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The California Governor Primary Debate on CNN got heated on Tuesday after a fed-up Democrat gave a Republican an earful over his plan to lower energy prices.

Steve Hilton, a former Fox News host, has claimed that he will lower the price of gas to $3 per gallon within a year if he is elected governor. His plan includes releasing the state's strategic oil reserves to boost supply. However, Matt Mahan, the mayor of San Jose, said Hilton's plan is "unrealistic" and pointed out several flaws in the idea during the debate.

Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) spoke to Fox News during a campaign stop at a food bank on Tuesday and her condition left people on the internet stunned and starting to question her physical fitness for office.

Asked by reporter Paul Steinhauser whether her Democratic opponent, harbormaster and oyster farmer Graham Platner, would be too far left for the state, she said, "I believe that will be the conclusion of Maine voters but obviously I don’t take anything for granted."

Rahm Emanuel, the former ambassador to Japan, melted down on Tuesday during a panel debate about the direction the Republican and Democratic parties are headed before the midterms.

Emanuel was joined by Glenn Youngkin, the former governor of Virginia, at the Miliken Institute for the panel. While the two former officials fielded questions about the upcoming election, Youngkin's defense of the Trump administration seemed to push Emanuel over the edge.

One of President Donald Trump's in-laws was roasted on Tuesday night after she gave a "weird" interview on Fox News.

Lara Trump, who is married to Donald Trump's son Eric, joined Laura Ingraham on "The Ingraham Angle," where the two discussed last night's Met Gala, which was hosted by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and his second wife, Lauren Sanchez. Ingraham asked Lara Trump why she wasn't at the event, which is often attended by some of the biggest names in politics, sports, and entertainment. Her quizzical answer sparked a flurry of mockery online.

The Wall Street Journal editorial board once again tore into the Trump administration's Health and Human Services officials for continuing to obfuscate why promising treatments were quashed by the Food and Drug Administration, while shuffling around people involved with that decision through important public health roles.

"Good news: Vinay Prasad on Thursday served his final day at the Food and Drug Administration," wrote the board. "Now the bad news: Commissioner Marty Makary has tapped Dr. Prasad’s deputy, Katherine Szarama, to replace him. Maybe the bigger problem at the FDA is Dr. Makary."

President Donald Trump's niece on Tuesday flagged a potentially catastrophic consequence of his war with Iran.

Mary Trump, a psychologist and author, argued in a new Substack essay that the disruptions to the global fertilizer market caused by the closure of the Strait of Hormuz will have a much more devastating impact on the world than the spike in energy prices. The Strait has been closed since late February after the U.S. and Israel conducted a coordinated bombing campaign across Iran.

Several Indiana Republicans who defied Trump's redistricting push may lose their primaries Tuesday night as the president's revenge campaign claims its first scalps — but at least one was projected to hold on.

State Sen. Greg Goode, a conservative Republican and one of the more outspoken lawmakers against the plan to delete two Democratic seats, has been re-nominated for District 38, defeating his Trump-backed challenger, Vigo County Commissioner Brenda Wilson, according to The New York Times and NBC News.

Pope Leo XIV poses a huge problem to far-right Christian elements who have fallen in with the MAGA movement, University of Pennsylvania religious studies professor Anthea Butler told MS NOW's Nicolle Wallace on Tuesday — not just because he opposes much of Trump's war and immigration agenda, but because he sets an example for Christianity that they can't follow.

"I think, Anthea, what it reveals about how easily other religious leaders have been co-opted and become drunk with power and proximity to power also comes into sharper focus, right?" said Wallace. "The pope is doing what the pope would always do, and I'm sure the pope doesn't find any of his statements out of the ordinary. I'm sure part of him is surprised they're even newsworthy. But it does reveal how American conservative religious figures have capitulated and kowtowed to Trump over the last decade."

Political analysts and observers mocked President Donald Trump on Tuesday after he abruptly ended his new war initiative.

Trump announced on Truth Social that he was pausing "Project Freedom," an initiative launched on Sunday to guide the ships from "innocent and neutral" countries out of the Strait of Hormuz. Trump said he implemented the plan after several countries reached out to him, and asked him to help prevent the Iranian regime from attacking their ships.