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A low-level Navy sailor was punished for attempting to access the private medical records of President Joe Biden, the U.S. Navy confirmed on Tuesday.

According to CBS News, the military will not release the name of the sailor but noted that he is "a junior enlisted sailor serving in the Navy's hospital corps and is based at Fort Belvoir, in Virginia."

Donald Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen gave a stark warning Tuesday to Americans who are growing nervous about warning of revenge in a second term: it's no joke.

White House correspondent and analyst Brian Karem spoke with Cohen for Salon, during which Cohen pressed voters to understand that Trump has already delivered on his promises to go after his enemies.

The news about the new Republican Party Platform continues to percolate through the GOP, and evangelical Christians are growing angry about the perceived backing off issues they've pressed for decades.

Among the issues is the softening of anti-gay language, though anti-transgender language continues. Another is support for in vitro fertilization, which was temporarily blocked by Republicans in Alabama with laws declaring "life" begins at conception. And, after over 40 years, the platform also backed demands for a national abortion ban.

MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace confessed that she's growing increasingly nervous about her life in the United States if former President Donald Trump wins the presidency.

Panelists on Monday addressed the Heritage Foundation's Project 2025, the plan created for Trump's possible second term by some of his loyalists. Among them included authoritarian expert Ruth Ben-Ghiat and former Congressman David Jolly (R-FL), among others.

A member of the closed-door Republican Party platform committee meeting unleashed her own fury after the committee voted to pass former President Donald Trump's policies into the party as a whole.

Political director Matt Smith of WISN12News Milwaukee caught up with Gail Ruzicka, a platform committee member from Utah, who was incensed.

The Republican Party platform made history when it was passed Monday and former President Donald Trump praised the committee members who ushered in his demands.

"The 2024 GOP Platform to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN was overwhelmingly approved by the Rules Committee - Thank you to Chairwoman Marsha Blackburn and Vice Chair Michael Waltz for their tireless work to PUT AMERICA FIRST. Ours is a forward-looking Agenda with strong promises that we will accomplish very quickly when we win the White House and Republican Majorities in the House and Senate," posted Trump on Truth Social.

Republicans are fantasizing about a new era of budget cuts under a new Donald Trump presidency.

Speaking to the Hudson Institute, Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) argued that the largest security threat facing the U.S. is the national debt.

The 2024 Republican Party convention has made a significant departure from a theme central to 2016.

Comparing the themes of the last platform with the new one that Trump's campaign published Monday, almost everything is a repeat except for one glaring change — the presumptive Republican nominee has apparently given up on bipartisanship.

As the debate continues about whether President Joe Biden should remain on the Democratic ticket, the hosts of "The View" discussed why some continue to support the Democratic nominee.

Sunny Hostin agreed that Biden wasn't the man he was during the eight years he served under President Barack Obama. However, she doesn't worry about Biden because of Vice President Kamala Harris.

Former President Donald Trump baselessly told his supporters on Monday morning that President Joe Biden is dropping out of the race.

In an email to his supporters, Trump asked, "Did you hear that Crooked Joe Biden is dropping out of the race?"

Rep. Mike Quigley (D-IL) is among the lawmakers asking for President Joe Biden to step out of the 2024 race. Speaking to CNN on Monday, he was pressed on why Black voters aren't abandoning Biden.

CNN's John Berman mentioned Biden's interview with ABC's George Stephanopoulos, and at the same time as the interview with Quigley, Biden called into MSNBC, where he attacked party "elites" and "millionaire" donors.

National security expert Marcy Wheeler has a theory about where Donald Trump's suspicion of the "deep state" comes from.

In her podcast "Ball of Thread," she claimed connections of Trump's allies with foreign governments, particularly Russia, left him reeling as he tried to become president — and filled with conspiracy theories about secretive "deep state" dealings.