The Justice Department on Tuesday failed to secure a grand jury indictment against a former White House staffer who provided dramatic but disputed testimony against President Donald Trump before a House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol insurrection, according to two people familiar with the matter.

The federal Justice Department sued Anne Arundel County in Maryland on Tuesday, seeking to put a stop to what it said was a policy allowing students to pursue a gender transition at school, while hiding it from their parents.

President Trump on Tuesday traveled to Texas, which hasn't elected a Democrat to any statewide office in 32 years, to boost Republican Ken Paxton in a tightly contested U.S. Senate campaign against Democrat James Talarico.

Sen. Ted Cruz is spending the closing days of the midterm campaigns in some familiar political territory: battleground states and early presidential primary states.

President Donald Trump is expected to announce plans Tuesday to loosen a Biden-era rule that aimed to reduce planet-warming emissions of methane from oil and gas drilling.