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China’s government is expanding the use of covert influence operations targeting the United States and is expected to exploit the White House-congressional clash over the debt limit crisis as part of growing anti-U.S. activities, the director of national intelligence said.

The U.S. Cable News Network (CNN) has defended its recent decision to provide former President Donald J. Trump an opportunity to speak to voters in a controversial live televised town hall meeting.

A federal judge has barred the Biden administration from enacting policies to release migrants without setting court dates.

With support from the courts, After School Satan Clubs are becoming increasingly popular alternatives to religious clubs in US primary schools, and organizers are working to expand their reach into high schools and colleges, the Hill reports. The clubs are associated with the Satanic Temple organization and began in 2020; the Satanic Temple itself was founded in 2014 and claims its mission is to “encourage benevolence and empathy, reject tyrannical authority.”

House Republicans investigating President Joe Biden’s family business dealings say the Bidens used a web of shell companies to conceal foreign cash.

As the COVID-era immigration policy known as Title 42 comes to an end, experts fear the border crisis will only get worse.

Consumer prices in the United States accelerated in April after months of declines, with measures of underlying inflation suggesting that rising costs could persist for months to come.

President Joe Biden on Tuesday said he was “considering” the use of the 14th Amendment as a means to circumvent the debt ceiling standoff he currently finds himself in with House Republicans.

An advisory panel at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday said that a decades-old birth control pill should be sold without a prescription, paving the way for the first over-the-counter contraceptive pill to be approved nationally.

U.S. companies are feeling the heat of decades-high interest rates and sticky inflation, with several filing for bankruptcy protection as the era of easy money draws to a close.

Grief-stricken residents of a Dallas suburb learned Monday that a three-year-old boy and his parents, two elementary school children, and a young engineer from India were among the victims shot dead in a mall outlet.

The White House insisted Monday that Congress has a “constitutional duty” to raise the debt ceiling.

In settlement of a lawsuit filed by Arizona Christian University (ACU), Arizona’s largest elementary school district has agreed to reinstate ACU student-teachers after previously barring them from joining its teacher-training program on the grounds that they would not respect LGBTQ pupils and staff, the Washington Times reports. The 33-school Washington Elementary School District (WESD) also agreed to pay $25,000 in legal fees to ACU and its attorneys, the Alliance Defending Freedom.

Seven people have been killed in the U.S. state of Texas after a car struck a group at a bus stop near a homeless shelter that accommodates migrants near Mexico, officials said Sunday.

The man who allegedly shot and killed eight people at an outlet mall in the U.S. state of Texas before being fatally shot by police has been identified as 33-year-old Mauricio Garcia, law enforcement officials say.

Witnesses say there were at least two fatalities in the shooting at a busy mall in the U.S. state of Texas where the gunman was killed.

The leader and three ‘lieutenants’ of the far-right Proud Boys militia have been found guilty of “a seditious conspiracy” against the U.S. government that culminated in a deadly attack on Capitol Building in Washington.