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As the ongoing government shutdown enters its third week, Republican leaders are reminding Democrats that by blocking the House-passed funding bill, they are also delaying progress on the very health care policies that they claim are at stake.

The United States is barreling toward what could become the longest government shutdown in American history, now entering its third week with no end in sight and both sides dug in over a partisan spending standoff.

The United States and Qatar have signed a landmark defense agreement that will see Qatari F-15 fighter jets and pilots stationed at Mountain Home Air Force Base in Idaho — a move underscoring both nations’ expanding military and diplomatic ties following the Gaza ceasefire deal.

Roughly $4.5 billion in contracts have been awarded to expand border wall construction, including adding advanced technological surveillance along the southwest border.

A U.S. military team of 200 personnel will be deployed across the Middle East to help oversee the newly brokered Gaza ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, senior U.S. officials confirmed Thursday, marking the next phase of President Donald Trump’s Middle East peace initiative.

A federal judge has granted the state of Illinois’ request for a temporary restraining order to prevent the Trump administration and the U.S. Army from deploying the National Guard in Illinois.

The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026, a $925 billion bill setting funding levels for America’s national defense spending, has finally hit the Senate floor.

A federal grand jury in Virginia on Thursday indicted New York Attorney General Letitia James on mortgage fraud charges.

The U.S. federal government ended fiscal year 2025 with a $1.8 trillion budget deficit, according to estimates released Wednesday by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO)–a figure only marginally smaller than last year’s record shortfall, even as tariff revenue surged under President Donald Trump’s trade policies.

Illegal border crossings at the southwest border reached their lowest level in September since 1970, according to new preliminary U.S. Customs and Border Protection data reported by the Department of Homeland Security.

During a round table discussion with independent journalists at the White House on Wednesday afternoon, President Donald Trump said his administration would designate Antifa a foreign terror organization.

Democratic U.S. Senators voted against opening the federal government for a sixth time Wednesday afternoon, dimming hopes that Congress will reach a funding deal in time for thousands of federal workers to receive their next paychecks.

Newly declassified records are intensifying scrutiny of the FBI’s “Arctic Frost” probe, with documents indicating the bureau obtained toll records from eight Republican senators and one GOP House member during its January 6 inquiry, and that senior FBI official Timothy Thibault helped draft the opening language for what evolved into Special Counsel Jack Smith’s elector case against Donald Trump, according to disclosures highlighted by Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa).

During a three-month “Summer Heat,” operation, FBI and law enforcement partners made 8,629 arrests as part of a national initiative targeting violent crime.

Despite the ongoing federal government shutdown, Senate Republicans on Tuesday confirmed 107 of President Donald Trump’s nominees in a 51-47 party-line vote, effectively ending what GOP leaders called a “Democrat confirmation blockade.”

Three Muslims who vandalized a church in Euless, Texas, argue doing so was their First Amendment right.

President Donald Trump said Monday he is considering invoking the Insurrection Act to send federal troops into Portland, Oregon, amid escalating protests over Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations in the city.

On the sixth day of the government shutdown, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) accused Senate Democratic Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) of prolonging the funding impasse to appease his party’s far-left base, as both chambers failed again Monday to pass competing bills to reopen the government.

The U.S. Supreme Court opened its 2025-2026 term Monday with one of its most consequential dockets in years — a lineup that will test the limits of presidential power, reshape key civil rights laws, and weigh fundamental questions about faith, speech, guns, and life itself.

The state of Illinois is seeking a temporary restraining order against the Trump administration for plans to deploy the Illinois and Texas National Guard to the Chicago area.