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Republican hopes of unseating Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul took a brutal hit Tuesday after their candidate was denied up to $7 million in matching funds over a pair of filing blunders, leaving him vastly outgunned in an already uphill race.

The Public Campaign Finance Board voted 4-3 along party lines to deny Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman the funds after he failed to list a lieutenant governor on his December application and never updated his paperwork when he picked his running mate, The New York Times reported.

President Donald Trump lashed out at the National Trust after it successfully sued for a preliminary injunction that halted construction of his $400 million White House ballroom.

"The National Trust for Historic Preservation sues me for a Ballroom that is under budget, ahead of schedule, being built at no cost to the Taxpayer, and will be the finest Building of its kind anywhere in the World," the president complained in a Truth Social post on Tuesday. "I then get sued by them over the renovation of the dilapidated and structurally unsound former Kennedy Center, now, The Trump Kennedy Center... where all I am doing is fixing, cleaning, running, and 'sprucing up' a terribly maintained, for many years, Building, but a Building of potentially great importance."

Former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) made an eyebrow-raising claim on air with a far-right talk show host: the U.S. government is not only covering up the existence of extraterrestrials, but breeding them.

Gaetz told Benny Johnson that he received this information from an official briefing.

U.S. District Court Judge Richard J. Leon blocked President Donald Trump from further construction of his White House ballroom project.

In a three-page order on Tuesday, Leon granted a preliminary injunction requested by the National Trust for Historic Preservation of the United States.

U.S. District Court Judge Randolph Moss has permanently struck down President Donald Trump's executive order that attempted to defund NPR and PBS.

In a 62-page ruling on Tuesday, Moss said the First Amendment did not allow the president to defund the two private entities because, in Trump's view, "neither entity presents a fair, accurate, or unbiased portrayal of current events."

President Donald Trump's latest posture to get out of the war he started in Iran without fixing global oil markets has allied nations infuriated, Washington Post foreign affairs correspondent David Ignatius told MS NOW's Katy Tur on Tuesday.

This comes as Trump considers dropping the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz as a condition for ceasing hostilities, which would essentially keep 20 percent of the world's global oil trade suspended.

Gov. Ron DeSantis is calling on the Florida House to impeach a Tallahassee judge who briefly released a sex offender onto the streets, resulting in the killing of the man’s 5-year-old stepdaughter.

“To my friends in the Florida House of Representatives, I don’t think what you’ve done is enough,” DeSantis said during a Tampa press conference on Tuesday. “You have the power, and you have sufficient numbers in your chamber, to impeach this judge, Tiffany Baker-Carper.

Anti-abortion Republicans expressed outrage after the White House said it was restoring Biden-era Planned Parenthood grants.

White House officials told conservative outlet The Daily Wire that the funding was being restored due to legal challenges. According to the report, funds were expected to be provided to Planned Parenthood through next year.

The Trump administration's online portal for processing refunds on tariffs struck down by the Supreme Court will only handle approximately 63 percent of 53 million import entries when it debuts, according to a court filing submitted Tuesday.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials told the U.S. Court of International Trade that the system cannot process refund claims for the remaining one-third of entries immediately, without providing a timeline for subsequent phases, reported Bloomberg. The agency previously committed to having the first phase operational by mid-April.

Prominent conservative lawyer George Conway made a bold prediction on Tuesday that in the “coming weeks and months,” an "accelerating tide” of MAGA supporters would turn on President Donald Trump as his favorability among Americans continues to sink to historic lows.

Conway’s prediction was prompted by an admission from Scott McConnell, the co-founder of The American Conservative, who on Monday expressed shame and embarrassment for having voted for Trump three times.