US budget gap soars to $1.7 trillion, largest outside COVID era

The U.S. government on Friday posted a $1.695 trillion budget deficit in fiscal 2023, a 23% jump from the prior year as revenues fell and outlays for Social Security, Medicare and record-high interest costs on the federal debt rose.

Republican Jim Jordan Loses Vote For US House Speaker

The United States stumbled into more political upheaval Friday as Jim Jordan, the Republican legislator from the state of Ohio, was out of the race for Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives.

US Senate shows bipartisan support of large military aid package for Israel

The US Senate this week expressed strong bipartisan support for a large spending bill that will increase funding for military and security aid to Israel during its ongoing war against the Hamas Palestinian terror organization in the Gaza Strip, the Daily Excelsior reports. The war was triggered by Hamas’ October 7 surprise attack on Israeli civilians in southern Israel, a catastrophically violent event in which 1,300 mostly civilian men, women, and children were slaughtered and around 200 kidnapped.

China Forced to Give Up Land Owned in US

Arkansas has become the first state to order that a Chinese company give up ownership of local land, amid fears of attempts by Beijing to malignly infiltrate and influence the U.S. through various means.

Trump is appealing gag order in 2020 election interference case

Former President Donald Trump is appealing a narrow gag order that bars him from making statements attacking prosecutors, potential witnesses and court staff in his election interference case in Washington, according to court documents filed Tuesday.

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