House GOP leaders negotiated their way through fierce intraparty opposition and passed on Wednesday one of the three key pieces of legislation on their agenda for the week, but their struggles are far from over.

President Donald Trump on Wednesday leveled a new threat against NATO ally Germany, suggesting he could soon reduce the U.S. military presence there as he continues to feud with Chancellor Friedrich Merz over the U.S-Israel war against Iran.

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and newly confirmed Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Director Robert Cekada unveiled a package of 34 proposed and final rules Wednesday to scale back and revise Biden-era gun regulations.

Before the words were even written on a Supreme Court decision striking down a majority Black congressional district in Louisiana, some states already were taking steps to respond to it.

The U.S. Supreme Court's conservative majority on Wednesday handed Republicans their biggest victory yet in the perpetual battle to control the House of Representatives and statehouses across the country - but it may have come too late to have much of an effect on this year's midterm elections.

Justice Department officials moved Wednesday to roll back and modify a slate of gun regulations in a dramatic shift in firearm policy pushed by Second Amendment supporters in President Donald Trump's base.

A back-and-forth volley of congressional redistricting in states has changed the electoral battlefield ahead of the November midterm elections, as Republicans and Democrats each seek an edge in their push for control of the closely divided U.S. House.

The majority of Iran's highly enriched uranium is likely still at its Isfahan nuclear complex, which was bombarded by airstrikes last year and faced less intense attacks in this year's U.S.-Israeli war, the U.N. nuclear agency's leader told The Associated Press.

Key conservative voices on Wednesday urged Republican-led states in the South to take the Supreme Court's invitation to redraw their legislative maps to delete Democrat-leaning Black-majority districts and replace them with GOP seats.