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A Trump-appointed judge in North Texas is refusing to grant a preliminary injunction to a Texas Tech law student who is being punished for celebrating the assassination of right-wing youth activist Charlie Kirk.

The student, Ellie Mae Fisher, was investigated by Texas Tech, a public university in Lubbock, over celebratory comments she made after Kirk was gunned down at a political event in Utah last September. Fisher, who was working for a legal aid clinic associated with the school, filed a First Amendment lawsuit, in anticipation that the school would reprimand her and refer her to the state bar.

President Donald Trump attacked reporters as "dumb" and "stupid" during a rant about the ballroom he wants to build at the White House.

During a press gaggle outside the White House on Tuesday, Trump insisted that his ballroom project was under budget, even as Republicans in Congress sought to allocate $1 billion to help fund its construction after the president said it would be paid for with $400 million in donations.

Gov. Bill Lee has signed into law a measure to punish judges in Tennessee who do not cooperate with federal immigration authorities.

The legislation, brought by Rep. Rick Scarbrough of Oak Ridge and Sen. Paul Rose of Covington — both Republicans — instructs each court to cooperate with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and federal immigration authorities, including Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Marty Makary stepped down from his position on Tuesday following a long dispute with President Donald Trump over flavored vape nicotine products, making Makary’s exit the “fourth high-profile departure of a member of the Trump administration this year,” NBC News reported.

The dispute centered around Trump’s growing frustration with Makary over his apparent inability to move “quickly enough” in approving flavored vape products for retail sale. The Trump administration pushed to expand the availability of flavored vape products earlier this year, but was rebuked by Makary after his office issued a memo that “prevented the authorization of several flavors,” The Wall Street Journal previously reported.

The United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit has declined to rehear President Donald Trump's lawsuit against former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, former FBI Director James Comey, and dozens of other defendants.

Trump filed the lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida, alleging that the defendants conspired to falsely claim his campaign had colluded with Russia during the 2016 election.

During a Senate Appropriations Committee on Tuesday, Sen Patty Murray (D-WA) got under Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s skin just moments after she took a potshot at Donald Trump.

Murray’s line of questioning centered around the Pentagon seeking a $1.5 trillion in taxpayer money at a time when American families’ lives are being made worse by the unprovoked war on Iran that has sent gas prices skyrocketing and on a day when it was reported that US inflation jumped 3.8 percent.

Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) pointed out to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth that the U.S. had "not won this war" with Iran despite the rhetoric coming from President Donald Trump's administration.

During a Tuesday Senate Appropriations Committee hearing on the war, Shaheen pointed to reports that Iran was receiving intelligence from Russia.

President Donald Trump’s sons are partnering on a new overseas development with a pair of companies linked to a sanctioned foreign oligarch and possibly the Russian mob.

The Trump Organization is expanding its $2.7 billion real estate empire with the 70-story Trump Tower Tbilisi, which would become the tallest building in the former Soviet republic of Georgia, and The Daily Beast reported on the investors in the luxury apartment complex project.

A House Oversight Committee hearing turned emotional Tuesday after a survivor of Jeffrey Epstein issued a blistering rebuke of the Justice Department (DOJ), which months earlier had publicly named her in its release of Epstein-related files “over 500 times,” permanently exposing her identity to the world.

The survivor identified herself only as “Roza” to avoid further public disclosure of her name, and despite the DOJ having already failed to properly redact victim-identifying information – including hers, she claimed – in records released under the Epstein Files Transparency Act.

President Donald Trump's administration is doubling down on its threat to target "secular" and "pro-transgender" groups.

In the 2026 U.S. Counterterrorism Strategy released on Tuesday, Trump insisted that he was "once again putting America First."

The Trump family scamming the president's admirers out of a hundred bucks each stands out to even a jaded chronicler of their corruption.

More than a half million people paid a $100 “deposit” to preorder a gold smartphone announced in June 2025 by Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, but those Trump Mobile devices appear unlikely to hit the market – and The Bulwark's Andrew Egger cautioned customers against holding their breath for a refund.