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President Donald Trump has long been posturing toward military action in Iran — but one of his top generals pumped the brakes on the whole thing, enraging him, Slate reported on Tuesday.

"The military warning — first reported in the Washington Post, then confirmed in the New York Times — must be particularly rankling," wrote Fred Kaplan. "According to the reports, in a recent White House meeting with many top officials present, Gen. Dan Caine — whom Trump selected, and has since highly lauded, as chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff — said that a shortage of munitions and the absence of any allies would make a prolonged war with Iran very difficult."

President Donald Trump posted on Truth Social Monday night that California Gov. Gavin Newsom had dropped out of the 2028 presidential race, a campaign Newsom has not confirmed running for. The post came after MAGA supporters criticized Newsom over comments they interpreted as disparaging Black people. Trump wrote: "Wow! Gavin Newscum just dropped out of the Presidential Race!!! President DJT." Analysts and observers expressed bewilderment at the false claim. Journalist Oscar Gonzalez posted, "Trump just blinked. He's scared." University of Florida political science professor Michael McDonald suggested Newsom could now "declare Trump just resigned." Economist Sky Marchini referenced Trump's "AI-generated reality." Trump's post coincided with declining approval ratings as midterms approached. When asked about polls showing his 40 percent approval, Trump dismissed them as "wrong" and claimed his actual approval was "much higher" without evidence.

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Fans of President Donald Trump's MAGA movement melted down on Tuesday after a popular right-wing podcaster debuted a trailer for her new investigative series.

Candace Owens published a trailer of her latest series, "Bride of Charlie," on Tuesday, which is billed as an investigation into the late conservative activist Charlie Kirk's widow, Erika. The teaser features clips of Erika Kirk speaking about her late husband's death at multiple events, and also makes references to "Zionists" and Israel, whom Owens has baselessly accused of killing Kirk.

Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) reported a journalist who visited her campaign office to the Capitol Police for trespassing last month, Semafor reported on Tuesday.

Crockett, often hailed as a rising star in the Democratic Party due to her ability to tear down Republicans in committee hearings, is running in a closely-watched Democratic Senate primary against state Rep. James Talarico, a progressive Christian minister known for his bipartisan legislative record.

A Virginia federal judge delivered a sharp rebuke to the Justice Department on Tuesday, refusing to let prosecutors search through a Washington Post reporter's seized electronics and taking control of the operation himself.

Magistrate Judge William Porter didn't mince words over the handing over of devices to government investigators.

Rep. Robert García (D-CA) accused the Trump administration Tuesday of illegally withholding FBI interviews with a survivor who accused President Trump of sexual assault on a minor. After reviewing unredacted files at DOJ headquarters, García stated that Oversight Democrats have confirmed the DOJ appears to have illegally withheld these interviews. García announced that Oversight Democrats will open a parallel investigation into the matter. The DOJ has faced criticism for weeks for scrubbing files from its public Epstein database, particularly documents containing allegations against Trump, including evidence that Ghislaine Maxwell may have possessed blackmail on the president. García emphasized that under the Oversight Committee's subpoena and the Epstein Files Transparency Act, these records must be immediately shared with Congress and the public. An NPR report corroborated García's claims, finding the DOJ scrubbed "dozens of pages."

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Two Republicans in the House of Representatives are planning acts of defiance during President Donald Trump's State of the Union address on Tuesday night, a new report revealed.

Reps. Thomas Massie (R-KY) and Nancy Mace (R-SC) plan to join Democrats in silently protesting the president and his administration's handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files, Axios reported. Massie plans to sit with Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) and the Democratic side of the aisle in a rare show of bipartisanship. The two lawmakers led the charge to pass a bill requiring the Trump administration to release all Epstein files in its possession.

Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-TX) is facing mounting calls from within his own party to resign as details trickle out about his alleged sexual misconduct against a House staffer who died in a gruesome suicide last year. But one of his Texas colleagues is pushing back on that whole effort: Rep. Troy Nehls.

Gonzales, who represents a sprawling district stretching from the San Antonio suburbs to the border near El Paso, allegedly carried on an extramarital affair with the staffer, Uvalde regional director Regina Santos-Aviles, and asked her over text to send him "sexy pics," which caused her to express discomfort.

President Donald Trump's two top lieutenants have turned America's diplomatic apparatus into a "catacomb," according to one analyst.

Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, and special envoy Steve Witkoff, a real estate developer, have assumed the lead role in negotiations spanning the war in Ukraine to Middle East diplomacy and other matters. Despite their vast portfolio, the duo has largely turned the "nerve center of the world’s most consequential foreign-policy institution and more like the catacombs for diplomacy," Vivian Salama, staff writer at The Atlantic, reported on Tuesday.

One of President Donald Trump's hand-picked prosecutors suffered an "abject humiliation" in court recently, according to two experts.

Jeanine Pirro, Trump's U.S. Attorney in Washington, D.C., attempted to indict six Democratic lawmakers for making a social media video where they told military troops that they don't have to follow illegal orders. A grand jury refused to indict the lawmakers, and Trump's Department of Justice moved to drop the case on Tuesday.