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Officials working for President Donald Trump in the Department of the Treasury have stepped forward to help Turning Point USA CEO Erika Kirk refute fraud claims made by MAGA influencer Candace Owens.

Sources told CBS News that the Treasury Department took the unusual step of sending a letter to Kirk after Owens made claims about Turning Point USA donations. According to the report, a few donors had requested that their contributions be returned.

A complaint by Donald Trump advisor Stephen Miller’s wife that their family had been victimized by protesters making what were described as “terroristic” threats fell apart on Tuesday with the release of a police incident report that pointed out that she had made much ado about nothing.

According to a report from Zeteo, Katie Miller, a former Trump administration functionary who has traded on her husband’s name to launch a career as a podcaster, had called police because she feared protesters outside their home, now listed for sale at $3.75 million.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth faced backlash after a new military artificial intelligence website appeared to fail immediately.

"The future of American warfare is here, and it's spelled AI," Hegseth said in an announcement posted to X on Tuesday. "And that's why today we are unleashing genAI.mil. This platform puts the world's most powerful frontier AI models, starting with Google Gemini, directly into the hands of every American warrior."

President Donald Trump is traveling to a swing district in eastern Pennsylvania as he makes an effort to reassure voters that he cares about an issue he has dismissed as a "Democratic hoax."

Polls show a majority of Americans feel that Trump hasn't carried through on his campaign promise to lower prices, and increasing numbers of Americans are concerned about the economy and affordability, so the president is hitting the road in hopes of staving off an electoral wipeout for Republicans in next year's midterm elections, reported CNN.

A Utah man who was pardoned for firing a gun inside the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6 riot has been jailed in a kidnapping and sexual assault case.

On Tuesday, a Utah court ordered John Banuelos held in jail until a January hearing. Banuelos was charged with kidnapping and sexual assault in November after DNA collected during the Jan. 6 prosecutions was matched with a cold case in Utah.

A federal judge slammed the Trump administration Tuesday for “misleading” both victims of Jeffrey Epstein and the American public in what some critics have called a ploy of distraction.

New York District Judge Paul Engelmayer approved Tuesday the Justice Department’s request to unseal the court records of Ghislaine Maxwell, who is serving a 20-year prison sentence for sex trafficking victims for Epstein. In his ruling, however, Engelmayer torched the DOJ’s request as an act of deception.

President Donald Trump insisted that the U.S. Supreme Court should revoke birthright citizenship because he said it was "meant for the babies of slaves."

During an interview with Politico this week, correspondent Dasha Burns asked Trump about the upcoming Supreme Court case.

U.S. job openings barely changed in October over the previous month as employers grappled with economic uncertainty.

The Labor Department released its report a month late due to the 43-day government shutdown that showed that employers posted 7.67 million openings in October, slightly up from 7.66 million in September, reported Reuters.

As Americans increasingly lay blame for rising costs squarely at President Donald Trump’s feet, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt took to Fox News Tuesday to bash Republicans for not praising the president enough for his accomplishments.

“As President Trump has been screaming from the rooftops, Republicans need to remain tough, and smart, and they need to be more vocal about telling the accomplishment of this administration,” Leavitt told Fox News’ “Fox & Friends” Tuesday, The Daily Beast reported.

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor suggested that billionaire Elon Musk had a "quid pro quo" relationship with President Donald Trump after donating millions to get him re-elected.

During a Tuesday hearing on campaign finance laws, Sotomayor made the suggestion to an attorney for the National Republican Senatorial Committee, who was arguing to further cut back campaign finance limitations.