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U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon is facing criticism for a hyper-partisan letter she sent to Harvard University, riddled with grammatical errors and dubious claims.

In the 979-word statement, the Trump administration, through McMahon, condemned Harvard’s admissions policies, staffing decisions, and institutional leadership, and informed the nation’s oldest university, a 388-year-old private Ivy League institution, that it will not receive new federal research grants.

President Donald Trump's associates want any potential legal settlement with CBS News to include a bailout for the Kennedy Center amid the performing arts center's financial ruin under his "MAGA-inflected" leadership, The Atlantic reported on Tuesday.

"As part of the effort to raise money for the Kennedy Center, Trump allies have held private discussions about possibly asking that any settlement Trump reaches with CBS News include money earmarked for the Kennedy Center, one of the people familiar with the June fundraiser told us," said the report.

Vice President JD Vance stirred swift outrage online Tuesday after delivering a warning to international visitors attending next year’s FIFA World Cup in the United States.

“We will have visitors probably from close to a hundred countries,” he said at a White House event. “We want them to come, we want them to celebrate, we want them to watch the games.”

After 17 years on the Orlando City Commission representing a majority-Hispanic district, retired police officer and U.S. Marine veteran Tony Ortiz has changed his political party from Republican to Democrat, saying it is not the Republican party he "signed up with."

Orlando Sentinel reported Tuesday that Ortiz's decision was prompted by his opposition to GOP positions on issues such as immigration, banning books in schools, and eliminating diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives. He formally filed the paperwork for this party switch on Monday.

Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) took the side of her colleague across the aisle, Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-AK), when questioned by CNN's Jake Tapper about predatory law firms targeting veterans who were sickened by toxic water on the Camp Lejeune military base.

"I also wanted to ask you about a tense moment from today's hearing involving your Republican colleague," said Tapper. "Here he is talking about capping contingency fees for Camp Lejeune attorneys who represented sick Marines and others."

House Committee Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-KY) on Tuesday escalated his criticism of the Trump Justice Department in a new interview where he questioned whether government officials are deliberately blocking the release of the long-awaited Epstein files – and whether the files even still exist.

“Hopefully, someone has a copy of that, and I hope we find out because our task force has done everything,” he said.

Elon Musk is “imagining a future in which neither his network nor his will can be restrained by the people of this world,” according to The Atlantic. On Tuesday, the outlet gave a warning for the government not to rely solely on Musk’s SpaceX and Starlink.

“The U.S. government would have good reasons to avoid full dependence on Musk’s company for access to the space-based internet,” staff writer Ross Andersen penned.

As Raw Story reported Monday, the toy company Mattel announced it scrapped its financial forecast for the year, explaining that President Donald Trump's tariffs "make it hard to predict consumer spending," The Wall Street Journal reported.

It prompted a reporter to comment that this is the worst possible outcome for President Donald Trump's trade war. Among the tariffs he issued is a 145% tariff on China. While Mattel has been shifting manufacturing out of China, it still makes about 40% of its toys there.

An immigration law expert is suspicious of President Donald Trump's reported new efforts to resettle white South Africans into the United States.

Trump signed a controversial executive order in February extending refugee status to Afrikaners, a move long desired by white supremacists and that appears to have been a pet issue of Trump's longtime ally and South African immigrant Elon Musk, who has said that country's government has enacted racist policies against the group responsible for Apartheid.

MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace began her Tuesday episode of "Deadline: White House" discussing President Donald Trump's ongoing trade war with Canada and particularly with China.

Speaking to The Atlantic's Derek Thompson, Wallace noted, "America just elected a felon for the first time in her history because eggs were too expensive and other stuff. And now that person who ran for office, the highest office in our country's politics, isn't just saying that things are going to be more expensive. He's saying you don't need those things. You don't need 34 of one thing. You only need two. That thing is a doll."

Elon Musk's SpaceX on Tuesday received approval from the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to increase the number of annual Starship rocket launches from five to 25 at its Texas base, marking a major boost for the company's ambitions.

Following a multi-year environmental review, the FAA concluded that the expanded cadence of launches and landings would not significantly affect the environment, overruling objections from conservation groups who warned the move could endanger species such as sea turtles and shorebirds.

Sixteen people have been arrested and three million pills laced with fentanyl were seized in what US officials said Tuesday was one of the largest ever drug busts in the United States.

The operation, which spanned several western US states, "marks the most significant victory in our nation's fight against fentanyl and drug trafficking to date," Attorney General Pam Bondi said.