Residents in the U.S. city of San Antonio plunged into mourning Saturday after record-breaking rainfall triggered severe flash flooding, leaving at least 11 people dead, dozens injured, and causing widespread damage in the area.
A federal judge in Massachusetts issued a sweeping injunction on Friday against President Donald Trump’s executive order aimed at imposing new national election rules, ruling that the president lacks constitutional authority to unilaterally change federal voting requirements.
In a narrow 214-212 vote, the House of Representatives on Wednesday approved a $9.4 billion federal spending rescission package aimed at slashing foreign aid, public broadcasting funds, and codifying cuts initiated by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), a cost-cutting initiative championed by President Donald Trump and led by Elon Musk.
A coalition of left-leaning legal groups is attempting to block an Arkansas law that requires the display of the Ten Commandments in public school classrooms, launching yet another challenge in the broader cultural war over America’s religious heritage.
The U.S. government recorded a $316 billion budget deficit in May, the Treasury Department reported, marking a 9% year-over-year decline as rising revenues and calendar adjustments pointed to potential fiscal improvement. When accounting for timing shifts in benefit payments, the adjusted deficit narrowed to $219 billion, a 17% drop compared to May 2024.
In a striking shift after more than a decade of decline, a growing share of Americans now say religion is becoming more influential in American society, according to a new Gallup poll released Wednesday.
A federal judge on Tuesday rejected California Governor Gavin Newsom’s bid to restrict the National Guard’s presence in Los Angeles to the immediate vicinity of federal buildings, allowing military reinforcements to remain active across broader areas of the city amid ongoing riots sparked by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids.
A federal appeals court has ruled that President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs on nearly all U.S. trading partners can remain in effect while legal challenges continue, handing a major procedural victory to the administration as it defends the tariffs as essential to national and economic security.
More than 1,500 protests are scheduled across the United States on Saturday, June 14, as part of the “No Kings Day of Defiance,” a nationwide demonstration aimed at opposing what organizers call the Trump administration’s growing authoritarianism. The mass movement will take place the same day President Donald Trump stages a multimillion-dollar military parade in Washington, D.C., celebrating the U.S. Army’s 250th anniversary and his own 79th birthday.
President Donald Trump on Tuesday defended his decision to deploy thousands of California National Guard troops and U.S. Marines to Los Angeles, as the city entered its fourth night of violent protests against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Trump warned that without federal intervention, the destruction in the city would have been far worse.
President Donald J. Trump announced a bold new initiative Monday aimed at giving every newborn American a financial head start: the creation of special “Trump Accounts” as part of the sweeping “One Big Beautiful Bill” currently moving through Congress.
Newly declassified intelligence has revealed that the dramatic rise in domestic terrorism cases cited by the Biden administration as justification for expanding federal law enforcement power was overwhelmingly based on a single event: the January 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol.
In a sweeping and controversial move, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Monday dismissed all 17 members of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), citing longstanding conflicts of interest and a lack of transparency. The decision has sparked outrage across the medical and public health communities.
The U.S. city of San Diego struggled Tuesday with the aftermath of a second fatal plane crash in the area within weeks after a small plane crashed off the coast in the Pacific shortly after takeoff, killing all six people on board, officials said.
What began as protests against recent Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids has devolved into days of violent riots across Los Angeles, prompting President Donald Trump to deploy thousands of National Guard troops, with U.S. Marines now placed on standby. Authorities say nearly 60 people were arrested over the weekend as downtown LA turned into a battlefield of looting, arson, and assaults on police officers.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday handed down two emergency rulings that mark significant victories for President Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), reinstating its access to sensitive Social Security data and shielding it from intrusive document disclosures sought by a liberal watchdog group.
The governor of the U.S. state of Georgia has urged prayers after several people were killed by falling trees and tens of thousands were left without power as severe storms rolled through the South over the weekend.
As darkness fell over riot-ridden Los Angeles, California’s Governor Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, pleaded with American President Donald J. Trump to rescind his “unlawful” deployment of national guard troops in the U.S. city and return them to his command.
President Donald Trump signed a trio of executive orders on Friday aimed at revitalizing the U.S. drone industry, countering the growing national security threat posed by Chinese-made drones, and streamlining the path for advanced aerial technologies, such as electric air taxis and autonomous delivery drones.
President Donald Trump has ordered the immediate deployment of 2,000 National Guard troops to Los Angeles after violent anti-ICE protests erupted over the weekend, resulting in injuries to federal agents, property damage, and escalating political tensions between the White House and California leaders.