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A U.S. Air Force E-4B “Nightwatch” aircraft — known as the “Doomsday Plane” for its role as an airborne command center in the event of nuclear war — landed at Joint Base Andrews late Tuesday night following an unusual and closely tracked flight from Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana.

A federal appeals court appeared poised Tuesday to uphold President Donald Trump’s decision to deploy thousands of National Guard troops to Los Angeles to restore order after violent protests, casting doubt on California’s legal challenge to the move.

In a landmark victory for parents, conservatives, and advocates of child safety, the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld Tennessee’s law banning transgender drugs, hormones, and surgeries for minors. The 6-3 decision in United States v. Skrmetti delivers a powerful affirmation of states’ rights to safeguard children from irreversible medical harm.

A federal judge in Boston has blocked the Trump administration’s attempt to restrict U.S. passport gender markers to biological sex, issuing a sweeping preliminary injunction on Tuesday that applies nationwide.

The U.S. Supreme Court has overturned a New York state court ruling that required the Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany to provide abortion coverage in its employee health plan, sending the case back to the New York Court of Appeals for reconsideration. The decision marks a significant development in a years-long legal battle over religious freedom and state health mandates.

North Texas law enforcement agencies, in partnership with the FBI, announced Tuesday the results of Operation Soteria Shield—a sweeping month-long initiative that rescued 109 children from online sexual exploitation and resulted in 244 arrests, including 21 registered sex offenders.

FBI Director Kash Patel on Monday evening turned over to Congress newly declassified intelligence reports detailing allegations that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) sought to interfere in the 2020 U.S. presidential election. The allegations include claims that China mass-produced fake U.S. driver’s licenses to facilitate fraudulent mail-in ballots for Democrat Joe Biden.

President Donald Trump’s administration is seeing early success with its aggressive two-track strategy to reduce the unauthorized population in the United States — not only through arrests and deportations but by encouraging illegal migrants to leave voluntarily.

The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to take up a critical case that could determine whether pro-life organizations have the right to protect the privacy of their donors from government overreach.

The governor of the U.S. state of Minnesota says the man who allegedly shot and killed Democratic state Representative Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark has been detained.

Organizers claimed that millions of demonstrators took to the streets across the United States on Saturday, June 14, as part of the nationwide “No Kings” protests aimed at denouncing President Donald Trump’s administration, immigration policies, and what participants described as creeping authoritarianism. The coordinated demonstrations coincided with Trump’s birthday and a military parade in Washington marking the Army’s 250th anniversary.

Calm returned to the streets of Washington after cheers and chants reverberated through America’s capital Saturday from a crowd of thousands as soldiers crewed modern and historic tanks and aircraft for the U.S. Army’s 250th anniversary.

The governor of the U.S. State of Minnesota says a gunman posing as a police officer has killed a senior Democratic Minnesota lawmaker and her husband on Saturday in an apparent “politically motivated assassination.

Residents in the U.S. city of San Antonio plunged into mourning Saturday after record-breaking rainfall triggered severe flash flooding, leaving at least 11 people dead, dozens injured, and causing widespread damage in the area.

A federal judge in Massachusetts issued a sweeping injunction on Friday against President Donald Trump’s executive order aimed at imposing new national election rules, ruling that the president lacks constitutional authority to unilaterally change federal voting requirements.

In a narrow 214-212 vote, the House of Representatives on Wednesday approved a $9.4 billion federal spending rescission package aimed at slashing foreign aid, public broadcasting funds, and codifying cuts initiated by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), a cost-cutting initiative championed by President Donald Trump and led by Elon Musk.

A coalition of left-leaning legal groups is attempting to block an Arkansas law that requires the display of the Ten Commandments in public school classrooms, launching yet another challenge in the broader cultural war over America’s religious heritage.

The U.S. government recorded a $316 billion budget deficit in May, the Treasury Department reported, marking a 9% year-over-year decline as rising revenues and calendar adjustments pointed to potential fiscal improvement. When accounting for timing shifts in benefit payments, the adjusted deficit narrowed to $219 billion, a 17% drop compared to May 2024.

In a striking shift after more than a decade of decline, a growing share of Americans now say religion is becoming more influential in American society, according to a new Gallup poll released Wednesday.

A federal judge on Tuesday rejected California Governor Gavin Newsom’s bid to restrict the National Guard’s presence in Los Angeles to the immediate vicinity of federal buildings, allowing military reinforcements to remain active across broader areas of the city amid ongoing riots sparked by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids.