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The gunman who opened fire on a bar and a bowling alley in the city of Lewiston in the northeastern U.S. state of Maine has been found dead after a massive manhunt, officials say.

The Senate passed an amendment banning federal mask mandates on commercial airlines and public transportation in an appropriations bill Wednesday.

The New York Supreme Court has ruled that NYC municipal workers who were fired for refusing to be vaccinated for COVID-19 during the pandemic must be immediately reinstated, and with back pay, the New York Post reports. Tuesday’s ruling followed a lawsuit filed earlier this year by 16 former Sanitation Department workers who were fired in February, and only applies to them.

Newly elected U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson urged prayers for those suffering after a mass shooting in the U.S. state of Maine killed at least 18 people.

A single shooter carried out two mass shootings in the U.S. state of Maine, killing at least 18 people
and injuring over a dozen others in one of the deadliest gun-related incidents in American history, multiple law enforcement officials confirmed on Wednesday.

Louisiana Congressman Mike Johnson was elected the new U.S. House Speaker and immediately pledged that his first priority will be a pro-Israel bill.

A federal court has temporarily blocked a controversial Colorado law which bans abortion pill reversal treatments, Colorado Public Radio (CPR) reports.

The Supreme Court for the southern US state of Georgia on Tuesday upheld a state ban on abortion after six weeks of pregnancy, Atlanta News First reports. In its ruling the Georgia Supreme Court overturned an earlier ruling by the Fulton County Superior Court that the state’s “heartbeat bill” was unconstitutional.

Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is warning of potential Hamas and Hezbollah terrorists entering the U.S. through the southern border.

Nearly 303,000 people illegally entered the U.S. through the southwest border in September, according to newly released U.S. Customs and Border Protection data and gotaway data first reported by The Center Square.

The U.S. posted a $1.7 trillion deficit for the 2023 fiscal year despite repeated warnings that federal spending is on an unsustainable path.

There were 736 known or suspected terrorists (KSTs) apprehended at the northern and southern borders in fiscal 2023.

While violent crime dropped nationally in 2022, California has once again proven that it is inept at providing its residents with any increase in safety or quality of life.

A new report by the FBI shows that hate crimes against Jews in the US rose 36% from 2021 to 2022, making up over half of all reported religion-based hate crimes during that period, the Washington Times reports.

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.

The president of a synagogue in the U.S. city of Detroit has been stabbed, police said, raising fears that the Israel-Hamas war is spreading to streets thousands of miles away.

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.

The U.S. State Department has issued a new “worldwide caution” to Americans traveling around the globe as the war rages on Thursday between Israel and Hamas.

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.

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.