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In a 6-1 ruling Tuesday, a Pennsylvania court said the secretary of state can mandate the decertification of any voting machines that were examined by third parties.

The court said the Department of State cannot only mandate that the machines be blocked from "unauthorized third-party access," but it can also force counties to pay for new machines if they allow a third party to examine them The Associated Press reported.

While Black Americans overwhelmingly remained with the Democratic Party this year, Trump had a number of prominent Black supporters who went the extra mile to fight for his election. But with Trump preparing to take office, "Black MAGA" has reaped little rewards for their year of efforts, Tatyana Tandanpolie wrote for Salon.

"Black ultraconservative elected officials like Florida Rep. Byron Donalds and South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott frequently joined Trump on the campaign trail, boosting the then-candidate's outreach to the Black electorate as they sat on the shortlist for his vice presidential pick," wrote Tandanpolie. And yet "their efforts to curry favor with the would-be president-elect didn't materialize in sought-after Cabinet positions despite the president-elect's promises to reward his most loyal supporters with high-ranking roles in his administration."

A newspaper columnist took Attorney General Merrick Garland to the woodshed over what he expressed was Garland's failure to hold Donald Trump accountable.

The former president was impeached on his way out of office and eventually indicted four times for alleged crimes committed while he was in office, but The Philadelphia Inquirer's Will Bunch said President Joe Biden's attorney general failed to meet the historical moment by prosecuting him sooner.

Tributes and high praise for Aaron Brown, a former CNN anchor who guided the network through its coverage of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, streamed through social media on Tuesday after news the highly respected journalist died at 76.

CNN reported that Brown's family confirmed he died Sunday. No cause of death was released.

America had an "astonishing" and dark reaction to the assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, anti-Trump conservative-leaning evangelical writer and former GOP adviser Peter Wehner wrote for The Atlantic — and it reflects a "dehumanization" we should be worried about.

The accused shooter, Luigi Mangione, has been trumpeted across the internet as a sort of justice warrior for the oppressed, even as he hails from a wealthy family. The support for the killing extends into real life too, with fellow inmates reportedly celebrating him.

Incoming Vice President J.D. Vance (R-OH) and other Republicans attacked President Joe Biden's administration for a "sweetheart deal with 9/11 terrorists," but it turns out it was a military court that refused to stop a plea agreement.

Fox News reported Tuesday that Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin tried to revoke the agreement made by the Gitmo military commission.

The Pentagon enlisted entertainers MrBeast, Kelly Clarkson and Guy Fieri last year to help boost flagging enlistment, according to newly revealed documents.

Rolling Stone obtained a Government Accountability report last month showing a 10-percent decline in military favorability among the Generation Z cohort, with only 35 percent holding a favorable view in 2021, compared to 46 percent five years earlier, so the Pentagon targeted them with social media posts to improve their image.

House Republicans are in for a "miserable" first day of the next term of Congress, as they struggle to muster up the votes to get House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) re-installed with the gavel, members both current and former are acknowledging, reported The Daily Beast on Tuesday.

The key problem they immediately face is that it's unclear, despite President-elect Donald Trump tossing an endorsement his way, that Johnson will have the votes in the razor-thin House majority. Hardline anti-government renegades, who ironically helped install Johnson in the first place, are increasingly frustrated they aren't getting their way on spending issues, and could revolt again.

A lifetime farmer who lives in an area filled with signs supporting Donald Trump fears one of the president-elect's key campaign promises, according to a report.

Joe Del Bosque of Del Bosque Farms on the west side of the San Joaquin Valley, expressed concerns about what will happen if promises for mass deportations are kept.

Law professor Alan Dershowitz, a previous defender of Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein, argued that Sean "Diddy" Combs should be released from jail while awaiting trial because he is wealthy.

During a Tuesday interview on Newsmax, Dershowitz explained why he believed Combs should be released from the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.

Foreign policy experts are warning that President-elect Donald Trump's plan to designate drug cartels as terrorist organizations could give him authorization to launch military strikes inside of Mexico.

Semafor reports that Trump's decision to designate the cartels as terrorists would grant him the same authority to launch military unilateral strikes against them as American presidents have done for years against organizations such as Boko Harum and Islamic State.