The United States added 209,000 jobs in June and the monthly unemployment rate dropped to a five-decade low, the Labor Department reported Friday.

Almost half of the United States’ tap water is estimated to have one or more PFAS, known as “forever chemicals,” according to a new study.

Attorneys for a Tampa, Florida Christian school recently told an Atlanta-based federal appeals court that prayer over a loudspeaker before a football game is protected by the U.S. Constitution.

“Sound of Freedom,” a film released earlier this week that brings awareness to human trafficking, got the top spot at the box office in the United States on its opening day, the Fourth of July.

Three crosses were burned Thursday morning outside a predominantly Black church in Los Angeles, police say.

A U.S. federal judge on Tuesday restricted some agencies and officials of the administration of President Joe Biden from meeting and communicating with social media companies to moderate their content, according to a court filing.

Researchers around the world continue documenting potentially severe side effects from COVID-19 mRNA vaccines in certain demographics, but the Food and Drug Administration refuses to label them or even tell recipients the shots can’t stop transmission of an increasingly immune-evasive virus.

The percentage of Americans who have confidence in the U.S. government has plummeted in recent years, a new poll shows.

A judge on Tuesday prohibited several federal agencies and officials of the Biden administration from working with social media companies about “protected speech,” a decision called “a blow to censorship” by one of the Republican officials whose lawsuit prompted the ruling.

U.S. President Joe Biden decried escalating gun violence after several mass shootings killed and injured dozens of people overshadowing the nation’s long Independence Day holiday weekend.

Transgender minors have continued access to gender-affirming hormonal treatment in Tennessee and Kentucky after federal judges last week lifted the bans imposed by each state on such treatments for youth, UPI reports.

Following last year’s decision by the US Supreme Court to revoke the right to abortion up to viability, an increasing number of American universities are installing vending machines stocked not only with pregnancy tests and contraceptives but also with Plan B and generic forms of the morning-after pill, the Associated Press reports. 

The Supreme Court on Friday said it will hear a case involving whether the government can bar domestic violence perpetrators from owning a gun, setting up the next big test of gun rights for the justices.

Homeland Security said Friday it will build 20 more miles of border wall, carrying out some of former President Donald Trump’s marquee campaign promise.

The White House on Monday released a congressionally-mandated research plan for a process to help reduce the effects of solar radiation by reflecting sunlight back into space but said no formal study is being planned at this time.

The United States Supreme Court has again vacated a lower court decision against a Christian couple in Oregon who were punished for not making a cake for a same-sex wedding.

The national debt will be nearly twice as large as the U.S. economy in 30 years, the U.S. Congressional Budget Office projects.

The Supreme Court on Friday ruled in favor of an evangelical Christian web designer who refuses to work on online, same-sex weddings.

The U.S. Supreme Court has overturned President Biden’s attempt to erase the student loan debt for millions of Americans. The court ruled Friday that the Biden administration overstepped its authority.

Residents in two U.S. states plunged into mourning on Sunday after separate mass shootings killed several and injured dozens. In Baltimore, Maryland, a teenager was among two people dead following a mass shooting there, while in Wichita, Kansas, seven people were shot, and two others trampled amid a shooting inside a nightclub, authorities confirmed.