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A journalist, historian, and author called an eye-popping new report "shocking" that the CIA offered buyouts to its entire workforce Tuesday in hopes of ushering in "renewed energy" under new Director John Ratcliffe.

The agency appears to be the first intelligence agency to tell workers they can take Elon Musk's signature buyouts, in which employees can take eight months of pay and benefits if they quit, the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday night.

President Donald Trump’s new anti-diversity executive order is off to a rocky start, according to MSNBC host Rachel Maddow, who flagged a crucial snag in the administration’s attempt to purge DEI keywords from government documents.

The MSNBC host opened her show Tuesday night by shredding Trump’s purging of DEI-related diversity programs before revealing what she believed to be the true intention behind the administration’s quest to erase anti-diversity protections in the country.

Tech billionaire Elon Musk sicced his far-right followers on Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) this week, over clearly edited video footage purporting to show her inciting immigration crimes.

Omar was not advising anything illegal — and wasn't even at the event the video purported to show her at, reported The New Republic.

The CIA, America's decades-old civilian foreign intelligence service tasked with intelligence gathering around the world, joined other federal agencies Tuesday in offering buyouts — to its entire workforce, according to a report.

The agency appears to be the first intelligence agency to tell workers they can take Elon Musk's signature buyouts, in which employees can take eight months of pay and benefits if they quit, the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday night.

Holding long-term global warming to two degrees Celsius -- the fallback target of the Paris climate accord -- is now "impossible," according to a stark new analysis published by leading scientists.

Led by renowned climatologist James Hansen, the paper appears in the journal "Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development" and concludes that Earth's climate is more sensitive to rising greenhouse gas emissions than previously thought.

by Alex PIGMAN

Google and rivals are spending billions of dollars on data centers and more for AI, while meaningful returns on investments remain elusive and the rise of lower-cost model DeepSeek from China raises questions about how much needs to be spent.

by Cecile Clocheret and Francois Picard

Steven Nelson, 37, has spent more than a dozen years on death row for the murder of Clint Dobson, 28, during a robbery of the NorthPointe Baptist Church in Arlington, near Dallas.

President Donald Trump told a female reporter from Afghanistan during his news conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday that he couldn't answer her question due to her accent.

Afghanistan rapidly fell to Taliban radicals in 2021 after two decades of U.S. occupation to try to rebuild the country's government as a functional democracy following the 9/11 attacks. Since taking over, the Taliban have reasserted many of their old theocratic policies, with women being denied a growing number of rights, including a full education, as well as being physically and visually segregated.

President Donald Trump’s eyebrow-raising support for removing Palestinians from Gaza and relocating them elsewhere was subjected to a cold slap of reality Tuesday night by a CNN anchor who questioned the legality and practicality of the suggestion.

“It’s preposterous and it's illegal by any understanding of international law that you would forcibly move people away from their homes,” CNN’s Jim Sciutto, the network’s chief national security analyst, said on air.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is facing backlash after criticizing charity workers and nonprofit organizations striving to deliver essential, lifesaving supplies—humanitarian aid such as food and medicine—to those in desperate need. According to The Washington Post, Secretary Rubio went so far as to suggest that these organizations are intentionally obstructing their own efforts to score a “political point.”

“Secretary Rubio blamed aid groups for failing to navigate Trump’s freeze on foreign aid, saying they are either too incompetent to apply for exemptions or deliberately sabotaging their work to make a ‘political point,'” Washington Post diplomacy and national security reporter John Hudson wrote.

Salvage crews have recovered the bodies of all 67 people killed when a passenger plane and a US Army helicopter collided near Washington and plunged into the Potomac River, officials said Tuesday.

All but one of the bodies have been identified, said a statement from a variety of government agencies involved in the recovery effort after the deadliest US air crash in 20 years.

Donald Trump's demand for billions of gallons (liters) of water to be released in California, in what he said was a move to help combat fires in Los Angeles, was wasteful and pointless, experts say.

The US president told military engineers to open two dams in the state's central valley, claiming it would help put out blazes that have ravaged the city and would also irrigate farmland.

World leaders and people should respect Palestinians' desire to remain in Gaza, the Palestinian envoy to the United Nations said Tuesday, after US President Donald Trump said he believed people from the territory should be resettled elsewhere "permanently."

"Our homeland is our homeland, if part of it is destroyed, the Gaza Strip, the Palestinian people selected the choice to return to it," said Riyad Mansour. "And I think that leaders and people should respect the wishes of the Palestinian people."