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.
A narrative that a “civil war” or “cold war” between federal law enforcement officers and their state and local counterparts at the southern border in Texas – which has been circulating among a range of pundits – isn’t valid Gov. Greg Abbott, Texas Department of Public Safety and the Border Patrol union argue.
The Attorney General for Idaho has filed an emergency motion asking the US Supreme Court to reverse a lower court’s decision and allow into effect a new law which bans trans gender treatments for minors, the Christian Post (CP) reports.
Over 7.2 million illegal immigrants have entered the United States under President Joe Biden’s administration according statistics provided by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP). This figure exceeds the population totals of 36 individual states within the country.
Alabama’s Supreme Court ruled on Feb. 16 that frozen embryos are children, and that they can therefore be the subject of a wrongful death suit, the Associated Press reports. The unprecedented decision may terminate the practice of freezing embryos for in vitro fertilization (IVF) in Alabama, critics have noted.
U.S. Rep. Roger Williams, a Republican from north Texas who served as Texas’ Secretary of State under former Gov. Rick Perry, has filed a bill to have the federal government reimburse Texas for its border security costs.
Billionaire Elon Musk says the first human patient implanted with a brain chip from his startup Neuralink makes a “full recovery” and can control the computer mouse around the screen “just by thinking.”