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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.

Columbia University said Tuesday it was laying off around 180 researchers amid a funding squeeze prompted by President Donald Trump's move to strip the Ivy League institution of $400 million.

Trump targeted Columbia as part of his campaign against elite US universities he claims are hotbeds of anti-Semitic and anti-American sentiment, stripping them of funds and targeting their foreign students in response.

India fired missiles at Pakistani territory early Wednesday in a major escalation of tensions between the nuclear-armed rivals, as Islamabad vowed retaliation.

The Indian government said it had attacked nine sites, describing them as "precision strikes at terrorist camps" in Pakistan-controlled Kashmir, days after it blamed Islamabad for a deadly attack on the Indian side of the contested region.

CNN host Kasie Hunt began her Tuesday show citing "one flashing red economic warning sign arriving on American soil."

At the top of her show, Hunt described the first shipping container vessel containing Chinese goods that floated into the Port of Los Angeles as only "half full."

Republicans in Georgia got a bad break when Gov. Brian Kemp took his name out of consideration to run for Senate, eliminating possibly the strongest challenger to Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff according to political analysts.

But things could get a lot worse for them, as Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) appears interested in running, wrote analyst Aaron Blake for The Washington Post.

President Donald Trump launched a scathing tirade against former President Barack Obama’s presidential library, which he slammed as a “disaster” being built by “woke” construction workers.

“I think it’s bad for the presidency that a thing like that should happen," he said