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The Wall Street Journal's conservative editorial board slammed the former "first buddy" on Tuesday evening for supporting a controversial social policy.

Elon Musk is one of several tech company founders who have said they support universal basic income, or UBI. UBI refers to a system where all citizens receive a fixed income payment from the government. Similarly, guaranteed income refers to payments given to people of a specific economic or social demographic.

US President Donald Trump has pitched his tariffs on foreign goods as a way to bring more manufacturing jobs back into the United States.

However, it now appears as though the tariffs are hurting the manufacturing jobs that are already here.

A Black state lawmaker in Connecticut has received hate-filled threats since being falsely accused of "doxxing" the sensitive information of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, reported The New York Times on Tuesday.

"The lawmaker, Corey P. Paris, of Stamford, said that he had received threats against his life and his relatives. A spokesman with the Connecticut Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection said the State Police were investigating the incident," reported Ana Ley.

House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) has moved forward with a plan to partially release information from the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking case — but House Democrats, including ranking member Robert Garcia (D-CA), are not satisfied with this limited production.

And furthermore, Garcia told MSNBC's "The Weeknight" panel on Tuesday, they've left out a massively important witness from all this: President Donald Trump's former Secretary of Labor Alex Acosta, who as a former federal prosecutor, helped Epstein escape justice in the first place.

Dr. Phil McGraw was accused of committing a massive fraud against the world's largest Christian television network, according to a new report.

The Daily Beast reported Tuesday that McGraw, who goes by the stage name Dr. Phil on his eponymous TV show, "overpromised and underdelivered" in a more than $500 million contract that he struck with Trinity Broadcast Network after leaving CBS in 2023. The report cites a complaint filed in a federal bankruptcy court in Texas.

A top House Democrat told MSNBC viewers on Tuesday that the Senate should consider taking an extraordinary step to shut down the government over President Donald Trump's takeover of Washington, D.C.

Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA), the ranking Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, joined "The Weeknight" on Tuesday evening, where the congressman was asked about the different avenues of leverage that Democrats can use to hit back at Trump's federalization of Washington, D.C.'s law enforcement operations.

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) took to X to rage against California Democrats' planned mid-decade redistricting, which seeks to draw out up to five Republican lawmakers in retaliation for the Texas GOP's plan to draw out up to five Democrats — but Rep. Kevin Kiley (R-CA) called him out for being all talk and no substance.

"Gavin Newsom’s latest attempt to disenfranchise millions of California voters was written in the dark of night by the DCCC — more than 2,700 miles away from Sacramento in Washington," wrote Johnson. "Unlike other states, California must shred its own Constitution to succeed in its desperate gambit to ‘end the Trump presidency.’ Voters in California and across the nation see through this partisan stunt."

A former member of Congress unloaded on CNN on Tuesday evening after the president referred to himself as a "war hero" during a radio interview.

During an interview with conservative radio host Mark Levin, President Donald Trump described Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as a "war hero" for his actions in Gaza. Trump added that he should also be known as a war hero because he approved of the bombing mission that destroyed Iran's nuclear facility.

President Donald Trump has major changes planned for how U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services approves green cards and naturalization — starting with forcing applicants to prove they have not engaged in un-American activities.

"NEW: McCarthyism returns to immigration law, as @USCIS announces that it will begin screening applicants for immigration benefits for 'Anti-America ideologies or activities.' The term has no prior precedent in immigration law and its definition is entirely up to the Trump admin," wrote American Immigration Council fellow Aaron Reichlin-Melnick on X, sharing the memorandum announcing the change.

A historian called out President Donald Trump for his comments on Tuesday, railing that museums are "woke" and "out of control" for teaching "how bad Slavery was."

Trump took to his Truth Social platform to bemoan that the "Museums throughout Washington, but all over the Country are, essentially, the last remaining segment of 'WOKE.'"

President Donald Trump once again attacked Jerome Powell, chair of the Federal Reserve, bemoaning Tuesday afternoon that Powell is "hurting the housing industry."

Trump took to his Truth Social platform to take aim at Powell, a frequent target of Trump who has opposed lowering interest rates.

Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes is not amused by President Donald Trump's demand to eliminate mail voting around the country.

"After I tell him to pound sand, I will probably ask the attorney general to file suit," Fontes told Axios, noting that mail-in voting, which was used by 75 percent of Arizonans in the most recent election, is "extremely popular."