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President Donald Trump has a new excuse for why he is accepting a $400 million luxury jumbo jet from the government of Qatar right as he is engaging in diplomatic talks in the Middle East, a development so controversial that even some Republicans are recoiling from it.

"The Boeing 747 is being given to the United States Air Force/Department of Defense, NOT TO ME!" wrote Trump on his Truth Social platform. "It is a gift from a Nation, Qatar, that we have successfully defended for many years. It will be used by our Government as a temporary Air Force One, until such time as our new Boeings, which are very late on delivery, arrive. Why should our military, and therefore our taxpayers, be forced to pay hundreds of millions of Dollars when they can get it for FREE from a country that wants to reward us for a job well done. This big savings will be spent, instead, to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!"

CNN’s Erin Burnett struggled to make it through a new eyebrow-raising report Tuesday night involving Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy’s shirtless swim in a sewage-contaminated creek with his grandchildren.

“This is not ‘The Onion,’ Burnett told viewers as she described how RFK proudly posted photos of himself taking a dip in Washington D.C.’s Rock Creek Park, where she noted swimming has been banned for more than 50 years due to high concentrations of fecal bacteria.

After Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents busted a person in Waltham, Massachusetts, they left the 12-year-old boy that person was with stranded and unsupervised, WBZ News in Boston reported on Tuesday evening.

Agents "were seen on camera leaving the boy by himself on a sidewalk after arresting the person he was with on Felton Street on Sunday, May 4. Neighborhood Watch volunteers were able to get the boy home safely," said the report, noting that the boy was informed of his rights before being escorted home.

On Monday, in the lead-up to the annual Cannes Film Festival in France, nearly 400 international actors, directors, and producers released an open letter condemning Israel's genocide in the Gaza Strip.

The letter—published by French newspaper Libération and U.S. magazine Variety—begins with Fatma Hassona a 25-year-old Palestinian freelance photojournalist killed in an Israeli military strike on April 16, 2025, just a day after it was announced that Sepideh Farsi's film Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk, in which she stars, was selected to premiere at a section of the festival.

The conservative Wall Street Journal editorial board is thoroughly unimpressed with the latest draft of House Republicans' budget reconciliation bill on tax cuts, energy deregulation, and border security — a project President Donald Trump has referred to as his "big, beautiful bill."

The bill accomplishes a number of GOP objectives at least in part, including over $600 billion in cuts to Medicaid and permanently enshrining Trump's tax cuts from 2017 at a massive deficit spending cost.

A prominent GOP strategist leveled President Donald Trump on Tuesday following his meeting with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who has overseen the country's severe crackdown on dissent, including arbitrary detentions, lengthy prison sentences, and even death penalties for critics.

The crown prince addressed Trump as “my dear President Trump” and the Saudis played his campaign anthems — “God Bless the U.S.A.” and “ YMCA ” during his appearance at an investment forum, The Associated Press reported.

The Manhattan Institute’s Jessica Riedl set her sights on congressional Republicans on Tuesday, accusing them of promoting “fake” budget savings and pushing what she called the most expensive legislation in decades.

In a series of fiery posts on X, Riedl, a prominent fiscal conservative, tore apart GOP claims that their latest tax package is fiscally responsible, citing new estimates that show the bill would add $6.2 trillion to the national debt – “$5.3 trillion in ten-year tax cuts plus $900 billion more in debt interest.”

Democratic strategist James Carville has a simple assignment for his longtime party: focus on the latest Trump scandal, and pursue it with single-minded relentlessness.

Specifically, Carville told NewsNation's Chris Cuomo in a segment spotlighted by the Huffington Post, they need to hammer President Donald Trump's planned acceptance of a $400 million luxury jumbo jet from the government of Qatar right as he is touring the Middle East trying to make diplomatic and financial deals.

President Donald Trump's Medicare and Medicaid director, former talk show host Dr. Mehmet Oz, faced an intense grilling by MSNBC's Ari Melber over the House GOP's new plan to cut hundreds of millions from Medicaid funding, and particularly the imposition of work requirements that could throw millions of people off insurance.

Republicans tried the idea during the first Trump administration, which failed to improve either the Medicaid system or recipients' employment.

A federal grand jury on Tuesday indicted Wisconsin Judge Hannah Dugan on charges that she tried to conceal a man from arrest and obstruction of a proceeding, according to The New York Times.

Dugan, a Milwaukee County Circuit Court judge, was arrested last month after authorities said she helped an undocumented immigrant evade federal agents waiting outside her courtroom. The indictment is a “significant step” in the Trump Justice Department’s case against her, the Times wrote.

House Democrats are expressing outrage behind closed doors after Rep. Shri Thanedar (D-MI) forced a vote on articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump – a move that many in his own party slammed as self-serving and “utterly selfish.”

That’s according to Axios, which reported Tuesday that Thanedar’s seven articles of impeachment against the MAGA leader sparked profanity-laced fury among his colleagues.

Outgoing acting U.S. Attorney Ed Martin is moving to a new Justice Department effort named the "Weaponization Working Group," and he's already issuing threats, NBC News reported on Tuesday. However, legal experts have their own comments, and one has citations.

Martin, a defense attorney who represented several Jan. 6 defendants, could not garner support from a top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee for the U.S. attorney post. So, he has been shifted to the Justice Department for the working group that aims to investigate anyone involved in the probes into President Donald Trump and his allies, NBC said.

A prominent immigration attorney tore into the rationale from a Trump-appointed judge who on Tuesday became the first jurist to explicitly endorse President Donald Trump's plan to remove Venezuelans accused of being affiliated with the Tren de Aragua cartel based on a 1798 law intended to suppress military invasions.

Judge Stephanie Haines' reasoning was shallow and flimsy, argued American Immigration Center attorney Aaron Reichlin-Melnick in a lengthy thread on X deconstructing the ruling. To begin with, Reichlin-Melnick noted, even Haines' ruling, which contradicts the opinion of several other judges finding the act doesn't apply in this situation, had some limits.