. Two Democrats — Reps. Eddie Morales and Terry Canales — returned to Austin Monday after being absent Friday, though …

The Muddy River News reports: Illinois Republican Jil Tracy has filed a petition in Adams County in pursuit of Texas lawmakers who are hiding out in Illinois in political protest. Tracy wants to be clear that she’s serving as legal counsel to the Texas Attorney General as a private attorney and not in her elected capacity. Tracy also wanted it known …

The Hill reports: Democrats on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee blasted President Trump for “dictator-level stuff” as he launched his crime crackdown and law enforcement takeover in Washington, D.C., on Monday. “Deploying the military on DC’s streets only creates fear and chaos,” members wrote in a post on the social platform X as Trump outlined the effort during …

Pittsburgh’s NBC affiliate reports: At least one person was killed and dozens of others were injured in an explosion at the U.S. Steel Clairton Coke Works. Allegheny County Police Department said that two people are still believed to be unaccounted for. A mass casualty incident was declared to allow for additional EMS resources from across the region to respond. Multiple …

The Daily Beast reports: A lengthy investigation from The New Yorker estimates Trump and his family will have enriched themselves by more than $3.4 billion by the end of his second term, much of it from deals, transactions, and investments that almost certainly wouldn’t have happened if he’d never been president. The haul includes lucrative commercial projects in the Persian …

Florida Politics reports: Leading Florida Republicans say the state deserves more U.S. House seats — as many as five of them. And Gov. Ron DeSantis and Attorney General James Uthmeier say the state should get them before the 2026 Midterms. That adjustment would happen with a new census, both said, but could also be done by revisiting decisions made after …

“I’ve instructed them and told them whatever happens, you know — they love to spit in the face of the police as the police are standing up there in uniform. They’re standing and they’re screaming at them an inch away from their face, and then they start spitting in their face and I said, ‘You tell them you spit and …

Playbook reports: The president can federalize the Metropolitan Police Department in 48-hour increments. Typically, the MPD is under the control of the mayor, but under the Richard Nixon-era Home Rule Act, the president retains the power to supersede city hall for discrete periods of time. This has never happened before. When the law was written, they envisioned it being used …

The Daily Mail reports: Donald Trump was branded “embarrassing” after seemingly accidentally saying he was going to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin in Russia on Friday. Their meeting is slated to take place in Alaska. The slip-up came as Trump held a press conference in the Oval Office to discuss his promised crackdown on crime in Washington. “It’s embarrassing for …

The Weather Channel reports: At least six people have reportedly been killed by intense flooding caused by heavy thunderstorms on the island of São Vicente, Cabo Verde, according to preliminary information. Local media is citing Civil Protection Councilor José Carlos who says four of the victims were children. The heavy rainfall was the result of Tropical Storm Erin, formerly Invest …

The Washington Post reports: President Donald Trump announced Monday that he would place the D.C. police under direct federal control and deploy the National Guard to the streets of Washington to fight crime and clear the city of its homeless population, an extraordinary flex of federal power that could expose residents of the nation’s capital to unpredictable encounters with a …

The New York Times reports: For nearly 40 years, a special federal court system has compensated Americans who prove they were harmed by vaccines while also protecting the manufacturers from litigation. Now Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. plans to overhaul the program, saying he will make it more efficient and speedier for Americans seeking payment. He said in a …

The Guardian reports: Donald Trump said on Truth Social today that DC “will be LIBERATED today.” Ahead of his press conference, in just over an hour, the president said that “crime, savagery, filth, and scum will disappear” from the city. He added: ‘I will, MAKE OUR CAPITAL GREAT AGAIN! The days of ruthlessly killing, or hurting, innocent people, are OVER! …