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Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) faced ridicule from political analysts after accidentally criticizing himself during a Fox News interview with Sean Hannity Monday.

While discussing the midterm elections, Cruz attacked Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), or AOC's, policies on entrepreneurship, alleging AOC said it's impossible to earn a billion dollars.

A House Oversight Committee hearing turned emotional Tuesday after a survivor of Jeffrey Epstein issued a blistering rebuke of the Justice Department (DOJ), which months earlier had publicly named her in its release of Epstein-related files “over 500 times,” permanently exposing her identity to the world.

The survivor identified herself only as “Roza” to avoid further public disclosure of her name, and despite the DOJ having already failed to properly redact victim-identifying information – including hers, she claimed – in records released under the Epstein Files Transparency Act.

President Donald Trump's administration is doubling down on its threat to target "secular" and "pro-transgender" groups.

In the 2026 U.S. Counterterrorism Strategy released on Tuesday, Trump insisted that he was "once again putting America First."

The Trump family scamming the president's admirers out of a hundred bucks each stands out to even a jaded chronicler of their corruption.

More than a half million people paid a $100 “deposit” to preorder a gold smartphone announced in June 2025 by Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, but those Trump Mobile devices appear unlikely to hit the market – and The Bulwark's Andrew Egger cautioned customers against holding their breath for a refund.

A relatively subdued Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth changed tactics and talked over a Democratic lawmaker on Tuesday morning as the two argued over Pentagon expenditures with the Donald Trump appointee snapping when one of his claims was called “ridiculous.”

Hegseth faced off with Rep. Joe Morelle (R-NY) who asked, “There has been much reported about the president's trip to China and I appreciate again my colleagues raised PACOM [United States Indo-Pacific Command] and its defense. There are weapons on hold the president has not authorized to Taiwan and I wonder if you can give me an update, what’s the status of those weapons sales are at this point?”

The U.S. Supreme Court's conservative majority issued a 6-3 order Monday allowing Alabama to eliminate a majority-Black congressional district just one week before the state's primary election.

The decision reverses the court's 2022 ruling in Allen v. Milligan, which ordered Alabama to create a second majority-Black district despite the state's population being approximately 26% African American, according to Common Dreams. Justice Sonia Sotomayor criticized the ruling, noting the court previously found Alabama "intentionally diluting the votes of Black voters."

Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE) called out Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to his face for "fighting culture wars" instead of winning real conflicts like the war in Iran.

During a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing on Tuesday, Coons noted that President Donald Trump's Iran war had caused a "rift" with U.S. allies.

A pair of arcade game cabinets appeared Monday morning at the D.C. War Memorial titled “Operation Epic Furious: Straight to Hell,” a satirical jab at President Donald Trump and his wildly unpopular war against Iran – and on Tuesday, MeidasTouch reporter and attorney Aaron Parnas shared a photograph appearing to show National Guard members playing the game.

The art installation was set up by Secret Handshake, an anonymous art group also responsible for such exhibits as the golden throne toilet and statues depicting Trump alongside convicted sex-offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Dan "Razin" Caine faced off with protesters over the war in Iran.

Before Senate testimony on Tuesday, members of the Code Pink anti-war group could be heard yelling at Caine.

A decorated FBI special agent has detailed a White House-directed purge of the bureau aimed at removing employees involved in investigations into the Jan. 6 Capitol riot and former President Donald Trump's classified documents case, according to an exclusive CNN interview.

Brian Driscoll, who served as acting FBI director for one month before Kash Patel's confirmation, told CNN in his first public interview that he faced political vetting questions from Trump officials before taking the No. 2 position at the bureau, and he said Patel told him the vetting would proceed smoothly if he avoided social media activism, refrained from donating to the Democratic Party and had not voted for Kamala Harris in 2024.

Sen. Jack Reed (D-RI), the ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, slammed the Pentagon for refusing to follow the law when it comes to briefing members of Congress.

As Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was testifying before a House budget committee on Tuesday, the Rhode Island senator spoke to reporters about the Pentagon's refusal to brief both Democrats and Republicans on military operations.