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Elon Musk spent Monday night on social media defending his role in orchestrating massive U.S. foreign aid cuts that research at UCLA suggests could cause over 14 million preventable deaths by 2030.

After Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) accused him of causing these deaths through USAID defunding, Musk responded by calling the Congressman a liar, demanding his imprisonment, and threatening legal action.

The Tennessee Young Republicans – a Tennessee GOP-affiliated group of young conservatives – issued a statement Monday night distancing themselves from remarks and mailers issued by one of its chapter presidents that included openly white supremacist messages.

Austin Lee, the apparent president of the Tennessee Maury County Young Republicans chapter, uses the slogan “Save White America,” and on Tuesday, admitted to having sent out mailers to “thousands of conservatives” in his area. His remarks were flagged Tuesday by the progressive outlet the Tennessee Holler.

President Donald Trump has turned his focus from the Iran war to the ongoing setbacks in his renovation of the Reflecting Pool, but it's clear the project won't be ready in time for the July 4 celebration.

The $14 million renovation has been bedeviled by issues from the start, and CNN's Kevin Liptak provided an update to "The Situation Room" on the continued issue that Trump has tried to blame on vandals.

Rapper Talib Kweli is not interested in stepping into a ring with a man who has been publicly daring him to fight, but the online standoff between them has only escalated, with each accusing the other of stoking threats.

It began when a Facebook user named Jay Artem posted what he billed as "day one of tagging Talib Kweli and challenging him to box me until he accepts," signing off with "Let's throw hands" and a fist emoji. Kweli, the veteran Brooklyn MC who has spent years feuding publicly with figures across the right, did not let it slide.

Reacting to reports that Donald Trump has given the okay from Iran to start selling oil to the United States, handing the extremist leadership an immediate source of billions of dollars, MS NOW host Stephanie Ruhle admitted she was dumbfounded.

On her “Money Power Politics" morning show, Ruhle, a former Wall Street executive, reported, “We learned the administration will allow Iran to sell their oil for US dollars. Why is this a big deal? It is a decision that upends decades of US policy that was meant to make it harder for them to develop their nuclear program.”

On Tuesday, President Donald Trump took to Truth Social to announce a new detail of the tentative peace agreement between Washington and Tehran.

“The Money and/or Sanctions that the U.S. Treasury is releasing goes into escrow, controlled by the U.S.A., and will be used for the purchase of food and medical supplies, exclusively from the United States, including Corn, Wheat, and Soybeans from our great American Farmers,” Trump wrote.

The Justice Department has withdrawn extraordinary grand jury subpoenas issued to reporters from two newspapers after they challenged the demands in federal court, marking a rare retreat from an exceedingly aggressive tactic against the press.

The DOJ had sought to compel Washington Post national security reporter Ellen Nakashima and three Wall Street Journal journalists to testify before a federal grand jury regarding their reporting on sensitive national security matters, but the Post reported that both orders were pulled back.

President Donald Trump doubled down on his theory Tuesday that vandals were responsible for his failed Reflecting Pool renovations, suggesting that “razor blades” may have been used to create a “gash” in the pool’s bottom longer than a football field “in the dark of night.”

“The 350 foot gash, made by a very sharp knife or razors, is actually numerous slashes over a very long 350 foot length,” Trump claimed on his social media platform Truth Social.

CBS News and other news organizations have investigated President Donald Trump's claim that vandals left a 350-foot gash in the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool and have found that there is "no sign."

On Monday, Trump doubled down on his assertions about how the Reflecting Pool fiasco happened, saying it "has been given a 300-foot-long gash." The president told CBS News that he would present the evidence in court.

Vice President JD Vance’s becoming the face of the Iran peace negotiations has all the appearances of Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Donald Trump leaving the veep out to dangle in the wind by defending a deal that will go nowhere.

That is according to MS NOW’s Jake Traylor, who told host Stephanie Ruhle on Tuesday morning that one administration insider called Vance’s hyping up the negotiators' efforts a “complete capitulation” to Iran and characterized Trump’s initial praise of it as “salesmanship,” before adding, “That’s putting lipstick on a very ugly pig.”

As President Donald Trump's favorability among Americans continues to reach record lows, so too has the number of infants given the name “Donald,” a review of Social Security Administration data by NOTUS found Tuesday.

“The federal agency received fewer than 400 Social Security card applications for baby Donalds last year, making ‘Donald’ the nation’s 690th most popular baby name amid Trump’s return to the White House for a second term,” NOTUS’ Dave Levinthal wrote.