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What started out as a very non-contentious questioning by Sen. Jeffrey Merkley (D-OR) of Todd Blanche ended in acrimony after the acting attorney general took a shot at President Joe Biden as the five-minute questioning period concluded.

Earlier, as Merkley addressed Blanche as part of the Senate Appropriations Committee, the Democrat offered to get the DOJ increased funding, long before the questioning took an ugly turn that led the Oregon Democrat to upbraid the witness.

The Trump administration was hit with a major lawsuit Tuesday filed by a coalition of 25 Democratic-led states over a new rule the plaintiffs alleged to be “unlawful,” The Washington Post reported.

Published on May 1 and set to go into effect on July 1, the new rule narrows the definition of what constitutes a professional degree, and thereby, imposes new limits on loans that graduate students are eligible for. A number of graduate degrees often sought by health care workers would become ineligible for higher loans under the new rule, and as such, could exacerbate the ongoing health care worker shortage, the plaintiffs argue.

President Donald Trump stepped outside the White House on Tuesday to survey the sprawling construction site where his prized ballroom is rising from the rubble of the demolished East Wing — and delivered a lengthy, freewheeling tour that touched on drone warfare, Greek architecture, and his place in history.

"This is my gift to the United States of America," Trump told reporters as he gestured at the concrete skeleton taking shape on the White House grounds. "I'm going to be able to use it very little. When it's finished, we're talking about six or seven months. But it will be used for hopefully hundreds of years by other presidents."

Attorney General Todd Blanche got an earful from Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) on Tuesday after a Senate Appropriations hearing devolved into a heated confrontation over the Justice Department's controversial anti-weaponization fund — and whether a pardoned child molester could collect from it.

The fireworks started when Van Hollen pressed Blanche on a deeply troubling case: a Trump pardon recipient who allegedly molested two children after receiving clemency and then tried to buy their silence by promising them money he expected to receive from the DOJ fund.

A national coalition of prosecutors put President Donald Trump “on notice” Tuesday morning that if he dispatches federal immigration officials to polling places during the midterm elections – as he’s refused to rule out doing – those officials would be criminally investigated, charged and jailed.

“The right to vote without fear of armed government agents at the polls is not negotiable, and it is not subject to the whims of a president," said Mary Moriarty, a Minnesota-based county attorney, in a press release published Tuesday.

Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) on Monday formally asked the Justice Department's internal watchdog to investigate FBI Director Kash Patel — escalating a months-long firestorm over the embattled director's alleged drinking and reports that he has cooked the bureau's arrest stats.

In a letter to Deputy Inspector General William Blier, Blumenthal requested a formal probe into "the allegations that Director Patel's excessive drinking has interfered with his ability to perform his role" — as well as separate allegations that Patel has been "manipulating both arrest statistics and the FBI's Most Wanted list."

Invited on MS NOW to promote the expanded direct-to-consumer TrumpRx platform, Donald Trump appointee Dr. Mehmet Oz was pressed to defend why there is a growing measles epidemic in the US.

According to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), there were 51 new measles cases in a nationwide outbreak that has now reached 1,893 infections.

Political reporter Leigh Ann Caldwell issued a dire warning for President Donald Trump on Tuesday, predicting that if Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) manages to come out victorious in Tuesday night’s GOP primary race, the president may suffer among his most significant defeats seen yet.

Trump has poured enormous political capital into ousting Massie after he infamously bucked the president in leading the charge to force the release of files related to Jeffrey Epstein. The president recruited retired Navy SEAL Ed Gallrein to run against Massie, with voters set to make their decision Tuesday night.

The Financial Times revealed a proposal President Donald Trump had reportedly floated to Chinese President Xi Jinping last week during the U.S.-China summit in Beijing, one that left onlookers floored at its implications.

“An indication of how mentally unstable Trump is, and how much he is Israel's message boy,” wrote Scottish writer and political commentator Grouse Beater, who manages a political commentary blog.

A decision by Donald Trump to hand out pardons to nearly two dozen anti-choice activists convicted under the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act (FACE Act) has opened the floodgates to more protests outside women’s health clinics and physical threats against the staffers.

According to MS NOW, annual surveys from the National Abortion Federation aggregating self-reported incidents from more than 400 members reveal a troubling surge in violence and harassment targeting women's health facilities.

Of more than 300 facilities and workers who responded to the 2025 survey, approximately 200 reported incidents of violence or harassment — a number that excludes peaceful protests. More than 60 facilities reported receiving death threats or threats of harm, including attempted break-ins and threats against providers, with 10 facilities reporting multiple threats.

Trump's Department of Justice has actively facilitated the escalation, MS NOW's Julianne McShane wrote, adding that the DOJ previously released a report suggesting the Biden administration had targeted anti-abortion protesters for prosecution due to their religious beliefs. The department subsequently fired multiple prosecutors involved in those cases and announced during Trump's second term that it would roll back most abortion-related FACE Act prosecutions and civil actions.

The coalition of college Republicans who helped propel Donald Trump back into office is fracturing as rival campus organizations increasingly invite white nationalist speakers — creating internal conflict that threatens GOP efforts to mobilize young voters in critical midterm races.

According to the New York Times, the schism came into sharper focus when Maryland's state college Republican group invited white nationalist Jared Taylor to speak at Salisbury University, where he warned that white people face extinction.