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On Saturday, Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) unveiled his plan to prevent a government shutdown. He proposed a “two-part” continuing resolution, aiming to extend some appropriations bills until mid-January and the remaining ones until February.

Moody’s Investor Service changed its assessment of the U.S. credit rating from stable to negative, citing the ballooning national debt as an underlying factor.

On Thursday, Senator Joe Manchin (D-Wva) announced that he will not seek reelection next year, relinquishing a West Virginia seat likely to be claimed by Republicans, bolstering their hopes to secure control of the Senate in 2024.

Based on data from the Congressional Budget Office, a Bank of America note predicts that the U.S. government will surpass $50 trillion in debt by 2033, reported Business Insider. Simultaneously, according to the Treasury’s calculations, the total interest has eclipsed $1 trillion this year, precisely reaching $1.027 trillion, marking the first instance of crossing the trillion-dollar threshold in a single year.

Defenders of the unborn expressed sorrow after Democratic candidates supporting abortion rights won critical elections in several U.S. states on Tuesday, backed by millions in campaign funding.

On Wednesday, House Republicans issued subpoenas to Hunter and James Biden, demanding their testimony as lawmakers aim to establish connections between President Biden and his family’s business activities, the Wall Street Journal reported.

The House of Representatives censured Representative Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) for “promoting misleading narratives” regarding the Israel conflict, marking the second instance this year in which a Democratic lawmaker has faced condemnation from fellow members.

The Minnesota Supreme Court rejected a lawsuit on Wednesday that attempted to prevent former President Donald Trump from appearing on the 2024 primary ballot, citing a constitutional provision that disqualifies individuals who have “participated in insurrection” from holding office.

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Commissioner Brendan Carr has called President Joe Biden’s “digital equity plan” for all internet services an unprecedented “government power grab.”

The newly elected Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives has defended his decision to install porn-monitoring software on the devices of his teenage son.

The death of an older Jewish man following an altercation with anti-Israel demonstrators at a rally in California on Sunday was the result of a homicide, the Ventura County Medical Examiner’s Office has determined. Paul Kessler, 69, died in hospital on Monday, after succumbing to injuries sustained at the rally in Thousand Oaks, a suburb of Los Angeles, Algemeiner reports.

In a made-for-media drama, former U.S. President Donald J. Trump clashed with a judge and defended his family’s business in a massive fraud case at a time when he campaigns for re-election.

Hundreds of Pro-Palestinian protesters called for a Gaza cease-fire and obstructed traffic at the Port of Tacoma on Monday, coinciding supposedly with the arrival of a military supply ship, the Cape Orlando, the Associated Press reported.

Virginia state officials have settled a lawsuit with a Christian wedding photographer who declined to use his business for same-sex marriage celebrations, as stated in a press release by Alliance Defending Freedom.

A coalition of three Republican-leaning states filed a lawsuit on Monday against the Food and Drug Administration and the Department of Health and Senior Services. The lawsuit challenges the approval of the abortion pill mifepristone and its distribution to patients across the nation, even in states where abortion has been prohibited, Courthouse News reports.

On Monday, an Ohio-class Submarine joined the Dwight D. Eisenhower Carrier Strike Group (IKECSG), which entered the Red Sea last Friday, having traveled through the Suez Canal after their passage from the Mediterranean Sea.

At least tens of thousands of pro-Palestine protesters marched through Washington D.C., in one of the biggest anti-Israel protests in United States history.

America’s government agencies could face ongoing independent shutdowns under a proposal pushed forward by the recently elected U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson.

Sam Bankman-Fried, the former billionaire once known as the “crypto king,” was facing life imprisonment Friday after a court found him guilty of his role in the collapse of the cryptocurrency exchange FTX.

Former U.S. President Barack Obama reportedly quietly advised the White House over the past five months on its policies for artificial intelligence (AI), fueling concerns among critics that the ex-commander-in-chief is running a third-term shadow government.