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Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) escalated his opposition to Trump's trade war with an impassioned plea to the president on Fox Business on Tuesday with former presidential adviser Larry Kudlow.

Paul, who recently drew Trump's public wrath by crossing the aisle to vote with Democrats on a resolution to block tariffs on Canada and has repeatedly spoken out about why he believes restrictionist trade policies are a bad idea, laid out his case as starkly as he could.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem—who has been participating in immigration raids across the country and traveling to prisons beyond U.S. borders—is facing sharp criticism from veterans and firearms experts after appearing to point her assault rifle at a law enforcement officer during a video she filmed to promote her exploits.

“Here we are with Marco and Brian today,” Noem, in protective gear, said (video below). “They’re letting me roll with them. We’re going to go out and pick up somebody who I think is, got charges of human trafficking. Earlier had an op that swept up somebody wanted for murders. So, appreciate the good work that they do every day. And we appreciate them looking to make America safe.”

A federal judge on Tuesday delivered a victory to The Associated Press’ challenge over the Trump White House’s expulsion of the news outlet from the Oval Office and Air Force One.

The ruling came two months after President Donald Trump's administration barred AP journalists from accessing certain White House spaces and events following its refusal to refer to the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America.

Mack Schroeder, a fired budget analyst from the Department of Health and Human Services, faced off against Sen. Jim Banks (R-IN) last week as the lawmaker fled into an elevator. This week, he returned to Banks' office with friends.

Schroeder confronted Banks about the federal cuts, but Banks said he didn't care because Schroeder seemed like a "clown" to him.

One of Dr. Mehmet Oz's first orders of business after being appointed President Donald Trump's director of Medicare and Medicaid Services: robot doctors.

According to Wired, Oz made the comments during his first all-hands meeting at CMS since taking over the agency.

MAGA Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) expanded on eyebrow-raising allegations made against Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) floated early Tuesday morning by Elon Musk, the head of the Department of Government Efficiency initiative.

Musk, in a post to his X platform just before 1 a.m., wrote in a reply to Schumer: “Chuck, I’m starting to think you’re getting a piece of the action with the government fraud. But no, that couldn’t possibly be the reason, could it?”

Former Republican strategist Tim Miller, who now runs The Bulwark podcast, does not pity those who endorsed President Donald Trump and are now losing huge investments.

MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace showed a clip of Barstool Sports founder David Portnoy, who raged that he lost $7 million on the first day of the market crash. By Monday, he estimated he'd lost $20 million, calling it "Orange Monday" instead of "Black Monday."

Meghan Markle, the wife of Prince Harry, revealed on Tuesday that she faced medical complications related to her pregnancy in the debut episode of her new podcast.

In the episode, Markle hosted Bumble dating app founder Whitney Wolfe Herd and said, "We both had very similar experiences -- though we didn't know each other at the time -- with postpartum, and we both had preeclampsia. Postpartum preeclampsia."

President Donald Trump's so-called "Liberation Day" could become "the defining failure of his second term," according to The Atlantic's Jonathan Chait.

Many have criticized House Democrats for their "oddly sedate, almost academic in its nuance" video response to Trump, the staff writer said. However, he surmised that most of the party has enacted a "decade-old strategy designed to co-opt Trump’s appeal to working-class voters by backing away from the party’s general support for free trade under Bill Clinton and Barack Obama."

A far-right Christian nationalist who previously served in the Trump administration says people who follow Christ are all in on Trump's plans for mass deportation.

William Wolfe, who recently met with White House faith adviser Paula White and joined several other Christian nationalists praying over Trump in the Oval Office, made the comments in an interview shared on X by Right Wing Watch.

Vice President JD Vance led a barrage of MAGA-inspired attacks against Sen. Mitch McConnell on Tuesday in a rare public rebuke of the former Republican leader over his refusal to support a key Pentagon nominee.

The war of words ignited shortly after McConnell found himself the lone Republican vote against Elbridge Colby, President Donald Trump’s selection to be the Defense Department’s top policy strategist.

The White House has stopped posting any of its spending moves, which dodges a law passed during President Donald Trump's first term.

Writing for The Washington Post, law professor Samuel R. Bagenstos said the second Trump administration is dismissing the legislative powers outlined in federal law, giving Congress the power to decide how taxpayer dollars are spent.