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Two Republicans in the House of Representatives are planning acts of defiance during President Donald Trump's State of the Union address on Tuesday night, a new report revealed.

Reps. Thomas Massie (R-KY) and Nancy Mace (R-SC) plan to join Democrats in silently protesting the president and his administration's handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files, Axios reported. Massie plans to sit with Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) and the Democratic side of the aisle in a rare show of bipartisanship. The two lawmakers led the charge to pass a bill requiring the Trump administration to release all Epstein files in its possession.

Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-TX) is facing mounting calls from within his own party to resign as details trickle out about his alleged sexual misconduct against a House staffer who died in a gruesome suicide last year. But one of his Texas colleagues is pushing back on that whole effort: Rep. Troy Nehls.

Gonzales, who represents a sprawling district stretching from the San Antonio suburbs to the border near El Paso, allegedly carried on an extramarital affair with the staffer, Uvalde regional director Regina Santos-Aviles, and asked her over text to send him "sexy pics," which caused her to express discomfort.

President Donald Trump's two top lieutenants have turned America's diplomatic apparatus into a "catacomb," according to one analyst.

Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, and special envoy Steve Witkoff, a real estate developer, have assumed the lead role in negotiations spanning the war in Ukraine to Middle East diplomacy and other matters. Despite their vast portfolio, the duo has largely turned the "nerve center of the world’s most consequential foreign-policy institution and more like the catacombs for diplomacy," Vivian Salama, staff writer at The Atlantic, reported on Tuesday.

One of President Donald Trump's hand-picked prosecutors suffered an "abject humiliation" in court recently, according to two experts.

Jeanine Pirro, Trump's U.S. Attorney in Washington, D.C., attempted to indict six Democratic lawmakers for making a social media video where they told military troops that they don't have to follow illegal orders. A grand jury refused to indict the lawmakers, and Trump's Department of Justice moved to drop the case on Tuesday.

President Donald Trump's administration has been caught hiding Epstein sex trafficking case files that mention the president — and there's a key area in which more damning evidence may be found, former prosecutor Andrew Weissmann told MS NOW's Nicolle Wallace on Tuesday's edition of "Deadline: White House."

"Andrew, 90 percent of Americans have heard about the Epstein files. About 60 percent disapprove of Trump's handling of the Epstein files," said Wallace. "The mystery has been why is Trump taking on so much political water over an issue? If he is, as he keeps saying, if there's nothing to see here, do you feel like this reporting ... offers an explanation?"

The progressive candidate Graham Platner has a commanding lead in the Democratic primary for Maine’s US Senate seat over the state’s centrist Gov. Janet Mills. Come November, he’s also much more likely than Mills to defeat the Republican incumbent, Sen. Susan Collins.

The University of New Hampshire’s Pine Tree State Poll, released Tuesday morning, showed that Platner has built momentum since October. Five months ago, 58% of likely Democratic voters said the 41-year-old oyster farmer was their first choice to be the state’s next senator, compared with 24% who preferred the governor.

Paramount is reportedly edging closer to a deal to purchase Warner Bros. Discovery, the owner of HBO, CNN, and other media properties.

In a statement on Tuesday, Warner Bros. Discovery said Paramount's offer could "reasonably be expected" to lead to a "company superior proposal."

President Donald Trump has long attacked reporters who criticize him — suing them, icing them out of White House access, even threatening to lock them up. And it has led to fears from observers that freedom of the press could be in mortal danger in the United States.

Press freedom is indeed in danger, RonNell Andersen Jones of the University of Utah argued in a new podcast with Slate's Dahlia Lithwick — but not in the way many may think. Trump isn't shutting down media outlets that criticize him. He doesn't have to. He's doing something more insidious.

The GOP's "moral decay" was on full display this week after House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) refused to hold a Republican lawmaker accountable for his involvement in a sex scandal, according to one analyst.

On Monday, Rep. Tony Gonzalez (R-TX) faced calls to resign after it was revealed that he was involved in a sex scandal with one of his aides, who later took her own life through self-immolation. Johnson declined to push Gonzalez to resign, even though several Republicans are trying to push Gonzalez out of office. Gonzalez faces a primary election on March 3.