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A hip-hop and country crossover star has canceled six upcoming shows with a MAGA-leaning musician, though he says the decision had nothing to do with a recent controversy, according to reports.

The Irish Star reported on Tuesday that Post Malone canceled multiple shows with Jelly Roll on the Big A-- Stadium Tour Part 2, amid questions from fans about whether Jelly Roll has aligned himself with the Make America Great Again movement.

Second Lady Usha Vance defended Supreme Court Justices during an ABC interview Monday night.

The Daily Beast reports Vance urged viewers to treat the Justices with respect, amid President Donald Trump's continued attacks on the high court.

President Donald Trump's executive order seizing federal control of mail-in voting is in peril after a federal judge in Massachusetts gave it a cold reception in court this week.

According to Bloomberg Law, U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani "pressed the Justice Department on the president’s order for the Department of Homeland Security to draw up a list of confirmed citizens, which states could use in creating a list of eligible mail-in voters to provide to the US Postal Service," sounding skeptical that this was a valid exercise.

President Donald Trump's administration stunned political analysts and observers on Tuesday by appointing a convicted Jan. 6 rioter to a key counterterrorism job, according to a new report.

The Washington Post reported that Trump appointed Elias Irizarry to a job in the Defense Department’s Special Operations and Low Intensity Conflict office. The office " oversees and advocates for Special Operations and Irregular Warfare throughout the Department of War to ensure these capabilities are resourced, ready, and properly employed in accordance with the National Defense Strategy," according to its website.

President Donald Trump's Department of Justice is investigating disgraced former Republican Rep. George Santos of New York for insider trading on the prediction market Kalshi, according to a new report.

NPR reported, citing "three people with direct knowledge of his trades who were not authorized to speak publicly," that the probe began after Santos began posting on X about attending Trump's State of the Union address. At the time, bets were being placed on who would attend, according to the report, and Santos began spreading the narrative that he would be one of the guests. That narrative caused the odds for his attendance to skyrocket.

Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) delivered a sharp critique of Secretary of State Marco Rubio at a Senate Foreign Relations Committee budget hearing, characterizing President Donald Trump's foreign policy as a "dumpster fire."

Van Hollen cited multiple failures: an Iran war that has killed at least 13 U.S. service members and raised gas prices, a United Arab Emirates, or UAE, crypto deal enriching the Trump family, and United States Agency for International Development, or USAID, cuts he linked to the Democratic Republic of Congo, or DRC, Ebola outbreak.

Former GOP operative Tim Miller took a moment on MS NOW's "Deadline: White House" to lay into President Donald Trump's move to replace outgoing Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard with his controversial housing finance administrator Bill Pulte — a man often called Trump's "attack dog," and, Miller pointed out, has absolutely no qualifications to coordinate national intelligence.

"I'm going to start with you because there's nothing for an intelligence person to say about this person," said anchor Nicolle Wallace. "This is a political hack ... what happens next?"

A GOP congressman who has been absent for more than three months issued a cryptic statement on Tuesday about his upcoming return to work.

Rep. Tom Kean (R-NJ) has not been seen in Washington, D.C., since early March, according to reports. In April, his office said he was dealing with a personal medical issue, and then told the New Jersey Globe in May that he would return to work "in a couple of weeks."

Rep. Andy Ogles (R-TN) quietly deleted a post from X on Monday after it ignited a firestorm — including from members of his own party.

The since-deleted post, made on the second day of Pride Month, was blunt: "Homosexuality has no place in America. Happy Nuclear Family Month."

Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) clashed with Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin on Tuesday during a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing over what Van Hollen described as a "pattern" of mistruths from DHS.

Van Hollen challenged Mullin about previous statements former DHS Secretary Kristi Noem made about cases involving Kilmar Abrego-Garcia, an immigrant in Maryland who was wrongfully deported to El Salvador last year, and Alex Pretti, an ICU nurse who was shot and killed by immigration agents during a confrontation with Border Patrol agents amid protests in Minneapolis, Minnesota, this year. Van Hollen claimed there was a "pattern" of untruths offered by the previous DHS administration.