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The family of Alex Pretti spoke out Tuesday for the first time about his killing, stressing that the 37-year-old intensive care nurse was merely observing a surge of federal immigration officers — not participating in a protest — when agents shot him.

Pretti’s parents, Michael and Susan Pretti, and his sister, Micayla, broke their silence in an ABC News exclusive interview with George Stephanopoulos that aired Tuesday on “Good Morning America,” seven months after Pretti was killed in Minneapolis.

Legendary country singer and businesswoman Dolly Parton died at the age of 80 on this week. Parton's nephew, Sabyn, announced her death in a video released to her fans on Tuesday.

"This video announcement is something that Dolly asked of me years ago," he said. "I have imagined the heaviness of this moment but haven't truly felt it until now."

A number of medical professionals expressed outrage Tuesday as the ongoing measles outbreak claimed two lives in Pennsylvania — the state’s first measles death in 35 years — amid Trump administration policies and rhetoric that critics have said exacerbated the issue.

“Two measles deaths in Pennsylvania. What a tragedy,” wrote Neil Stone, a British infectious-disease physician, in a social media post on X Tuesday. “A completely avoidable tragedy. Measles vaccine is incredibly safe and highly effective at preventing measles. This is MAHA...sadly.”

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gutted a key Pentagon program he viewed as “woke” after every top military commander rebuffed his push to dismantle it, according to a new ProPublica investigation.

Retired Army Gen. Erik Kurilla, then the leader of U.S. Central Command, and other senior officers urged Hegseth to keep the Civilian Harm Mitigation and Response program, which helps the military avoid killing noncombatants.

For four generations, Krystal Polk's family lived off a 2-acre plot in Southaven, Mississippi, raising chickens and pigs and growing their own food on land her family acquired "before people of color were allowed to have land."

A year ago, a power plant went up across the street, CBS News reported, and the noise drove the family away from land that had been passed down through four generations.

A MAGA congressional candidate in a Kentucky district Donald Trump carried by 15 points in 2024 has quietly rebranded himself just over two months before Election Day.

Ralph Alvarado is running for Congress in Kentucky's 6th Congressional District, which covers Lexington, Richmond and Georgetown, and received the president's "Complete and Total Endorsement," but NBC News reported that he has stripped his campaign website of pro-Trump messaging and a photo of the two men together.

Republican South Carolina voters raced to the polls Tuesday to decide who will replace the late Sen. Lindsey Graham on the ballot in November, but before the polls closed, Republicans were already betting on President Donald Trump’s hand-picked candidate going down in flames, NOTUS reported.

Graham’s sister, Darline Lettie Graham Nordone — who notably has dropped her married name in her campaign material — was endorsed by Trump to replace her late brother, and heads into the race as an incumbent after being nominated to serve in her brother’s seat on an interim basis by South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster. Nordone faces Rep. Ralph Norman in a special runoff election.

The Justice Department is weighing federal charges against an ICE officer just hours before a judge decides whether Minnesota can finally take custody of him.

Federal prosecutors could move as soon as Tuesday, CNN reported, citing a source familiar with the case and a department spokeswoman. The officer, Christian Castro, was arrested in May on charges in Minnesota. He has been held in a Texas jail since.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security was slapped Tuesday with a new notice regarding the agency’s $464 million “ghost fleet” of jets, which were purchased in a controversial no-bid contract and have gone on largely unused.

Three Senate Democrats sent their demands to DHS on Tuesday in a letter reviewed by The New York Times.

Marco Rubio's State Department is seeking legal guidance as part of an attempt to sell off a government-owned painting by Kehinde Wiley — the celebrated artist behind former President Barack Obama's official portrait — after Trump administration officials branded the work "woke."

According to a report from the Washington Post, State Department officials are exploring options to sell the painting, which was removed earlier this month from the U.S. Embassy in the Dominican Republic.

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy’s “Great American Road Trip” reality show raises more questions about the Trump appointee than it answers about what it is like to be an American.

That is the opinion of Washington Post culture columnist Monica Hesse in a biting review of the six-part reality show, where she suggests there are some curious moments, including possible “dogwhistling” to Jan 6 insurrection supporters.

Republicans are billing their first-ever midterm convention as a chance to seize back momentum after months of bad headlines, but behind the optimistic messaging, signs suggest the party isn't sure how many candidates — or voters — will actually show up.

Reuters contacted representatives for Republican candidates in 37 competitive House races and eight competitive Senate races to ask whether they'd attend and speak, but only one of the 45, Michigan Rep. Tom Barrett's team, confirmed he would skip the Sept. 9-10 event entirely to stay on the trail in his own district.

A spokesman for Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp disputes claims from the Republican gubernatorial nominee that he would deploy the National Guard to monitor the November elections.

GOP gubernatorial nominee Rick Jackson made the claim during an Aug. 13 rally in Columbus, according to audio obtained by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, when a nervous attendee expressed fears that Democrats would "cheat."