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FBI Director Kash Patel sparked mass confusion Tuesday after being grilled by Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) over the FBI’s bizarre new recruiting policy regarding bestiality.

Late last month, reporting revealed that the FBI had quietly loosened its vetting standards to make acts of bestiality no longer an instant disqualifier. At the time, the change was met with disbelief and scrutiny.

FBI Director Kash Patel and a Republican senator went around in circles during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Tuesday morning about the agency’s stance on agents and acts of bestiality.

After a grilling from the ranking Democrat on the committee, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL), on the topic, Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) couldn’t seem to get his head around why the sexual act should come up during applicant screenings.

FBI Director Kash Patel sat silently as the Senate Judiciary Committee's top Democrat called him the "least qualified and most partisan" director in the bureau's history.

Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL), the committee's ranking member, delivered the assessment Tuesday in his opening statement at the panel's oversight hearing, with Patel seated at the witness table. Patel is in his second year running the bureau, and Tuesday was his second annual oversight hearing, according to Chairman Chuck Grassley's (R-IA) prepared remarks.

Former Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's return to the Senate floor was greeted with a great deal of relief by his colleagues, but not by one person who seems to have President Donald Trump’s ear.

The Kentucky Republican, who was already slated to step down from the seat he has held since 1985, was wheeled onto the floor of the Senate, where he last voted on June 11 before he suffered a medical emergency involving a fall at his home.

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) was accused of spewing defamatory statements Monday night after falsely accusing progressive activist Hasan Piker and Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed of advocating for rape and Sharia law, respectively.

Speaking on Fox News’ “Hannity,” Luna falsely claimed that El-Sayed had “advocated for Sharia law” — the broad reference to religious law derived from the central text of the Islamic faith, the Quran — and also accused progressive activist Hasan Piker, who campaigned with El-Sayed, of advocating for sexual assault.

Attorney General Todd Blanche's announced event at the White House on Tuesday stunned a panel of legal experts.

Blanche is supposed to hold a briefing in the Rose Garden at the White House on Tuesday, a move that Elie Honig, a CNN legal expert, and Andrew McCabe, former deputy FBI director, said had never been done before. They argued that it was a testament to how the Department of Justice has lost any semblance of independence during the Trump administration.

President Donald Trump's pitch to voters to cut $5,000 checks for every adult if Republicans win the midterms shows how truly out of options he is, political analyst Juanita Tolliver told MS NOW's Ari Melber on Monday.

In essence, she argued, the president is starting to realize he's in trouble — but has deluded himself that he has a path out of it.

The United States isn’t sleepwalking into an artificial intelligence crisis — it is running toward one, a Democratic senator warned Monday.

The alert came when CNN host Kasie Hunt asked Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE) on “The Arena” whether the country had “basically sleepwalked into a crisis.”

U.S. Capitol Police massed outside the Washington home of Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY), unseen in public since June, more than an hour after the Senate convened without him.

Video that conservative journalist Nick Sortor posted on X shortly after 4 p.m. Monday shows officers in tactical vests outside McConnell's Capitol Hill townhouse.

Colorado Republicans' nominee for governor has landed in a fresh wave of controversy, as he appeared to suggest in an audio recording from one of his speeches to a sympathetic crowd that he understands what it's like to be nonwhite in America — because his dad was involved in drugs and prostitution.

In the audio, obtained by the liberal network Meidas Touch, Victor Marx likened himself to a "reverse coconut" while describing his understanding of the nonwhite experience in America.

Vice President JD Vance was heckled at a Kansas campaign event for Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS), then accused the protester of coming in to lie about the senator.

The interruption came Monday afternoon at Webco Manufacturing in Olathe, during remarks carried live by LiveNOW from Fox to more than 93,000 viewers. The stop was a MAGA Inc. event, according to ABC News 4, and came as Marshall seeks reelection in Kansas this year. MAGA Inc. is President Donald Trump's main super PAC.

Former Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s failure to show up at the Senate building on Monday raised more concerns that his aides are hiding something.

There had been hopes that the Kentucky Republican, who has been missing in action for more than three months due to health issues, would make an appearance on Monday with just one week to go before the chamber adjourned, but his aides are pointedly remaining mum.