U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has prostate cancer, and his recent secretive hospitalization was for surgery and later to treat a urinary tract infection linked to that operation, but his “prognosis is excellent,” doctors said Tuesday.
The US Supreme Court on Friday ruled that Idaho can implement an abortion ban that could criminalize doctors who perform the procedure in emergency situations, even before a final ruling is given on whether the state’s legislation conflicts with federal law, the Christian Post reports.
U.S. lawmakers will hold a hearing Thursday on “woke ideologies” influencing the military and how that may be negatively impacting national security, including recruitment of new members.
Calling for Congressional hearings, international religious rights groups have slammed the Biden administration for omitting Nigeria from its annual list of Countries of Particular Concern on Thursday, the Christian Post reports. Despite well over 52,000 Christians having been slaughtered and five million displaced by Islamic jihadists in the country since 2009, this is the third year running that Nigeria has been left off the US CPC list.
New Hampshire’s House of Representatives on Thursday passed a bill that would ban sex change treatments, including puberty blockers and surgeries, for minors under the age of 18, Newsweek reports.
With a deadline approaching, United States Congress leaders agreed to spend $1.6 trillion, mostly on defense, for the rest of 2024 as they seek to avoid a partial government shutdown.
U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, who sits under the president in the command chain and whose tasks include being ready for a nuclear attack, was hospitalized since Monday, the Pentagon confirmed.
During a reelection campaign launch at a suburban Philadelphia community college, President Joe Biden criticized Donald Trump as a threat to American democracy as the Supreme Court has agreed to hear an appeal by Trump to be included in the March Republican Presidential Primary Ballot in Colorado.
The U.S. House Homeland Security Committee will be holding a hearing next week as part of its chairman’s stated plan to impeach U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear an appeal from former President Donald Trump next month on whether a Colorado Supreme Court ruling could keep him from appearing on the March Republican presidential primary ballot.
New York City sued 17 Texas busing companies on Thursday for $700 million, arguing the money would cover the city’s costs for caring for roughly 33,600 foreign nationals bused there after illegally crossing the border in Texas.
Police in the U.S. state of Iowa say the gunman who shot multiple people at a high school on students’ first day back in classes has died.
Former President Donald Trump fulfilled a promise made last month to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court after the Colorado Supreme Court ruled he wasn’t constitutionally eligible for the state’s Republican presidential primary ballot in March.
As another Republican congressional delegation arrived in Eagle Pass, Texas, Wednesday to hold another news conference and meet local residents, many Texans living at the border say they are fed up and want Congress to shut down the border.
A Christian couple in Indiana have filed a petition asking the US Supreme Court to review the state’s Department of Child Services (DCS) removal of their son from their home because they refused to use the female name and pronouns he had chosen for himself, CBN News reports.
More than 200 active duty and retired US service members have published an open letter calling for the Biden administration and top military leaders to be held to account, including court-martial where appropriate, for engaging in “lawlessness” and “unwilling experimentation on service members” by forcing them to take the COVID-19 vaccination or be fired, the Daily Mail reports.
The nation’s debt has surpassed $34 trillion, according to figures from the U.S. Department of the Treasury.
Former President Donald Trump’s campaign has filed an appeal of Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows’ decision to disqualify him from the primary ballot, according to local news reports.
The president of Havard, one of America’s top universities, has resigned amid pressure over her perceived antisemitic behavior and plagiarism.
An Idaho court has denied a request by the State Attorney General to dismiss a lawsuit filed by several doctors and four formerly pregnant women who are seeking clarification of the exemptions to the state’s broad abortion ban, the Associated Press reports.