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by Chris Lefkow

The FBI agents who filed the complaint against Trump's acting attorney general, James McHenry, were not identified for their own protection in the complaint filed in a federal district court in Washington.

A meteorologist who caved to political pressure during Donald Trump's first administration to mislead the public about a hurricane forecast was nominated by the president Tuesday to head the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

Neil Jacobs, who previously led the prestigious scientific agency in Trump's first term, was officially censured for his role in the infamous "Sharpiegate" scandal -- one of the more bizarre episodes of Trump's first term.

New bombshell reports that Elon Musk and his associates have changed the Treasury Department’s computer code came under a heavy microscope by a law professor skeptical of the tech billionaire’s true intentions.

“This is a backdoor,” University of Kansas law professor Corey Rayburn Yung warned his Bluesky followers Tuesday in a social media post.

The plot by President Donald Trump, tech billionaire Elon Musk, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio to dismantle the U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID, is blatantly illegal, and a core test of America's separation of powers, Brookings Institution scholar William A. Galston wrote for the Wall Street Journal.

Already, the Trump administration's attacks on the critical program, which disburses foreign aid for everything from promoting democracy to preventing pandemics, has led to massive protests at the agency headquarters and a vow from Sen. Brian Schatz (D-HI) to put a blanket hold on State Department nominees in protest.

The national physicians' group Doctors for America has launched an effort to stop Donald Trump's administration.

On Tuesday, the branches under the Department of Health and Human Services removed thousands of pages of health data and information from federal websites, Axios reported.

President Donald Trump signed a memorandum on Tuesday ordering the United States to have Iran "obliterated" if the country assassinated him.

Trump said he was "torn" about whether or not to sign the order but decided to move forward because Iran was "too close" to having a nuclear weapon, he said in remarks Tuesday from the White House.

Financial Times columnist Edward Luce on Tuesday expressed exasperation that the Democratic Party still appears rudderless in the wake of X owner Elon Musk's unprecedented attack on the United States government.

In his latest piece, Luce slams Democrats for getting constantly caught flat-footed by what he says is an unconstitutional assault on the rule of law by Musk and President Donald Trump.

Hours after Democratic lawmakers warned that billionaire Elon Musk's takeover of federal agencies is "what the beginning of dictatorship looks like," expressed outrage at being barred from entering the U.S. Agency for International Development, and vowed to take legislative action and launch legal challenges to stop Musk's "outrageous" maneuver, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez spoke out against Democrats who are proceeding as though a constitutional crisis isn't taking place.

"No Democrat should be voting to advance [President Donald] Trump's nominees while all of this stuff is going on," said the New York Democrat in a 90-minute Instagram Live video Monday evening. "There has to be a political price to pay and we have a responsibility as a party to block everything that is happening while they're setting a literal mash to the federal government."

President Donald Trump’s administration was sending undocumented immigrants apprehended at the Southern border to the U.S. Naval base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba on Tuesday.

CNN is reporting that the Pentagon has also begun constructing a tent city intended to detain up to 30,000 migrants and asylum seekers. Experts, politicians, and activists are condemning the move.

President Donald Trump and X owner Elon Musk are reportedly upset about nonstop leaks coming from within the federal workforce but they are having difficulty in figuring out how to stop them.

Rolling Stone reports that Trump, Musk and their allies have been pitching a number of ideas to stem the tide of leaks, including planting informants within departments who will snitch on their colleagues, as well as gaining back-door access to staffers' communications on their government email accounts.