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President Donald Trump was personally behind the directive to fire career prosecutors who worked for special counsel Jack Smith on the criminal cases against him, The Guardian reported on Tuesday.

Smith handled the two federal cases prosecuting Trump — the election conspiracy plot and the illegal removal of classified documents to his Mar-a-Lago country club.

Vice President JD Vance faced sharp criticism from a wide range of voices on Monday—including one who alleged “intellectual dishonesty”—after the Ohio Republican appeared to offer an inaccurate and insufficient explanation of how the executive branch of the federal government is supposed to function.

“Career bureaucrats don’t get to violate lawful orders from the President of the United States. They answer to the president, and he answers to the people. Really not that complicated,” Vance wrote on social media.

A 25-year-old engineer tied to Elon Musk has been given full control over the computer code that directs Social Security payments, tax returns and other payments owed to Americans — and sources inside the Treasury Department are freaking out and don't know where to turn for help.

Marko Elez, who previously worked for two Musk companies, has been granted "read-and-write" access to Treasury Department systems responsible for nearly all payments made by the U.S. government, three sources told WIRED, giving him the ability to write code on the highly sensitive Payment Automation Manager and Secure Payment System at the Bureau of the Fiscal Service.

An attorney who represented a January 6 defendant with ties to the Oath Keepers is shocked by President Donald Trump's rapid-fire assault on the civil service and particularly the Justice Department and FBI, reported Politico — and said he is doing far more to weaponize the justice system than anything his political opponents supposedly did.

After facing criminal prosecution, Trump and his allies wasted no time in a mass firing of career prosecutors who worked under special counsel Jack Smith — and are now moving to purge FBI agents involved in Trump and cases as well.

Venezuelan expats who backed President Donald Trump in the 2024 election campaign are expressing fury that his administration has now revoked regulations protecting hundreds of thousands of them from deportation.

NPR reports that there is massive disillusionment in the Venezuelan immigrant community after the Trump administration revoked Temporary Protected Status from Venezuelan refugees who are currently residing legally in the United States.

Donald Trump has empowered his billionaire benefactor Elon Musk to take over federal agencies — and Democrat lawmakers are scrambling to respond.

Democrats denounced the gutting of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) by Musk and his cadre of youthful software engineers, saying that neither the president nor his unelected, foreign-born backer have the authority to take over congressionally authorized agencies, and Rep. Don Beyer (D-VA) told The New Republic's Greg Sargent what actions they might take to stop them.

Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman on Tuesday unloaded on the "catastrophe" that's occurring due to X owner Elon Musk's takeover of the United States government's payment system.

Writing on his Substack page, Krugman argued that Musk's efforts to unilaterally shut down government agencies such as USAID show that "the federal government has been taken over by bad people who are also stunningly ignorant."

Three Columbia University students on Monday filed a lawsuit against the school administration challenging their suspensions related to pro-Palestine activism, according to an exclusive from the outlet Drop Site.

The students, Aidan Parisi, Brandon Murphy, and Catherine Curran-Groome, were all set to graduate this coming spring prior to their suspensions. After "a monthslong convoluted, and often intimidating, disciplinary process," Parisi and Murphy were given one-year suspensions and Curran-Groome was given a two-year suspension.

President Donald Trump's whirlwind first few days in office have hit America with a “shock and awe” campaign that has startling similarities to George W. Bush’s policies in Iraq, a New York Times columnist wrote Tuesday.

After vastly dismantling the nation’s government, Bush put in place “right-wing apparatchiks, some barely out of college” — and left the nation a destabilized mess, wrote Michelle Goldberg.

While Republican strategist Brad Todd is normally supportive of President Donald Trump's initiatives, he said the president would be making a massive mistake if he established a sovereign wealth fund and used it to buy TikTok.

In the wake of Trump musing about buying TikTok on Monday, Todd appeared on CNN Tuesday to pour cold water on the entire venture and said that it would be nonsensical to bring the Chinese-owned app back after having had it removed from U.S. government devices.

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough shared an alarming reason he said Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) and other Republican senators are dropping their objections to some of Donald Trump's "unqualified" nominees for Cabinet posts.

Collins announced her support for Tulsi Gabbard as director of national intelligence despite her previous objections, and the "Morning Joe" host said skeptical Republicans were approving Trump's choices in fear of something more ominous than a GOP primary challenge.

A gold necklace with Jimmie “Jay” Lee’s name on it was found with human remains in Carroll County this weekend, but authorities have not publicly confirmed the remains belong to the missing University of Mississippi student and well-known member of Oxford’s LGBTQ+ community.

Local authorities acknowledged the necklace was found with human remains that have yet to be identified through DNA. In a text, Carroll County Sheriff Clint Walker had no comment but acknowledged a picture of the necklace, asking "who sent you the picture of the necklace?" The Oxford Police Department could not be reached by press time.

Jonathan Kott, a former senior adviser to Sens. Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Chris Coons (D-DE), predicted that President Donald Trump's love of spectacle will come back to bite him when voters realize he's not making their lives better.

Appearing on CNN Tuesday, Kott said that Trump was good at getting publicity for appearing to take bold actions, even if the substance of those actions was minimal.