Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced a lawsuit Wednesday to unravel the 2023 spending bill Congress approved late last year, saying too few lawmakers showed up in person to vote on the measure for it to be valid.

The FBI has carried out two searches at the University of Delaware as part of the investigation into whether President Biden mishandled classified documents, according to a report Wednesday.

Everyone makes bad jokes once in a while and has to explain himself. Not everyone publicly tells a culture that its only course of action is mass seppuku by the elderly.

New York’s Democratic-controlled state Senate on Wednesday rejected Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul’s judicial nominee for chief judge of the state Court of Appeals, a political blow for the governor. The state Senate voted 39-20 to reject the confirmation of Justice Hector LaSalle, who has come under scrutiny from some on the left over his judicial...

Violence in America was a prominent theme as President Biden’s State of the Union address followed the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols, whose heartbroken parents attended the speech. Similarly, the president spoke forcefully against the surge in gun violence and other violent crime, a problem facing many American cities. Ironically, combating violent crime has been used...

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