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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.

Financial analysts are concerned the US economy could be at risk in 2024 as $117 billion worth of commercial mortgages taken on office buildings ten years ago, when interest rates were far lower, are coming due for repayment or refinancing this year.

A federal judge has temporarily blocked parts of an Iowa law that bans all books depicting “sex acts” from school libraries and prohibits teachers from raising “gender identity” and “sexual orientation” issues with students through the sixth grade, the Associated Press reports.

An Iranian with terrorist ties was caught after illegally entering the U.S. near Niagara Falls, New York, as a record number of known, suspected terrorists (KSTs) were apprehended in the first three months of fiscal 2024 at the northern border.

Going against his party’s general stance on sex change treatments for minors, Ohio’s Republican Gov. Mike DeWine announced Friday that he has vetoed a GOP-introduced bill that would have banned hormonal and surgical sex change medical interventions for minors, saying the government should not take the place of parents in deciding on transgender treatments CBS News reports.

Intensifying the US-China space race, the US Space Force on Thursday launched its secretive X-37B robot spaceplane aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket that is capable of taking it farther into space than ever before, Reuters reports.