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House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) admitted that President Donald Trump could not run again in 2028 after the commander-in-chief refused to rule out a third term.

During a press conference on Tuesday, Johnson was asked if he was "comfortable" with Trump seeking another term even though the U.S. Constitution limits presidents to two terms.

Senate Republicans had been plotting to trap Democrats with a bill to restore pay for military service members during the shutdown — but now they appear to be abruptly reversing on the idea, Punchbowl News reported on Tuesday.

"Senate Republican leaders are souring on the idea of forcing votes this week on so-called 'rifle shot' bills to pay members of the military and air traffic controllers, believing it would make it easier for Senate Democrats to continue voting against reopening the entire government," said the report.

President Donald Trump authorized three more strikes late Monday night that killed 14 people the administration claims were suspected of trafficking narcotics to the United States.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced the new Eastern Pacific strikes Tuesday as scrutiny over campaign continues to intensify across the political spectrum.

The news site Semafor held a forum on Tuesday where a lobbyist confessed how easy it is to manipulate President Donald Trump's administration.

Ethan Lane, a lobbyist for the National Cattlemen's Beef Association, commented: "You don't need $2 million in TV spend anymore to manipulate a conversation. You need the right few influencers and the right bots," he said.

Several Senate Democrats launched a probe into President Donald Trump’s controversial pardon of crypto billionaire Changpeng Zhao, a major Trump ally who was convicted in 2023 for money laundering and sentenced to four months in prison.

Zhao, the 21st-richest person on Earth, was found to have failed to implement basic anti-money-laundering security measures for Binance – his cryptocurrency exchange platform – and was found to have facilitated billions of dollars' worth of transactions tied to child-sex-abuse material and drug trafficking. However, his business helped enrich the Trump family, raising concerns among critics that his pardon gave the appearance of fraud.

The Washington Post editorial board published a glowing assessment of President Donald Trump's move to demolish the White House East Wing and replace it with a massive ballroom paid for by hundreds of millions in corporate donations without disclosing that the flagship company of the paper's owner, Jeff Bezos, was one of those donors.

The article from the I's editorial board, titled "In Defense Of The White House Ballroom," positioned opponents of the project as "NIMBYs" (or Not In My Back Yard activists, blanket opposed to new development near their home or work.) "The White House cannot simply be a museum to the past. Like America, it must evolve with the times to maintain its greatness. Strong leaders reject calcification," the article concluded.

A veteran political reporter explained his chief concern about President Donald Trump as he discussed a new book about his 2024 campaign and the early days of his second term.

ABC News correspondent Jonathan Karl appeared Tuesday on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" to discuss his newly published book, "Retribution," and Politico's Jonathan Martin asked what the president's intentions were for the rest of his term and beyond.

About 42 million Americans – including 16 million children – stand to lose federal food assistance on Saturday as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) expires amid the government shutdown, and Republican lawmakers and officials are scrambling to shift blame away from President Donald Trump.

“If 42 million Americans go hungry, it won’t be because of what the White House did, it was because we didn’t pass the budget,” said Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO), NOTUS reported Tuesday. Hawley, who’s among the Trump’s strongest supporters in the Senate, is not the only Republican working to help lessen the political fallout from tens of millions of Americans being left without food assistance.

As Republicans eagerly await the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in a pivotal Voting Rights Act case that could potentially change or eliminate the protection of racial communities of interest in redistricting, they are making plans to erase majority-Black and Hispanic districts in states they control.

However, as Politico reported on Tuesday, they face one key obstacle in this scheme: It's unlikely such a ruling could be made in time to have any impact on the 2026 midterm elections.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is suing the makers of Tylenol over its alleged links to autism in children.

The state became the first to sue Johnson & Johnson and spinoff company Kenvue after President Donald Trump claimed that using the over-the-counter pain reliever during pregnancy can cause autism, although no such link has been proven, reported The Texas Tribune.

President Donald Trump was warned that one of his longtime allies was running an old-fashioned shakedown scheme during last year's post-election transition period, but he ignored that warning and kept him on.

ABC News correspondent Jonathan Karl appeared Tuesday on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" to discuss his newly released book, "Retribution: Donald Trump and the Campaign That Changed America," which reveals new details on the incoming administration's efforts to staff the government.

The Venezuelan government said Monday night that they had foiled a Trump administration-backed plot to stage a “false flag” attack on a U.S. warship currently stationed just off its shore, The Independent reported Tuesday.

Yvan Gil Pinto, the Venezuelan minister of foreign affairs, said in a statement late Monday night that members of a “CIA-funded criminal cell” had been arrested after officials learned of what Pinto labeled a “CIA-directed false flag operation” designed to “justify an aggression against our country.”

An attorney specializing in consumer protection is sounding the alarm as the Trump administration prepares to enact a new policy that could tank credit ratings for millions of Americans.

A total of 15 states currently have laws that limit medical debt from impacting individuals' credit scores, laws that were enacted under the Biden administration, which in early 2025 issued a new rule that would have removed all medical debt from credit reports, eliminating an estimated $49 billion in unpaid medical bills from credit reports.