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White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt insisted Tuesday that the Trump administration was "moving on" from the scandal surrounding the late accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.

At the White House press briefing, one reporter noted that the Epstein files indicated that President Donald Trump talked to authorities about the notorious sex offender in 2006.

President Donald Trump broke with a longstanding bipartisan tradition when his administration announced that he would invite only Republicans to the annual National Governors Association meeting. But now, that decision appears to be blowing up in his face, as the entire meeting falls apart, along with other White House events with governors.

According to The Associated Press, "The National Governors Association said it will no longer hold a formal meeting with Trump when governors are scheduled to convene in Washington later this month, after the White House planned to invite only Republican governors."

New Jersey Rep. LaMonica McIver (D) butted heads with the chair of the House Oversight Committee on Tuesday after she asked the acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement whether he expects to "go to hell" over what is happening under his watch.

Given her five minutes to question acting director Todd Lyons as Democratic lawmakers tried to get straight answers from Department of Homeland Security officials, McIver set up the Donald Trump official with, “So, Mr. Lyons, I've heard my colleagues ask many questions over and over again, and you cannot answer them. So let me ask you some questions that you may be able to answer: Mr. Lyons, do you consider yourself a religious man?”

A British woman was shot dead in Texas after arguing with her father about President Donald Trump, witnesses told an inquest this week.

According to the BBC, police in Prosper, Texas, investigated the death of Lucy Harrison after she was shot in January 2025 as a possible case of manslaughter, but no charges were ever brought.

President Donald Trump took to social media Tuesday to champion the ongoing construction of his White House ballroom project, but buried in his comments was an offhanded remark suggesting the president was implementing a permanent change to all future presidential inaugurations.

“Two views of the Great Ballroom being built on the site of our wonderful White House – It is on budget, and ahead of schedule!” Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social, alongside two renderings of the completed ballroom.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has long sought regime change in Cuba, and new reporting from Drop Site News on Monday suggested he may be intentionally misrepresenting the Trump administration’s current policy in the communist country to achieve his goal.

The outlet reported that, based on the accounts of five Cuban and US officials who spoke on condition of anonymity, the “deal” that President Donald Trump has said is likely to be finalized soon is not being pursued in any high-level, official diplomatic discussions.

Carrie Prejean Boller, former Miss California USA 2009 and a Miss USA 2009 runner-up, is facing calls for her firing Tuesday after a “contentious” meeting of President Donald Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission, which she sits on as a board member.

Prejean has long been an ally to Trump, being tapped by the president to serve on his Campaign Advisory Board in 2020, and selected to serve on the Religious Liberty Commission last year. On Monday, however, the commission held a public hearing in Washington, D.C. on antisemitism that saw Prejean accuse speakers of defining antisemitism too broadly.

After getting a tongue-lashing from a Democratic lawmaker on Tuesday, the acting director of the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency made no effort to endorse the stewardship of Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem when given an opportunity.

Appearing at a House Oversight Committee hearing that was nationally televised, Todd Lyons was grilled by Rep. Tim Kennedy (D-NY) about the deaths of Renee Nicole Good and Alex Pretti at the hands of DHS agents, which then led the Democratic lawmaker to state, “In America, we shouldn't have secret police. We shouldn't have masked government agents executing citizens in the streets. The Constitution does not give your agency the right to hide their faces while they kill Americans.”

CNN's Harry Enten was gobsmacked by "bonkers" findings in new polls on President Donald Trump and the job market.

The White House and Trump administration officials started out the week tempering public expectations for the coming jobs report — expected to be released Wednesday — and Enten told "CNN News Central" the public has seriously soured on the president's handling of the economy.