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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.

President Donald Trump sharply criticized a federal judge’s decision to block his plan to deploy National Guard troops to Portland, Oregon, calling the ruling “a disgrace” and accusing the court of undermining presidential authority amid ongoing protests against federal immigration enforcement.

The U.S. government shutdown entered its sixth day Monday, with little sign of progress as Democrats and Republicans remained entrenched in a bitter standoff over health care subsidies and immigration-related provisions tied to government funding.

President Donald Trump has condemned the shutdown and laid the blame squarely at the feet of the “Radical Left Democrats”— in the meantime, he appears to be making the most of it.

As the government shutdown enters its second day, House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., defended Republican leaders’ refusal to concede to Democrats’ health care policy demands in exchange for their votes on federal funding.

President Donald Trump confirmed Wednesday that the National Guard is now deployed in Portland, Oregon, to protect federal immigration enforcement operations as protests against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) continue to roil the city.

The federal government will officially enter a shutdown at 12:01 a.m. Wednesday after both Senate Republicans and Democrats blocked competing short-term funding bills, failing to prevent the first lapse in federal funding since President Donald Trump’s first term. The standoff capped days of failed negotiations between the White House and congressional leaders, with neither side willing to concede on core demands.

President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Tuesday unveiled a sweeping transformation of the U.S. military, rebranding the Pentagon as the “Department of War” and rolling out a raft of directives aimed at reversing what they called years of “woke” policies.

With just hours remaining before a partial government shutdown, talks between President Donald Trump and congressional leaders collapsed Monday without a deal, leaving federal agencies bracing for a funding lapse at 12:01 a.m. Wednesday.