Ken Paxton just pulled off a Trump-endorsed victory in Texas. But the real story is what comes next.

The Biden administration's effort to inject "gender identity" into Title IX was already pretty dead, but now it's really dead.

Americans' savings rate fell to 2.6% in April — the first time it's dipped below 3% since June 2022.

The White House is mocking the idea of the U.S. retaining secrets involving alien encounters by launching a space-themed website that touts the arrests of immigrants unauthorized to live in the U.S.   The website, launched on Thursday, opens with a crawl similar to the one seen in the Star Wars franchise, with blocks of text...

Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) hit back on Thursday at a comment from the top Democratic challenger in Maine's Senate race about her past support of U.S. military foreign intervention.  Graham Platner, a Marine veteran and oyster farmer, told The New York Times earlier this month that the incumbent senator “voted to send me to Iraq.”...

A tentative agreement has been reached between the U.S. and Iran to extend a fragile ceasefire in the three-month conflict by 60 days, reopen the Strait of Hormuz and establish a framework for broader talks on Tehran’s nuclear program, according to U.S. sources. Negotiators have been working to finalize the terms of the memorandum of...

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Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett was the victim of a swatting call Wednesday night at her Virginia home, according to local police.  Police radio traffic shows law enforcement received a call for a “suspicious noise of gunshots” at Barrett’s suburban Virginia address. The dispatcher warned responding officers shortly afterward that a “high priority resident of the county” lived there and that the report may not be authentic. When reached for...