Susie Twydell was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2012, and now using a wheelchair, she thought she'd never be able to live out her dream of traveling to Africa to see gorillas in their natural habitat.

Twydell, 40, lives in London, and when she was told a team of porters could carry her in a stretcher up to see gorillas in a Rwandan wildlife park, she immediately started raising money for the trip of a lifetime. Twydell traveled to Rwanda with her husband, David, and as promised, was lifted into a stretcher and carried for 45 minutes up the mountain. She was transferred to a wheelchair and saw a silverback and its babies from just a few yards away.

"It took me by surprise, but it was the No. 1 experience of my life," she told Inside Edition. There are fewer than 1,000 wild mountain gorillas worldwide, and "it was such an amazing privilege" to be able to see a family. At one point, a baby gorilla came up to Twydell and started playing with her shoelaces. "They were clambering all over their silverback father, swinging from overhanging vines, and brilliantly for me, were mesmerized by the sight of a wheelchair in their midst," she said. Catherine Garcia

He may be the highest law enforcement officer in the United States, but on Tuesday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions was unable to stand up to a room full of teenagers.

While speaking to students at the conservative Turning Point USA's High School Leadership Summit in Washington, Sessions made it clear he's never watched Inside Out, railing against college students who express their feelings. "I can tell this group isn't going to have to have Play-Doh when you get attacked in college and you get involved in a debate," he said. "I like this bunch, I gotta tell you. You're not going to be backing down. Go get 'em. Go get 'em."

That's when the teens starting chanting a common refrain from President Trump's rallies about Hillary Clinton: "Lock her up!" Instead of channeling his inner Nikki Haley, who told the same audience on Monday night that true leadership involves not shouting people down but rather "showing them how it in their best interest to see things the way you do," Sessions laughed and repeated, "Lock her up." Smiling, he added, "I heard that a long time over the last campaign." Catherine Garcia

Pop star Demi Lovato was rushed to a Los Angeles hospital late Tuesday morning after she was found unconscious at her home in the Hollywood Hills, TMZ reports.

Lovato, 25, appeared to have overdosed on heroin, a law enforcement official told TMZ, and was treated with Narcan, a medication used to reverse opioid overdose. A Los Angeles Police Department spokesperson confirmed to the Los Angeles Times that officers responded to a home in the Hollywood Hills at 11:40 a.m., but would not share any additional information.

Lovato has been vocal about her struggles with drugs and alcohol, and had been sober for six years. Last month, she released a song revealing that she had relapsed. Catherine Garcia

President Trump on Tuesday went to Kansas City, Missouri, to give an address to the Veterans of Foreign Wars convention, and unwittingly offered up a bit of literary analysis in the process.

Trump sought to defend his escalating trade war, reassuring the audience that the U.S. is "doing better than ever before, economically," despite news that the Department of Agriculture will provide $12 billion in emergency funding to farmers who have been hurt by recent tariffs on various crops. The president doubled down on his claim that his tariffs "are the greatest," while simultaneously seizing the chance to blame the "fake news media."

"Just remember," said Trump, "what you're seeing and what you're reading is not what's happening." He promised attendees that "it's all working out" as planned. Critics were quick to notice the parallels between Trump's words and George Orwell's 1984, the dystopian novel that warns of an all-controlling government that manipulates the public.

"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears," the novel reads. "It was their final, most essential command." Trump, who reportedly doesn't read much, may not have realized just how Orwellian he sounded — but perhaps it's fitting that the president would accidentally allude to the novel after sending it back to the bestsellers list. Summer Meza

Republican Sen. Bob Corker (Tenn.) is no fan of President Trump's trade war. He has blasted the president's protective tariffs as a "wake up, ready, fire, aim strategy," and he has attempted to curb Trump's ability to levy the taxes via legislation.

On Tuesday, the Agriculture Department unveiled a $12 billion aid package to farmers negatively affected by Trump's trade war. Earlier this month, Corker lamented that "farmers are losing money as they harvest right now" as a result of Trump's tariffs — but he was unimpressed with the administration's proposed salve. "You have a terrible policy that sends farmers to the poorhouse," Corker said Tuesday, per Bloomberg News' Sahil Kapur. "Then you put them on welfare, and we borrow the money from other countries."

The whole affair is so appalling, Corker said, that "it's hard to believe there isn't an outright revolt right now in Congress." Corker, a sitting senator since 2007, votes with Trump 83.6 percent of the time, per FiveThirtyEight — and he should not be expected to lead a congressional revolt now or in the future, given he has decided not to run for re-election and will leave office in January. Kimberly Alters

Even President Trump's base has not been impressed with his performance lately.

Just 38 percent of voters approve of how Trump handles his job, a Quinnipiac University poll published Tuesday found. Among white voters without a college degree, who largely voted for Trump in 2016, 49 percent said they approved and 47 disapproved. While that approval rate is high compared to most other demographic groups, it's a significant drop from just last month, when the same group of voters approved of Trump's performance 57-36 percent.

The poll gives some hint of what may have caused the sudden drop: Most voters said Trump's summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin was a failure for the U.S., and a wide majority said it was a success for Russia. More than half — 54 percent of voters overall — say Trump was not acting in the "best interest" of the U.S., and 48 percent of white voters without college degrees agreed. The summit with Putin, combined with Trump's aggression toward NATO allies and the ongoing investigation into whether his campaign colluded with Russian interference in the 2016 election, have given Trump his lowest approval ratings since February.

Republicans overall still say they approve of the president, as do white evangelical Christian voters. But white men, who last month approved by a margin of 12 percentage points, are currently divided, with 49 percent approving and 47 percent disapproving.

The Quinnipiac poll was conducted July 18-23, surveying 1,177 voters reached by phone. There is a margin of error of 3.5 percentage points. See more results at Quinnipiac. Summer Meza

The Ivanka Trump brand is coming apart at the seams.

President Trump's daughter and senior adviser is shutting down her namesake fashion brand to focus on her Washington job, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday. The decision isn't unexpected, as Trump has had to restrict her role in the company to avoid conflict with her government role.

Ivanka Trump sales were soaring in the run-up to the presidential election, the Journal says. But after accepting a presidential job, Trump handed over company management to a new president and retained ownership. The brand soon became a symbol for her father's presidency, becoming the subject of boycotts whenever the president attracted massive criticism. That was especially true as the president slammed tariffs on Chinese goods but didn't touch Chinese-made Ivanka Trump products.

Trump fielded attacks herself as she urged businesses to "hire American" in a Journal op-ed, but didn't mention that her products are made overseas. The company doesn't reveal its finances, but online sales at major retailers plummeted by nearly 45 percent in 2017, the Journal says. Nordstrom slashed the brand in February 2017, and Canada's largest department store discontinued it in June after suggesting it wasn't performing well.

On Tuesday, the brand's president told its 18 employees about the impending shutdown. Trump released a statement saying she was unsure if or when she'd return to the business after her time in Washington, prompting her to shutter the brand to focus on D.C. "for the foreseeable future." Kathryn Krawczyk

Four members of a Department of Homeland Security advisory council resigned last week, calling the Trump administration's immigration policies "morally repugnant." But one of the now-former employees also sent DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen a personalized resignation letter, going even further in her caustic criticism.

"DHS has been transformed into an agency that is making war on immigrants and refugees," wrote Elizabeth Holtzman, a former Democratic congresswoman who was a co-author of the 1980 Refugee Act. She condemned the travel ban on Muslim-majority countries, the lack of support for DREAMers, and the "zero tolerance" policy that prosecutes any and all migrant crossing the border without authorization as "malign and ultimately self-destructive policies."

"The final straw has been the separation of children from their parents at the Southwest border," she continued. "This is child kidnapping, plain and simple." Holtzman also told Slate on Tuesday that the administration took a "much more punitive, cruel, vicious, heartless, ruthless, and harmful" approach to immigration policies. She said she'd like to "see this president out of office," and had a similar message for her former boss.

"Although it is I who am resigning in protest against these policies," she wrote to Nielsen, "it is you who should be resigning." Summer Meza