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Vice President JD Vance got an earful from furious Senate Republicans who fear President Donald Trump's beef import deal will be a political disaster, Punchbowl News' Andrew Desiderio reported on Tuesday.

"Vance was bombarded with questions about the Argentinian beef issue, per multiple attendees. GOP senators told him it was an 'insult' to farmers/ranchers," Desiderio posted to X. After several minutes of this, Vance then reportedly asked those in attendance, half in jest, “does anyone have questions NOT about beef?”

The late conservative Charlie Kirk's flagship organization, Turning Points USA, is facing internal strife without him.

The New Republic's Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling noted Tuesday that a civil war has broken out during the first public event without the group's leader, which she warned is "already a mess."

The Trump administration's bid to lay off thousands of workers during the lengthy government shutdown was dealt a blow Tuesday afternoon when it was hit with a temporary block from a federal judge in California.

Judge Susan Illston extended her own temporary block that was ordered earlier this month and said she'd issue a written order shortly, The New York Times reported.

Republicans are drawing a line that Amer Ghalib should not be the ambassador to Kuwait after some of his previous comments came to light.

The Washington Post reported Tuesday that despite his 2024 election support in Michigan, Ghalib's comments about Israel and support for former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein were a no-go.

Fourteen more people were killed and one survived three new US bombings of what Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Tuesday claimed—again without evidence—were four boats transporting drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean.

“Eight male narco-terrorists were aboard the vessels during the first strike. Four male narco-terrorists were aboard the vessel during the second strike. Three male narco-terrorists were aboard the vessel during the third strike,” Hegseth said of the Monday attacks, which presumably occurred off the west coast of Mexico.

A Chicago judge rebuked US Border Patrol Commander-at-Large Gregory Bovino on Tuesday after several of his agents over the weekend deployed tear gas in a neighborhood where local children were preparing for a Halloween parade—in violation of a previous court order barring the use of the chemical unless federal officers are in immediate danger.

During a court appearance, Bovino was dressed down by US District Court Judge Sara Ellis, who said Border Patrol agents had violated her earlier restraining order that barred US Department of Homeland Security officials from using riot control weapons “on members of the press, protestors, or religious practitioners who are not posing an immediate threat to the safety of a law enforcement officer or others.”

President Donald Trump’s latest feud over drug trafficking with a leader of a South American nation – this time, Colombian President Gustavo Petro – may very well end up increasing drug trafficking, warned one security analyst in a report from The New York Times on Tuesday.

Trump sparked his feud with Petro last week after issuing a menacing threat on social media, warning the Colombian leader that his nation risked U.S. intervention if he did not “close up” its drug production operations. He went on to allege Petro was complicit in a mass operation to traffic drugs into the United States, and called him “low rated and very unpopular.”

There are now 25 states that are parties to a lawsuit against the federal government seeking to block the elimination of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) on Nov. 1.

Writing on Tuesday, Nevada journalist Steve Sebelius reported that his state added its name to the list.

A crypto exchange founded by convicted billionaire Changpeng Zhao stepped up its promotion of a venture backed by the Trump family, only one week after President Donald Trump pardoned him on charges related to money laundering.

On Tuesday, Binance's U.S. subsidiary said it would begin accepting deposits of a stablecoin issued by World Liberty Financial, a crypto venture that has added to Trump's personal wealth.