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Legal experts applauded two law firms late Tuesday that sought permanent relief after being targeted by President Donald Trump's executive orders.

Trump targeted the law firms Jenner & Block and WilmerHale through executive orders due to their ties to investigations and legal actions that he alleged were politically motivated

Amy Gleason — who President Donald Trump's administration has named as the acting administrator of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) — insists that she isn't responsible for the mass firings of thousands of federal employees carried out as part of DOGE's mission.

The San Francisco Chronicle reported Tuesday that Gleason — who is a healthcare technology executive — distanced herself from DOGE's layoffs of tens of thousands of government workers during a conversation with other healthcare professionals. According to the Chronicle, Gleason was responding in a group text thread made up of people from the U.S. healthcare industry upset with her over the mass firings within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

The turmoil set off by Donald Trump’s Rose Garden “Liberation Day” announcement that ushered in a sweeping set of tariffs on international goods and sunk markets to historic lows is also having a major effect on the president’s popularity, Puck News’ Peter Hamby reported Tuesday.

And that could spell the end of his second term post-inauguration honeymoon, which one polling analyst noted traditionally “don’t end in April.”

MSNBC's Rachel Maddow tore into President Donald Trump's Secretary of the Interior, Doug Burgum, over a recent report that he is ordering federal employees to essentially cater to his every whim, including doing things that are not in the interest of taxpayers.

One particular story that got her cracking up was Burgum's apparent demand to be served warm, fresh-baked chocolate chip cookies.

A 48-year-old man was executed by lethal injection in the southern US state of Florida on Tuesday for the 2000 murder of a newspaper employee who was abducted while on her lunch break.

Michael Tanzi was put to death shortly after 6:00 pm (2200 GMT) at the Florida State Prison in Raiford for the murder of Janet Acosta, 49, prison officials said in a statement.

US President Donald Trump planted a new sapling on Tuesday to replace a nearly 200-year-old tree at the White House -- dubbing it a "MAGAnolia" after his "Make America Great Again" slogan.

The historic "Jackson Magnolia", believed to have been planted by president Andrew Jackson in the 19th century, was chopped down for safety reasons on Monday.

NOTUS is reporting that emotions are running high in Republican meetings over a GOP budget threatening to add up to $5.8 trillion to the nation’s deficit and potentially raise the nation’s debt to 214% of gross domestic product (GDP) by 2054

Republicans typically run on lowering national debt and the deficit under Democratic administrations, and a few of them are apparently having a difficult time switching gears for President Donald Trump, who also significantly raised the deficit under his last administration.

While President Donald Trump’s tariffs continue to roil China, Vice President JD Vance created an uproar of his own after making comments about “Chinese peasants” that quickly spread throughout the foreign country – and incited the fury of Beijing officials.

That’s according to CNN, which reported Tuesday that Vance’s comments in a Fox News interview last Thursday have since shot to the top of one of China’s leading social media platforms Weibo.

The conservative Wall Street Journal editorial board took far-right House Republicans to the woodshed for threatening to blockade the Senate's budget framework, warning them that they were essentially derailing the very pro-Trump agenda they claimed to stand for.

This comes as the same board has gone after President Donald Trump aggressively for a huge new tariff regime the board sees as self-defeating. It also comes after months of infighting among the House and Senate Republicans over exactly how to implement Trump's desired vision for tax cuts, energy deregulation, and border security in a single, all-encompassing package almost certain to be voted on by party lines.

Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) launched a verbal tirade against one of her constituents who called into a telephone town hall and clearly struck a nerve with the MAGA lawmaker.

“You’re probably one of those people – one of those fake town hallers who want a fake town hall – because you’ve never shown up to one. So you can just sit right back down. I’m not going to have any of it,” Mace said.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is declaring his candidacy in the Senate primary against longtime incumbent Sen. John Cornyn, reported Punchbowl News' John Bresnahan.

The move sets up what could potentially become one of the most expensive and bruising primary battles of the 2026 Senate elections.

by Jennifer Shutt, Daily Montanan

April 8, 2025

The Supreme Court permitted President Donald Trump this week to resume mass migrant deportation flights under the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, a ruling that had many of Trump's legal critics fuming and Trump's team proclaiming victory — but it wasn't quite that cut and dry, former federal prosecutor Elie Honig explained during a CNN panel on Tuesday.

"This is a victory for the Trump administration, one of the more significant ones they have netted before the high court," said legal reporter Paula Reid. "But it's a partial victory because they will be expected to follow process, small-p."