Maine's secretary of state announced the decision Thursday evening, but put it on hold pending U.S. Supreme Court review of a similar ban in Colorado.

"The national debt is headed towards record levels," warns the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a nonpartisan group committed in its mission statement to educating the public on fiscal policy. They've got the numbers.

Former President Donald Trump's presidential campaign is bashing President Biden in a new ad for the way he has handled the crisis at the southern border, saying the president's policies have created a "violent threat."

A federal judge on Thursday accepted new Georgia congressional and legislative voting districts that protect Republican partisan advantages, saying the creation of new majority-Black voting districts solved the illegal minority vote dilution that led him to order maps to be redrawn.

A Pennsylvania man who was sentenced in secret for his role in the U.S. Capitol riot cooperated with authorities investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack and an unrelated case, according to court documents unsealed this week.

This is not the first time that Moscow has taken advantage of fighting in Gaza to pursue revanchist objectives in Europe. The 1956 Suez War, a war fought as much in Gaza as in Sinai, gave the Soviet Politburo an opportunity to crush the Hungarian rising.