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CENTCOM Commander Admiral Brad Cooper lost his cool on Tuesday when Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA) demanded to know how many more Americans would have to die for Donald Trump's war with Iran.

"I would like to know how many more Americans we have to ask to die for this mistake," Moulton said at a House Armed Services Committee hearing. "Do you know?"

President Donald Trump officially endorsed Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in his bid to replace Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), and in doing so, issued some harsh words for the incumbent Republican senator.

“John Cornyn is a good man, and I worked well with him, but he was not supportive of me when times were tough and, despite having the Most Successful Economy in the History of our Country during my First Term,” Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social.

Donald Trump is nursing a fresh grudge against his favorite networks — and he aired it Tuesday morning in front of his half-built ballroom.

Strolling out to inspect his $400 million East Wing project, the president stopped to talk to reporters and quickly turned a question about health care affordability into a bitter complaint about the media — including the conservative outlets that usually carry his every word.

A pair of voters who backed President Donald Trump in 2024 offered starkly contrasting assessments of his second term so far.

Gerald and Wally are both Black men who live in suburban Atlanta, grew up voting for Democrats and voted for Joe Biden in 2020 before switching to Trump over Kamala Harris, and they spoke to NPR about their view of his second presidency.

Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson took aim at her colleagues Monday with a blistering rebuke of what she labeled as their “unusual” move, one that she claimed had been done no more than three times in the last quarter century, The Washington Post reported Tuesday.

Jackson was referring to the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling in late April when it voted to effectively gut a provision of the Voting Rights Act designed to prohibit racially discriminatory voting policies. The court was deciding on a matter related to Louisiana's congressional district map, with Republicans having challenged a lower court’s order requiring state lawmakers to create a second majority-Black district.

Less than two years into his second term, a substantial portion of the Republican coalition is reported to be actively seeking a candidate who will take the party in a fundamentally different direction than Donald Trump — a significant splintering in what remains his dominant grip on GOP politics.

According to a New York Times/Siena poll, while Trump's "grip on the Republican Party remains indisputable," there are clear signs that fissures are widening within his coalition. Thirty-seven percent of Republicans and GOP-leaning independents want to see the party's next nominee move in a different direction.

What started out as a very non-contentious questioning by Sen. Jeffrey Merkley (D-OR) of Todd Blanche ended in acrimony after the acting attorney general took a shot at President Joe Biden as the five-minute questioning period concluded.

Earlier, as Merkley addressed Blanche as part of the Senate Appropriations Committee, the Democrat offered to get the DOJ increased funding, long before the questioning took an ugly turn that led the Oregon Democrat to upbraid the witness.

CNN's Harry Enten analyzed the range of outcomes likely in November's midterm elections, and he found that massive gain were within reach for the Democratic Party.

The political landscape was convulsed by the mid-decade redistricting war kicked off by President Donald Trump in Texas, and last month's Supreme Court ruling on Louisiana's congressional map set off another mad dash of partisan gerrymandering, so Enten tried to determine the possible outcomes based on this new reality.

The Trump administration was hit with a major lawsuit Tuesday filed by a coalition of 25 Democratic-led states over a new rule the plaintiffs alleged to be “unlawful,” The Washington Post reported.

Published on May 1 and set to go into effect on July 1, the new rule narrows the definition of what constitutes a professional degree, and thereby, imposes new limits on loans that graduate students are eligible for. A number of graduate degrees often sought by health care workers would become ineligible for higher loans under the new rule, and as such, could exacerbate the ongoing health care worker shortage, the plaintiffs argue.

President Donald Trump stepped outside the White House on Tuesday to survey the sprawling construction site where his prized ballroom is rising from the rubble of the demolished East Wing — and delivered a lengthy, freewheeling tour that touched on drone warfare, Greek architecture, and his place in history.

"This is my gift to the United States of America," Trump told reporters as he gestured at the concrete skeleton taking shape on the White House grounds. "I'm going to be able to use it very little. When it's finished, we're talking about six or seven months. But it will be used for hopefully hundreds of years by other presidents."