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The Justice Department is offering $25,000 signing bonuses and retention incentives ranging from $60 to $220 per pay period through Thanksgiving to address critical staff shortages.

The bonuses target positions investigating youth transgender treatments and advancing the Trump administration's immigration agenda, according to Bloomberg Law.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio showed an impressive command of the issues when going to bat for the Trump administration at his press conference on Tuesday, former George W. Bush strategist Mark McKinnon told MS NOW's Katy Tur on Tuesday, but it won't be enough to salvage the administration's credibility.

During the speech, Rubio — who in recent months has been eyed more intensely for another presidential run — did his best to justify the president's decisions in the Iran war, and insist that the United States was on track for a strategic victory.

Cole Thomas Allen, the man accused of attempting to assassinate President Donald Trump during the White House Correspondents Association dinner, reportedly had 100 rounds of ammunition on him at the time of the incident.

On Tuesday, a four-count indictment charged Allen with attempting to assassinate the president, assaulting an officer with a deadly weapon, illegally transporting a firearm across state lines, and using a firearm during a violent crime.

FBI Director Kash Patel appears to have used an AI-generated ripoff of a Beastie Boys music video to promote the Trump administration's anti-fraud efforts, NPR reported on Tuesday.

"With President Trump’s leadership, this @FBI and our interagency partners are conducting massive fraud takedowns coast to coast — and we’re not stopping," Patel wrote in a post to X at the start of the week.

President Donald Trump endorsed a barrage of candidates in a key battleground state on Tuesday, but seemed to snub a key race.

In a series of Truth Social posts, Trump endorsed candidates ranging from Vivek Ramaswamy, who is running for Ohio governor as a Republican, to allies like Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) and up-and-comers like Eric Conroy. However, he did not endorse a candidate in Ohio's 9th District, a key seat where former Immigration and Customs Enforcement official Madison Sheahan is running.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio struggled to wrangle a room full of reporters when he hosted the White House briefing on Tuesday while Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt was on maternity leave.

"I'll be filling in for Karoline today, obviously," Rubio announced to reporters before recapping President Donald Trump's efforts to open the Strait of Hormuz. "It's criminal for sure, but it's desperate and destructive, this blockade of the Straits of Hormuz."

The Supreme Court issued a 6-3 decision Monday allowing Louisiana to redraw its congressional map and eliminate a majority-Black district, exposing a rare public dispute between conservative Justice Samuel Alito and liberal Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson.

According to CNN, Jackson, the lone dissenter, accused the majority of taking steps to "influence its implementation" of last week's Voting Rights Act ruling and suggested the court should have recused itself to avoid appearing partisan. She criticized the decision as "tantamount to an approval of Louisiana's rush to pause the ongoing election" to pass a new map.