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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.

Scientists say this year will have more hurricanes than usual.

A Utah district court on Tuesday issued a temporary order blocking the state from enforcing what it described as an “unreasonable” law that would ban abortion clinics from operating after January 1, 2024, but would allow hospitals to continue carrying out abortions until 18 weeks gestation, Reuters reports. The law was due to go into effect on Wednesday, May 3.

The U.S. central bank has raised interest rates to the highest level in 16 years as it battles to stabilize prices amid mounting inflation.

U.S. President Joe Biden faced accusations of involvement in a “criminal scheme” Wednesday while prosecutors were reportedly nearing a decision on whether to charge his son Hunter with tax- and gun-related violations.

The rate of drug overdose deaths involving the synthetic opioid fentanyl more than tripled in the United States from 2016 through 2021, according to a report by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released on Wednesday.

A Christian former teacher in California filed a new federal lawsuit against a public school district Wednesday, claiming she was wrongfully fired after refusing to lie to parents about their children’s gender identities.

The Biden administration has approved sending 1,500 active duty U.S. troops to the southern border in the coming days amid concerns that tens of thousands of migrants will surge into the country once Title 42 is lifted, sources tell Fox News.

A letter falsely insinuating a laptop was Russian disinformation. An IRS whistleblower. Suspicious activity bank reports. Suggestions of false testimony to Congress.

Worried customers were urged Tuesday to remain confident in the U.S banking system after First Republic became the second-largest bank to fail in American history.

With support from a range of groups including the pro-choice Women’s Liberation Front, Kansas has become the first state to pass a law that specifically defines gender as a person’s biological sex at birth, NTD reports. The law will prevent men, regardless of which gender they identify as, from entering women-only spaces and restricts participation in sports according to a person’s sex at birth.

A federal judge ruled Monday that a Pennsylvania school district must allow an After School Satan Club to meet on district property on the grounds that, in accordance with First Amendment protections, “the government’s first instinct must be to forward expression rather than quash it,” the Hill reports.

At least six people died, and dozens were injured as a dust storm caused visibility to plummet along a Midwestern U.S. highway, more than a month after a similar phenomenon caused havoc in Europe.

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen notified Congress on Monday that the U.S. could default on its debt as early as June 1, if legislators do not raise or suspend the nation’s borrowing authority before then and avert what could potentially become a global financial crisis.

Regulators seized troubled First Republic Bank early Monday and sold all of its deposits and most of its assets to JPMorgan Chase Bank in a bid to head off further banking turmoil in the U.S.