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President Donald Trump launched a nearly three-minute tirade against an ABC News reporter on Tuesday after being asked a question about Jeffrey Epstein.

Sitting alongside Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in the Oval Office, Trump was asked why he didn’t direct his Justice Department to release all the files it holds on Epstein, rather than force lawmakers to pass legislation forcing their release, as they were poised to vote on Tuesday.

The House was convening Tuesday to consider a landmark vote on a bill that could compel the Justice Department to release all of its files on Jeffrey Epstein, a bill that President Donald Trump had fought fiercely against but reversed course on Sunday after calling on Republicans to support it.

The vote comes after a months-long effort from Reps. Thomas Massie (R-KY) and Ro Khanna (D-CA) to collect 218 signatures on what’s known as a discharge petition, a tool to circumvent House leadership and force a vote on a particular measure on the House floor. That measure is a bill that, if signed into law by Trump, would force the DOJ to release every file it has on Epstein, of which tens of thousands – if not more – are believed to exist.

A federal appeals court set up a likely U.S. Supreme Court challenge over a Republican redistricting map in Texas.

A three-judge panel threw out a newly drawn redistricting map for the 2026 election and ordered the state to use the districts passed by the state legislature in 2021, with a Dec. 8 deadline for candidates to file for the March elections, reported the Texas Tribune.

President Donald Trump set off waves of disgust by suggesting that assassinated Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi got what he deserved.

The Washington Post columnist was brutally murdered in October 2018 by agents of the Saudi government closely tied to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who joined Trump in the Oval Office Tuesday when a reporter asked about the dissident journalist's killing.

During a joint press availability with Mohammed bin Salman, Donald Trump smeared the murdered Washington Post contributor Jamal Khashoggi when a reporter attempted to grill the Saudi prince.

Trump snapped at ABC reporter Mary K. Bruce after she asked the prince about the assassination of the journalist on the leader's watch, as well as how he thinks 9/11 families are accepting his visit to the Oval Office.

President Donald Trump lashed out at a reporter who asked about the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi during an Oval Office meeting with the man accused of ordering his killing, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.

"Mr. President, is it appropriate, Mr. President, for your family to be doing business in Saudi Arabia while you are president, is that a conflict of interest?" a reporter from ABC News asked during the Oval Office meeting on Tuesday. "And, your royal highness, the U.S. intelligence concluded that you orchestrated the brutal murder of a journalist. 9/11 families are furious that you are here in the Oval Office."

Multiple federal agencies are planning a nationwide crackdown on Spanish-speaking churches during the upcoming holiday season, according to three sources in the U.S. Department of Justice.

DOJ attorneys assigned to U.S. attorney's offices in Massachusetts, Rhode Island and New York told This Week in Worcester they had received briefings on a plan involving operations at churches between Thanksgiving and Christmas Day carried out by agents from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), including Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) and Customs and Border Patrol (CBP).

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) vowed to vote in favor of a bill to release files on Jeffrey Epstein on Tuesday in a sharp reversal from his earlier stance, and one that drew an immediate rebuke from one Democratic lawmaker.

“Daddy gave you permission??” wrote Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) Tuesday in a social media post on X, responding to the news that Johnson voiced support for the bill.

Former CIA counter-terrorism expert Marc Polymeropoulos said President Donald Trump appears to be caving on U.S. Demands that the Saudi government address its many human rights violations and normalize relations with Israel before granting Saudi Arabia access to more lethal U.S. weaponry.

“One of the things about this visit that I think is a little odd is the idea of a defense pact with Saudi Arabia,” said Polymeropoulos. “The idea of [sharing] F-35s, of sharing nuclear technology all was supposed to come with what Saudi would do, which would be normalization with Israel. I mean, there was there was two sides of this and right now we seem to be just giving the Saudis everything.”

MAGA influencer Laura Loomer, a close ally to President Donald Trump, argued that Republicans "deserve to lose the midterms" if they did not address a "Nazi problem" within the party.

"I’m going to say it. The GOP has a Nazi problem," Loomer declared in a Tuesday post on X.

Following a press conference conducted by House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) where he attempted to sow doubt about the Jeffrey Epstein files bill to be voted on Tuesday, GOP strategist Susan Del Percio asked for time to call out the Republican leader.

At the conclusion of her appearance with MS NOW host Ann Cabrera, Del Percio interrupted and remarked, “Just one thing I want to add was you carried Speaker Johnson's comments in the last hour, and at the end he said something that was so incredibly tone-deaf. And I think this is something that's going to dog Republicans and the president because he said something similar.”