President Donald Trump has issued a pardon to Stephen Buyer, a former Republican congressman from Indiana who served nearly two years in prison for making illegal stock trades based on inside information after he left office. Buyer sentenced to 22 months in prison in 2023 for making those trades while working as a consultant and lobbyist. He maintains that he is innocent. Trump cited Buyer’s career as a judge advocate general in the Army and in the House that was “distinguished and highly productive.” Buyer says the pardon “corrects a politically motivated prosecution” and that it was “horrific to be imprisoned for a crime that I did not commit.”

The Trump administration is pushing to use artificial intelligence in the U.S. military even as it faces calls for caution from some companies and military leaders. Adm. Frank Bradley of U.S. Special Operations Command emphasized in recent remarks at a conference in Florida that troops “have to be very careful" about use of AI when it comes to deadly strikes. He says he can see a future where AI determines what targets to hit but that humans have to ensure that it would “deliver violence only where we intend it to be delivered.” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is pushing for rapid AI integration, clashing with Anthropic over safety concerns.

President Donald Trump says any agreement with Iran should include a requirement for several additional Muslim-majority countries, such as Saudi Arabia and Turkey, to join the Abraham Accords. The U.S.-brokered accords, aimed at normalizing relations with Israel, were forged during Trump’s first term. In a social media post on Monday, Trump said negotiations are “proceeding nicely,” and he tied any eventual agreement to expanded participation in the agreements first signed in 2020. He pointed to Saudi Arabia and Qatar as countries that should “immediately” sign on, followed by Pakistan, Turkey, Egypt and Jordan. It remains unclear when or how any deal with Iran might be completed.

Texas voters will pick a Republican nominee for U.S. Senate in a primary runoff election on Tuesday. U.S. Sen. John Cornyn was the top vote-getter in the March 3 primary, but strong showings by two GOP challengers forced the four-term incumbent to a head-to-head matchup with state Attorney General Ken Paxton. Paxton placed second in the primary and received President Donald Trump’s endorsement. Also on the ballot are primary runoffs in more than a dozen congressional districts, plus state contests for lieutenant governor, attorney general and others.

The Department of Justice is acknowledging it's removed from its website news releases about criminal cases related to the Jan. 6, 2021, riot. The department says the information about the prosecutions is “partisan propaganda.” The purge of news releases documenting criminal charges, convictions and sentencings is the latest step by the Trump administration to dramatically rewrite the history of the Capitol assault. On that day more than five years ago, hundreds of supporters of Republican President Donald Trump stormed the building in an effort to halt the congressional certification of his 2020 election loss to Democrat Joe Biden.

President Donald Trump says the leaders of Russia and Ukraine have agreed to his request for a three-day ceasefire and an exchange of prisoners. Trump said on Friday that such a halt to hostilities could be the “beginning of the end” of the long war between them. He told reporters at the White House that he asked for the ceasefire and both presidents agreed. Trump announced on social media that the ceasefire would run Saturday through Monday. Saturday is Victory Day in Russia, a holiday that commemorates the victory over Nazi Germany in World War II.