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A political analyst was outraged on Tuesday after Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt issued an "abundantly clear" threat to the press during her briefing.

Leavitt, who returned early from maternity leave to hold the daily briefing, told reporters about the Trump administration's efforts to "tone down the rhetoric" following the shooting at the White House Correspondents' Dinner on Saturday. At the event, a lone gunman fired several rounds inside the Washington Hilton, where the dinner was held. A Secret Service agent was hit in their bulletproof vest and survived. No one was killed, and the president and members of his cabinet were rushed out of the event unscathed.

President Donald Trump is poised to suffer one last defeat at the hands of the Federal Reserve tomorrow as Chairman Jerome Powell prepares to depart, according to a new report.

Bloomberg reported on Tuesday that the central bank seems likely to vote to hold interest rates steady at its next meeting, even though Trump has publicly pressured the bank to lower interest rates throughout his second administration. Powell has previously cited the war in Iran and elevated inflation as reasons the central bank would leave interest rates unchanged.

Analysts were aghast on Tuesday after a new report indicated that the Trump administration had reinstated the Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer who shot and killed Renee Good in Minneapolis earlier this year.

ICE agent Jonathan Ross shot and killed Good in late January during "Operation Metro Surge," a federal action that sent more than 3,000 immigration agents into the city to combat protests against Trump's deportation operations. On Tuesday, The Daily Beast reported that Ross had been "quietly relocated to another state" and allowed to return to work.

A legal expert flagged a "major problem" in the indictment that President Donald Trump's Department of Justice returned against former FBI Director James Comey on Tuesday during an interview on CNN.

Elie Honig, a former federal prosecutor in the Southern District of New York, discussed the new indictment on CNN's "The Lead" with host Jake Tapper. The three-page indictment alleges two felony charges related to an Instagram post Comey made last year that featured an image of seashells that read "86 47," a phrase that some conservative commentators seemed to think meant that Comey wanted Trump to be killed.

A prominent Senate Republican shredded President Donald Trump's Department of Defense for allowing an unelected official to let congressionally appropriated funds for an ally to sit "collecting dust."

Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) penned a new op-ed in The Washington Post on Tuesday, where he bashed Undersecretary Elbridge Colby for stonewalling the release of $400 million in funding for Ukraine in its war against Russia. He argued that Colby's actions are effectively a continuation of the Biden administration's "anemic" response to the conflict and "hamper[] the prospect of diplomacy."

A CNN legal expert was floored on Tuesday after the grand jury's indictment against former FBI Director James Comey was revealed.

Katelyn Polantz, CNN's crime and justice correspondent, obtained a copy of the indictment against Comey and read it during CNN's "The Arena" on Tuesday afternoon. The indictment is three pages long and includes two charges: one for allegedly threatening the president and the other for a threat of interstate communications.