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The U.S. Department of Education (ED) may soon recognize Grand Canyon University’s nonprofit status after the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit remanded the school’s case back to the department.

President-elect Donald Trump responded to President Joe Biden’s expansive pardon of his son, Hunter, calling it a “miscarriage of justice.”

US President-elect Donald Trump on Saturday nominated Kash Patel, a former federal prosecutor and the Chief of Staff to the Secretary of Defense during the first Trump presidency, to the position of Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).

U.S. President-elect Donald J. Trump on Sunday named Massad Boulos, a Christian Lebanese-born billionaire, and father-in-law to his daughter Tiffany, his senior adviser on Arab and Middle Eastern affairs at a time of mounting tensions in Israel and the region.

Saying “Enough is enough,” outgoing U.S. President Joe Biden pardoned his son Hunter Biden on Sunday, removing criminal convictions on tax and gun charges despite pledging this year he wouldn’t grant such a reprieve.

In the second and third quarters of fiscal 2024, U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement agents removed nearly 68,000 illegal border crossers, ICE says. ICE claims the number “reflects a 69% increase over removals during the third quarter in fiscal year 2023, and is more than 140% of ICE removals for all fiscal year 2023.”

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump warned Saturday that he would impose 100 percent tariffs on imports from BRICS countries if they threaten the U.S. dollar as the world’s reserve currency.

Antisemitism has been formally condemned in the U.S. House of Representatives through a resolution put forward by a North Carolina congresswoman passing 388-21.

The US House of Representatives on November 20 passed a bipartisan bill to update and reauthorize the 2004 North Korean Human Rights Act, International Christian Concern (ICC) reports. With the Act having expired in 2022, US Reps. Young Kim (R-CA) and Ami Bera (D-CA) introduced the bill to renew the legislation.

The FBI announced Wednesday that it is investigating bomb threats and “swatting” incidents, as well as other threats, targeting several of President-elect Donald Trump’s Cabinet nominees and administration appointees.

Schools in Ohio are required to have single-sex bathrooms and locker rooms after Gov. Mike DeWine signed the state’s bathroom bill into law Wednesday.

The now-ending 2024 record-breaking Atlantic hurricane season is estimated to have cost the United States around $500 billion in total damage and economic loss, Accu Weather reports.

President-elect Donald Trump’s vow to hit America’s top trading partners with 25% tariffs on imported goods prompted a cool response from neighbors and China.

America’s consumer confidence increased to a 16-month high in November as optimism about the world’s leading economy increased partly due to Donald J. Trump’s election victory, market watchers announced Tuesday.

A Missouri county court on Monday upheld a new state law that bans sex-change surgeries for minors under the age of 18 as well as hormones and puberty blockers for minors who had not started those treatments by August 2023, the Associated Press reports. Missouri is among 26 states that have passed laws restricting or banning sex-change treatments for minors.

President-elect Donald Trump’s new border czar Tom Homan is putting together an extensive deportation plan for when he hits the ground running after they are both sworn into office in January.

A federal court approved Special Counsel Jack Smith’s Monday request to dismiss his federal election interference case against President-elect Donald Trump, due to the Department of Justice’s policy against prosecuting sitting presidents.

Christians helped push President-elect Donald Trump across the finish line on Election Day, a survey found.

A new study shows there has been a 3,000% increase in antisemitic incidents on US college campuses since the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel triggered the current war in Gaza.

U.S. House Oversight Chair Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., has opened an investigation into the Federal Emergency Management Agency over reports that it discriminated against supporters of Donald Trump.