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The Trump administration jumped in on a viral TikTok trend on Tuesday, posting a video of Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent dancing with rapper Nicki Minaj to promote new investment accounts for children, known as Trump accounts. The trend features two people standing back-to-back and lip-syncing to a mashup of Minaj’s 2012 hit “Beez in the…

Federal Reserve Governor Stephen Miran has resigned as chair of the Council of Economic Advisors, the White House confirmed on Tuesday. Miran had been on unpaid leave from the White House since last fall, when President Trump nominated him to fill the remaining four months of a vacant Fed board term that expired on Jan….

Colombian President Gustavo Petro said Tuesday he gave President Trump a list of major drug “kingpins” that both countries should work on arresting around the world.  “Their capital is outside Colombia, and they must be pursued jointly through coordinated intelligence work across many sectors of the world,” Petro told reporters during a press conference at…

President Trump on Tuesday said that it’s “really time” for the country to move on from Jeffrey Epstein following the release of nearly 3 million more documents by the Justice Department late last week. “I think it’s really time for the country to get on to something else,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office….

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D) announced Tuesday that his state is joining the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network, becoming the second state to do so since the U.S.’s withdrawal from the organization became official last month. Officials said Illinois’ participation means the state will now be “directly connected to timely…

President Trump said Tuesday that the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie, the mother of “Today” show host Savannah Guthrie, is a “very unusual situation.” “I think it’s a terrible thing. I always got along very good with Savannah. Very unusual situation but we’re going to find out,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office after signing…

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Tuesday urged President Trump to put more pressure on Russian President Vladimir Putin, suggesting that the current U.S. strategy to deter attacks on Ukraine is “not working.” “Clearly the pressure we’re applying to Putin to come to the peace table and stop massive attacks against Ukraine is not working,” Graham…

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) pushed back Tuesday morning on comments from U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro threatening jail time for people who carry firearms in the nation’s capital.  “Second Amendment rights are not extinguished just because an American visits DC,” DeSantis wrote on social platform X. “American gun owners who…

Nearly two-thirds of Americans think Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has gone “too far” in its effort to deal with unauthorized immigration, a slight increase from just a week ago, according to a poll released Tuesday. The Ipsos poll, conducted last Friday and Saturday, found that 62 percent of U.S. adults said ICE’s actions were…

A January survey from Harvard University and The Harris Poll found that a slight majority of respondents believe that former President Biden was more effective than President Trump. The poll, released Monday, found that 51 percent of respondents said Trump is doing a worse job than Biden, while 49 percent said the president is doing…

Anthony Kazmierczak, 55, was arrested and charged with assaulting Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) with vinegar during a town hall in her district last week, and a federal judge has ordered him to remain behind bars.

Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) and Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.) will hold a public forum Tuesday on the Trump administration’s “violent tactics and disproportionate use of force” in its immigration enforcement operations. The forum comes as Democrats have pushed for reforms within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) following two fatal shootings in Minneapolis at the…

An Epstein survivor said seeing her name unredacted in the documents broke her “trust in the Justice Department.”

It’s not just Bad Bunny performing on Sunday. Here’s what to know about the rest of the Super Bowl musical entertainment.

The Senate Judiciary Committee will hear testimony Tuesday afternoon from Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos on the streaming platform’s bid to take over Warner Bros. Discovery, the parent company of CNN, HBO and other top media brands. Netflix announced in December it had reached a $72 billion deal to acquire the company, which will grow to…

Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) fired back at President Trump on Monday after he accused the GOP lawmaker’s wife of being a part of the “radical left” in a Truth Social post. “So now he’s attacking my wife who voted for him three times,” Massie wrote in a post on the social platform X.  “Maybe someone…

Columnist and author Michael Wolff on Sunday clapped back at President Trump’s threat of filing a lawsuit against him claiming Wolff and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein conspired to hurt him politically, prompting the writer to tell the president to “bring it on.” Wolff, in a video posted on Instagram, referred to when first lady…

Let’s just say that President John F. Kennedy’s niece thinks the center’s closure is more about Trump than the building needing a renovation.

The administration has repeatedly used claims of national security as a get-out-of-court-free card. This might be the most absurd of them all.

After President Trump slammed Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) and his wife on Monday, former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) criticized her former Republican colleagues for not standing by the Kentuckian. In a lengthy post on the social platform X, Greene wrote that Trump “should be more concerned with voters” instead of “super rich donors and…

The House is set to take up a floor vote on the five-bill minibus and stopgap funding for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Tuesday afternoon, after lawmakers cleared a key procedural vote despite reservations from some within the GOP caucus. Conservative members were not happy with the Senate breaking up the funding package and…

The State Department was sued Tuesday by would-be immigrants who argue the Trump administration ran afoul of the law when barring immigrant visas for 75 different countries.  The Monday suit targets a January decision by the Trump administration to pause processing for immigrant visas, arguing people from those countries may end up relying on welfare. …

The Pentagon says it is close to an agreement with Scouting America to keep providing financial support, but said the organization must show its commitment to implementing “common-sense, core value reforms.”  The Defense Department (DOD) said that it has been reviewing its partnership with Scouting America over the past several months, arguing that the organization…

Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Monday touted a new $100 million effort to fight opioid addiction highlighting the country’s “fragmented” system for addressing substance abuse.  Kennedy said HHS will implement the Safety Through Recovery, Engagement, and Evidence-based Treatment and Supports (STREETS) Initiative in the upcoming weeks to…

Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) will speak with reporters Tuesday afternoon as Democrats raise concerns about Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard’s presence during the recent FBI raid on an election office in Fulton County, Ga. FBI agents were seen removing documents from the office that were tied to the 2020 presidential election. President Trump has…