The U.S. began adding $1 trillion worth of debt about every three months beginning last June, a Bank of America investment strategist Michael Hartnett first pointed out in an investment note published last week.
U.S. President Joe Biden and Donald J. Trump have made competing visits to the troubled U.S. border with Mexico, to each pledge a crackdown on “illegal immigration” after record numbers of desperate men, women and children entered the nation seeking the “American Dream.”
A federal judge has temporarily blocked a new Texas law aimed at deporting migrants and making unauthorized border crossing a state crime, ruling it unconstitutional and in violation of the federal government’s exclusive authority over immigration matters. The judge described the law as “antithetical to the Constitution,” effectively preventing it from being implemented temporarily.
The U.S. House of Representatives passed a short-term funding measure Thursday to temporarily keep the federal government open, just one day before the government was scheduled to partially shut down.
A New York City law that would allow noncitizens to vote in local elections is unconstitutional, according to a recent state appeals court ruling.
Inflation continues to rise in the U.S., according to newly released federal data.
A Cook County judge decided former President Donald Trump’s name should be removed from the Illinois primary ballot, but put a hold on the order expecting an appeal. Trump’s campaign said it will “quickly appeal.”
Former U.S. President Donald J. Trump faced potential financial hardships Wednesday as a New York judge denied his bid to pause collecting the $454 million fine for fraud.
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to hear former President Donald Trump’s claims that he is protected from prosecution by presidential immunity for his official acts while in office.
The California National Guard seized a record 62,224 pounds of fentanyl in California and the state’s ports of entry – enough of the potent synthetic opioid to kill the entire world population “nearly twice over.”
Tennessee has passed a controversial law allowing public officials to refuse to perform same-sex marriages if their conscience or religious beliefs do not allow it, the Christian Post reports. The US Supreme Court established the right to same-sex marriage through its 2015 ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges.
Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) intends to step down from his position as the Senate GOP leader this November, concluding his almost twenty-year tenure in the high-profile role.
A U.S. District Court handed Texas its first win in a lawsuit challenging the validity of an omnibus spending package Congress passed in late 2022 that it argued would create an undue burden on the state.
Lawmakers in Washington, D.C., face a partial government shutdown deadline this week and another separate shutdown early next week, setting up a chaotic Congress and frantic dealmaking, or lack thereof, before Friday.
A new poll conducted by The Economist/YouGov shows that nearly half of Americans would support a national 16-week abortion ban. The poll was conducted on Feb. 18-20 among 1,562 adults with a margin of error of 3.1 percentage points.
Former President Donald Trump has appealed his $454 million New York civil fraud judgment, challenging a judge’s ruling that the GOP presidential frontrunner lied about the value of his real estate empire.
The temperature in the North Atlantic ocean is currently so high it has been described as a 1-in-284,000-year event that may herald a particularly violent hurricane season this year, Live Science reports. Often deadly and destructive, hurricanes are violent, rotating storm systems of clouds and thunderstorms that originate over tropical or subtropical waters and have closed low-level circulation.
Sweeping a fourth consecutive primary by double digits, former President Donald Trump left South Carolina victorious on Saturday and on a roll heading into Michigan on Tuesday.
President Joe Biden and federal officials announced plans Friday to sanction more than 500 targets as they seek to punish Russia and President Vladimir Putin for the invasion and war in Ukraine and the arctic prison death of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny.
A spacecraft built and flown by Texas-based Intuitive Machines made the first U.S. touchdown on the moon in over 50 years and the first ever by a private company.