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Insiders at the Department of Justice described President Donald Trump's hand-picked prosecutor in a high-profile case as a "lamb sent to slaughter," according to a new report.

The Department of Justice and the FBI have denied Lindsey Halligan's requests for additional resources to prosecute former FBI Director James Comey, CNN reported Tuesday, citing sources familiar with the matter. Last week, a grand jury returned an indictment against Comey for two counts of lying to Congress and obstruction of justice. Comey has denied all charges against him.

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins on Tuesday offered a strong public defense of the Trump administration’s support for farmers, downplaying concerns about its foreign‑policy decisions — just a day after a scathing private text message surfaced in which she criticized U.S. aid to Argentina for undermining American farmers.

The Daily Beast reported Tuesday that in an interview with Fox News, Rollins praised the administration by saying “President Trump has been the most pro-farmer president perhaps in our lifetimes, perhaps in history.”

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth was scolded Tuesday by a Fox News host who said the Pentagon chief's televised speech reminded him of "something that might happen in China or North Korea."

Harold Ford, Jr., a former Democratic congressman from Tennessee and co-host of the Fox News show "The Five," talked about Hegseth's speech to the American military's top brass on Tuesday morning. During the meeting, Hegseth told military leaders that there would no longer be any "woke" policies and that the military would return to male-oriented standards.

New video of a top Justice Department official ordering the arrest of a Democratic mayor during a protest at an immigration detention facility could create serious problems for top brass, a former New York prosecutor said Tuesday.

In the video, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche orders Newark, New Jersey, Mayor Ras Baraka arrested — a directive previously only alleged in court documents.

The federal government is almost certainly headed for a shutdown at midnight Wednesday as congressional leaders fail to reach an agreement on a bill to keep government agencies funded.

The New York Times reported Tuesday that the current Republican-written funding bill would keep the government funded through Nov. 21, and is awaiting action in the Senate, where it needs 60 votes to reach President Donald Trump's desk. Because Republicans only have 53 seats, the bill would need seven Democrats to break ranks to pass. And because Republicans have not allowed Democrats to have input on the current legislation, the bill's passage is unlikely.

MAGA-aligned influencers are rage-quitting Netflix after the company released advertisements for an upcoming kids' show that features a transgender character.

The moves to leave the popular streaming platform come after Netflix announced a new show called "Dead End Paranormal Park," an animated series about a group of friends who fight off demons at a haunted theme park. One of the characters in the show identifies as transgender, which was called out by the popular LibsofTikTok account on X.

A federal judge in Massachusetts stunned observers on Tuesday with a scathing 161-page rebuke of President Donald Trump's administration for terrorizing noncitizen students for exercising their free speech rights to protest the Israeli occupation of Gaza. At various points, he criticized the administration's assault on basic constitutional rights and even addressed someone who sent his court a threatening message to deter a ruling against Trump.

But Judge Bill Young, an appointee of former President Ronald Reagan, did something more than that, noted CBS justice correspondent Scott MacFarlane: he went out of his way to compare Trump's Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to the infamous white supremacist group the Ku Klux Klan, noting both groups use masks to hide their identities and spread fear more effectively.

Rep. Madeleine Dean (D-PA) berated House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) at the Capitol on Tuesday over a social media post President Donald Trump made that she called "racist."

On Monday, Trump posted an AI-generated video of Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) after the two top Democrats departed the White House from a budget negotiation meeting with the president. The video features Jeffries in a sombrero and was dubbed with mariachi music.

Nick Fuentes, a far-right political commentator and livestreamer known for his white nationalist and extremist views, took issue this week with how Turning Point USA and the widow of Charlie Kirk have handled Kirk's killing.

Kirk was shot dead Sept. 10 while speaking at a Turning Point USA event on the campus of Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah. He was shot in the neck during a live debate about mass shootings by a shooter perched on a nearby roof.

President Donald Trump's controversial director of the Office of Management and Budget, Russ Vought, is being sued by a group including federal labor unions and the State Democracy Defenders Fund of former White House ethics chief Norm Eisen, to prevent him from taking advantage of any impending government shutdown to carry out mass firings of federal workers.

This lawsuit, filed in a federal court in San Francisco, comes amid reporting that the Trump administration plans to do precisely that, with Vought planning another round to lay off workers who were spared the initial bloodbath by tech billionaire Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) task force.

President Donald Trump's peace plan for the war between Israel and Hamas is being met with "extreme skepticism" abroad, a foreign analyst revealed on Tuesday.

Jane Kinninmont, CEO at the United Nations Association, discussed Trump's peace plan during an interview on Times Radio. The plan involves creating an international peacekeeping commission headed by Trump and a complete overhaul of the Palestinian Authority, the governing body of Palestine.