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Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) pressed President Donald Trump's nominee to lead the Federal Reserve on his financial holdings and ties to Jeffrey Epstein.

Fed nominee Kevin Warsh faced questions Tuesday during his confirmation hearing about undisclosed holdings of two individual assets worth more than $50 million each, and his wife Jane Lauder, granddaughter of the cosmetics founder Estée Lauder, holds an estimated $1.9 billion fortune.

Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) was forced to explain what “sarcasm” was Tuesday following a barrage of attacks from right-wing figures over a remark he’d made about the U.S. naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz.

On Monday, multiple reports revealed that more than two dozen Iranian vessels bypassed the U.S. blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, a critical shipping waterway through which a fifth of the world’s oil trade flows. In response to the reports, Murphy published a single-word post on social media: “awesome.”

Appearing on MS NOW, Bloomberg reporter Jeff Mason lightly laughed when discussing a Monday interview with Donald Trump and admitted the president became abusive when cornered on his Iran difficulties.

During a segment on the on-again, off-again Iran war negotiations that has the president scrambling for good news, co-host Willie Geist pressed Mason for what is going on inside the White House.

Prominent conservative media figure Tucker Carlson issued a public apology Monday for having supported President Donald Trump in the 2024 election, telling his millions of followers that he was “sorry for misleading people.”

“I want to say I’m sorry for misleading people and it was not intentional. That’s all I’ll say,” Carlson said during an episode of his podcast aired on Monday, The Hill reported Tuesday. “You don’t want to be a conspiracy nut, but like, clearly, there were signs of low character, we knew that, but there are tons of people of low character who, like, outperform their character.”

More U.S. troops could soon be suffering from influenza after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced that the flu vaccine was no longer mandatory for the armed forces.

"Under the disastrous Biden administration, this Pentagon waged an unrelenting war on our warriors on many fronts, including when it came to denying them simple medical autonomy and the freedom to express their religious convictions," Hegseth said in a statement on Tuesday. "Even when those decisions posed no threat to our military readiness, you know what I'm talking about, what happened: COVID-19 and the vaccine. No more. That era of betrayal is over."

Donald Trump will be returning the White House Correspondents' Dinner, after years of boycotting the event and attacking journalists for their reporting on him.

According to reporting from Status's Oliver Darcy and analysis from The Atlantic's Paul Farhi, some of the president's most controversial appointees will also be there to cheer him on, courtesy of recently Trump-friendly Paramount and CBS.

President Donald Trump praised himself for "doing a great job" after 13 service members were killed in the Iran war.

During a Tuesday interview on CNBC, Trump noted that many other wars lasted years instead of months.

President Donald Trump begged Iran's leadership to release eight women he believes will be executed as his administration attempts to negotiate a peace agreement.

The 79-year-old president expressed hopes that a delegation, likely led by Vice President JD Vance, will strike a "great deal" with Iran during talks in Pakistan, but he shared a post from a pro-Israel influencer to set a new condition to open negotiations.

CNN's Harry Enten highlighted a potential advantage that could help Democrats regain the House majority in this fall's midterm elections.

Voters will decide on a contentious redistricting measure in Virginia that would redraw the state's congressional map to give Democrats an advantage in 10 of its 11 seats, and Enten examined how Tuesday's election results would impact the November contest.

A senior Trump administration official revealed Tuesday the extent of the GOP’s “intra-party freakout” as the midterm elections draw closer amid the president’s unprecedented unpopularity among Americans, telling Zeteo that the panic is far worse than what’s seen in public.

“The bedwetting is making the whole bedroom damp,” the senior Trump official told Zeteo, speaking on the condition of anonymity.

President Donald Trump made a stunning admission Tuesday when pressed by CNBC’s Joe Kernen about his threats to destroy Iran’s civilian infrastructure, suggesting the decision was not ultimately his to make.

“I think regimes only respond to certain things, and I understand your threats to bomb the bridges and the electric grid, but I don't think the regime cares about the people of Iran,” Kernen said, with Trump phoning in to CNBC’s “Squawk Box.”

The citizens of tiny Social Circle, Georgia, where Donald Trump received 70 percent of the vote all three times he ran for president, are in full revolt against the president’s administration after the Department of Homeland Security bought a facility projected to hold 10,000 immigrants while they await deportation.

According to MS NOW’s Antonia Hylton, that has led to a standoff with the city manager who is insisting the town of approximately 5,000 does not have the water and sewage infrastructure to accommodate the flood of detainees.