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The Republican staffer who alleged he was sexually assaulted by GOP mega-lobbyist and American Conservative Union director Matt Schlapp has abruptly withdrawn his lawsuit and retracted his allegations.

According to The New York Times, Carlton Huffman issued a statement saying, “The claims made in my lawsuits were the result of a complete misunderstanding, and I regret that the lawsuit caused pain to the Schlapp family. The Schlapps have advised that the statements made about me were the result of a misunderstanding, which was regrettable. Neither the Schlapps nor the ACU paid me anything to dismiss my claims against them.”

WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. Troy Nehls, R-Richmond, is under investigation by the House Ethics Committee, the bipartisan panel announced Tuesday. It did not specify the focus of the investigation, but Nehls said it was related to his campaign's finances.

The committee announced it was digging into a matter reported to its members on Dec. 11 and it will announce how it will proceed by May 10. Investigations do not indicate that there have been any proven violations of ethics rules.

Donald Trump's legal team is seeking to delay the appeals process in regards to his claim of presidential immunity related to criminal charges that he interfered in the 2020 election — and two legal experts blasted the Supreme Court Tuesday for letting him do it.

Andrew Weissmann and Ryan Goodman, two NYU School of Law professors, wrote in the Atlantic that Trump has no legal ground whatsoever to delay a ruling in his plea for presidential immunity. According to them, he's seeking to slow down the immunity appeals process for one obvious reason: to postpone the trial date – "hopefully pushing it into a time when, as president, he would control the Department of Justice and thus could squash the prosecution altogether."

New York Judge Juan M. Merchan placed a limited gag order on former President Donald Trump ahead of a hush money trial, set to start April 15.

The order came Tuesday after a request from New York County District Attorney Alvin Bragg.

A judge has ruled that Harrison Floyd, one of Donald Trump's co-defendants in the Georgia election interference case, will be able to work for the Trump 2024 campaign.

The former head of Black Voices for Trump had initially been barred from contacting other co-defendants as a condition of his bond.

MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell has been trying to get out of paying the $5 million he owes to Nevada-based software developer and computer forensics expert Robert Zeidman, who won Lindell's "Prove Mike Wrong" challenge in 2021 — a victory that U.S. District Judge John R. Tunheim upheld as perfectly legitimate in a February 21 ruling.

But according to Law & Crime's Brandi Buchman, he will be waging his legal battle without two lawyers who have now abandoned him: Andrew Parker and Alec Beck, both with the Minneapolis-based firm Parker Daniels Kibort.

Former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn suggested that a bridge collapse in Baltimore was connected to a terrorist attack in Russia.

Flynn joined conspiracy theorist Alex Jones on his Tuesday broadcast to talk about the tragedy that was caused by a ship hitting the Francis Scott Key Bridge.

The attorney for one of Donald Trump's co-defendants in the Georgia election interference case expressed mixed feelings about her attempt get Fulton County district attorney Fani Willis disqualified from the case.

Ashleigh Merchant stalled the case against Trump and 14 others for more than two months after she filed a court motion in January alleging that Willis had a financial conflict of interest due to her relationship with special prosecutor Nathan Wade and asked for her removal, but she defended the move as a legal necessity, reported the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Leadership at NBC raced to calm an uproar from within the network, some of it coming from some of the country’s best-known TV anchors, over the hiring of former RNC chair Ronna McDaniel. Now, news is breaking that the network has rescinded her hiring in the wake of growing pressure.

"NBC NEWS plans to drop ex RNC-chair Ronna McDaniel as a paid contributor following on-air revolt from NBC/MSNBC talent. Execs are deliberating over details; announcement pending. Meanwhile, McDaniel is seeking legal representation," Puck News reporter Dylan Byers wrote in a post to X this Tuesday.

MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell is expected to be evicted from a Minnesota warehouse after reportedly failing to pay $200,000 in rent for the past two months.

The StarTribune reported on court documents showing Lindell had received at least four notices of default at a warehouse in Shakopee.

Social media users were shocked and appalled that Donald Trump was hawking patriotic-themed Bibles named after country singer Lee Greenwood's patriotic ballad.

The former president started off Holy Week by sharing a supporter's post comparing his criminal civil travails to Christ's crucifixion and he followed up Tuesday by promoting the "God Bless the USA Bible" named after Greenwood's enduring 1984 chestnut.

Michael Roman, a former campaign aide for Donald Trump, has reportedly been subpoenaed in connection to an investigation into a "fake electors" plot in Arizona.

ABC News first reported the subpoena. Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes has previously confirmed her office was investigating a plot to use "fake electors" to overturn the 2020 presidential election results in the state.

On day five of the massive public and internal outrage over NBC News' hiring of Ronna McDaniel, who spread false claims about election fraud and allegedly conspired with the Trump campaign to attempt to overturn the 2020 presidential election, NBC News executives will meet to discuss the decision and the "fate" of the former Republican National Committee chair.

Variety reports "senior executives are gathering to conduct a review," and "to hash out the growing controversy around her recent hire, according to two people familiar with the matter, in a bid to stop a growing insurrection by the NBCUniversal unit’s editorial staff."