Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is scheduled to appear on Fox & Friends Tuesday morning as questions linger about his future in the role amid myriad scandals, Fox News announced. After it was revealed over the weekend that Hegseth was the creator of another Signal group chat that was used to discuss sensitive battle plans—this one including his wife and brother—the Defense secretary has again maintained he did nothing wrong. The White House has even claimed he was a “plot victim.” Yet Hegseth’s time may be running out, less than 100 days into his tenure. According to NPR, President Donald Trump has “begun the process” of finding a replacement for the former Fox News co-host, who spent seven years on Fox & Friends Weekend until being named to lead the Pentagon last November. On Monday, Hegseth berated reporters in front of his children during the White House Easter Egg Roll for reporting on his actions. “Hoaxsters—this group right here—full of hoaxsters that peddle anonymous sources from leakers with axes to grind, and then you put it all together as if it’s some news story,” he said. Three staffers close to Hegseth were purged last week, and his chief of staff reportedly moved into a different role within the Pentagon.

George Clooney fired back at President Donald Trump for calling him “a second rate movie star” and “failed political pundit” on Monday,” saying that he simply wasn’t going to let the insults bother him. “My job is not to please the President of the United States. My job is to try and tell the truth when I can and when I have the opportunity,” Clooney told CBS Mornings co-host Gayle King. He added that people had a “right” to criticize him, just as he had a “right to say the other side.” Trump insulted the two-time Oscar winner after his interview with 60 Minutes in March, in which he criticized the president. Trump also came after Clooney last year after the actor published an op-ed for The New York Times urging Joe Biden to step down in favor of another Democratic nominee. “Clooney should get out of politics and go back to television. Movies never really worked for him!!!” Trump wrote at the time. Clooney responded in September on Jimmy Kimmel Live! saying, “I will if he does. That’s a trade-off I’d do.” Clooney has been promoting the Broadway play Good Night, and Good Luck about the journalist Edward R. Murrow, who sought to spread the truth during troubling political times in America.

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Nebraska Rep. Don Bacon on Monday became the first House Republican to call for Pete Hegseth’s firing. The Defense Secretary has been mired in controversy after a series of scandals, including his use of multiple Signal group chats to discuss sensitive planning information for military strikes abroad, and a staff mutiny at the Pentagon that culminated Sunday in a stunning editorial published by his former top spokesperson that heavily criticized his leadership of the crucial federal department. “The military should always pride itself on operational security. If the reports are true, the Secretary of Defense has failed at operational security, and that is unacceptable,” Bacon, the chair of the House Armed Services subcommittee, told Axios. “If a Democrat did this, we’d be demanding a scalp. I don’t like hypocrisy. We should be Americans first when it comes to security.” Despite the calls for his ouster, President Donald Trump continues to defend Hegseth. “Pete’s doing a great job. Everybody’s happy about him,” the U.S. president told reporters on Monday.

The Vatican has released Pope Francis’ death certificate, revealing the 88-year-old pontiff’s cause of death on Monday, ABC News reported. His official death certificate states Francis passed away in his Vatican apartment at 7:35 a.m. Vatican doctor Andrea Arcangeli said the Pope died “as a result of a stroke and irreversible heart failure,” adding that he had been affected by “a previous episode of acute respiratory failure in bilateral multi microbial pneumonia, multiple bronchiectasis, arterial hypertension and type II diabetes.” Francis was seen publicly the day before, meeting briefly with Vice President JD Vance on Easter Sunday. “His entire life was dedicated to the service of the Lord and His Church,” Cardinal Kevin Farrell said of the pope. Francis’ will, also released Monday, requested a modest burial: “The tomb must be in the Earth; simple, without particular decoration and with the only inscription: Franciscus.” The pope will be buried at the Papal Basilica of Saint Mary Major in Rome.

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Kanye West claims to have had an incestuous relationship with his male cousin when he was a child in a new song and accompanying tweet. Debuting a song from his upcoming album “Cuck,” on X, West wrote: “This song is called COUSINS about my cousin that’s locked in jail for life for killing a pregnant lady a few years after I told him we wouldn’t ‘look at dirty magazines together’ anymore. Perhaps in my self centered mess I felt it was my fault that I showed him those dirty magazines when he was 6 and then we acted out what we saw.” He added: “My name is Ye and I sucked my cousins d--- till I was 14. Tweet sent.” The accompanying video features semi-pornographic images and a series of low-quality clips while a heavily autotuned West repeatedly croons “I gave my cousin head” over an abrasive beat. In a 2018 interview with Jimmy Kimmel, Kanye previously said: “My cousin is locked up for murder and I love him. So he did a bad thing, but I still love him.”

Chipotle Mexican Grill announced its first location in Mexico will open early next year as part of the company’s latest international expansion, NBC News reported. On Monday, the company announced it had entered into a development agreement with Alsea, the operator of Starbucks, Domino’s Pizza, Burger King, and other major chains across Latin America and Europe. The first restaurant under this partnership, which is set to open in 2026, marks the start of Chipotle’s search for additional expansion opportunities in the region—potentially signaling a broader push into Latin America. This move into Mexico comes amid ongoing trade tensions between the U.S. and Mexico. At one point, Mexican avocados faced a proposed 25 percent tariff, which was later suspended for goods complying with the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA). While Chipotle has diversified its avocado supply sources, about half still come from Mexico. The American-Mexican fast food joint has been gradually expanding its operations to international waters after a decade of focusing on the U.S. market. The company currently operates 58 restaurants in Canada, 20 in the U.K., six in France, and two in Germany.

Passengers were forced to evacuate a Delta Air Lines flight from Orlando to Atlanta after the plane’s engine caught fire Monday. The Airbus A330 plane was about to leave the tarmac at the Orlando International Airport in Florida when a fire was reported in one of the engines, according to the airline and the Federal Aviation Administration. All 282 passengers, 10 flight attendants, and two pilots exited the aircraft through its emergency slides. Delta said in a statement: “We appreciate our customers’ cooperation and apologize for the experience. Nothing is more important than safety and Delta teams will work to get our customers to their final destinations as soon as possible.” This is not Delta’s first aircraft mishap in the past few months. A similar incident occurred in January, when a Boeing 757 Delta Air Lines plane’s engine caught fire at the Hartsfield-Jackson Airport in Atlanta, injuring several people. In February, a Delta flight also flipped over while landing at a Toronto airport, leaving 21 people injured, and in March, one of the airline’s planes almost collided with an Air Force jet.

Former NFL star turned podcaster Shannon Sharpe has been accused of raping an ex-partner. A 13-page filing in a Nevada court alleges Sharpe filmed and shared his sexual encounters with a woman using the pseudonym “Jane Doe” without her consent or knowledge during a nearly two-year period when the pair were in a “rocky consensual relationship.” The complaint says Sharpe was “manipulating and controlling” during this period and accuses him of “repeatedly threatening to brutally choke and violently slap her.” The relationship began to fall apart when Sharpe accidentally live streamed on Instagram a sexual encounter with another woman. Sharpe, according to the filing, relentlessly pursued the complainant as she sought to end their relationship. In two later encounters in Oct. 2024 and Jan. 2025, the complainant alleges Sharpe raped her and refused to stop despite her pleas for him to or wear a condom. The complaint alleges Sharpe also committed assault, sexual assault, battery, and sexual battery, and intentionally caused emotional distress, and is seeking a minimum of $50 million in damages.

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Dick Van Dyke, 99, isn’t ready to retire quite yet. And he still has one more big career goal in mind. “I love what I do for a living,” Van Dyke told People at the Dick & Arlene Van Dyke Present Vandy Camp, affirming his desire to keep working. But wife Arlene Silver, 53, revealed a caveat: “The minute he says that—the phone rings he’s like, ‘I don’t want to go there.’ If they come to our house, he will work all the time.” Van Dyke admits travel is his biggest hurdle. “Yeah. I’m too old to travel and all that,” he said. Despite the challenges, the Mary Poppins star is still chasing one major goal: an Academy Award. “I got a Tony from Bye Bye Birdie‚” he shared, in addition to three acting Emmy Awards for The Dick Van Dyke Show (plus one more for Van Dyke and Company) and a Grammy Award for Mary Poppins. “So I’ve got one of everything except an Oscar.” His wife added, “He should have an Oscar.” Van Dyke said he would even be happy with an honorary Academy Award. When asked if he’d like to complete the EGOT—adding an Oscar to his Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Award— before turning 100 on Dec. 13 of this year, he answered with a grin: “Oh, yeah!”

Two Boeing jets sent to China less than a month ago are returning to the U.S. in the latest apparent turbulence from Trump’s trade war. The 737 MAX 8 planes were ferried from Boeing’s U.S. production in Seattle to the Zhoushan completion center in China, where they were scheduled to undergo final work before being delivered to Chinese carriers. But on Sunday and Monday, two planes painted with China’s Xiamen Airlines livery flew back to Seattle. A spokesperson for the airline confirmed the planes had gone back to the U.S. but didn’t provide a reason. Beijing had previously ordered Chinese airlines not to accept delivery of Boeing jets after Trump announced a 145 percent tariff for Chinese products entering the U.S. China retaliated with 125 percent tariffs on U.S. goods and counter-measures aimed at certain industries and manufacturers, including Boeing. Malaysia has said it might buy American jets rejected by Chinese airlines. The world’s second-largest economy, however, warned third-party countries not to make deals with the U.S. that would undercut China’s economic interests.