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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.”

Elon Musk’s SpaceX is advancing a covert satellite project called Starshield, aimed at supporting the Pentagon and its national security allies, as unveiled by a $1.8 billion secret contract, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal.

The rise of pro-Palestinian protests on U.S. university campuses often feature protesters calling for violence against Jews, leaving Jewish students feeling unsafe and frustrated by the lack of response from school administrators and federal officials.

Migrants trying to enter the United States illegally from Mexico were seeing more obstacles Monday as Texas prepared to house up to 2,300 state troops in its border city of Eagle Pass, raising tensions with the Biden administration.

A group of truck drivers, supporters of former President Donald Trump, have vowed to boycott New York City as a form of protest against the civil fraud ruling. The verdict imposed a fine exceeding $450 million on Trump and suspended his business operations within the state for three years, it was announced on Friday.

The federal government filed suit Thursday against Tennessee and its Tennessee Bureau of Investigation over enforcement of the state’s aggravated prostitution statute.