Fireworks erupted at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Tuesday when Sen. Josh Hawley scrutinized the work of Gregory Jackson Jr., former President Biden's deputy director of gun violence prevention, for advocating to defund the police and invest in "safe-spaces" for "two-spirit" individuals.

President Donald Trump said Tuesday that his administration is close to reaching a deal with Harvard University, which it has targeted with a series of investigations and billions of dollars in funding cuts as it presses for changes to its policies and governance.

With weeks to go in New Jersey's high-stakes governor's race, key members of Democrats' diverse coalition, including union and Black leaders, have been raising concerns - even when they're not supposed to.

A government shutdown is here, and the partisan messaging wars over who is to blame are in full swing with no sign of compromise.

The Justice Department opened an investigation Tuesday in the diversity hiring practices of the public school system in Des Moines, Iowa, just days after its superintendent was arrested for being an illegal immigrant.

Plug-in tanks, drag shows and physically unfit leaders promoted to boost diversity have shifted the U.S. military's focus "on the wrong things," Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Tuesday. The previously misdirected focus, critics say, accelerated under Presidents Obama and Biden when they prioritized ideological policies such as diversity, equity and inclusion over military readiness.