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Capt. Eddy Alarcon starts work at midnight as part of the non-stop crews fighting to find anyone alive in the collapsed condo in Surfside, Florida. Speaking to CNN, he broke down talking about his desperation to deliver for the families praying their loved ones are still alive.

Alarcon serves in the Miami-Dade Fire Rescue team, Florida Taskforce 1, as they're approaching the seventh day searching for anyone in the building.

Fox News host Tucker Carlson was flattened by the National Security Agency (NSA) in a statement Tuesday night, calling it a lie that he has been under investigation in some kind of government plot to end his show.

"On June 28, 2021, Tucker Carlson alleged that the National Security Agency has been 'monitoring our electronic communications and is planning to leak them in an attempt to take this show off the air.' This allegation is untrue. Tucker Carlson has never been an intelligence target of the Agency and the NSA has never had any plants to try to take his program off the air," said the NSA in a statement.

Family members of Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) continue to demand action against their brother, who they believe is a white supremacist and helped plot the attack on the Capitol Jan. 6.

Speaking to MSNBC's Joy Reid, Dave Gosar noted that he wishes people would stop using the term "white nationalist" because it's nothing more than a polite way of saying "white supremacist."

Longtime political columnist Charlie Pierce wrote in Esquire Tuesday that the recent news about the sweet real estate deal for the former Secretary of Agriculture certainly isn't the biggest corruption news from the former Trump administration. Instead, it's only the latest in a long list of Donald Trump's appointees who used their offices to personally benefit and enrich themselves.

The legal scandals facing Donald Trump might draw front-page reports, so lesser-known White House appointees are benefitting from quieter coverage of their corruption.

Jennifer Weisselberg, the former daughter-in-law to Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg, assumed that he would flip on Donald Trump as he faced the investigations into the company. But on Tuesday, she told MSNBC host Ari Melber that after further thought, she thought better because there are things that he isn't even aware of.

Explaining that she thinks anything can change, she noted that his resistance to flip makes perfect sense given the world that he lives in.

UPDATE: The Associated Press reported that election officials "have retracted their latest vote totals for the Democratic primary for mayor. They say 135,000 test ballots were inadvertently included in the count."

The Daily Poster revealed documents showing that the dark money group behind appointments of right-wing judges.

"The Concord Fund is the new parent nonprofit of the Judicial Crisis Network, a secretive dark money group that has been bankrolling campaigns to install GOP judges and funding conservative advocacy campaigns around the country since 2004," said the report. The Fund has ties to judicial adviser Leonard Leo, the report explained. He stepped away from The Federalist Society to work for the group.

CNN's KFile has uncovered a March video exposing an Oregon Republican Party official for agreeing that a prominent white nationalist had a role in choosing Republican candidates for the election.

According to the report, Republican national committeeman Solomon Yue praised a man known for promoting White nationalist language and values. He appeared on an episode of Pure Politics with Greyson Arnold, who KFile reported has posted "enthusiastically" about Nazis.

The Republican governor of South Dakota appears to have deployed the National Guard at the demand of a Tennessee GOP megadonor who agreed to pay for it.

According to a report by Insider, Kristi Noem made an announcement that she would deploy her state's troops to the Texas border. According to the news release, Noem said that the soldiers "will be paid for by a private donation."

Former President Donald Trump has been holing up in his New York City tower while he awaits indictments rumored to be handed down by Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance.

The former president hasn't done much since leaving office other than pushing a series of grievances and perpetuating the lie that he actually won the 2020 election. For a few weeks, he attempted to run his own blog where he could post comments on his website, but it was taken down after traffic to it was so abysmal that he was being ridiculed.

First lady Dr. Jill Biden took a jab at President Donald Trump in an extensive cover story for Vogue, published Tuesday.

While the story walks through Dr. Biden's work urging the president to run again in 2020, it's what she's said about her husband's leadership as president that contrasts so significantly with the ex-president.

The U.S. Congress has officially filed the paperwork to form the Jan. 6 Commission that will examine the attacks on the U.S. Capitol.

Under the House Rules Committee, the language establishes the goals and information that will be gathered.

YouTube has reconsidered their deletion of the RightWingWatch account that chronicled years of far-right extremism often hidden in the shadows.

The group, run by the People for the American Way (PFAW), appealed all of YouTube's rulings but the site ignored them, deciding to shut down the page regardless. Ironically, what RWW found was that many of the videos that they cut and uploaded for their own purposes came from larger clips that were still allowed from YouTube.