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President Donald Trump granted Apple and many other tech businesses an exemption from his "Liberation Day" tariff regime so their supply chains in China would not be disrupted — and now a bunch more companies are coming to beg for similar arrangements, The New York Times reported on Tuesday.

"Almost immediately, top aides to Mr. Trump insisted they had not strayed from their promise to apply import taxes across the economy with minimal, if any, exceptions," reported Tony Romm. Nevertheless, Trump's policy "still caught the attention of many businesses nationwide, igniting a fresh scramble for similar help in the throes of a global trade war."

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is embroiled in another Signal scandal after it was discovered he shared sensitive military information to his wife and brother. Retired Lt. Gen. Mark Hertling said that this will likely give the nation's top commanders pause in the future when talking to Hegseth.

Speaking to MSNBC on Tuesday, Hertling, an Army veteran, said that he hasn't seen much from the National Security Council or the National Security Advisor regarding an investigation. He noted that in a regular administration, there would be a swift probe after such revelations.

An 84-year-old man was critically injured in West Virginia after he fell from a cross during a crucifixion reenactment on Good Friday.

According to local reports, the accident happened around 12:30pm at the Masonic Cemetery in Weston.

A historically Jewish newspaper compared President Donald Trump's tactics to a scheme used by Germany's Adolf Hitler before World War II.

In an op-ed for Forward this week, author Terrence Petty likened Trump's demonization of his self-declared enemies to Hitler's attempt to blame Jewish people for Germany's loss in World War I. The tactic was known as the Dolchstosslegende, or stabbed-in-the-back legend.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth came into the Pentagon with little experience in government or management, and current and former officials say his leadership team is in shambles.

The Pentagon chief has been embroiled for over a month in scandal over his use of the non-secure Signal app to discuss military operations with a reporter, family members and others present, and sources told the New York Times that his three-month tenure has produced chaos that's unmatched in recent history.

Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) said the South Carolina man who she cursed at in a Ulta Beauty store makeup aisle over the weekend made her feel “threatened and harassed” after he inquired about whether she would be holding more town halls this year.

Mace recapped the events that have since gone viral and show her lashing out as she repeatedly hounds the man, identified as Ely Murray-Quick. He later took to Facebook to tell his followers that he asked Mace “a simple question – 'When are your next few town halls?,'" according to a report in The Independent.

The highly sensitive military information Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth leaked to his wife and brother in a Signal chat came from the secure messaging system of a general, reported NBC News on Tuesday morning.

"Minutes before U.S. fighter jets took off to begin strikes against Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen last month, Army Gen. Michael Erik Kurilla, who leads U.S. Central Command, used a secure U.S. government system to send detailed information about the operation to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth," said the report.

President Donald Trump's trade war has led to a collapse of the stock market that eclipses any other presidency in modern history, CNN forecaster Harry Enten told CNN's Kate Bolduan on Tuesday morning.

"The stock market was down in a big, big, big way yesterday," Bolduan asked him. "How poorly has the stock market done since Trump took office?"

President Donald Trump’s public approval rating is continuing to decline, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll.

And among those now unhappy are some of MAGA's past supporters.

President Donald Trump boasted late last month that his White House had executed "two perfect months' — but April has brought a series missteps.

The president highlighted fewer border crossings, higher military recruiting and a strong stock market, and his chief of staff Susie Wiles was credited with clamping down on infighting that had plagued his first administration. But mistakes and miscommunications have begun piling up, reported the New York Times.

In the wake of his second scandal in weeks, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth appeared on Fox and Friends Tuesday for a softball interview that was immediately blasted by viewers.

Blaming leakers inside the Pentagon, Hegseth complained that he'd done nothing wrong after a Sunday report claimed he's shared military tactics in a Signal chat with his wife and brother. Just weeks earlier, he was accused of doing the same thing, but that time including an Atlantic journalist.

President Donald Trump's new trade wars are all spectacle and no strategy, former State Department official Edward Fishman told Salon's Chauncey DeVega — and they could end up blowing up in his face.

Trump's so-called "Liberation Day" tariff regime introduced weeks ago imposes import duties of 10 percent to 49 percent on basically every country in the world, and even explicitly mentions some uninhabited Antarctic islands that have no trade or industry.

The author of a new book on Project 2025 suggested tech billionaire Elon Musk got played by the authors of the right-wing blueprint guiding Donald Trump's second presidency.

Musk has made sweeping cuts to the federal government from his perch as the head of the Department of Government Efficiency, but The Atlantic's David A. Graham told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" that White House budget chief Russell Vought and other authors of Project 2025 were happy to let him take the blame for the deeply unpopular cuts they had recommended themselves.