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A former Republican lawmaker cringed during a segment on CNN after she was shown a clip of President Donald Trump grading his economy on Tuesday.

Trump told Politico's podcast, "The Conversation," earlier on Tuesday that his economy gets an "A+++++" for its performance. That's despite public polling showing that about half of Americans see the rising cost of living as their top concern heading into the 2026 midterm.

President Donald Trump's Justice Department has come up with a new way to try to pressure the state of Colorado to release Tina Peters, a MAGA-favoring former elections clerk who went to prison for tampering with election equipment to try to prove Trump's 2020 election conspiracy theories.

According to The New Republic, "Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon and the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division are pretending to care about prisoners’ human rights in an apparent effort to get conspiracy theorist, former state official, and convicted 2020 election fraudster Tina Peters out of a Colorado jail."

The Department of Defense has launched a new generative artificial intelligence tool that will help the agency identify and engage military targets, according to a DOD source and an explosive leak reported on by journalist Jessica Burbank and Drop Site News.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced the new AI tool – dubbed “Gemini” – in a Tuesday memo obtained by Burbank, informing all DOD personnel that they are expected to incorporate the technology into their “workflows immediately.” Hegseth wrote that Gemini would help the agency “out-think, out-decide, and out-pace any adversary.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s leadership is deteriorating under the weight of mounting war-crimes allegations, triggering a wave of resignations from Pentagon officials who want no part of the chaos he’s unleashed. Reporting on MS NOW’s Morning Joe, Atlantic correspondent Nancy Youssef said that while Donald Trump isn’t on the brink of firing Hegseth, the fallout from disputed “double-tap” strikes, lawsuits from victims’ families, and a growing stack of questions about his judgment has left his credibility in shambles. Inside the Pentagon, officials fear they’ll end up like Admiral Bradley — carrying out Hegseth’s orders only to shoulder the political and moral blowback he’s created.

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Fox News host Martha MacCallum challenged Sen. Dave McCormick (R-PA) to present the Republican health care plan after he blamed Democrats and the Affordable Care Act for rising costs.

During a Tuesday interview, McCormick acknowledged that "health care costs have gone up dramatically," blaming it on former President Barack Obama's signature law.

President Donald Trump made a stunning admission about his pardon of Honduran former President Juan Orlando Hernandez that undercuts his rationale for bombing alleged drug smuggling boats.

The president told Politico’s Dasha Burns in a new interview that he knew "very little about him" before issuing a pardon for his conviction in a U.S. court for drug trafficking, which Trump claimed was "an Obama-Biden type setup," and The New Republic's Greg Sargent said the admission "handed Democrats a new weapon to hound Republicans mercilessly if they fail to exercise oversight over these ongoing crimes."

During a filmed interview with Politico’s Dasha Burns, President Donald Trump became confused when confronted with comments made by the first American pope, Pope Leo XIV.

As part of the 45-minute interview, where the president professed, “I watch everything, yeah. I watch everything. I see a lot of things,” Trump seemed surprised the Chicago-born pope has criticized his administration for the forced roundup of immigrants by ICE on orders from the Department of Homeland Security.

Donald Trump grew visibly irritated when Politico’s Dasha Burns pressed him on the looming end of Affordable Care Act subsidies, snapping “don’t be dramatic” as she tried to explain that Americans will see their premiums spike in just two weeks. In a 45-minute interview filled with rambling detours and deflections, Trump dodged direct questions about whether he’d urge Congress to extend Obamacare subsidies, instead launching into attacks on Democrats and accusing them of being “owned” by insurance companies. As Burns repeatedly pushed for clarity, Trump insisted he’s “giving them money” and promised “better health insurance for less,” even though he offered no plan to prevent the immediate premium hikes families are bracing for.

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