The House voted against beginning debate on its annual defense appropriations bill, failing to overcome a key procedural hurdle to advance the must-pass legislation through the lower chamber by the end of this week.

The national debt – which measures what the U.S. owes its creditors — hit $33.04 trillion as of Monday afternoon, according to new data published by the Treasury Department. By comparison, just four decades ago, the national debt hovered around $907 billion.

The Biden administration proposed to block of thousands of acres from future oil drilling or mining in northern New Mexico in an effort to protect Native American lands.

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) has offered a plan to congressional Republicans to avoid a government shutdown that would cut overall spending by 1% of current levels for 31 days.

Former President Trump’s comments on abortion laws are drawing fire from pro-lifers.

Millions of uncommitted Christians are causing a “catastrophic decline in biblical worldview in America” because they have been poorly discipled in their faith and often don’t know how to pass on biblical values to their children, research in a new book from veteran Christian researcher George Barna shows.

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy approved an impeachment inquiry against President Joe Biden, even as GOP senators warn against the measure.

The Texas Senate voted on Saturday to acquit Attorney General Ken Paxton on all 16 articles of impeachment that had been voted against him by the Texas House of Representatives.

A growing number of people on the U.S. Terrorist Watchlist were encountered at U.S. borders in 2023, homeland security officials said on Thursday, noting in an annual report that a record number of migrant arrivals had “complicated border and immigration security” this past year.

Abortion providers are trying to lengthen the narrow window when they can legally terminate a pregnancy under a strict new ban in South Carolina.

In an embarrassment to U.S. President Joe Biden, his son Hunter has been charged with three federal counts of firearm offenses as prosecutors renew their legal challenge against him.

Geologists in the US are working to confirm their belief that a lithium mineral deposit potentially worth $1.48 trillion is located in the McDermitt caldera on the border of Oregon and Nevada, Extreme Tech reports. Experts believe 40 million metric tons of lithium may be hidden in the caldera, a massive cauldron-shaped depression formed by the Yellowstone volcanic hotspot.

The US House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a trio of bills extending sanctions on Iran’s ballistic missile and drone programs and condemning its human rights abuses amid no votes from members of the so-called “Squad” of left-wing progressives.

A federal judge on Wednesday declared illegal a revised version of a federal policy that prevents the deportation of hundreds of thousands of immigrants brought to the U.S. as children.

Most officers on the CIA’s COVID Discovery Team concluded that the coronavirus originated from a laboratory in Wuhan, China, but they changed their positions after receiving a monetary incentive, a senior-level CIA agent told Congress.

The Biden administration is recommending changes to a 151-year-old law that governs mining for copper, gold and other hardrock minerals on U.S.-owned lands, including making companies for the first time pay royalties on what they extract.

Amid a flurry of court cases initiated by US trans activists and conservatives who oppose each other on the issue of gender-altering medical treatments for minors, legal experts have concluded that the matter will eventually have to be decided by the United States Supreme Court (SCOTUS), CBN News reports.

The legal debate about whether or not former President Donald Trump should be allowed to appear on the 2024 ballot has made its way before the Supreme Court.

As busloads of asylum-seeking migrants continue to arrive daily in Chicago, the city’s mayor announced plans last week to house 1,600 migrants in “winterized base camps” consisting of massive military-grade tents, the Sun Times reports.

On Wednesday, The California state Senate passed a bill requiring judges to consider whether a parent affirms their child’s gender identity when ruling on post-divorce custody and visitation rights, the Associated Press reports.