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Some GOP lawmakers privately hope Election Night goes poorly for Republicans to wake President Donald Trump up to the need to boot tech billionaire Elon Musk out of power, CNN anchor and analyst Kasie Hunt told panelists just ahead of the first poll closings.

Republicans face their first statewide election since 2024 with a Wisconsin Supreme Court contest heavily targeted by Musk and a pair of Florida special elections for deep-red districts that Democrats were hopeful to outperform in despite all odds.

The head of Wisconsin Democrats touted what he called "explosive" turnout from his party on Tuesday in the widely watched race for Wisconsin Supreme Court.

On the ballot in the state are the Wisconsin Supreme Court and State Superintendent of Public Instruction:

Republican state Sen. Randy Fine has been declared the winner of a special election to fill the congressional seat vacated by National Security Adviser Mike Waltz, defeating Democrat Josh Weil in Florida's 6th Congressional District.

Waltz overwhelmingly won the ruby-red district by 30 points in November before becoming President Donald Trump’s national security adviser. But despite Waltz’s double-digit lead five months ago, Republicans on Capitol Hill feared that anger over the Trump administration’s policies could spill over into the Florida special election and help Democrats flip the House seat.

Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) officially broke the record Tuesday night for the longest floor speech in the history of the United States Senate.

For a continuous day, the senator held the floor to condemn President Donald Trump's dismantling of the federal government via tech billionaire Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency task force.

Pro-Trump tech billionaire Elon Musk vowed on Fox News that the Trump administration is going to take down people organizing violent demonstrations against his Tesla dealerships as criminal racketeering enterprises, implying that these attacks have been worse for the country than the Jan. 6 attacks that sought to overturn the 2020 presidential election.

"It is remarkable that there is so much violence," said Musk. "People have burnt cars, they fired bullets into dealerships, they've scratched swastikas into Teslas of the innocent people that have — they're just going about their lives they've done nothing wrong, and Tesla has done nothing wrong as a company."

Calling out the Trump administration over its attempts to present the planned tariff increase as “tax cuts,” the Wall Street Journal termed these tariffs “a large revenue heist.”

“In the real economic world, a tariff is a tax,” the newspaper wrote in a Monday editorial.

Donald Trump's hardline immigrant policy faced fresh scrutiny Tuesday after officials admitted that an "administrative error" in the hurried deportation process had sent a man to a notorious El Salvador prison.

The Trump administration touts its sweeping drive against migrants -- a key campaign promise -- as a crackdown on gang members and other violent criminals.

Shares of the conservative cable news channel Newsmax have skyrocketed more than 2,000 percent in the two days since it began trading in New York, pushing the firm's market value above $26 billion.

The right-wing media company has long been a cheerleader for US President Donald Trump, and is now among the most-watched cable news channels in the United States.

Two Iranian businessmen have been indicted for allegedly conspiring to procure US parts to build military attack drones, the Justice Department said Tuesday.

Hossein Akbari, 63, and Reza Amidi, 62, are charged with money laundering and providing material support to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), which the United States has designated as a foreign terrorist organization.

New films must be exclusive to movie theaters for at least 45 days before they become available on streaming, the head of the industry's US trade organization said Tuesday.

Cinema owners say box office profits have been undercut by shorter theatrical-only "windows" brought in during the pandemic, in part as audiences now assume -- sometimes correctly -- that they can watch new movies at home within weeks.

by W.G. DUNLOP

The United States is increasing the number of aircraft carriers deployed in the Middle East to two, keeping one that is already there and sending another from the Indo-Pacific, the Pentagon said Tuesday.

House Republican leaders are showing no signs of compromising in their bitter fight with their own rank and file over whether to allow members of Congress who need maternity leave to vote from home, with Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA) appearing to tell CNN's Manu Raju that it's now more about keeping the caucus in line than it is about the merits of the rule change itself.

A bipartisan discharge petition is circulating to change House rules to allow proxy voting for new moms, with one of the key people spearheading the fight being Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL), a militant pro-Trump lawmaker who herself gave birth two years ago. Leadership tried to thwart the measure with a vote to add retroactive restrictions to discharge petitions, only for a handful of Republicans to join Luna in crossing the aisle to block that measure.