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Personal hostility toward judges can be dangerous and has to stop, Chief Justice John Roberts said Tuesday, when he discussed a range of issues facing the judicial branch at a Rice University Baker Institute of Public Policy event in Houston.

Iran took center stage during the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee’s grilling of members of the Trump administration’s national security and intelligence team during its annual hearing on worldwide threats.

The U.S. House tanked a balanced budget resolution to curb the federal government’s practice of racking up trillion-dollar deficits every year.

The Senate voted 51–48 on Tuesday to begin debate on the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) America Act, a Republican-backed bill that would require proof of U.S. citizenship to register to vote and photo identification to cast a ballot.

Since President Donald Trump has taken office, 307 Iranians who attempted to illegally enter the country have been apprehended by Border Patrol agents.

Israel Defense Forces said Sunday the brother of the suspect in last week’s Michigan synagogue attack was a Hezbollah terrorist.

President Donald Trump launched an anti-fraud task force on Monday, and appointed Vice President JD Vance to lead it.

A growing divide is emerging across the United States as Republican-led states move to slash or eliminate personal income taxes while Democratic-led states push to raise taxes on high earners.

In a historical first, nine people have been convicted by a federal jury on domestic terrorism charges connected to Antifa.

Investigations continued Friday after a suspected Islamist gunman opened fire in a classroom at Old Dominion University in the U.S. state of Virginia on Thursday, killing a Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) instructor and wounding two others before he was subdued by students and died, officials said.

Law enforcement is responding to reports of an active shooter and a vehicle driven into Temple Israel synagogue and school, located in West Bloomfield Township.

U.S. Senate Democrats tanked the Department of Homeland Security funding bill for a fourth time Thursday, ensuring the department’s funding lapse will span at least a month.

The U.S. Senate overwhelmingly passed the bipartisan 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, a bill to increase American housing supply and lower home prices, in an 89-10 vote Thursday.

U.S. intelligence agencies say they have intercepted encrypted communications believed to originate from Iran, raising concerns that the signals could be intended to activate sleeper cells abroad amid escalating tensions following reports that Iran’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, was killed in a U.S.-Israeli strike.

President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that the first new U.S. oil refinery built in half a century will be constructed in Brownsville, Texas, calling the project a historic milestone for American energy independence.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced that its Houston division arrested 414 illegal immigrants in 2025 who were charged with or convicted of child sex crimes.

A political standoff is brewing in Washington after President Donald Trump vowed not to sign new legislation until Congress passes the SAVE America Act, prompting warnings from Senate leaders that the move could trigger legislative gridlock.

The United States federal budget deficit totaled $1 trillion in the first five months of fiscal year 2026, according to the Congressional Budget Office.

President Donald Trump said Sunday he will refuse to sign any additional legislation until Congress passes the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act, escalating pressure on lawmakers to advance the voter-identification bill that has stalled in the Senate.

Authorities say a suspect allegedly shouted “Allahu Akbar” before throwing an improvised explosive device during a protest near Gracie Mansion, triggering a major investigation involving federal and local law enforcement.