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The Trump administration failed Tuesday to secure an indictment tied to a video featuring Democratic lawmakers urging members of the military and intelligence communities not to comply with unlawful orders, according to NBC News.

Three sources familiar with the matter told the outlet that prosecutors attempted – and failed – to advance an indictment connected to the video, which President Donald Trump previously claimed amounted to “seditious behavior.” It wasn't immediately clear how many of the lawmakers the MAGA administration sought to indict or whether the effort would be addressed in future court proceedings, NBC News reported.

A prominent Catholic leader in the Archdiocese of Chicago is alleging that Department of Homeland Security agents are stopping priests and demanding they prove their citizenship, based solely on the color of their skin.

According to Religion News Service, Cardinal Blase Cupich "made the allegation in a Jan. 17 interview with WTTW, a Chicago PBS affiliate, and in an interview published Friday (Feb. 6) in the U.S. edition of El País, a Spanish newspaper. 'I’ve had some priests who are of a different color being targeted and arrested — stopped — because of their color and asking them to prove that they’re citizens. That’s not America,' Cupich told the PBS affiliate. 'We should not have to live in a country where people have to carry around their documents all the time.'"

Authorities in Arizona escalated their response Tuesday as regional SWAT teams and bomb squads were activated amid an intensifying investigation into the kidnapping of the 84-year-old mother of "Today" show co-host Savannah Guthrie.

According to television station KGUN9, Oro Valley police officials confirmed that members of a regional SWAT team and bomb squads “have been activated for a mission with the Pima County Sheriff's Department as the point of contact.”

Vice President JD Vance left critics aghast Tuesday as his team hastily scrubbed a social media post in which he called the 1915 Armenian massacres a "genocide," claiming it was posted "in error" by overzealous staff.

The awkward delete came after Vance and his wife, Usha, laid wreaths at the Tsitsernakaberd Armenian Genocide Memorial in Yerevan. Vance's official X account described the visit as meant to "honor the victims of the 1915 Armenian genocide." The post mysteriously vanished shortly thereafter, and a Vance spokesperson insisted the account was "managed by staff," blaming the gaffe on workers who weren't traveling with the delegation.

A federal contractor who conducted background checks for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other government agencies was arrested last week during a prostitution sting in a suburb about 10 miles south of downtown Minneapolis.

Bloomington Police Chief Booker Hodges said Tuesday that Brashad Johnson, 36, of Maple Grove, was among 30 men arrested during an undercover operation targeting individuals seeking to pay for sex, according to Minneapolis TV station KSTP. Johnson is a Department of Defense contractor who performed background investigations for ICE, Homeland Security, and other federal agencies.

Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller has been accused of improperly spending over $6,000 in state resources to prop up his re-election campaign.

According to The San Antonio Express-News, Nate Sheets, a Republican challenging Miller in the primary, "asked the state attorney general’s office to look into a series of social media advertisements that the Department of Agriculture paid to launch on Feb. 3, two weeks before the start of early voting. The ads, which have run on Facebook and Instagram, all begin with the slogan 'TDA is in...' and prominently feature Miller’s name or likeness."

TMZ founder Harvey Levin revealed Tuesday night that there has been new "activity" in a Bitcoin account tied to the kidnapping of the 84-year-old mother of "Today" show co-host Savannah Guthrie.

Appearing on CNN, Levin told anchor Erin Burnett on her show "OutFront" that investigators monitoring the Bitcoin address referenced in an extortion letter had, for the first time, detected movement.

Social media erupted in outrage Tuesday after a report revealed that President Donald Trump threatened to block a major U.S.-Canada bridge project just hours after his Commerce secretary met privately with the billionaire owner of a competing crossing.

The move came shortly after Howard Lutnick met with Detroit trucking magnate Matthew Moroun, whose family controls the privately owned Ambassador Bridge, a New York Times report revealed. The Moroun family has spent decades fighting construction of the publicly backed Gordie Howe International Bridge, which would battle with the family for toll revenue once it opens.

Vice President JD Vance's Armenia trip took a dramatic turn when the White House hastily scrubbed a social media post in which he called the 1915 Armenian massacres a "genocide," claiming it was posted "in error" by overzealous staff.

The awkward delete came after Vance and his wife, Usha, laid wreaths at the Tsitsernakaberd Armenian Genocide Memorial in Yerevan, making history as the first U.S. vice presidential visit to the South Caucasus nation, Reuters reported.

Texas attorney general and Republican Senate primary candidate Ken Paxton commented in response to a post from an overt neo-Nazi account on Tuesday.

The account in question, called @FischerKing64, had posted on X, "There are 93 total positions for US attorneys across the country. 62 are vacant — no Senate confirmation, and acting attorneys do the job. This is after over a year of the Trump administration. If you can’t fill 2/3 of US attorney positions, the system is broken."

A Detroit billionaire who owns a major U.S.-Canada border crossing met privately with Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick just hours before Donald Trump publicly threatened to block the opening of a competing international bridge, according to a report from The New York Times.

Matthew Moroun, whose family has long controlled the Ambassador Bridge between Detroit and Windsor, Ontario, met with Lutnick in Washington on Monday, two officials briefed on the meeting told the Times. The officials said Lutnick later spoke by phone with Trump about the matter.

An embattled Cabinet member in President Donald Trump's administration received a curt instruction from an unlikely source Tuesday while testifying before a Senate Appropriations subcommittee.

Howard Lutnick, the secretary of commerce and a longtime Wall Street executive, was testifying formally about his department and broadband funding issues. The hearing made waves as it quickly became dominated by questions about his past relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.

An Idaho sheriff who denied that his agents used zip ties to detain dozens of children was forced to respond after being confronted with stunning photographic evidence of the damage left on the wrists of a 14-year-old girl.

Chaos unfolded in October during a horse racing event when federal agents descended on La Catedral Arena in a show of military force that traumatized families, many of them U.S. citizens, CBS News reported Tuesday.