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President Donald Trump's Department of Justice on Tuesday opposed the release of a migrant it already acknowledged was wrongly deported to El Salvador, and accused a magistrate judge of committing a “clear error.”

In March, Kilmar Abrego Garcia was mistakenly deported to the country despite a 2019 court order barring his removal due to fear of persecution. He was imprisoned without trial in a notorious maximum security prison and was subsequently criticized as an "administrative error." The Supreme Court delivered a confusing order that the government must "facilitate" his return.

CNN reporter Phil Mattingly sparred with Rep. Mike Turner (R-OH) this afternoon over whether President Donald Trump's decision to bomb three Iranian nuclear facilities was successful.

Earlier in the day, CNN published a report suggesting that the campaign only set Iran's nuclear capabilities back by a few months. The report cited anonymous sources and a leaked Pentagon damage assessment report that appeared to undercut Trump's claims that the nuclear facilities were "OBLITERATED," as Trump claimed on Truth Social.

Iran's government is trolling President Donald Trump by announcing its nuclear program is once again operational just days after the president ordered a strike on three of the country's nuclear facilities, The Daily Beast reported Tuesday evening.

"Two days after America controversially joined Israel to attack Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan, the core of Iran’s nuclear infrastructure, Iran has openly defied Trump by insisting that it is ready to restart its enrichment plans," reported Farrah Tomazin. Specifically, the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran has proclaimed in a statement, “The nuclear program of Iran will resume without interruption, and we are ready to restart enrichment; our program will not stop.”

A key operative in Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency resigned on Tuesday, Wired reported.

Edward Coristine, a 19-year-old who joined DOGE after graduating from high school, became an internet meme because of his nickname, "Big Balls." He was part of the DOGE inner circle, according to Wired, and was given multiple federal laptops to conduct his work. He made brief appearances at the General Services Administration, Office of Personnel Management, the US Agency for International Development, the Department of Education, and the Small Business Administration.

Author and educator Margaret McMullan sounded the alarm in The Bulwark about a new Republican-written law in Mississippi that intends to abolish diversity, equity, and inclusion programs, which is written so broadly that it would effectively make teaching about the Holocaust impossible.

The legislation, called the Requiring Efficiency For Our Colleges and Universities System and Education System, or REFOCUSES, Act, is part of a broader effort led by President Donald Trump to purge racial diversity concepts from the government.

Consumer advocates are criticizing a change made by U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz in the Republican megabill this week that would stop states from regulating artificial intelligence in order to bring it in line with the reconciliation process.

The House's version of the $4 trillion budget package, passed last month, contained a sneaky provision that would bar states from enforcing any proposed or existing regulations on AI programs for the next 10 years, which a critic called "one of the most radical positions Republicans have taken."

A video has gone viral of a landscaper being wrestled to the ground, pepper-sprayed, and beaten by immigration officers in Los Angeles as part of President Donald Trump's mass deportation plan.

While Trump promised that criminals would be targeted for deportation, that has not been the case, and that has been difficult for the man's three sons, one a Marine veteran and the two still serving in the Marines.

The Senate will be voting on the “One Big, Beautiful bill” beginning Friday, according to an exclusive report from Axios.

While speaking with Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD), he told the outlet he is confident the spending bill will make Trump’s Fourth of July deadline.

As Republican lawmakers race to pass President Donald Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill” by July 4, some of its supporters are giving dire warnings if it fails, like Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA), who on Tuesday warned that the economy would crash like “a fat guy on a seesaw” were the bill’s tax cuts – largely enjoyed by the wealthiest Americans – not extended.

“If we don’t pass this bill, you raise taxes $4.3 trillion on 300-plus million Americans, and you’ll watch this economy go down like a fat guy on a seesaw,” Kennedy said, speaking on the Senate floor. “We don’t have a choice.”

After several lawmakers backed war power resolutions to check President Donald Trump’s ability to declare war – a power constitutionally reserved for Congress – Trump ally and House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) said Tuesday that he believes such checks themselves are “unconstitutional."

“Many respected constitutional experts argue that the War Powers Act is itself unconstitutional," Johnson told reporters, per Axios. “I'm persuaded by that argument. They think it's a violation of the Article 2 powers of the commander in chief. I think that's right."

President Donald Trump unleashed a four-letter-word tirade on Tuesday morning after reports surfaced that Israel had violated the ceasefire agreement brokered just 24 hours earlier. The episode also exposed that Trump is terrified of looking like another F word when it comes to the Iran-Israel conflict, according to Sky News correspondent James Mathews.

"Failure – it's the F word Donald Trump fears most," Matthews wrote in a column published on Tuesday.

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell testified on Tuesday that, were it not for President Donald Trump's tariffs, they would have felt comfortable dropping interest rates.

Speaking to the House Financial Services Committee, Powell said, "If you just look at the basic data and don't look at the forecast, you would say that we would've continued cutting. The difference, of course, is, at this time, all forecasters are expecting, pretty soon, that some significant inflation will show up from tariffs. And we can't just ignore that."