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On Tuesday, the White House social media accounts published a video of people in leg restraints and handcuffs being loaded onto a plane as part of a deportation operation.

On the social media accounts, the White House joked it was an ASMR video, an acronym for autonomous sensory meridian response. Such videos have gained popularity in recent years among people who enjoy certain sounds. The video showcases the clanking of the restraints on the migrants.

Members of the "privacy team" in an office that oversees the hiring of federal workers were fired, which limits how much access the public is granted to government records.

CNN learned about the firings in the Office of Personnel Management after filing a request for records under the Freedom of Information Act related to security clearances for Elon Musk and anyone else involved with the Department of Government Efficiency.

President Donald Trump confirmed he would continue to punish The Associated Press if the news organization continued using "certain phrases" including the "Gulf of Mexico."

During a Tuesday news conference, Trump was asked if there was anything the AP could do to be allowed to report from the Oval Office and Air Force One again.

A Trump-supporting actor begged the president to hold back a little on tech billionaire Elon Musk's mass firings from the civil service, and at least spare the government workers who voted for him, The Independent flagged Tuesday.

Zachary Levi, who had the lead role in the acclaimed superhero film "Shazam!" and was the voice of Flynn Rider in Disney's "Tangled," made the comments this week in an interview with Fox News' Jesse Watters, saying that Musk's Department of Government Efficiency initiative is "complicated" and causing a lot of uncertainty for people who don't deserve it.

J.D. Vance's visit to Germany last week hasn't generated the "shock and revulsion" it should have, argued a columnist.

The vice president gave a speech at the Munch Security Conference that New Republic editor Michael Tomasky called shocking and immoral and meting with the leader of the fascist party Alternative fur Deutschland, or AfD, which has been shunned by the nation's other parties, but shunned a meeting with chancellor Olaf Scholz.

Elon Musk’s recent suggestion that millions of deceased individuals continue to collect Social Security benefits sent former Gov. Martin O’Malley (D-MD) into a fit of laughter Tuesday.

The on-air moment came during an interview on CNN as O’Malley made light of Musk’s social media remarks where he criticized the Social Security Administration, which he implied is rife with fraud and a source of millions of dollars in government waste.

Republicans are moving forward with a resolution to nullify a Biden-era reform that protects against excessive overdraft fees when banking, Rolling Stone reported Tuesday, in what reporter Nikki McCann Ramirez described as a "direct attack on consumers."

The rule in question, passed by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and part of a broader war by the Biden administration on so-called "junk fees" meant to surprise consumers, prevents banks from charging more than $5 in penalties if an account holder overdraws from their account. This regulation "gave banks several options to manage overdraft costs without placing an excess burden on consumers" — nevertheless, Republicans have vowed to eliminate this regulation, and the Trump administration is in favor of the effort.

Texas is experiencing a measles outbreak, which prompted physician Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) to tweet about it on X and tell Americans that the measles vaccine has been "safe and effective since 1963." He was then criticized for supporting Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s appointment as the secretary of Health and Human Services.

Kennedy has long been a so-called "vaccine skeptic" and has spoken out specifically on the measles vaccine, questioning its efficacy and safety.

Donald Trump's disorienting foreign policy is setting the U.S. on a path without regard for the rest of the world, according to a new analysis.

The first four weeks of the president's second term have made it clear Trump and his administration have no regard for alliances of anyone threatened by U.S. adversaries, and Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson said their attitude can be summed up as "who cares?"

Missouri state Rep. Phil Amato (R) has introduced a bill that would require the state to maintain a database to track pregnant women who are at "risk" of having an abortion.

The Missouri House Democratic Caucus warned about Amato's HB 807 on social media this week.