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Consumer prices in the United States accelerated in April after months of declines, with measures of underlying inflation suggesting that rising costs could persist for months to come.

President Joe Biden on Tuesday said he was “considering” the use of the 14th Amendment as a means to circumvent the debt ceiling standoff he currently finds himself in with House Republicans.

An advisory panel at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday said that a decades-old birth control pill should be sold without a prescription, paving the way for the first over-the-counter contraceptive pill to be approved nationally.

U.S. companies are feeling the heat of decades-high interest rates and sticky inflation, with several filing for bankruptcy protection as the era of easy money draws to a close.

President Biden is under pressure to negotiate with congressional Republicans over the debt limit as House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell align on spending reforms in exchange for a debt limit increase.

A Manhattan jury comprised of six men and three women concluded Tuesday that former U.S. President Donald J. Trump “sexually abused” a columnist and also held him financially liable for “defaming” her.

Grief-stricken residents of a Dallas suburb learned Monday that a three-year-old boy and his parents, two elementary school children, and a young engineer from India were among the victims shot dead in a mall outlet.

The White House insisted Monday that Congress has a “constitutional duty” to raise the debt ceiling.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Monday announced a new Texas Tactical Border Force ahead of the expiration of the Title 42 public health order, which helped block migrants from entering the U.S.

In settlement of a lawsuit filed by Arizona Christian University (ACU), Arizona’s largest elementary school district has agreed to reinstate ACU student-teachers after previously barring them from joining its teacher-training program on the grounds that they would not respect LGBTQ pupils and staff, the Washington Times reports. The 33-school Washington Elementary School District (WESD) also agreed to pay $25,000 in legal fees to ACU and its attorneys, the Alliance Defending Freedom.

Seven people have been killed in the U.S. state of Texas after a car struck a group at a bus stop near a homeless shelter that accommodates migrants near Mexico, officials said Sunday.

The man who allegedly shot and killed eight people at an outlet mall in the U.S. state of Texas before being fatally shot by police has been identified as 33-year-old Mauricio Garcia, law enforcement officials say.

Witnesses say there were at least two fatalities in the shooting at a busy mall in the U.S. state of Texas where the gunman was killed.

The leader and three ‘lieutenants’ of the far-right Proud Boys militia have been found guilty of “a seditious conspiracy” against the U.S. government that culminated in a deadly attack on Capitol Building in Washington.

Scientists say this year will have more hurricanes than usual.

After a massive manhunt, U.S. police detained the man who allegedly opened fire in a central Atlanta medical facility on Wednesday, killing at least one person and injuring four others, authorities confirmed.

A Utah district court on Tuesday issued a temporary order blocking the state from enforcing what it described as an “unreasonable” law that would ban abortion clinics from operating after January 1, 2024, but would allow hospitals to continue carrying out abortions until 18 weeks gestation, Reuters reports. The law was due to go into effect on Wednesday, May 3.

The U.S. central bank has raised interest rates to the highest level in 16 years as it battles to stabilize prices amid mounting inflation.

U.S. President Joe Biden faced accusations of involvement in a “criminal scheme” Wednesday while prosecutors were reportedly nearing a decision on whether to charge his son Hunter with tax- and gun-related violations.

The rate of drug overdose deaths involving the synthetic opioid fentanyl more than tripled in the United States from 2016 through 2021, according to a report by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released on Wednesday.