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More U.S. troops could soon be suffering from influenza after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced that the flu vaccine was no longer mandatory for the armed forces.

"Under the disastrous Biden administration, this Pentagon waged an unrelenting war on our warriors on many fronts, including when it came to denying them simple medical autonomy and the freedom to express their religious convictions," Hegseth said in a statement on Tuesday. "Even when those decisions posed no threat to our military readiness, you know what I'm talking about, what happened: COVID-19 and the vaccine. No more. That era of betrayal is over."

Donald Trump will be returning the White House Correspondents' Dinner, after years of boycotting the event and attacking journalists for their reporting on him.

According to reporting from Status's Oliver Darcy and analysis from The Atlantic's Paul Farhi, some of the president's most controversial appointees will also be there to cheer him on, courtesy of recently Trump-friendly Paramount and CBS.

President Donald Trump praised himself for "doing a great job" after 13 service members were killed in the Iran war.

During a Tuesday interview on CNBC, Trump noted that many other wars lasted years instead of months.

President Donald Trump made a stunning admission Tuesday when pressed by CNBC’s Joe Kernen about his threats to destroy Iran’s civilian infrastructure, suggesting the decision was not ultimately his to make.

“I think regimes only respond to certain things, and I understand your threats to bomb the bridges and the electric grid, but I don't think the regime cares about the people of Iran,” Kernen said, with Trump phoning in to CNBC’s “Squawk Box.”

The citizens of tiny Social Circle, Georgia, where Donald Trump received 70 percent of the vote all three times he ran for president, are in full revolt against the president’s administration after the Department of Homeland Security bought a facility projected to hold 10,000 immigrants while they await deportation.

According to MS NOW’s Antonia Hylton, that has led to a standoff with the city manager who is insisting the town of approximately 5,000 does not have the water and sewage infrastructure to accommodate the flood of detainees.

Reacting to reports out of the Beltway that Republican lawmakers are crossing their fingers and hoping either Supreme Court Justices Sam Alito or Clarence Thomas will make a surprise retirement announcement just prior to the midterm election, MS NOW Now’s Jonathan Lemire reported that Democrats have their own opinions about what is transpiring.

Last week it was reported that both of the elderly justices will be returning, which dashed the hopes of some far-right lawmakers who want Donald Trump to pack the court with younger right-wing extremists.

President Donald Trump lobbed a bizarre jab at the late Steve Jobs on Tuesday in saying that the technology company Apple wouldn’t have performed “near as well” under his leadership if he hadn’t died in 2011, while also congratulating himself for having consulted Apple’s current CEO, Tim Cook.

“I have always been a big fan of Tim Cook, and likewise, Steve Jobs, but if Steve was not taken from the Planet Earth so young, and ran the company instead of Tim, the company would have done well, but nowhere near as well as it has under Tim,” Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social.

A House bill written by a Florida Republican designed to allow a stream of immigrants to stay in the work is creating a schism within the party with dueling PACs planning to spend millions backing separate lawmaker group on either side of the debate.

At issue is Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar’s (R-FL) Dignity Act, which is backed by business groups seeking a reliable source of workers, and has hard-line anti-immigrant Republicans up in arms.

CNN's Abby Phillip delivered a brutal fact-check to a pair of GOP pundits during Monday's broadcast of "NewsNight."

The panel discussed a recent claim by Energy Secretary Chris Wright that U.S. gas prices could remain above $3 per gallon until 2027 due to the ongoing war in Iran and the conflict over the Strait of Hormuz. The Trump administration sent a delegation to negotiate an end to the war last week, led by Vice President JD Vance, but they returned empty-handed.

Fans of President Donald Trump's MAGA movement melted down on Monday night over a video of Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) making a passionate speech at a Democratic event.

Booker gave a brief speech at the Michigan Democratic Women's Caucus on Monday, where he spoke about the "storm" brewing in the nation. His remarks came at a time when the Trump administration and the Republican Party have expressed anxieties about the upcoming November midterm election and whether Republicans will be able to retain some power in Congress.

President Donald Trump's history of "playing with fire" when it comes to conspiracy theories appears to be "coming back to bite" after MAGA began questioning one of the president's signature narratives, according to one analyst.

During the 2024 campaign, Trump survived an assassination attempt during a campaign stop in Butler, Pennsylvania. The event produced images of Trump surrounded by Secret Service agents on stage with a bloodied ear, raising his fist, which have been recycled throughout Trump's second administration. MAGA has since begun to question that as Trump continues to erode trust with his base of supporters.

President Donald Trump's "counterproductive" policies regarding immigration and global trade have turbocharged resistance against his administration in rural America, according to a new analysis.

Bob Davis, co-author of a book on Trump's trade policies with China, argued in a new guest essay for The New York Times that Trump's push to deport illegal immigrants and upend trade relations with China has caused severe economic harm to rural cities like Hickory, North Carolina. In turn, local advocates say there is growing resistance to the Trump administration among youth, a demographic that Trump did well with in the 2024 election.

A lawyer was stunned on Monday while discussing a new civil rights investigation the Trump DOJ is undertaking.

In a new episode, Shant Karnikian, a lawyer and co-host of the "Civil Action" podcast, discussed the Trump DOJ's civil rights probe into Cassidy Hutchinson, a former Trump administration staffer who testified against the president during the inquiry into the Jan. 6 insurrection. On April 7, the New York Times reported that the DOJ is investigating whether Hutchinson lied to Congress.