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Standing behind a sign that says "Freedom Month," Florida's Republican Governor Ron DeSantis on Tuesday blasted efforts to pass a constitutional amendment in the Sunshine State to make recreational use of marijuana legal. DeSantis also denounced efforts to pass a ballot initiative that would make abortion legal in his state.

“Look what’s happened in Denver, Colorado. Look what’s happened in Los Angeles, New York City. You know, I’ve talked to people that have moved from New York and they’re like, they used to have, you know, an apartment somewhere and it used to (smell differently). Now, what does it reek of? It reeks of marijuana. I don’t want the state to be reeking of marijuana,” DeSantis said (video below), as Florida Politics reported.

Donald Trump set out a stark vision for an authoritarian second term in an interview with Time magazine published Tuesday, ranging from possible mass deportations of migrants by the US military and detention camps to pregnancy monitoring to enforce abortion bans.

The Republican former president, who will face Democrat incumbent Joe Biden in November's election, also warned of a crackdown on the "enemy from within" if he secures a White House comeback and failed to rule out political violence if he does not.

U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar on Tuesday urged her colleagues to condemn the latest Republican threat against the thousands of university students and faculty who have protested U.S. complicity in Israel's assault on Gaza, after Sen. Marsha Blackburn suggested the protesters have "promoted terrorism" and called for them to be surveilled by the federal government.

"Any student who has promoted terrorism or engaged in terrorist acts on behalf of Hamas should be immediately added to the terrorist watch list and placed on the [Transportation Security Administration] No-Fly List," said the Tennessee Republican.

U.S. President Joe Biden's administration is set to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug, an official said Tuesday -- a historic shift that would bring federal policy more in line with public opinion.

The US attorney general sent a proposal to the White House on Tuesday to "reclassify marijuana," Justice Department spokesperson Xochitl Hinojosa said in a statement.

Donald Trump raged Tuesday outside the Manhattan courtroom where he faces a criminal hush money trial and spurred one indignant CNN analyst to blast the former president for what he described as a torrent of false and misleading claims.

Daniel Dale told anchor Jake Tapper he has grown tired of addressing Trump's claim that the four criminal trials he faces were orchestrated by President Joe Biden as part of a political witch hunt.

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) was shredded on social media Tuesday after the House Judiciary Committee shared his most recent angry letter directed at a prosecutor who levied charges against former President Donald Trump.

Tuesday's letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland targets Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, the prosecutor who accuses Trump of falsifying business records to cover up adult film star hush money payments ahead of the 2016 presidential election.

Former President Donald Trump appeared to once again nod off during witness testimony at his hush money trial Tuesday, as he reportedly did multiple times last week.

MSNBC producer Kyle Griffin tweeted that Trump was having trouble staying awake during court proceedings, writing that he "appears to have fallen asleep while listening to testimony — at times appearing to stir and then falling back to sleep."

Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) blasted Republicans Tuesday for blaming President Joe Biden and Democrats for America's problems while ignoring former President Donald Trump's role.

During a House Oversight Committee hearing on the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), Crockett noted that her Republican colleagues had complained about the national debt.

A former Secret Service agent has sued two right-leaning news organizations for publishing stories based on allegedly fabricated text messages linking him to Hunter Biden.

Robert Savage filed defamation suits against the New York Post and two of its reporters, as well as the Daily Mail, its owner and its publisher, alleging they recklessly disregarded information casting doubt on the veracity of the messages, which came from a laptop computer that purportedly belonged to President Joe Biden's son, reported NBC News.

Attorneys representing Hunter Biden this week sent a letter to Fox News demanding that it retract various stories that accused him of taking illegal bribes or that published sexually explicit photos of him that were discovered on his laptop computer.

Now The Daily Beast reports that Fox has "quietly scrubbed" a Hunter Biden "mock trial" series from its Fox Nation streaming service that Biden's attorneys had cited in their letter to the network as defamatory.

Donald Trump immediately floundered when asked by a local TV anchor to identify his source from claims about crime statistics in Venezuela.

The former president appeared Tuesday morning on Detroit's WJBK-TV ahead of a campaign rally the following day in Tittabawassee Township, Michigan. He capped off a brief interview with anchor Roop Raj by citing a version of a statistic he frequently uses in speeches.

Former President Donald Trump came as close as he ever has to outright saying he would try to get President Joe Biden thrown in prison if he wins another term in office, in an interview released on Tuesday by TIME Magazine.

During the interview, Trump gave seemingly contradictory answers when asked about jailing Biden, although he did say he would appoint a special prosecutor to investigate him.

Hunter Biden has escalated his legal battle against Fox News for publishing intimate photos and reporting he had taken illegal bribes, and MSNBC's Claire McCaskill said Donald Trump was ultimately to blame for the network's coverage.

Lawyers for President Joe Biden's son plan to sue the network "imminently," according to a letter sent to Fox News demanding retractions, corrections and other remedies, and "Morning Joe" co-host Mika Brzezinski suggested the conservative network had published and broadcast what amounted to revenge porn.