Washington, D.C., is taking a closer look at a longtime trucking industry gimmick as illegal migrant-related highway crashes continue killing Americans.

Indiana GOP Sen. Jim Banks is demanding the Department of Transportation (DOT) investigate the prevalence of chameleon carrier networks, trucking companies that repeatedly reopen under new identities after being shut down across his state, according to a letter obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation. Calls for an investigation follow another deadly big rig accident, again involving an illegal migrant driver. (RELATED: What Democrats Aren’t Saying About Their Judicial Warrant Demands For ICE)

The Metropolitan Police said officers arrested Britain’s former ambassador to the United States, Peter Mandelson, on suspicion of misconduct in public office in relation to the Epstein case.

London officers arrested Lord Mandelson, 72, Monday, on the same grounds as Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, formerly known as Prince Andrew, according to CNBC. Prior to his arrest, the police were investigating Mandelson’s alleged ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The news outlet reported that Mandelson’s name was not officially mentioned in police reports, a standard in Britain, but images of police escorting Mandelson from his home surfaced Monday.

Police found a stack of notes at a California residence that appeared to threaten a “violent incident” after a 20-year-old man allegedly attempted to enter a Catholic Church during Ash Wednesday mass while armed with a loaded gun.

Brian Richard Girardot Jr. was charged with possessing a firearm within a school zone, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of California Eric Grant said in a press release. On Feb. 18, Girardot Jr. dropped his younger relative off at St. Mary Parish School, where he was previously a student, according to court documents. Girardot Jr. returned at around 9:30 a.m. and walked onto the premises of St. Mary Catholic Church/St. Mary Parish School.

Olympic alpine ski legend Lindsey Vonn said she nearly lost her leg and was forced to undergo a blood transfusion after suffering a horrifying injury.

Vonn shared an Instagram video Monday saying she experienced the “most extreme and painful and challenging injury I’ve ever faced in my entire life times a hundred” following her crash at the games. The athlete said the two-week nightmare nearly culminated in a leg amputation. She explained the gruesome injury that resulted in a shattered tibia, fractured fibular head and tibial plateau.

Former special counsel Jack Smith may have violated a court order in his last-ditch effort to publicize a report about his failed prosecution of President Donald Trump, a judge suggested Monday.

Judge Aileen Cannon, a Trump appointee, blocked the release of the second part of Smith’s final report focusing on his classified documents case, slamming his decision to even compile one after she dismissed the indictment.

Actor Robert De Niro said three times on Monday’s edition of “The Best People with Nicolle Wallace” that it was necessary to “get rid of” President Donald Trump.

The podcast release followed U.S. Secret Service agents shooting and killing a man attempting to force his way into Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida on Sunday. De Niro also claimed on the podcast that “Trump is the enemy of this country” and would refuse to ever leave the White House. (RELATED: ‘Why Are We Not Pressing?’: Harris Faulkner Demands Bipartisan Push For Answers On Trump’s Assassination Attempt)

Democrats are honing their focus on some districts that staunchly supported President Donald Trump in the 2024 election as they look to retake the House of Representatives in November.

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) released their “highly competitive” Red to Blue candidate list on Monday, highlighting a dozen challengers slated to receive extra resources to flip Republican-held districts. Unseating some GOP incumbents in seats Trump carried by double digits — such as Republican Reps. Andy Ogles of Tennessee and Eli Crane of Arizona, already targets of the DCCC — is being made a priority in the campaign arm’s Red to Blue program. (RELATED: EXCLUSIVE: GOP Texas Rep. Tony Gonzales’s Support Crumbling Amid Alleged Affair Scandal, Poll Shows)

Kash Patel is getting dunked on by right and left over his appearance at Team USA’s gold medal hockey match against our 51st state, Canada.

America: Please arrest the pedophiles

Kash Patel: pic.twitter.com/8f6bMi60O0

— Eric Spracklen 🇺🇸 (@EricSpracklen) February 23, 2026

Legendary actor Robert De Niro cried while espousing alarmist rhetoric about President Donald Trump to MS NOW host Nicolle Wallace during a Monday episode of “The Best People with Nicolle Wallace.”

Wallace asked De Niro why he was “always about lifting up everybody” around him during the podcast. The actor, who has played mobsters and hitmen, immediately became emotional when answering and attacked Trump for supposedly trying to ruin the United States. (RELATED: Jasmine Crockett Claims She ‘Broke Down In Tears’ While Watching Alex Padilla Get Hauled Out Of Noem Presser)

Claire Lai, the daughter of Chinese political prisoner Jimmy Lai, is urging American-born skier Eileen Gu to bring attention to Jimmy Lai’s case.

“I am writing to you because of your outspoken appreciation for the values that have shaped you. You have frequently expressed how your American upbringing and education instilled in you a sense of purpose and a commitment to using your platform for good,” Claire Lai wrote to Gu in an open letter published Saturday. 

Democratic strategist Melissa DeRosa admitted to “America’s Newsroom” co-hosts Dana Perino and Bill Hemmer Monday that she was relishing the “implosion” of Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York.

Ocasio-Cortez rambled for 40 seconds when she was asked during the Munich Security Conference whether the United States should send troops to defend the Taiwan-based Republic of China if the People’s Republic of China attacked it. Perino asked DeRosa if Ocasio-Cortez’s efforts to defend her response was “working.” (RELATED: CNN Panel Melts Down After Kevin O’Leary Compares AOC’s Munich Word Salad To Kamala Harris)

Tim Walz’s administration is actively stonewalling a congressional probe into welfare fraud, the House Education and Workforce Committee said in a Monday letter obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation.

The Minnesota governor’s staff has not turned over documents the committee subpoenaed for in September 2024 concerning fraud amid a scandal over Feeding Our Future (FOF), a Somali-led nonprofit that defrauded the government of $300 million in COVID-19 relief funds meant for needy children, Republican committee chair Tim Walberg of Michigan wrote in the letter. Lawmakers seek information to determine whether the Minnesota Department of Education (MDE) is properly protecting taxpayer-funded federal nutrition programs from fraud. (RELATED: EXCLUSIVE: Child Molester Fired From Anti-ICE Union Chapter After Congress Asks Questions)