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Former MSNBC anchor Mehdi Hasan urged Democrats to take a stand against what he called President Donald Trump’s “private militia” – U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

“If Democrats are serious about stopping fascism, then they have to do everything in their power to prevent the ongoing expansion and further empowerment of Homan and his army of masked ICE thugs,” Hasan wrote Tuesday about Trump’s border czar Tom Homan.

Outgoing acting U.S. Attorney Ed Martin is moving from his temporary post overseeing prosecutors in Washington, D.C., to the new Justice Department "Weaponization Working Group" that NBC News described as part of an effort to "investigate [President Donald] Trump's investigators."

Speaking out about the matter on Tuesday, Martin said he would change the long-standing protocol and "name" and "shame" individuals even if the Justice Department is unable to charge them with crimes, according to the report.

President Donald Trump has repeatedly been smacked down by various federal judges in his efforts to invoke the 1798 Alien Enemies Act to conduct mass deportations of individuals the administration claims to be gang members. But he's finally found a judge who's willing to adopt his interpretation of the law — and it's a judge he appointed.

In an opinion issued on Tuesday, U.S. Judge Stephanie Haines of the Western District of Pennsylvania ruled that the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua counts as a hostile invading force for the purposes of the 18th-century law, and allows Trump to carry out mass deportations.

A Japanese American professor and Vietnam veteran thinks he may have been involved in a possible hate crime, The Los Angeles Times reported on Tuesday.

American history professor Aki Maehara was riding his electric bicycle one late April evening near his home in Montebello, California, when he was hit by a car, and the driver shouted a racial slur.

MAGA influencers reacted with outrage Tuesday after House Republicans told them to get "off the sidelines."

The controversy came following a vague post on the House Republican X account.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer brushed off concerns about Joe Biden’s fitness to serve as president and his initial decision to run for a second term in an animated exchange Monday.

The back and forth with the top Senate Democrat unfolded Monday on CNN’s “The Arena” when host Kasie Hunt questioned Schumer about Biden’s health amid fresh questions raised in a new book out next week.

A provision that U.S. House Republicans added to the budget reconciliation bill—unrelated to the GOP's goal of slashing Medicaid access in the legislation—represents, as one journalist said, "one of the most radical positions Republicans have taken" thus far on artificial intelligence and the regulations that experts have demanded in order to ensure the technology is used safely.

U.S. Rep. Brett Guthrie (R-Ky.) added the language Sunday night ahead of a markup session Tuesday, in what appeared to be an effort to stop state governments from enforcing existing and proposed laws to protect the public from AI systems.

Famed Hollywood star George Clooney was deeply disturbed when he saw former President Joe Biden at a major fundraising event last year, because although the two had known each other for decades, Biden seemed to struggle so badly he had to be repeatedly reminded who Clooney was, Axios reported Tuesday.

It's one of many new behind-the-scenes revelations in Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson's new book about how Democratic officials came to conclude the former president had to leave the race.

President Donald Trump's obsession with airplanes goes back years, and his requests for features on his current personal plane left one designer double-checking his demands, Forbes reported Tuesday.

Over the weekend, several outlets reported that Qatar was gifting Trump a $400 million private jet to serve as his new Air Force One until the end of his term. The plane would then be given to the Trump presidential library.

The Trump Department of Justice faces a new legal deadline after a federal judge warned that its failure to comply with a court order could be treated as an “intentional refusal” to follow the law.

In a sharply worded one-page order, U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis said the Justice Department missed a key deadline to produce a privilege log tied to its claims of the state secrets privilege in the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Salvadoran national wrongfully deported to the country in March.

Republicans forced Rep. Marc Veasey (D-TX) to end a phone call with a cancer survivor whom he was speaking to during his opening remarks.

At a Tuesday House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing on changes to Medicaid, Veasey held up his phone to the microphone to allow a woman named Carla to speak.