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Cole Thomas Allen, the man accused of attempting to assassinate President Donald Trump during the White House Correspondents Association dinner, reportedly had 100 rounds of ammunition on him at the time of the incident.

On Tuesday, a four-count indictment charged Allen with attempting to assassinate the president, assaulting an officer with a deadly weapon, illegally transporting a firearm across state lines, and using a firearm during a violent crime.

FBI Director Kash Patel appears to have used an AI-generated ripoff of a Beastie Boys music video to promote the Trump administration's anti-fraud efforts, NPR reported on Tuesday.

"With President Trump’s leadership, this @FBI and our interagency partners are conducting massive fraud takedowns coast to coast — and we’re not stopping," Patel wrote in a post to X at the start of the week.

President Donald Trump endorsed a barrage of candidates in a key battleground state on Tuesday, but seemed to snub a key race.

In a series of Truth Social posts, Trump endorsed candidates ranging from Vivek Ramaswamy, who is running for Ohio governor as a Republican, to allies like Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) and up-and-comers like Eric Conroy. However, he did not endorse a candidate in Ohio's 9th District, a key seat where former Immigration and Customs Enforcement official Madison Sheahan is running.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio struggled to wrangle a room full of reporters when he hosted the White House briefing on Tuesday while Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt was on maternity leave.

"I'll be filling in for Karoline today, obviously," Rubio announced to reporters before recapping President Donald Trump's efforts to open the Strait of Hormuz. "It's criminal for sure, but it's desperate and destructive, this blockade of the Straits of Hormuz."

President Donald Trump lashed out at Indiana Republicans on Tuesday afternoon, with just hours to go before a crucial primary that could test his influence over the state's electorate — and the future of the legislature.

"Good luck to those Great Indiana Senate Candidates who are running against people who couldn’t care less about our Country, or about keeping the Majority in Congress," Trump posted to his Truth Social platform. "There are eight Great Patriots running against long seated RINOS — Let’s see how those RINOS do tonight!"

Republicans won't have an easy time trying to sneak a high price tag for Trump's White House ballroom into a bill to fund federal immigration enforcement, a political analyst warned.

"The White House boasted last summer that the price tag for the ballroom would be $200 million, and every penny would come from private donations," wrote Steve Benen for MSNOW in a Tuesday piece. "Late last year, it was up to $400 million — though, again, the official line was that American taxpayers wouldn't be on the hook."

A man who formerly worked for the U.S. government found himself in a shouting match with Russian "Merchant of Death" arms dealer Viktor Bout on Tuesday.

During a segment on The Alex Jones Show, a caller from Kansas named Lee spoke to Bout about Russia's war in Ukraine.