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The percentage of Americans who have confidence in the U.S. government has plummeted in recent years, a new poll shows.

A judge on Tuesday prohibited several federal agencies and officials of the Biden administration from working with social media companies about “protected speech,” a decision called “a blow to censorship” by one of the Republican officials whose lawsuit prompted the ruling.

U.S. President Joe Biden decried escalating gun violence after several mass shootings killed and injured dozens of people overshadowing the nation’s long Independence Day holiday weekend.

Transgender minors have continued access to gender-affirming hormonal treatment in Tennessee and Kentucky after federal judges last week lifted the bans imposed by each state on such treatments for youth, UPI reports.

Following last year’s decision by the US Supreme Court to revoke the right to abortion up to viability, an increasing number of American universities are installing vending machines stocked not only with pregnancy tests and contraceptives but also with Plan B and generic forms of the morning-after pill, the Associated Press reports. 

The Supreme Court on Friday said it will hear a case involving whether the government can bar domestic violence perpetrators from owning a gun, setting up the next big test of gun rights for the justices.

Homeland Security said Friday it will build 20 more miles of border wall, carrying out some of former President Donald Trump’s marquee campaign promise.

The White House on Monday released a congressionally-mandated research plan for a process to help reduce the effects of solar radiation by reflecting sunlight back into space but said no formal study is being planned at this time.

The United States Supreme Court has again vacated a lower court decision against a Christian couple in Oregon who were punished for not making a cake for a same-sex wedding.

The national debt will be nearly twice as large as the U.S. economy in 30 years, the U.S. Congressional Budget Office projects.

The Supreme Court on Friday ruled in favor of an evangelical Christian web designer who refuses to work on online, same-sex weddings.

The U.S. Supreme Court has overturned President Biden’s attempt to erase the student loan debt for millions of Americans. The court ruled Friday that the Biden administration overstepped its authority.

Residents in two U.S. states plunged into mourning on Sunday after separate mass shootings killed several and injured dozens. In Baltimore, Maryland, a teenager was among two people dead following a mass shooting there, while in Wichita, Kansas, seven people were shot, and two others trampled amid a shooting inside a nightclub, authorities confirmed.

In an unprecedented move, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down affirmative action in college admissions, declaring race cannot be a factor.

The Supreme Court ruled to ban the consideration of race as part of admissions decisions at colleges, including Harvard University and the University of North Carolina, ending the decades long practice known as affirmative action.

The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled unanimously for a postal worker in Pennsylvania in an important religious liberty dispute, over how far employers should go to accommodate faith-based requests in the workplace.

With a view to expanding space exploration and achieving a long-term presence on the moon, the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is working to develop vital oxygen and water resources on the moon within the next decade, the Jerusalem Post reports.

All 23 of the U.S. banks included in the Federal Reserve’s annual stress test weathered a severe recession scenario while continuing to lend to consumers and corporations, the regulator said Wednesday.

Federal judges in Kentucky and Tennessee temporarily blocked portions of bans on gender-transition care for transgender youth, handing down the rulings shortly before the statutes were set to go into effect.

An audio recording of former President Donald Trump appears to contain discussion of his possession of classified materials and his belief that he had not declassified at least one of the documents in his possession while president.