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A former NATO representative issued a startling warning on Tuesday about President Donald Trump's latest peace plan for the war in Ukraine during a radio interview.

Trump's latest peace plan included 28 points that some analysts felt heavily favored Russia's ambitions in the war. The plan included provisions requiring Ukraine to give up its pursuit of joining NATO, significantly reduce the size of its military, and give up land occupied by Russian forces, among others.

A progressive political analyst flagged a staggeringly "ironic" admission that President Donald Trump made during the cabinet meeting on Tuesday.

Brian Tyler Cohen, a progressive YouTuber, discussed the Cabinet meeting in a new reaction video posted on his YouTube channel. In it, he highlighted a claim Trump made during the meeting, in which he called the word affordability a "Democrat scam."

A former White House official from President Donald Trump's first term blasted the president's trade agenda on Tuesday during an interview on CNN.

Marc Short, former chief of staff to Vice President Mike Pence, discussed Trump's trade agenda on Tuesday's broadcast of "The Arena" with host Kasie Hunt. He commended Trump for bringing energy prices down, but argued that doing so revealed that the president's agenda has been a complete "failure."

The state of Illinois has officially issued a legal warning to almost two dozen rental car companies that they cannot allow U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to tamper with license plates on rental cars to avoid detection, reported NBC News on Tuesday.

"According to documents obtained by NBC News via the Freedom of Information Act, the Illinois secretary of state’s office sent letters to at least 19 national car rental headquarters stating that they had received public complaints of immigration agents switching license plates on rented vehicles when Operation Midway Blitz, an extensive government deportation operation, was active in the Chicago area," reported Natasha Korecki. "The letters were sent to Alamo, Enterprise, Budget, Hertz, Ace and other vehicle rental companies. They did not respond to requests for comment."

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem raised eyebrows during a cabinet meeting on Tuesday when she claimed that President Donald Trump was responsible for this year's slow hurricane season.

"Mr. President, you made it through hurricane season without a hurricane," Noem said. "You kept the hurricanes away."

Washington Post conservative columnist George Will slammed Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Tuesday, arguing in a new column that reports of Hegseth's order to kill survivors of one of the Trump administration's boat strikes is something that should "nauseate Americans."

The Post recently reported, citing two sources familiar with the situation, that Hegseth gave the order to "kill everybody" involved in one of the strikes. Hegseth has attacked the report, but has not explicitly denied the claims, Will noted in the column.

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) has navigated a difficult year with a razor-thin majority where he had to wrangle every last vote on key issues, and frequently had to juggle unexpected vacancies. But things are about to get a whole lot worse for him, one congressional staffer predicted Tuesday on X.

That's because no fewer than 18 members of the House Republican caucus are running for other offices next year, and can't be counted on to always be in Washington for critical votes.