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President Donald Trump's agenda for America was brutally parodied in an Atlantic newsletter by columnist Alexandra Petri, who portrayed it as the expiration of a "trial period" for America's freedom and public services.

"We understand that over the past 250-odd years, you have come to rely on the services provided by the U.S. of A.: postal delivery, representative government, edible food, clean water, lifesaving vaccines, and no kings — ever, guaranteed," she wrote. "Well, 250 years of free is enough. Now we demand $TRUMP coin."

Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones blew up on air after one of the hosts on his InfoWars platform quit.

In an announcement on Monday, host Owen Shroyer said that he was leaving Jones' operation because his boss had suggested he was "too anti-Trump."

President Donald Trump teased a major announcement on Tuesday afternoon, but the Pentagon accidentally spoiled the surprise by posting the news ahead of him—then quickly deleting it.

Dave Brown, deputy managing editor for Politico, noted that Trump lost both the element of surprise and the impact of his "Oval Office announcement slated for Tuesday afternoon." Instead, the story broke early when the Defense Department’s website inadvertently published a link to the upcoming livestream with the caption “U.S. Space Command HQ Announcement.” The reference was later removed.

Rep. John Joyce (R-PA) struggled on the House floor Tuesday afternoon while trying to introduce a resolution designating Sept. 12 as the “Day of the Bible,” fumbling the words "English language multiple times,

"This joint resolution will formally designate Sept. 12 as the 'Day of the Bible' to honor the first complete English langel, engwish, englan – English language Bible that was produced in America."

CNN's Harry Enten highlighted a pair of "flashing red siren signs" for Republicans heading into next year's midterm elections.

Democrats are feeling good about their chances in gubernatorial races this November in New Jersey and Virginia, and the data analyst told "CNN News Central" those races could serve as an early predictor for the 2026 congressional elections.

A decision by former Fox News host and current U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro to no longer prosecute some gun crimes in Washington, D.C., was roundly trashed on MSNBC on Tuesday morning as both “insanity” and an invitation for chaos.

According to a report from ABC News, Donald Trump’s D.C. U.S. attorney appointee has told prosecutors in her office to no longer pursue felony charges for individuals who carry registered rifles and shotguns in the district.

Former Arizona sheriff Mark Lamb physically shook with rage Tuesday as he decried what he called the “irritatingly high” standards of care that migrant detainees are given while in custody — comments made amid allegations that detained migrants are subjected to “inhumane conditions.”

Lamb, who supported President Donald Trump’s “stop the steal” campaign to overturn the 2020 election, was responding to comments made by Rep. Yassamin Ansari (D-AZ), who visited the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Elroy Detention Center on Saturday. During her tour, Ansari spoke with 23 migrant detainees, who she said spoke to the "dehumanizing, racist [and] unacceptable treatment” while held at the facility.

The Department of Justice vowed that the U.S. military would "remain in Los Angeles" after a federal judge ruled that President Donald Trump had illegally deployed troops to the city.

In a ruling on Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer said that the administration had "violated the Posse Comitatus Act" by deploying 4,000 National Guard troops and 700 Marines to Los Angeles.

A federal judge's order on Tuesday invalidating President Donald Trump's deployment of the National Guard to keep order in Los Angeles amid protests against his deportation policy has triggered a flurry of legal analysis.

The order, issued by U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer in San Francisco, is stayed from taking effect for 10 days to give Trump time to appeal the decision — but it contains scorching rejoinders against the president's use of military power. Breyer, the brother of retired Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, said Trump was effectively using the military as an illegal "national police force" and violated the Posse Comitatus Act, the federal law that prohibits the military from domestic civilian law enforcement.

President Donald Trump was expected to announce that he would reverse former President Joe Biden's decision not to move Space Command from Colorado to Alabama.

Reuters reported that the Pentagon's public affairs website said Trump would make the announcement as soon as 2 p.m. ET on Tuesday. A schedule provided by the White House indicated that the president would hold an event at 2 p.m. ET but did not include any additional details.

Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett said that her part in rolling back abortion rights with her vote to overturn Roe v. Wade “came at a cost” and was an uncomfortable subject matter when off the bench, according to her new memoir obtained by CNN.

“Dobbs did not top the list of things I wanted to talk about on vacation,” Barrett reportedly wrote in her memoir, according to a CNN report published Tuesday.

Since Donald Trump’s ill-fated summit with Vladimir Putin in Alaska — at which the U.S. president teased a quick resolution to Russia's war on Ukraine that never came to pass — things have gone further south with the Russian president finding new ways to “thumb his nose” at his American counterpart.

That is the opinion of both MSNBC hosts Joe Scarborough and Willie Geist, as well as longtime Washington Post columnist David Ignatius, who all pointed out on Tuesday that Trump is being bested on the world stage by Putin.

Rep. Pete Sessions (R-TX), a strong ally of President Donald Trump's and a member of the House Oversight Committee, clammed up Tuesday when pressed about the Jeffrey Epstein files, refusing to divulge any information in the “spirit of trying to work together,” while also condemning a bi-partisan effort to compel the release of additional files.

The House Oversight Committee is scheduled to meet Tuesday with victims of Epstein, the disgraced financier who died in 2019 while awaiting trial on human-trafficking charges and is alleged to have run a blackmail operation targeting powerful figures.