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A divided appeals court handed President Donald Trump's administration a legal victory on Tuesday, finding that the U.S. DOGE Service can access sensitive federal data despite serious privacy concerns.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit ruled 2-1 that a group that included labor unions and individuals who receive government benefits failed to prove they could succeed in their legal challenge, The Washington Post reported.

Texas voters are furious that the state GOP is trying to silence their voices, Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) told MSNBC's Jason Johnson on Tuesday — and they're making their voices heard.

Democratic state lawmakers have been absent from the state for over a week to block passage of a heavily gerrymandered mid-decade redistricting plan, drafted at President Donald Trump's request, that would make five Democratic-held seats more Republican-leaning.

A curious post on social media from Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) generated outrage on Tuesday.

President Donald Trump posted on Truth Social about "great" nominees for the "Trump/Kennedy Center, whoops, I mean Kennedy Center, (sic) Awards." Graham replied to the post on X, where he said he is "all in" to help Trump remake the Kennedy Center. Graham also riffed on Trump's "whoops" bit in the post.

A Republican lawmaker took a shot at President Donald Trump on Tuesday afternoon, telling CNN anchor Jake Tapper the party wants to see a "stronger Trump" when it comes to his dealings with Russia.

Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE) joined Tapper to discuss Trump's upcoming meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, which the White House has downplayed as a "listening exercise."

An economist issued a dire warning on Tuesday about a loyalist that President Donald Trump has picked to lead the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Trump recently announced that he was considering hiring E.J. Antoni, chief economist at the Trump-aligned Heritage Foundation, to lead the embattled BLS. Trump fired former Bureau Commissioner Erika McEntarfer after she released a revised jobs report showing there was almost no job growth during Trump's first quarter as president.

Texas state Rep. James Talarico, a Democrat, clobbered Fox News host Will Cain on Tuesday while debating the Republican effort to redraw the congressional district lines ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.

Cain tried to claim that Democrats were just as guilty of trying to rig elections by drawing shady lines in places like Maryland. But Talarico wasn't having it.

CNN's Jake Tapper slammed President Donald Trump's excuses for deploying federal troops to Washington, D.C. during his show on Tuesday.

Yesterday, Trump claimed he was deploying federal troops to D.C. to address crime, even though federal data shows that crime rates reached a 30-year low last year. Trump also said he was considering making similar moves in Baltimore, Maryland; Chicago, Illinois; and Los Angeles, California, a claim that caught Tapper by surprise.

Eighty years after the dropping of the atomic bombs that ended the Second World War, President Donald Trump is systematically dismantling the public institutions of science and research that made American strength and prosperity possible, historian Garrett Graff wrote in a scathing analysis for The New York Times published on Tuesday.

Trump began attacking science from the outset of his presidency, with the National Science Foundation even red-flagging words like "female," "women," "systemic," or "trauma" in grant applications, and has since carried out mass layoffs and political reorganizations at agencies vital to scientific research.

Former U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) warned that President Donald Trump can't blame every problem in America on undocumented immigrants and the border.

Speaking to MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace on Tuesday, McCaskill echoed sentiment from former George W. Bush strategist Matthew Dowd.

Retired Army Lt. Gen. Mark Hertling warned that the soldiers that are being sent to Washington, D.C, are "going to be a little bit p---ed off" as they are deployed to stand around in the heat and humidity of the late summer.

MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace began her Tuesday show addressing President Donald Trump's deployment of soldiers and federal officers to "fight crime" in the District.

At a briefing on Tuesday afternoon, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt addressed the Trump administration's controversial stance on revisions to job data.

A reporter asked Leavitt: “If the jobs data is not reliable, should Americans trust the inflation data?” She responded: “The jobs data has had massive revisions. We want to ensure that all of the data ... coming out of the BLS is trustworthy and is accurate, which is why the president has restored new leadership at the BLS [Bureau of Labor Statistics].”

A CNN host on Tuesday pushed back against claims made by the attorney general of Washington, D.C., about President Donald Trump's takeover of local law enforcement.

D.C. Attorney General Brian Schwalb joined CNN's "The Arena with Kasie Hunt" to discuss Trump's latest moves related to the District. The two sparred after Schwalb appeared to punt on Hunt's question about whether he would sue the Trump administration to reinstate D.C.'s Home Rule Act and end the federal oversight of local law enforcement.

A far-right reporter in a romantic relationship with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) was caught on a hot mic bragging about the softball question he was about to throw at President Donald Trump, The Daily Beast reported Tuesday.

“Everyone will love my second question today that I’m going to ask the president‚” said Real America's Voice's Brian Glenn to other reporters. “Everybody in the room, you’re gonna love it. They’ll applaud it.”