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House passage came after Speaker Kevin McCarthy dropped plans for steep spending cut and relied on Democratic help

Among the new cardinals is the controversial new head of the Vatican’s doctrine office, Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernandez. Leaders of the church in Hong Kong, Jerusalem and South Sudan filled out the roster

The law will allow minors to keep getting puberty blockers or hormones if they are already receiving the treatment. However, it blocks treatment for most new patients

The Supreme Court in July rejected a plan by President Joe Biden’s administration to wipe away $400 billion in student loan debt

The disagreements come just six weeks before Election Day and they’re providing a window into the challenges that the wider movement is preparing to navigate next year

A government shutdown that could begin Sunday would mean even more chaos in Washington at a time when he’s running for reelection

Hard-right Republicans in Congress have rejected any temporary measure to keep government funded. Senators are also set to be at work in a rare Saturday session

The White House is preparing to keep only essential public services open and furlough hundreds of thousands of civil servants

While the saltwater intrusion on the Mississippi hasn’t impacted orchards yet, it is something that state officials and local farmers are diligently watching and planning contingency plans around

The Justice Department said in a statement Friday that 38-year-old Charles Edward Littlejohn of Washington, D.C., is accused of stealing tax return information and giving it to two different news outlets between 2018 and 2020

If a shutdown happens, millions of federal employees will be furloughed and many others will be forced to work without pay until it ends.

A flu vaccination and that updated COVID-19 shot are urged for just about everyone, starting with babies as young as 6 months.

There’s suddenly a nearly five-year wait for green cards for religious workers, meaning most of those now here on temporary visas won’t be able to stay long enough to get one

Scott Graham Hall pleaded guilty Friday to five counts of conspiracy to commit intentional interference with performance of election duties

Feinstein, a centrist Democrat who had represented California since 1992, had medical struggles in recent months that already had prompted questions about whether she’d resign and who might replace her

The harsh comments came as U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo and Trade Representative Katherine Tai met their Mexican counterparts at the State Department

US District Judge Steve Jones had earlier rejected a similar request from Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and is weighing the same question from three Georgia Republicans

Attorneys and advocates said the church is simply trying to protect its assets and silence abuse victims by shifting the legal proceedings to bankruptcy court

In August, Oher filed a petition in probate court accusing the Tuohys of lying to him by having him sign papers making them his conservators rather than his adoptive parents nearly two decades ago

The leading GOP White House hopeful is scheduled to give a speech Friday afternoon at a state Republican Party convention near Disneyland

The House’s right-flank Republicans refused to support the bill despite its steep spending cuts of nearly 30% to many agencies and severe border security provisions, calling it insufficient

In a 2-1 decision by a 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel, the majority wrote that elected lawmakers made ‘precise cost-benefit decisions’ in instituting the bans and ‘did not trigger any reason for judges to second-guess them’

Chief Deputy District Attorney Marc DiGiacomo described Duane ‘Keffe D’ Davis as the ‘on-ground, on-site commander’ who ‘ordered the death’ of Shakur

The Administration is trying to navigate between energy companies seeking greater oil and gas production and environmental activists who want Biden to shut down new offshore drilling in the fight against climate change

The National Weather service says as much as 6.7 inches of rain had fallen in parts of Brooklyn by midday

The justices will review laws enacted by Republican-dominated legislatures and signed by Republican governors in Florida and Texas. Both laws aim to prevent the social media companies from censoring users based on their viewpoints

Rear Adm. Keith Davids, the commander of Naval Special Warfare Command, announced the new program Friday in a message to his force. He says it is necessary to protect their health, safety and military readiness