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Supreme Court Justices Amy Coney Barrett and Elena Kagan made a rare appearance before Congress on Tuesday, warning that escalating threats against the nation’s highest court are placing justices, their families and judicial independence at growing risk.

Senate Democrats blocked the advancement of the annual National Defense Authorization Act on Tuesday, halting debate on a sweeping $1.15 trillion defense package amid sharp disagreements over the renewed war with Iran and federal spending priorities.

House Republicans are moving forward with a third budget reconciliation package following a closely guarded strategy meeting at Camp David involving congressional leaders, White House officials and selected members of the House Budget Committee.

Hope of finding additional survivors was fading early Wednesday after a pontoon boat sank near Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay, killing one person and one dog and leaving three others missing, authorities said.

Special Counsel Jack Smith’s investigative team obtained and directly reviewed White House text messages involving 44 current and former members of Congress after apparently bypassing safeguards designed to protect privileged communications, newly released Justice Department records show.

Journalists of The New York Times were summoned to testify before a federal grand jury in New York on Wednesday after reporting alleged safety and security concerns surrounding a Boeing 747-8 aircraft donated by Qatar for use by U.S. President Donald J. Trump.

Gun-related deaths in the United States declined in 2024, driven by a sharp drop in homicides, but firearm suicides rose to their highest level on record, according to the latest federal data.

Idaho voters will decide this November whether to dismantle one of the nation’s strongest protections for unborn children, placing the deeply conservative state at the center of the continuing national battle over abortion.

U.S. inflation slowed sharply in June as gasoline and other energy prices retreated, delivering welcome relief to American households even as renewed fighting with Iran threatens to push fuel costs higher again.

The U.S. House passed a bill Monday that would restrict funding of state and local political races and ballot proposals to American citizens only.

South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster on Monday appointed Darline Graham Nordone, the younger sister of the late Sen. Lindsey Graham, to complete the remaining months of her brother’s Senate term.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer warned Monday that Congress could face another government shutdown this fall as Democrats intensify their opposition to President Donald Trump’s proposed defense buildup and the ongoing war with Iran.

Assaults against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers are up 1,300% since the second Trump administration began compared to the Biden administration era.

A federal appeals court has upheld the termination of in-state college tuition benefits for illegal immigrants in Texas, rejecting an attempt by students and advocacy groups to revive the state’s 24-year-old Dream Act.

Lindsey Graham, the influential U.S. senator from South Carolina, has died at the age of 71 following a brief and sudden illness.

President Donald Trump is pressing congressional Republicans to move quickly on two of his biggest unfinished priorities: a $350 billion defense funding package and a sweeping nationwide voter ID mandate.

President Donald Trump used the closing press conference of the NATO summit in Ankara to deliver one of his sharpest warnings yet about communism, saying the ideology is gaining ground in the United States and abroad and poses a grave danger to American liberty.

Fires across the southwestern U.S. have picked up early this year, with over 400,000 acres burning just between Utah and Colorado.

The Trump administration is crediting its aggressive law-and-order agenda for a historic decline in homicides across major U.S. cities, as early crime data points to some of the lowest murder rates recorded in more than a century.

A new AP-NORC poll has put numbers behind a political earthquake long felt by Israel’s supporters: the Democratic Party’s base is turning sharply against the Jewish state. After nearly two years of war following Hamas’ October 7 massacre, Democratic voters are no longer merely criticizing Israeli policy; growing numbers now believe America is too supportive of Israel, too unsupportive of the Palestinians, and willing to embrace accusations against Israel that Republicans overwhelmingly reject.