Residents in two U.S. states plunged into mourning on Sunday after separate mass shootings killed several and injured dozens. In Baltimore, Maryland, a teenager was among two people dead following a mass shooting there, while in Wichita, Kansas, seven people were shot, and two others trampled amid a shooting inside a nightclub, authorities confirmed.
In an unprecedented move, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down affirmative action in college admissions, declaring race cannot be a factor.
The Supreme Court ruled to ban the consideration of race as part of admissions decisions at colleges, including Harvard University and the University of North Carolina, ending the decades long practice known as affirmative action.
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled unanimously for a postal worker in Pennsylvania in an important religious liberty dispute, over how far employers should go to accommodate faith-based requests in the workplace.
With a view to expanding space exploration and achieving a long-term presence on the moon, the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is working to develop vital oxygen and water resources on the moon within the next decade, the Jerusalem Post reports.
All 23 of the U.S. banks included in the Federal Reserve’s annual stress test weathered a severe recession scenario while continuing to lend to consumers and corporations, the regulator said Wednesday.
Federal judges in Kentucky and Tennessee temporarily blocked portions of bans on gender-transition care for transgender youth, handing down the rulings shortly before the statutes were set to go into effect.
An audio recording of former President Donald Trump appears to contain discussion of his possession of classified materials and his belief that he had not declassified at least one of the documents in his possession while president.
The Supreme Court rejected the independent state legislature theory in a ruling Tuesday, deciding that courts do have a role to play in refereeing how elections are conducted.
The next Defense Department budget will be the highest in America’s history, reaching nearly $900 billion. Just last week, the House Armed Services Committee sent its version to the floor for a vote.
Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) and nine of her Senate Republican colleagues are cosponsoring legislation to bar President Joe Biden from doing what many environmentalists within Congress want him to do—declare a national emergency based on claims about climate change.
U.S. officials on Friday released an intelligence report on the COVID-19 pandemic after Congress directed them to declassify intelligence related to the Wuhan Institute of Virology, a theorized origin point for the virus.
Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) is throwing his weight behind the conservative effort to expunge the two impeachments of former President Trump, saying Trump’s behavior didn’t rise to a level that merited either punishment, and he would like to eradicate both votes from history.
A controversial impeachment resolution aiming to remove U.S. President Joe Biden from office for “failing” to secure the southern border has passed the U.S. House of Representatives.
New rules that require owners to register stabilizing braces for firearms will stay in place after the Senate rejected a Republican effort on Thursday to overturn them.
Responding to a dramatic increase in demand, the US Prison Fellowship ministry has now delivered more than 1 million Bibles to inmates in American prisons since 2019, The Roys Report (TRR) has reported. The US has both the highest number of prisoners in the world (2,068,800 – around 25% of the world’s prison population), and the highest rate of incarceration in the world (625 prisoners per 100,000 people) according to a World Population Review report for 2023.
The Davis School District in Utah has voted unanimously to keep the Bible in all its school libraries, reversing an initial committee’s decision to remove it from elementary and junior high libraries on the grounds that it contains “vulgarity and violence” that is not appropriate for children, KSL News reports.
A new report by Giving USA shows that charitable giving in America fell sharply in 2022, with less than half the population making donations, the Washington Times reports. Last year’s decline in giving represents only the fourth time in 40 years that year-over-year donations fell.
Former Special Counsel for the United States Department of Justice John Durham testified Wednesday that the federal government had no substantive basis to begin its 2016 probe into Russian collusion with the Trump campaign.
There have been hundreds of known or suspected terrorists apprehended at the northern and southern borders in the current fiscal year, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection data.