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Civil rights groups filed a lawsuit on Tuesday challenging a new Republican-backed law in Texas that will give state officials broad powers to arrest, prosecute and deport people who illegally cross the U.S.-Mexico border. The lawsuit filed in federal court in Austin, Texas, claims that the law signed by Republican Texas Governor Greg Abbott on […]

WATERLOO, IOWA — Former U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday defended his comments about migrants crossing the southern border “poisoning the blood” of America, and he reinforced the message while denying any similarities to fascist writings others had noted. “I never read ‘Mein Kampf,’” Trump said at a campaign rally in Waterloo, Iowa, referencing Adolf Hitler’s […]

WASHINGTON — Blue Origin launched its first rocket in more than a year on Tuesday, reviving the U.S. company’s fortunes with a successful return to space following an uncrewed crash in 2022. Though mission NS-24 carried a payload of science experiments, not people, it paves the way for Jeff Bezos’ aerospace enterprise to resume taking wealthy […]

LONDON — WikiLeaks’ founder Julian Assange’s possible final legal challenge to stop his extradition from Britain to the United States, where he is wanted on criminal charges, will be held at London’s High Court in February, his supporters said on Tuesday. Assange, 52, is wanted by U.S. authorities on 18 counts, including one under a spying […]

Former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor will lie in repose Monday at the court in Washington ahead of her funeral Tuesday. The court said it is holding a private ceremony Monday morning, followed by public hours for people to pay their respects. O’Connor joined the court in 1981, becoming the first woman to […]

A car plowed into a parked SUV that was guarding President Joe Biden ‘s motorcade Sunday night while the president was leaving a visit to his campaign headquarters. The president and first lady Jill Biden were unharmed. While Biden was walking from the campaign office to his waiting armored SUV, a sedan hit a U.S. […]

WASHINGTON — U.S. lawmakers passed the massive annual defense spending bill Thursday, approving the $886 billion National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) by a vote of 310-118 to be signed into law by President Joe Biden. The bill setting policy and spending priorities for the Department of Defense for 2024 is $28 billion larger than last year’s […]

President Joe Biden on Wednesday praised the deal signed at COP28, the U.N. climate summit in Dubai, as an important step toward reaching climate goals. In a statement, Biden applauded the deal for “committing, for the first time, to transition away from the fossil fuels that jeopardize our planet and our people, agreeing to triple […]

A federal judge on Wednesday paused Donald Trump’s election interference case while the former president appeals her refusal to toss criminal charges he faces on presidential immunity grounds. The ruling could delay the start of Trump’s trial, which is currently scheduled to begin in early March. Judge Tanya Chutkan, in her order in Washington, D.C., federal court, wrote that Trump’s […]

Hunter Biden on Wednesday defended his business record and denied that his father, President Joe Biden, was financially involved in it. He spoke to reporters outside the U.S. Capitol, where he defied a congressional subpoena to testify behind closed doors. “I’m proud of my legal career and business career. I’m proud of my time serving on […]