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U.S. President Donald J. Trump said late Wednesday he is “filled with grief and anger at the heinous assassination of Charlie Kirk” after the conservative born-again Christian influencer was gunned down during a campus event in the western U.S. state of Utah.

Friends and political foes alike were plunged into mourning Wednesday after born-again Christian and conservative activist Charlie Kirk, 31, was fatally shot during a campus event at Utah Valley University (UVU) in Orem, a city in the U.S. state of Utah.

Charlie Kirk, the outspoken conservative activist and founder of Turning Point USA, was assassinated, sending shockwaves across the nation and devastating the conservative movement he helped build.

A federal appeals court has ruled that Vermont must allow a Christian school to compete again in state-sponsored athletic events, overturning a ban imposed after the school declined to play a basketball game against a team with a male athlete competing on a girls’ roster.

The U.S. Supreme Court is allowing the Trump administration to temporarily pause $4 billion in foreign aid, giving the court more time to review the case.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced Monday the start of Operation Midway Blitz, an immigration enforcement campaign targeting criminal noncitizen migrants in Chicago, drawing sharp pushback from Illinois leaders.

After years of “Black Lives Matter” campaigns, former White House adviser Elon Musk is questioning whether White lives matter too, saying there has been a muted media response to the brutal killing of a young Ukrainian refugee by a black man in the United States.

President Donald Trump on Monday renewed his pledge to defend religious liberty, announcing forthcoming Department of Education guidelines that he said will provide “total protection” for prayer in America’s public schools.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday temporarily lifted restrictions on federal immigration raids in Los Angeles, siding with the Trump administration in a dispute over alleged racial profiling by immigration authorities.

A new report released by the Trump-appointed Task Force to Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias alleges that the Biden administration “weaponized the full weight of the federal government against Christians,” targeting faith communities across multiple agencies and departments.

President Donald J. Trump on Friday revived the historic title “Department of War” for the U.S. Defense Department as his administration claimed credit for freeing dozens of American hostages and pressed for the release of others still held in Gaza and Belarus.

The District of Columbia has filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration, challenging the president’s decision to deploy National Guard troops to the nation’s capital as part of a federal crackdown on crime.

A new study has found that just half of U.S. lawmakers vote in alignment with biblical principles, with Republicans dominating the top rankings and Democrats overwhelmingly at the bottom.

Federal authorities announced Wednesday the indictments of 22 Chinese nationals, four China-based chemical companies, and three Americans in a sweeping international operation aimed at dismantling the fentanyl pipeline flooding U.S. communities.

President Donald Trump said Monday that his administration will petition the U.S. Supreme Court to expedite review of a federal appeals court decision that struck down most of his signature reciprocal tariffs.

The House Oversight Committee on Tuesday released more than 33,000 pages of records tied to disgraced financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, but the long-awaited drop has only deepened bipartisan frustration and demands for transparency.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has authorized sending up to 600 military lawyers to the Justice Department to serve as temporary immigration judges, in what conservatives are calling a bold step to restore law and order at America’s overwhelmed immigration courts.

A federal judge has ruled that President Donald Trump’s decision to deploy National Guard troops to Los Angeles this summer violated the 19th-century Posse Comitatus Act, siding with California Gov. Gavin Newsom in a constitutional showdown over states’ rights and presidential authority.

The U.S. Coast Guard has announced the largest drug seizure in American history, confiscating more than 76,000 pounds of illegal narcotics valued at $473 million during operations in the Eastern Pacific Ocean and Caribbean Sea.

The U.S. economy grew faster than previously estimated in the second quarter, expanding at a 3.3 percent annualized rate, the Commerce Department reported Thursday. The stronger reading points to resilient consumer and business spending despite the drag from high borrowing costs and trade frictions.