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Voters in several deep-red military towns said they are done with President Donald Trump after his latest "disturbing" threat, according to a new report.

Reporters with The New York Times spoke with more than three dozen people in military towns ranging from Colorado Springs, Colorado, to Fayetteville, North Carolina, about Trump's handling of the war in Iran. Many of the voters expressed concern about the war and its broader economic impacts.

A Harvard-trained legal scholar sounded the alarm Tuesday that President Donald Trump has fulfilled a chilling Supreme Court prophecy from 1952 in which a justice warned that emergency powers, left unchecked, would "kindle emergencies."

Writing in Lawfare, Ben Diamond, a fellow at the Center for Applied Environmental Law and Policy, argued that Trump's second term has shattered historical norms around the use of emergency authority.

A watchdog group accused the Georgia State Elections Board on Tuesday of secretly working to help President Donald Trump seize voting rolls from Fulton County.

American Oversight, a government accountability nonprofit, accused the election board of "improperly" filing an amicus brief in support of Trump's efforts to seize Fulton County's voter rolls. Earlier this year, Trump sent his FBI agents to retrieve hundreds of boxes of voting data from Fulton County under the guise of investigating federal election offenses. The data the Trump administration took included copies of ballots, ballot images, and tabular data, according to reports.

A prominent conservative Catholic columnist at The New York Times is sounding the alarm for President Donald Trump's religious base, warning that his escalating blasphemy is a harbinger of things to come that true believers should not ignore.

Ross Douthat, a conservative Catholic opinion writer who is not known for being a Trump critic, wrote Tuesday that the president's weekend social media rampage — which included a profanity-filled Easter post, an attack on Pope Leo XIV, and an AI-generated image depicting himself as Jesus Christ — represents something far more serious than typical Trumpian excess.

Political analysts and observers were outraged on Tuesday after President Donald Trump's Department of Justice moved to vacate the convictions of multiple people who participated in the Jan. 6 insurrection.

The Associated Press reported that the DOJ had moved to vacate the convictions of multiple Proud Boys and Oath Keepers who participated in the insurrection. The move adds to the growing list of more than 1,500 people who participated in the insurrection that the Trump administration has either let out of prison or stopped prosecuting.

Vice President JD Vance was brutally mocked after he spoke to a small crowd at the University of Georgia during a Turning Point USA rally on Tuesday.

Vance was scheduled to appear alongside Erika Kirk, the widow of late conservative activist Charlie Kirk, who pulled out just hours before the doors opened due to unspecified "threats." The event was held at a time when the Trump administration and the Republican Party are growing anxious about the 2026 midterms as Democrats continue to notch election wins across the country.

Vice President JD Vance melted down on Tuesday after Erika Kirk, the widow of late conservative activist Charlie Kirk, skipped moderating the Turning Point USA rally in Athens, Georgia, citing "threats" she received ahead of the event.

Kirk and Vance were scheduled to appear together at the University of Georgia.

President Donald Trump and the Federal Reserve appear to be on a new collision course, according to a new analysis.

Andrew Ackerman, who reports on the Federal Reserve for the Washington Post, wrote in a new article on Tuesday that Trump and the central bank could soon be at odds over who runs the bank after May 15, which is the day Chairman Jerome Powell's tenure ends. Powell has said he will stay at the central bank until a permanent replacement is found. Trump has nominated Kevin Warsh to replace Powell, but his nomination has stalled in the Senate.

Mega-podcaster Joe Rogan tore into President Donald Trump's excuse for why he posted an AI-generated image of himself dressed as Jesus Christ and healing the sick.

Trump, when called out on it by even many of his own fervent supporters, deleted the image and claimed he mistakenly thought the image was depicting him as a Red Cross doctor, despite Western depictions of Jesus not much resembling modern health care workers.

An expert on authoritarianism delivered a brutal warning shot to President Donald Trump's MAGA movement during a new podcast interview on Tuesday.

Princeton University professor Kim Scheppele, an expert on Hungarian autocrat Viktor Orbán's regime, discussed what Orbán's election loss on Sunday means for Trump and the MAGA movement during a new episode of "All Rise News" with host Adam Klasfeld. Scheppele argued that Orbán had clearly prepared for the loss in ways that Trump and his MAGA allies have not prepared for their eventual ouster.

Republicans in New York were dismayed on Tuesday after a Trump administration official called it quits in a race to unseat a Democratic-held seat in Long Island, according to a new report.

The New York Times reported that Anthony D’Esposito, President Donald Trump's inspector general in the Department of Labor, decided not to run against Rep. Lauren Gillen (D-NY), who was elected in November 2024. The report added that D’Esposito's decision ended a months-long "Hamlet on Hempstead routine," which seemed to turn off some supporters.